After reporting a week ago that Google+ was already up to 10 million users, someone at the search engine has told Business Insider that Google is shocked — though pleasantly so — by that figure.

They come out of the setting sun, flying low over suburban Australia in vast black squadrons armed with fruit-seeking sensors, razor sharp teeth and, on very rare occasions, a little-known virus that is potentially fatal to humans.

Graphic video of a rare Sumatran tiger dying in a trap is evidence of the destruction being wrought on endangered wildlife by palm oil and paper companies in Indonesia, Greenpeace said.

One of Australia’s most loved artists – Margaret Olley – has died in Sydney aged 88

Australians are ecstatic over the historic win by cyclist Cadel Evans in the Tour de France

Australia and Malaysia have signed a controversial asylum-seeker swap deal today in Kuala Lumpur

An Australian man has posted video footage of a dog attacking a shark under water on the Australian coast.

Australian young people are highly connected by the internet but increasingly suffering from loneliness

A second Sydney man has appeared in court on multiple charges over an assault in which a Muslim convert was allegedly whipped with an electircal cable for drinking alcohol, in what prosecutors said was a misguided interpretation of sharia or Islamic law.