Benedict Brook

Rainfall in some parts of Australia is “likely to exceed triple digits” this weekend as the monsoon bears down on the continent and thunderstorms roll into New South Wales.

The decision by the Western Australian government to renege on its promise to open the hard border in February is beginning to have ramifications with the executive of one of Perth’s largest companies ditching the city and moving east.

Weatherwise, it’s been a horror few weeks in much of Australia with foods, heatwaves and fires.

Scientists in Britain have created a “mini star” ten times hotter than the sun within a laboratory giving hope that potentially limitless supplies of low carbon energy will be possible.

A noted aviation expert has said he has found the likely location of doomed aeroplane MH370.

A popular chain restaurant has defended the addition of a mystery surcharge to all bills on six days of the week saying it was a “tough decision” to introduce the mandatory extra fee for customers.

Finding a minibar in your hotel room is becoming rarer.

Australia’s only producer of gold bullion may have minted almost $9 billion of substandard bars, diluted with other metals, but kept the discovery quiet.

The cruise ship that abandoned eight passengers on an African island without their possessions after they failed to return to the vessel on time has responded to the group amid the ongoing saga.

Hollywood legend Shelley Duvall has died aged 75.