Australia’s National Rail Safety Regulator is investigating after a mile-long, 268-car train bursting with iron ore went rogue, barreling across the remote Western Australia countryside on its own for ...

EERIE: A house is surrounded by spiderwebs next to flood waters in Wagga Wagga, Australia. REUTERS Thousands of spiders have cast eerie webs over vast areas of flood-hit Australia after being forced ...

It takes two to tandem, and Rex Brick needed a bike-riding partner. Brick won a biking trip through Australia, the land of funny words, by raising more than $20,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis ...

Cobwebs have carpeted large areas in the eastern Victorian region of Gippsland. They're the result of millions of spiders escaping flooding in the region, a senior entomology curator told The Guardian ...

Those who suffer from arachnophobia, beware. Last week, people in the city of Albury in New South Wales, Australia, encountered an eerie sight — silky webs coated the land, teeming with millions of ...

1,926 = how many people live in the Australian town of Gundagai, according to the 2011 census. One = the number of songs named after it by Sydney band Retiree. There's a touch of Arthur Russell to the ...

As fires rage across the Australian countryside, you might be thinking "what can I do to help?" This is exactly what a group of streamers were thinking last week, as the Australian fires continued to ...

There is a farm in Australia where weed will be grown across hectares but the government is not going to tell you where it is. Jenni Ryall is Mashable's VP of Content Strategy. She spends her time ...