Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has lost his battle against cancer, his family said, asking for privacy "at this very difficult time". He was 62.
One in 10 children conceived by fertility treatment ICSI have birth defects, the largest study of its kind shows. ICSI is used in about half of UK fertility treatments.
A night out for two Welsh tourists in Australia proves to be wilder than they bargain for after it ends up with them fined by the courts for pinching a penguin and taking it home.
A tropical low pressure system has brought stormy weather to Queensland, Australia, during Tuesday, with reports of a tornado in the city of Townsville.
At the end of last week, I tweeted that it looked like a tropical cyclone would develop this week to the north of Australia. As expected, one has developed and has been named Lua.
A large part of south east Australia faces a continued flood risk during the next few days as more heavy rain is expected to fall.
Serbia's Novak Djokovic outlasts Rafael Nadal of Spain to retain his Australian Open tennis title in a match lasting nearly six hours - the longest grand slam final of all time.
Over the past week Tropical Cyclone Funso has been drifting slowly southwards through the Mozambique Channel, giving torrential rain to eastern parts of Mozambique.
Torrential downpours have lashed the east coast of Australia in recent days, causing flooding and significant disruption.
Zambia's tourism minister Given Lubinda leaps from Africa's Victoria Falls Bridge to reassure tourists about bungee safety a week after an Australian tourist's cord snapped at the same spot.