North Queensland centre Justin O'Neill has revealed how it took him over a month to overcome the disappointment of being axed from this year's triumphant Queensland State of Origin side.

Jake LaMotta, the boxing champion whose memoir inspired Martin Scorsese's 1980 film Raging Bull, has died.

The locally-built Holden Commodore is going out with a bang, winning a coveted award as the best value car in its class.

A healthy diet alone can control gestational diabetes and doesn't put the mother at greater risk of having a big baby, an Australian study has found.

Fifty refugees in limbo on Nauru and Manus Island will soon start a new life in the United States.

At least 217 people have been killed after a strong earthquake struck central Mexico and toppled dozens of buildings in the capital, Mexico City.

A man who pushed his former partner overboard off the south Tasmanian coast and motored away with her two children has been jailed for nine months.

A Queensland woman has died after a scooter crash in Bali.Sophia Martini, 27, from Townsville, was a passenger on the scooter driven by her partner on Monday morning.

The Reserve Bank says the global economy is in better shape than it was a year ago and is positive news for Australia.

An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 magnitude has struck in the remote Southern Ocean south of New Zealand, the US Geological Survey says.