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The man has been sentenced to a 20-year prison term by Sydney District Court.

A Brisbane court heard how the man surgically removed the testicle of another man he met online.

The Australian government estimates that up to 95 percent of the population would need to be immune to the virus for it to be eradicated.

The zookeeper was cleaning the lions' enclosure when two lions pounced, leaving her in a critically injured state.

Almost 100 people have died and 7,000 cases of COVID-19 have been detected nationwide.

Brett John Callaghan allegedly used his own daughter to bait his victim before drugging her.

New South Wales police claims that soiling the public space was not a criminal offence.

Australia has seen dozens of inquests into the causes of bushfires and steps that could be taken to mitigate them, with mixed results.

Unprecedented bushfires fuelled by climate change have killed at least 29 people and devastated vast swathes of the country since September.

Australia has since October been overwhelmed by an unprecedented bushfire season made worse by climate change.

A 21-year-old British backpacker fell to her death at Sydney's Diamond Bay Reserve after she and her friends climbed over the safety fence to get closer to the edge of the cliff.

New South Wales firefighters said they finally had the upper hand in the fight against the vast Gospers Mountain fire in Sydney.

The bushfires have now destroyed an area the size of Ireland.

One of the world's biggest New Year festivals took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with an estimated three million revelers.

Australia's largest city usually puts on a dazzling display of pyrotechnics over the glittering harbour.

It is the latest emergency in Australia's devastating summer fire season, which has been turbocharged by a prolonged drought and climate change.

Twelve people were treated for minor injuries, with five taken to hospital.

Morrison's conservative government has fiercely defended the lucrative coal industry in Australia.

More than 20 medical groups including the Royal Australasian College of Physicians urged Australia's government to address the toxic air pollution.

People gathered at the conservative Liberal party's offices to heed the call to action from 16-year-old climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg.

A so-called "Koala Ark" would be built for recovering koalas.

The blazes that have scorched swathes of countryside continued to spread and the country's largest city was cloaked in hazardous smoke.

Firefighters warned the threat to a vast region surrounding Sydney was "off the scale" after days of blazes.

For the first time, Australia's largest city and the surrounding area faced the highest level of fire warning.

They were designed to support the same-sex marriage referendum in Australia last year.

An Australian man called Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow is planning to take legal action after his surgically implanted travel card was cancelled.

Run-down two-bedroom Sydney house in "premier" suburb is on the market for $1m.

Leroy Horton, from Sydney, filmed what happened when he decided to play a game with a Huntsman spider and get as close as he could before it moved.

Seven people - including five women - in New South Wales are facing a myriad of charges including rape, sexual assault of a child and aggravated kidnapping.

Beaches near Sydney have been hit by an invasion of larvae caused by extremely hot weather.