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Australia will play a major role in tracking down and prosecuting those responsible for the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.

Fiji and Japan could be welcomed into an expanded Rugby Championship after World Rugby abandoned its plans to create a global Nations Championship.

Chris Dawson has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife Lynette hours before being charged with a historical sex offence from his days as a teacher at a Sydney high school.

Want tickets for next year's Tokyo Olympics? Prepare to be let down.

Cancer fraudster Belle Gibson spent more than $90,000 in two years and went to Bali and Africa, but still claims she cannot pay her fine for conning Australians.

An international team of investigators has identified four suspects in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine nearly five years ago that killed 298 people, including 38 Australians.

A New York man accused of running a cult-like group in which women were kept on starvation diets, branded with his initials and ordered to have sex with him has been found guilty of all charges against him.

Three Russians and a Ukrainian have been charged over the MH17 tragedy but Australian investigators say it's just the beginning of the effort to bring those responsible to justice.

An Australian Border Force force officer has died on a vessel in the Torres Strait.

More than a year after 16 ponies died while being ferried across Bass Strait, criminal charges have been laid against the operator of the Spirit of Tasmania and two drivers.