March 25, 2013 A former aeronautical engineer who carefully planned the abduction, imprisonment and repeated rape of a woman he chained in a purpose-built soundproof room at a secluded property has pleaded guilty to multiple offences.

March 25, 2013 Schapelle Corby and the two Bali Nine prisoners on death row dominate the headlines in Australia but seven other young Australians in Kerobokan prison face an uncertain future under a harsh new Indonesian law.

March 25, 2013 It is one of life's most common irritations: the song you do not like that becomes stuck in your head.

March 25, 2013 Unwanted and unsafe sex is rife among drinkers and drug users, a survey has found.

March 25, 2013 Escalating climate change will have an impact on every aspect of Australian Defence Force operations, a report warns, with rising natural disasters and changes to the "physical battle space" affecting Defence's mission, facilities and strategic environment.

March 25, 2013 Escalating Climate change will impact every aspect of ADF operations, a report warns.

March 25, 2013 Alan Moir, The Sydney Morning Herald's political cartoonist, sketches the political unreality.

March 24, 2013 Are modern mums really being deliberately sexless, pathologically domestic and 'overly' devoted to their children?

March 24, 2013 Catalina Aguado will never forget January 2, 1975, the day she walked into a forest high up a Mexican mountainside to discover perhaps a billion monarch butterflies clinging to the branches there.

March 24, 2013 The Islamic terrorists who kidnapped Australian adventurer Warren Rodwell were paid the equivalent of A$93,600 in Philippine pesos to free him, the key negotiator in the case has revealed.