Ajla Tomljanovic has suffered a surprise loss to American qualifier Kristie Ahn in the first round of the WTA's Silicon Valley Classic.

Robbie Farah has divided opinions and put noses out of joint for most of his NRL career.

Ethiopians have planted more than 200 million trees in one day, in what officials stated will be a world record.

A mother and child have been forced to flee a Canberra house after their family cat set the kitchen on fire.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the Brexit divorce is dead and warned that unless the European Union renegotiated, Britain would leave on October 31 without a deal.

Authorities are searching for answers to why a 19-year-old opened fire on a popular food festival about a kilometre from his parents' home in California, killing two children and another man.

Canadian authorities have suffered a frustrating blow in their search for two teenage fugitives wanted for the highway killing spree across remote northern Canada that left Australian tourist Lucas Fowler, his US girlfriend and a botanist dead.

Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy has called for the NRL to introduce a golden try rule following his side's extra-time loss to Manly.

Artificial intelligence could put 3.5 million Australians out of a job over the next decade, leading experts to warn of the need for greater retraining and income support.

Police are searching for a suspected accomplice of the gunman who killed three people, including a six-year-old boy, in a mass shooting at a food festival in California.