Australia

A red panda that spent two days on the lam after escaping from an Australian zoo was recaptured after he was spotted hanging out in a fig tree in a nearby park. Named Ravi, the 7-year-old panda had just arrived at Adelaide Zoo last week after he was brought in from another zoo. By Friday he was gone. Zookeepers tried...

Dev Patel “acted on his natural instinct to try and de-escalate” a knife fight that led to a stabbing incident in Australia.

A passenger in Australia fell victim to the country’s pricey biosecurity laws after failing to declare their fast-food breakfast.

A five-year report says Australia’s environment continues to deteriorate due to climate change, resource extraction and other causes.

Parts of Australia’s largest city have been inundated by four major floods since March last year, leaving weary victims questioning how many times they can rebuild.

Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia’s largest city in a flood emergency that was causing trouble for 50,000 people, officials said Tuesday. Emergency response teams made 100 rescues overnight of people trapped in cars on flooded roads or in inundated homes in the Sydney area, State Emergency Service manager Ashley Sullivan said. Days of torrential rain…

More than 30,000 residents of Sydney and its surrounds have been told to evacuate or prepare to abandon their homes as Australia’s largest city faces more severe flooding.

The 2022 World Cup participants are officially slated, following Australias inter-continental play-off win against Peru and Costa Ricas win against New Zealand.

The Socceroos found the winner in the 84th minute to advance to the winner-takes-all match against Peru on June 13.

Mass shootings are not unique to the United States, with gun violence impacting almost every Western country. Here’s how lawmakers around the world have responded to mass shootings.

Australia’s Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia. He is also a hero of multicultural Australia, describing himself as the only candidate with a “non-Anglo Celtic name” to run for prime minister in the 121...

Australian government scientists say 91% of the Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed this year was bleached, though scientists hope that most of the coral affected this year will recover.

Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave has confirmed the death of his son Jethro Lazenby at age 31. The frontman of rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds said in a statement: “With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away.” Lazenby was a fashion model, rapper, actor and photographer. He was Cave’s son with model Beau Lazenby...

An Australian man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for the 1988 murder of an American who fell off a Sydney cliff that was known as a gay meeting place.

Luxembourg, one of the smallest countries in Europe, tops a new passport index that analyzes factors that affect global citizens.

The yen was in focus for investors, after the Bank of Japan’s offer Monday to buy unlimited amounts of 10-year JGBs at 0.25%

CNBC Travel looks into what it’s now like to visit a country that was once labeled “Fortress Australia” because of its strict Covid-19 policies. 

At the 2022 Munich Security Conference, Bill Gates said the world could avoid future pandemics if it follows Australia’s Covid-19 mitigation blueprint.

International tourists and business travelers are arriving in Australia after it lifted its final travel restrictions for fully vaccinated passengers

A swimmer on a Sydney beach in Australia has died after being attacked by what witnesses described as a 15-foot great white shark