The military is ordered to stop holding morning teas which celebrate diversity and inclusion, as Defence chiefs remind personnel their "primary mission" is to protect Australia.

There are loud cries for change, stories of grief and witty signs in abundance as young people around the country rally for a fossil fuel-free future.

Yang Hengjun is facing espionage charges in Chinese court, but the details of the allegations against him have not been revealed, with authorities claiming it has to do with national security.

Scott Morrison says the government is "moving quickly" to establish mRNA production capability in Australia, but that it will not address any immediate issues with supplies or the vaccine rollout.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire. More deaths and further destruction be avoided — at least for now. But that is about as far as the good news goes, writes Anthony Billingsley.

Health authorities revealed six potential COVID-19 exposure sites in Melbourne's north earlier this month — but one of the Woolworths supermarket locations in the list was wrong.

A slow-moving Arizona ballot recount is not just making US democracy look like a circus -- it's also ground zero for the Republican party's attempt to tighten voting restrictions. 

In Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey's mental health docuseries due for release today, the Duke of Sussex opens up about how his mother's death influenced his decision to quit the glare of life in the royal family.

How a young and relatively junior journalist used underhanded and deceitful tactics to attain an interview with Princess Diana.

Lady Gaga appears in multi-part documentary The Me You Can't See and shares traumatic details of being abused as a teenager while trying to forge a career in the music industry. 

Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, who is set to become Samoa's first female prime minister, says her country will be reviewing relations with many of its partners and that more loans are a last resort right now.

An anti-vax hairdresser in south-west Victoria is criticised after announcing on social media that she's banning customers who have received a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Warriors and Wests Tigers kick off round 11 on the Central Coast, before the Sharks and the Dragons play in Kogarah. Follow our ScoreCentre for all the live scores and stats.

Roosters half Sam Walker is a phenomenal attacking talent. But his defensive game is … how to put this delicately … improving.

A two-year-old "happy, fearless explorer" was going on a big adventure with her grandmother when a five-second lapse in attention caused it to go "so horribly wrong", an Adelaide court hears.

Ljube Velevski's defence team argued that he slept soundly while his wife murdered the girls before taking her own life. Despite appealing his sentence, the killer – whose sentence will soon end – has again chosen not to apply for parol...

The daughters of an Adelaide man who is fighting for his life in hospital say they are horrified by his treatment in South Australia's overrun health system. 

El Salvador officials say graves excavated at the house of a former police officer contained as many as 40 bodies, most believed to be of women.

Authorities respond to a shark attack off the coast of Broome in Western Australia's Kimberley region.

Two ancient plant species described as '"remnants of ancient rainforests" have just been discovered in the path of a new highway. The NSW government says it will protect them, but scientists fear they could become extinct.

Port Adelaide Football Club will still wear the Indigenous round guernsey it revealed earlier this week, but will credit the original artist rather than the girl who has admitted copying the design.

COVID-19 continues to disrupt this year's Eurovision, with the Dutch winner of the last contest in 2019, Duncan Laurence, unable to perform in Sunday's grand final after he tests positive. 

The India issue is just one of the sharp edges of the increasing debate about Australia's international border, writes Michelle Grattan.

A woman is hospitalised with leg injuries after a dangerous driver she confronted drove the car at her, striking her.

SA farmers Andrew Wilks and Rohan Giles are about to take on the 4,000km of road between Alice Springs and the Gold Coast in an old wreck barely fit to bash a paddock. It may sound funny, but there's a poignant reason behind the trip.