Rescuers in northern China searched on Sunday for two people still missing after a gas explosion killed 82 in a mine that ...

A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has killed at least 82 people, according to state media, the country’s ...

A gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi province killed at least 82 people, state media reported Saturday, ...

Cheng Lei is rebuilding her life after three years in a Beijing prison. She has written a memoir and a play, tried stand-up comedy and is pursuing journalism. Cheng highlights the harsh conditions ...

More than 140,000 illegal cigarettes have been seized and six stores ordered to close down, days after Western Australia's new tobacco laws came into force.

Jenny Morris was at the peak of her pop powers in the late 1980s when she launched a one-woman campaign that provoked howls ...

Like almost every smoker, I started when I was a child. Children aren’t supposed to smoke; it’s allegedly a part of the adult world, something you get inducted into once you turn eighteen. But ...

Australia’s High Court will today hear its first ever climate case. It could have real implications for fossil fuel producers across the country. The nation’s highest court has been asked to decide ...

A mining giant owned by billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has been ordered to pay $150m in compensation after a court found it destroyed Indigenous cultural sites. An Indigenous Australian community ...

Federal court found miner’s Solomon Hub iron ore mine caused cultural and social harm, including the destruction of 140 heritage sites ...

The debate over public use of marijuana is making its way to the Village of Mamaroneck. A proposed law would ban people from smoking or vaping marijuana in all outdoor public places. Mayor Sharon ...

On May 1, amid a wave of workplace deaths in the Australian state of Queensland—seven in the past six months—a judge fined a resources company only $7 million for the manifestly preventable death of ...