The city of Reykjavik, in Iceland, turned off the street lights and encouraged people to darken their homes so that everyone could watch the northern lights.

Irish boxer Steven Donnelly has revealed he actually bet on himself to lose a fight he ended up winning at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

A commuter train has crashed into a station in New Jersey during the morning rush hour, with hundreds of people feared injured.

Police allege the 35-year-old woman suffered multiple stab wounds.

"It's a very, very sad outcome but we had no choice," said the head of the zoo in the eastern city of Leipzig, Joerg Junhold.

Former Federal MP Wyatt Roy has reportedly been caught up in an IS firefight during a trip to Iraq.

Current blue card laws state a person playing the role of Santa in a shopping centre or department store does not need to undergo the safety checks in order to work with children.

Golf could be the next sport on Jarryd Hayne's list of dreams, with the Gold Coast fullback set to play in a pro-am event in Fiji.

Shark attack victim Cooper Allen didn't want his mother to find out because she asked him to stop surfing after his friend was mauled by a great white last year.