Russia's foreign minister has met with Syria's president Bashar al-Assad, as the Syrian government continues its violent crackdown on rebels.

One of the Church of Scientology's senior international figures, Jan Eastgate, has been charged for a second time in Sydney.

There is a new threat facing St George, with flooding damaging the local sewage treatment plant and contaminating waters.

Afghan school children will receive new textbooks that pass over the country's modern history of conflict and bloodshed in an effort to promote national unity.

Madonna is set to tour Australia for the first time in 20 years, exciting fans who were left devastated when the Queen of Pop bypassed the country on her last world tour.

Convicted wife killer Andrew Kalajzich will walk free from a Sydney jail today.