Not being "death literate" can cause additional stress and anguish for the person dying and their loved ones, warns non-profit The Groundswell Project.
Indigenous Australian music icon Gunditjmara, Bundjalung Senior Elder, songman and storyteller Archie Roach has died at Warrnambool Base Hospital after a long illness
The body of 37-year-old Danijel Misaljevic, a McKellar man who ACT Policing yesterday reported as missing, was later located in Ginninderra Creek adjacent to Baldwin Drive.
A 29-year-old man has driven into a crowd of people in Berlin, killing a teacher and injuring 14 of her students, as his car twice veered onto a pavement in a popular shopping district, officials say.
A super-yacht tour operator has been extradited from Cairns to Sydney for his suspected role in a cocaine haul worth more than $20 million found near a dead diver in Newcastle.
The United Arab Emirates' long-ailing ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nayhan, has died, the government's state-run news agency has announced in a brief statement. He was 73.
A man has been arrested in north Queensland while allegedly trying to flee the country as police investigate the death of a mystery diver found near bricks of cocaine at a NSW port.