European nations are intensifying efforts to regulate social media platforms, proposing bans for minors amid concerns over addiction and harmful content.

Australian 13-year-old Austin Appelbee swam for four hours through shark-prone waters to save his family after they were swept out to sea off Western Australia.

As I’ve aged, and mortality is ever closer, I’ve decided to embrace, rather than endure, who I am,” Josie Scott writes.

Intense rainfall has prompted the emergency evacuation of an entire outback town, where a river is expected to top major ...