Australian counter-terrorism police confirmed on Friday they raided five Sydney homes on Thursday which were linked to a man's alleged plot to execute a random member of the public in Martin Place in the city's CBD.
Australia's Muslim-friendly 'I'll Ride With You' campaign goes viralAn Australian social media campaign "I'll Ride with You" which urges Australians to embrace the local Muslim population has become the No.1 trending topic on Twitter in the wake of Sydney's dramatic siege.
A gunman, who held an unknown number of people hostage in a downtown Sydney cafe on Monday, has been identified after five hostages managed to flee the hours-long siege.
Five hostages have been released from a Sydney cafe, which has been held siege by an armed man showing Islamic flags on Monday.
Australia has been put on a nationwide alert on Monday for possible terror threats after an armed man suspected of being related to radical Islamists took up to 40 hostages in central Sydney and forced part of the city into lockdown.
Australian authority on Friday has ramped up security in the capital of Canberra after potential terror attack plot against the Parliament House and the country's top leaders was traced.
It says much of Sydney's twin obsessions with sport and nature that the citizenry can get pumped up, and even bother holding an annual "Running Festival," yet, here we are in late August and the fitness fanatics are in fill swing with the CBD pavements full of training lawyers and weight- watching IT programmers.
Sydney will host a supporting event for one of the world's leading economic forums, the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), in 2015, the deputy premier and minister for trade and investment of New South Wales (NSW), Andrew Stoner, announced Saturday in Beijing, according to the office of the deputy premier in Sydney.
Vivid Sydney was officially opened tonight by the NSW Premier Mike Baird, as the Sails of iconic Sydney Opera House came alive with world-exclusive, stunning 3D-mapped projections, and the Harbour City was filled with colour and light.
Floating electrical devices are set to replace shark nets in an effort to protect Australian beachgoers, local media reported Sunday.
The official soundtrack of Sydney' s winter 2014 has been announced -- with some degree of fanfare -- to the glitterati of Sydney's arts and media scene, when they collectively descended on Sydney harbor Tuesday, for their first taste of the now celebrated Sydney Vivid Festival.
Sydney has been ranked the eighth most livable city in Australia, a national survey of residents' views of their own city released on Monday by the Property Council of Australia show.
Former Australian TV star Robert Hughes is on trial in the Downing Center District Court in Sydney after pleading not guilty to 11 child-sex charges involving girls aged from seven to 15, local media reported on Monday.
A Sydney man has been charged over alleged sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl, New South Wales Police said on Friday.
As a cruel arctic winter envelops much of North America, Australia is literally sweltering in another record-breaking heatwave. With the summer crowds, pouring out of the Sydney CBD this week for the nearest refreshing solution, the team at Xinhua, Sydney bureau have selected what we think are the best of the best – Sydney's top beaches and what they offer for those looking to escape the grinding heat.
A special iPhone device can be used to quickly detect heart rhythm problems and help prevent stroke, according to University of Sydney research revealed on Friday at the Australia and New Zealand Cardiac Society conference on the Gold Coast of Queensland.
A worm farm trial in a Sydney eatery precinct has halved the total waste of a local restaurant and juice shop, saving on rubbish bills and producing fertiliser, the City of Sydney said Friday.
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