The US Embassy is warning of a possible terrorist attack on Bali on New Year's Eve.

Police are investigating the death of a man who was assaulted outside a nightclub in the Illawarra last night.

Defending champion Kim Clijsters advanced to the US Open final by rallying to defeat US third seed Venus Williams 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, running her Flushing Meadows win streak to 20 matches.

The rising river level in New Delhi is posing a new threat to the the Indian capital as it struggles to prepare for the Commonwealth Games.

The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia has named a new software-savvy chief executive from Microsoft to help it battle slumping profits and an eroding market share in the smartphone segment.

An asylum seeker advocacy group says it wants to know why the Immigration Department is only allowing some of the school-age children detained in Darwin to attend school.

Alice Springs police say a driver who was being pursued by one police car managed to crash into another police car.

Police in far north Queensland have charged a 50-year-old man with sex offences against children.

Leaked documents suggest a group supported by tobacco companies will intensify its campaign against plain cigarette packaging.

Leonardo DiCaprio has won a court order that barred a woman who believes she is his wife and is pregnant with his child from coming near him for three years.

Iran has reportedly cancelled plans to release an American woman who has been imprisoned in Tehran for more than a year.

About 40 people have escaped serious injury after a balcony collapsed on Brisbane's southside.

Search planes and boats are combing the north Queensland coast for a missing fisherman.

The death toll from a natural gas line explosion in suburban San Francisco stands at four as investigators comb through the wreckage of homes destroyed.

Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and India's Rohan Bopanna lost the US Open men's doubles final to US top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan but were winners in their wider mission to inspire peace.

A Belgian Catholic Church-backed commission has released harrowing testimony from around 500 cases of alleged sex abuse.

Barack Obama hopes a Florida pastor will drop a plan to burn Korans, saying such an act could deeply harm the US abroad.

Floodwaters are receding across Victoria's north-east, but attention has now turned to Echuca on the New South Wales border.

The Defence Department has announced another Australian soldier has been wounded on patrol in Afghanistan.

Bill Crews was fatally shot during a routine drug raid. Two bullets struck the young detective - one from a police gun.