Despite her grief on her 95th birthday, Her Majesty will be sustained by faith, family, friends, and the admiration of her public.

The incident took place as a Minneapolis jury handed down a guilty verdict against former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd last year.

Ambulance response times have dipped to their worst level since 2016-17 and health professionals say Victoria’s system is at breaking point.

The allegations were levelled against Darling Downs tactical crime squad officer-in-charge Senior Sergeant Scott Stahlhut.

A labourer arrested last year on sexual violence charges will face court again today after detectives laid an additional 32 charges.

Bruce Beresford is directing an opera that will be broadcast live in virtual reality. When he put on VR goggles for the first time, his reaction was sheer astonishment.

Rowan Marshall and Zak Jones will come straight back in for the battered Saints, who are hoping to rebound against Port after a belting by Richmond.

It would take less than two kilograms of mRNA to vaccinate all of Australia and to make that just 20 grams of DNA is required.

Gregory Richard Douglas is on trial accused of sexual and indecent assaults against six young women, including five backpackers, who did volunteer work on his Peelwood farm between 2014 and 2019.

The steady drumbeat of attacks, which intelligence officials said were carried out by Israel, highlighted the seeming ease with which Israeli intelligence was able to reach deep inside Iran’s borders.

While Peter Snowden was impressed by the colt’s first win for the stable but said he was far from the finished product.

Everything you need to know to pick a winner on an eight-race card.

The Berejiklian government shifts gears on coal, paying $100 million to extinguish one mining lease as it put curbs on a mothballed mine and opens up more land near Mudgee.

The supercoach said not one of his fullback’s three charges deserved a suspension in a passionate defence of his game breaker.

Matthew Mahoney said the woman accusing two footballers of raping her said she felt she wasn’t allowed to leave the unit where the incident allegedly occurred.

Parramatta allege the unnamed player was filmed without consent while having sex in the stall of a public toilet.

Drummoyne MP John Sidoti spent his second day in the corruption watchdog’s witness box distancing himself from a series of emails he had written, conceding that he did not always write what he meant.

But that manufacturing capability will not alter the nation’s vaccine supplies this year as the country’s leaders prepare to reset the vaccination program on Thursday.

NSW Health is contacting anyone who was quarantined on the 10th floor of the Mercure Hotel on George Street between April 7 and 12, amid fears the virus may have been spreading within the floor.

Britain’s Trade Secretary has labelled her Australian counterpart Dan Tehan “inexperienced” and planned to make him sit in an uncomfortable chair for hours of trade talks.

Some universities in NSW and Victoria saw declines of more than 30 per cent in their pipeline of new overseas student intakes for semester one, while the University of Queensland grew its overseas intake.

The Australian competition watchdog has flagged imminent changes to existing M&A laws as regulators turn up the heat on global technology giants.

MairiAnne and Iona Mackenzie first took the government to court in 2016 to stop the acquisition of part of their land and the felling of historic trees. On Wednesday, all their grounds for appeal were rejected.

It’s not just Wall Street that should be rattled by tepid figures from the world’s pre-eminent streaming service.

Waratahs No.10 Ben Donaldson says he was motivated by Eastwood coach Ben Batger’s comments last week.

Gold Coast City Council will re-advertise for its chief executive position after the sudden resignation of David Edwards last week, with the process expected to take months. 

Children who used the app since May 2018, regardless of their privacy settings, may have had their personal information collected for the benefit of others.

The fans of the world have increasingly been shut out of clubs that bled them dry, that didn’t care for their communities, their cities or the game they love. Today they said no more.

The small clinical trial showed very positive results for most participants, leading to researchers calling for the treatment to be approved for more general use.

NSW Police Minister David Elliott wants the principal of a school on Sydney’s upper north shore to explain student posters featuring slogans such as “Stop Killer Cops”.

The posters appeared on the same day One Nation MP Mark Latham, who admitted to supplying the story to the Daily Telegraph, was chairing a parliamentary inquiry into his own parental rights bill.

The club’s only premiership-winning halfback told teammates on Wednesday morning he would leave the club where he made his debut a decade ago.

Veteran Matthew Wade has been dumped while the ascension of young gun Cameron Green has created a selection squeeze as Cricket Australia prepares to announce its contract list for a bumper year.

Yvette D’Ath said there had been 11 “code yellows” declared in south-east Queensland since March 25.

The Anzac Day blockbuster between Collingwood and Essendon has almost sold out, with only a handful of tickets left for the 75 per cent capacity MCG, but the AFL is increasingly confident capacity will be increased.

Victorians who had waited weeks to get coronavirus jabs at general practices have walked straight into mass vaccination clinics, with smaller than expected crowds present on their first day of operation.

Second-guessing the Chinese and the Brazilians is an occupational hazard for economists and commodity experts, who have been proven wrong again and again predicting an end to the price rally.

Special analysis of household finances has revealed Australia’s poorest households suffered a fall in financial stress during the COVID-19 recession.

The 13 experts, including members of a panel that deals with enforced disappearances, are calling for Latifa’s immediate release.

I felt uplifted watching people smile in Minneapolis again, after those same crowds stormed the streets in anguish less than a year ago. But I couldn’t mirror their emotion.

The law includes a clause that exempts employees already in their positions from the ban but they would lose the exemption if they were promoted or moved elsewhere.

Ben Ungermann, who featured in the 2017 season, disappeared from last year’s MasterChef Australia: Back to Win with little explanation in May.

The latest headgear from French brand Focal is far out of my price range but it’s well worth a test drive.

The reboot of the reality show has not cast the net nearly far enough for the majority of the 12 housemates.

Quiz ringmasters Tom Gleisner, Adam Hills and Bill Bailey explain the X-factor of making a successful panel show.

The 93-year-old Academy Awards have been resistant to change, but COVID restrictions and the direction of Steven Soderbergh mean this year’s will be different.

Kate Winslet knew she wanted to play Mare as soon as she read Brad Ingelsby’s script. She just didn’t realise how hard it would be to let her go afterwards.

City of Port Phillip is proposing “live music precincts” to prioritise pubs and clubs in planning decisions and protect them against noise complaints.

Recent comments by the Prime Minister suggest he is moving towards a hard 2050 emissions reductions target, but the rest of the world has already moved.

Before he was convicted of murder and manslaughter over the killing of George Floyd, Derek Chauvin had patrolled the streets of Minneapolis for almost 20 years.