The Bureau of Meteorology says it's now unlikely Tropical Cyclone will cross the coast and is expected to weaken below category-two strength tonight.

US defence officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Gu...

International travel is unlikely to begin again to and from Australia this year, even if a large number of the population is vaccinated, Health Department boss Brendan Murphy says.

Like they have all summer, India exploited Australia's frequent and damaging lapses into negative momentum on day four. And if Australia again spend prolonged periods ignoring the fundamental principle of attacking the s...

Vaccines undergo rigorous safety checks before they're approved for use. So when there's news of a potential problem — how do we make sense of it?

French tennis player Alize Cornet pleads for forgiveness from the Australian people after branding quarantine measures "insane" in a Twitter post she has since deleted.

Tennis players from around the world have been expressing their frustration at the COVID restrictions they are facing in Australia, with one rule making all the difference from other major tournaments. ...

The committal hearing of a man accused of throwing his cheerleader girlfriend from a Gold Coast highrise hears the woman was still alive when first responders reached her.

US president-elect Joe Biden is planning to shake things up pretty quickly after he is sworn in later this week. Here's what Mr Biden is expected to change through an array of executive orders. ...

Lord Sydney Ling had a gift for telling people in showbusiness everything they wanted to hear, and even claimed a Guinness World Record. But things got murky when two amateur detectives tried to separate fact from fictio...

More than $8 million is being spent on new glass and plastic recycling facilities in Victoria — and some of it could end up in new roads.

Victoria Police says it will enforce unpaid fines for COVID-19 breaches and blamed a "poorly worded" guidance note for earlier concerns that fines were being dropped and caution notices handed out instead. ...

A double murder trial has heard that Murray Deakin was prone to violent outbursts, refused attempts to seek medical help and had attempted to suffocate his father before the fatal attacks.

Members of US President Donald Trump's failed presidential campaign are said to have played key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the US Capitol.

More than 100 new COVID-19 cases are reported in China for the sixth consecutive day as local authorities claim to have detected coronavirus on ice cream.

An Australian family is finally on home soil after being granted seats on a repatriation flight from London only hours before take-off after months of cancelled flights and government red-tape. ...

A South Korean court sentences Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong to two-and-a-half years in prison, leading to major ramifications for his leadership of the tech giant.

Last year was a hell of a ride for, well, almost every industry. So what will 2021 bring? Here's how Australia's economy will play in 2021 according to one of our top economists.

The wife, sister and niece of a Victorian cyclist ho was killed in the Coorong while riding to the Tour Down Under in 2019 give emotional victim impact statements to an Adelaide court.

These slums were photographed 90 years ago by someone who wanted them demolished. See how they look today.

INXS manager Chris Murphy had plans to build an X-shaped museum in Ballina, but it's unclear what the industry giant's death will mean for the long-awaited project.

Guatemalan security forces use sticks and tear gas to beat back a large caravan of migrants bound for the United States.

An archaeological mission at Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, discovers 54 wooden coffins that can be traced back 3,000 years.

Saddened by the openly racist tone of the social media debate over the Coon Cheese name change, Indigenous man Noel Walker joins the discussion to explain his perspective and share his insight into the pain the brand has...

Thousands of people have been caught without face masks in Bali but not all have been hit with a fine — many are getting away with little more than a racing pulse after a round of punitive push-ups. ...

As Australia looks to the Northern Hemisphere for a COVID-19 vaccine, the world is looking at us for the best ways to perform pathology testing, write Debra Graves and Lawrie Bott.