An analysis of the bottle and glass served to the man at a cafe last weekend in the northern port of Rijeka showed that the contents of both included a highly alkaline substance.
A father and son as well as a woman and her young daughter are among the victims of the fatal car crash in the regional Victorian town of Daylesford last night.
Weather conditions have helped reduce the threat level for a number of blazes across NSW, as some continue to burn out of control around the town of Tenterfield.
A Queensland town in the path of a deadly bushfire has been saved by air and ground crews, as more than 1000 firefighters continue to battle blazes in the state.
Firefighters are gaining the upper hand on three fires in Queensland's south west after a slight reprieve in conditions on the fireground put crews on the front foot.
Vice President Kamala Harris decried the shootings during a press conference in Washington DC after hosting luncheon in honour of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
The GoodSAM platform has finally reached New South Wales, piloted by police and ambulance in very different capacities, but with the same goal of saving lives.
A fire at a wedding in Iraq has left at least 100 people dead and 150 others injured, according to the Iraqi state news agency INA citing local authorities.
It's the latest deadly extreme weather event to hit the country, which over the last few months has been grappling with severe floods as well as extreme heat waves.
Australia is set to go through its worst bushfire season in four years this spring and summer, as three years of wet give way to below-average rainfall and above-average temperatures.
A distraught Adelaide family has been working to determine if anything they own can be salvaged from a fire which ripped through their home on the weekend.
A Sydney suburb has been left without a fire station for almost a year, raising concerns some residents may be waiting longer than usual for help to arrive.
Hurricane Idalia has been linked to at least two deaths in Florida as it thrashes northern parts of the state and south Georgia – whipping winds up to 145km/h, dumping heavy rain and hurling seawater into flooded cities.