Michelle Mapa

Huge swells destroyed at least three sculptures at Sculpture by the Sea on Monday afternoon.

The 88 members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has gathered this week in Slovenia to discuss the fate of the whales. The members have been divided on the issue about hunting lines.

Russian scientists have rediscovered a Nazi military base in the Arctic 72 years later after it has been abandoned. The base has been identified as the Schatzgraber or Treasure Hunter.

Rethink Success, a National Australia Bank whitepaper, revealed that 57 percent of Australians consider happiness as the basis for success in life. It was followed by having strong relationships, feeling fit and healthy, being a good person, having a good marriage, having good mental health and being control in own's life. More than 2000 people participated in the survey between ages 16 and 70.

Australian satirist Leslie Nassar, 43, was killed by a 20-year-old man on Saturday morning around 7:30 a.m. in Nampa, Idaho, US. Nassar's daughters were both injured in the hit-and-run crash. 

Google released on Thursday its new smartphones Pixel and Pixel XL. The Pixel XL has good reviews based on its features but it still needs to prove if it's better than the iPhone 7.

Instagram now allows users to anonymously flag posts related to suicide or self-harm.

China is Australia's biggest wine market today as it overthrows the United States. According to Wine Australia, the demand increases more than 50 percent to $474 million for the past 12 months. The US market ranks second with $448 million, while UK ranks third with $361 million.

A 24-second video of Australian hostage Craig Bruce McAllister has been released on the Internet after his abduction last month in Yemen. In the video, he has begged the government to pay the ransom that his captors have been asking for his release.

The 29-year-old Sydney Entrepreneur, Adam Brimo, has launched Openlearning.com to provide free vocational courses to students who cannot afford to pay for their education. It is the solution to the non-completion of government-funded VET courses.

The Turnbull government has quietly withdrawn its gag order for doctors working in the Australian offshore detention centres. On Friday, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection posted on its website an amendment that removed the ban on health professionals to disclose abuses on asylum seeker and refugees.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has revealed that a total of 1551 Australians were arrested overseas in 2015-2016 for offences including drugs, fraud and assault.  The figures indicated that there was an increase of 23 percent from the department's previous records.

Former Disney star Bella Thorne, 19, has posed for “Playboy” for its November issue. Paying tribute to David Bowie by wearing a red bomber jacket with the iconic singer's name, Thorne appears on the adult magazine's No Filter section.

New South Wales police found two cylinders outside Fernando Manrique’s home on Sir Thomas Mitchell Drive in Davidson, NSW, on Monday. The cylinders led the police to uncover the elaborate system of gas chamber that could be the cause of death of Manrique and his family.

Lucasfilm, a Disney subsidiary, sued Michael Brown, owner of Light Saber Academy and New York Jedi, in Los Angeles, California, federal court on Friday for cybersquatting, trademark infringement and unfair competition, targeting Brown's LightsaberAcademy.com.

"Australian Survivor"  El Rowland has confirmed her romantic relationship with Lee Carseldine after weeks of rumours on the show. “It wasn’t in my mind at all, to find somebody I click with so well,” Rowland. She added that they have similar lifestyles and personalities that bond them together.

An 11-month-old girl was found unconscious on the floor at her home in Lithgow. Triple-0 receive a call that the baby girl fell from a cot. Paramedics treated her before she was flown to the Lithgow hospital. Then she was transferred through an airlift to the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, where she received a surgery.