Crime

The man was arrested at a railway site on Sunday after three coordinated arson attacks paralysed most of France's high-speed railway network over the opening weekend of the Paris Olympics.

Joseph Chehade was allegedly captured on CCTV entering the North Adelaide premises early on Saturday, about the time of the fire which left a damage bill "in excess of $1 million", a court has heard.

Police appeal for information after a man loses his leg in an alleged assault which shut a major highway in Perth's western suburbs.

The alleged target of that conspiracy cannot be identified due to an interim non-publication order imposed in court on Monday.

A Queensland charity has overcome a major setback after its trailer was stolen along with thousands of dollars' worth of clothing and sleeping bags, just hours before they were due to be donated to homeless people.

Victoria Police said they are yet to track down the motorist at the centre of a suspected hit and run in Victoria's east.

Adelaide disability worker Arjun Kandel, who raped a woman with an intellectual disability, has been described as "shameless" and "misogynistic" in South Australia's District Court.

Commonwealth Bank has been issued with two fines worth $18,000 each after pleading guilty to not paying long service entitlements to staff.

A 37-year-old man will face court on Monday charged with arson, after a fire ripped through a building complex containing North Adelaide's historic Oxford Hotel.

Tensions are building in remote northern Australia after a string of mysterious disappearances. It comes as an increasing number of Australians are reported missing. 

Three people will face court today after a police raid allegedly uncovered a hydroponic set-up, harvested drugs and more than 200 plants at a Hunter Valley property.

The news headline told of cold-blooded murder, but the face staring back at me was that of my childhood friend, writes Josh Robertson. 

Zak Grieve spent his 20s incarcerated alongside some of the Northern Territory's worst criminals. Now on parole, his life as a convicted murderer is under the microscope. 

A NSW court has rejected claims by a former high profile mayor and homelessness advocate that he was too old and sick to face a retrial on historical child sex abuse charges.

A man who tried to kidnap multiple children, including a two-year-old girl, over the course of a single day in 2022 is jailed. 

The Philippines has ordered an estimated 20,000 foreigners working in mostly Chinese-owned offshore gambling firms to leave the country within 60 days following a ban on the operations, which have been linked to human trafficking and scams.

Fires started in railway cabling have impacted up to 800,000 people across the French railway network on the eve of the Paris Olympics.

The Australian embassy is understood to be involved in bringing the body of Liam Ryan back to Australia.

A non-teaching staff member at Esperance Senior High School is suspended over historical allegations of child sex abuse, including the use of a '"stupefying" substance.

Federal Labor MP Josh Burns thanks police for charging a 17- and 18-year-old pair for allegedly anti-Semitic vandalism of his Melbourne office.

A teenager has faced the Adelaide Youth Court for allegedly accessing extremist material on electronic devices owned by his school.

Professor Juan Carlos Montero says the arrest of two senior Sinaloa Cartel leaders is significant.

An explicit video that was circulated around a high school has led to the eventual imprisonment of the heir to a well-known South Australian seafood business. Marcus Cappo has been jailed for four years for paying seven victims for explicit images and recordings.

Serial rapist Peter Bratic pleaded guilty in February to sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Newcastle in 1995. Advancements in forensics matched the case to his DNA years later.

A 33-year-old Chinese national is arrested after police seized an estimated $5 million worth of steroids and other drugs they allege were being sold by mail order.