About 70 000 stranded passengers have been hoping a workplace regulator would end the grounding of Qantas Airways’s fleet over an industrial row.

Residents and tourists evacuated coastal areas of Australia’s Queensland state on Tuesday as a monster cyclone intensified to "deadly" proportions.

The hit United States television drama about life in a fictional White House, <i>The West Wing</i>, will end its seven-year run in May, losing its battle against declining…

Hollywood will make a transcendent leap onto the internet on Tuesday when the Oscar-winning <i>Brokeback Mountain</i> becomes the first blockbuster available for permanent…

Faded pop superstar Michael Jackson was on Friday crowned as the United States’s most foolish person in 2006, narrowly beating out trigger-happy US Vice-President Dick Cheney for…