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Mevlut Coskun (left) and Paea I Middlemore Tupou after their sentencing on Monday.

Two Australian gunmen sentenced to 16 years’ jail over Bali villa murder of Melbourne dad

A third man, who was charged with assisting premeditated murder, was sentenced to 12 years’ jail.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa

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Igor Komarov, shortly before he was kidnapped, with his influencer girlfriend Yeva Mishalova.

Snatched in Bali, this Ukrainian pleaded for his ransom. Then police found his head

A foreign enterprise had again sent operatives to Bali, Australia’s most popular overseas holiday destination, to carry out its dirty work.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Australian mother Catherine Birmingham with her British husband, Nathan Trevallion, and their children. 

‘Empty inside’: The Australian family fighting Italy for their ‘unschooled’ children

The authorities in Abruzzo have taken a dim view of a couple’s off-grid style of parenting.

  • Amelia Adams, Natalie Clancy and Nichola Younger
Jazmyn Gourdeas, the widow of Zivan Radmanovic, consoling one of their children outside court in Bali after the judges postponed the accused killers’ verdicts.

‘What a joke’: Family of Australian shot dead in Bali told to come back next week

The family of Zivan Radmanovic is furious at travelling all the way to Bali for the court verdicts. Without notice, the judges adjourned.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Australian Robert Trott has been sentenced to 20 years in jail in Timor-Leste.

Australian child predator cops 20 years in a Timor-Leste jail

Despite being found guilty of sex crimes in 2024, the man was free in the community until last month, spending time inside a Dili school.

  • Zach Hope
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Australian hypersonic plane completes first test flight at five times speed of sound

An Australian-made hypersonic aircraft reached five times the speed of sound in a test scientists say will forge the future of air travel.

  • Michael Koziol
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Alan Roger Jolliffe, 57, and another foreigner appear to argue on a street near the popular Patong Beach. Image supplied.

Australian-British tourist dies after alleged assault in Phuket

Unverified footage appears to show Alan Roger Jolliffe, 57, and another foreigner arguing on a street near the popular Patong Beach before the former is knocked unconscious.

  • Zach Hope and Am Sandford
Gregor Haas (right) with son Payne at the 2019 Dally M awards.

Judge orders release of Payne Haas’ father, brands detention ‘illegal’

A court in the Philippines has delivered a significant victory for Gregor Haas after two years in custody, but authorities there are yet to set him free.

  • Chris Barrett
Holly Morton-Bowles (left) and Bianca Jones died after a mass drink poisoning in Laos.

‘Absolute injustice’: Melbourne families slam $185 fines after teens’ methanol poisoning deaths

The fathers of Holly Morton-Bowles and Bianca Jones say the fines are an insult to their daughters, who died after drinking contaminated alcohol in Laos.

  • Annika Smethurst
Ryan Comas, 46, and his wife Kate have been to Niseko in Japan’s snow country seven times. They are among the thousands of Australian who make the pilgrimage to Japan each year chasing its famous powdery slopes.

‘Everyone’s talking about it’: Aussie deaths ripple through Japan’s snow resorts

Heavy snowstorms have been a boon for Japan’s ski fields, but conditions have turned deadly across the country.

  • Lisa Visentin