A surfer has died after being stabbed moments after emerging from the water at a beach on the NSW Mid North Coast.Emergency services were called to Ocean Parade at Coffs Harbour about 6.50am to find the man, 22, suffering stab wounds.It is believed he was attacked during an altercation after leaving the water.He was taken to hospital in a critical...

Solomon Islands MPs picked a new Prime Minister on Thursday after the national election finished in political deadlock. Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele defeated opposition leader Matthew Wale after the result of a secret ballot of 50 MPs, local media reports.Manele, who succeeded former prime minister Manasseh Sogavare as leader of the Coalition...

An alleged terrorism conspirator who claimed to be mates with another teenager accused of stabbing a bishop during a live-streamed sermon has been denied bail and deemed an "unacceptable risk" to the community.The 15-year-old, who cannot be named, was charged on Friday with conspiring to engage in an act in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist...

Police are investigating a second drive-by shooting in Sydney within as many days.Emergency crews rushed to Briggs Place at St Helens Park, about 7.15pm yesterday over reports of shots being fired into a house. The house and a car had been hit, but three people inside the home were found to be uninjured. READ MORE: Millions of Aussies exposed in 'deeply...

A brown bear has been filmed charging at a small truck in Japan and cracking the windscreen.A man was driving his truck down a forest road in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido on Sunday when the frightening incident happened, Japan's national broadcaster NHK reports.Dashcam footage shows the bear running onto the road, attacking the truck and swiping...

Trailed by search dogs and police, María de Jesús Soria Aguayo and more than a dozen volunteers on Wednesday walked carefully through fields of weeds and dry earth with their eyes fixed on the ground.On the fringes of Mexico City, the group began to search for human remains and other evidence after volunteer searchers said the site may be the location...