Australia

Teen Swims for Hours to Save Family Swept out to Sea

If your family is in trouble and they need help, what do you do? Help them. That is the ethos that drove a 13-year-old boy credited with saving the lives of his mother and two younger siblings with a four-hour open ocean swim after the family was swept out to sea.

Hero Australian Teen Austin Applebee

From Syria to Sydney, Islamic State Continues to Inspire Terrorism

The Islamic State’s power was diminished with the loss of its “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq and the elimination of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but it remains a worldwide threat capable of directing and inspiring terrorist attacks, as last week’s murders in Syria and Australia demonstrate.

Mourners pay tribute outside Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on December 18, 2025, to honour vict