Tuck your pants into your shoes, because this is a race with one of Australia's most terrifying creepy crawlies. The Story Bridge Hotel in Brisbane, Queensland hosted their 35th annual "Cockroach Race ...

BRISBANE, Australia, Jan. 26 (UPI) --Hundreds of Australia Day revelers converged on a Brisbane hotel for one of the holiday's most unusual traditions: cockroach races. The 35th Annual Australia Day ...

Adelaide residents have been reporting increased numbers of unwelcome six-legged visitors in their homes, but with humid ...

THIS is the bizarre moment that creepy Frankenstein-style cyborg cockroaches come to life and form an army of bugs. A University of Queensland student in Australia, Lachlan Fitzgerald, fires up their ...

DARWIN, Australia, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- An Australian man with an excruciating ear ache turned out to have a cockroach more than 3/4 of an inch long in his ear. Hendrik Helmer, who lives in Karama, a ...

As someone who lived in the South for over 10 years, it was hard for me to imagine anyone wanting to spend enough time with roaches to race them. And then I remembered that I used to race snails from ...

An Australian man who went to the doctors ended up having a large cockroach removed from his ear. Before seeking the advice of medics, Hendrik Helmer had tried to remove the nearly inch-long pest with ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from technology/environment. Followed categories will be added to My News. Pest control workers have seen a 30 per cent increase in requests to exterminate the hideous ...

Millions of cockroaches have been finding their way into Australian homes, with incidents being particularly bad in Sydney, known as the "cockroach capital of Australia". It comes after months of rain ...