A Washington state teenager suddenly disappeared on a late night boat trip with his friends after telling them he needed to use the restroom.

The Mercer Island Police Department said that the 19-year-old was believed to have fallen into Lake Washington, near Seattle, on Friday night around 10.40pm.

Health Minister Mark Butler has slammed the ABC for airing a violent segment about mining magnate Gina Rinehart, saying the content never should have aired.

Butler joined the growing chorus of outrage as the national broadcaster comes under fire for the Race Around the World program that aired on July 12.

A building has collapsed in Sydney's inner-city suburb of Ultimo, injuring multiple people and sparking a major emergency response.

NSW Ambulance told Daily Mail a wall had collapsed near a Shell service station on Wattle Street, with two men rushed to hospital in a serious condition. 

One Nation has named a Victorian party leader and long-awaited shortlist of candidates four months out from voters heading to the polls.

Army veteran Warren Pickering will lead the party into the November state election, alongside the first One Nation candidate ever elected to Victorian parliament and a Liberal Party defector. 

Donald Trump revealed that he called off the 'biggest attack since WWII' planned for Iran this weekend after allies in the region convinced him a nuclear deal was close.

Speaking on Air Force One Sunday, Trump confirmed that American allies in the Middle East convinced him to stand down on the 'massive attack' on Iran.

Australia's self-styled 'better bank' has been asking staff to volunteer for a program that effectively outsources their own jobs to overseas contractors.

Bendigo Bank, which brands itself as the nation's 'better big bank', is spearheading an operational shake-up as part of its five-year strategic plan to 2030.

Two cryptocurrency millionaires were held captive for more than two days by a London gang who made them strip naked and forced them into compromising positions in a bid to blackmail them, a court heard.

The two men's lifestyles of excess – much of it posted on social media – was said to have likely made them targets for extortion.

Killers will go free if drill rap lyrics are banned from court cases, police have warned.

Scotland Yard has told ministers gang members are unlikely to be convicted or even prosecuted in murder and serious violence cases if a campaign succeeds to ban music lyrics from prosecutions.

Senator Bernie Moreno said his former son-in-law, Congressman Max Miller, should 'seek help' and step away from Congress amid accusations Miller abused his ex-wife and daughter.

In a livestream on Sunday, Miller addressed allegations of abuse made by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, after she applied for a restraining order amid a nasty legal battle. Multiple sources revealed the details of the alleged abuse to The Daily Mail in May. 

A Cambridge professor embroiled in a plagiarism row seemingly claimed he was in TV series Seven Up – then backtracked when told it was broadcast decades before he was born. 

Jason Arday became a poster boy for diversity as the university's youngest black professor, but is now facing questions about his academic record and bizarre claims.