Virgin Australia flights are facing delays after the airline’s check-in system crashed.

The 18-year-old fullback has two try assists and a try for good measure through 40 minutes at Central Coast Stadium.

Frederic Michalak played 77 Tests for France as a flamboyant five-eighth. Since relocating to Australia, he’s helped mould the Roosters’ army of talented teens.

How much taxpayers spend on hotel quarantine will remain a secret, with the state government refusing to put a figure on it in next year’s budget.

The legal soap opera was about as salacious as it gets but the courtroom was relatively empty. Days later, a packed public gallery was watching one of Melbourne’s most sensational defamation trials,

A woman’s body has been found at a Geelong West property this afternoon.

Thousands of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses are sitting unused in federal government-run clinic refrigerators in NSW, a truce has been called in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the national unemployment rate fell in April but 30,600 fewer peop...

Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan has previously described the game’s constitution as “archaic” and “mind-numbing”.

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

We all have little word games or habits for recalling facts and spelling treacherous words. Here are a few memorable favourites.

The Atlas Coral Project uses a network of small satellites to maintain a real-time watch on the health of coral reefs around the world, keeping a digital eye out for bleaching events.

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley says the Magpies have re-established their goals for 2021 after winning just two of their first nine games.

A tactical adjustment by Glen Boss – often a maestro of improvisation – can give Sir Dragonet an edge in Saturday’s Doomben Cup.

The Lord Mayors Cup is the feature event on the nine-race card.

Just a fortnight after having his contracts torn up over a social media post supporting Jarryd Hayne, Tony Williams is next on Clive Palmer’s Gold Coast hit list.

Thousands of young people marched through the city on Friday as part of nationwide protests demanding climate action from the federal government.

Peter Dutton has laid down the law to his department over pursuing a “woke” agenda, saying such events are a distraction from protecting Australia’s national security.

Thousands of Victorian students walked out of classrooms on Friday in Melbourne as part of a mass call for climate action. Across the country, tens of thousands of school students went on strike to demand that the Morrison Government says no to fundi...

The scathing response and hefty penalties involved with Sandpapergate means players in world cricket are now wary when it comes to the dark arts of ‘ball management’.

People ran in panic from the SEG Plaza on Tuesday after the tower began to wobble - even though there was no seismic activity in the area.

Hamas claimed Netanyahu had agreed to call off the planned evictions of Palestinians in the nearby Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.

What is more wearing: 55 years without a premiership, or nervousness about winning one this year?

Sydney Airport boss Geoff Culbert says Australia’s fortress mindset will start to crack as more of the population is vaccinated and people become comfortable with the idea of reopening the international border. 

The Industry, Science and Technology Minister told reporters in Perth on Friday the past few months had not been an easy period for him personally.

Delivering a terminal diagnosis is the job every doctor dreads – and the news no person wants to get. How much truth do patients and their loved ones really want? And what do they actually hear?

Upgrading Australia’s communications network meant our national security experts had to get to grips with tech titan Huawei’s ties to the Chinese government. A ban would infuriate Chinese leaders. The alternative was worse.

A streetwear label designed to help people living rough in Melbourne has become an accidental hit with the fash pack.

Escaping city life for a remote property is an idyllic proposition for those wanting to wrench their kids off their devices. Just be aware other creatures were there before you.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz and target.

Costello could be ready to cause a surprise in the Lord Mayors Cup at Rosehill on Saturday.

The live-action origin story for the villain of the Dalmatians franchise is a dark punk fantasy set in 1970s London - steered by a trio of dirty diggers.

Improving workforce diversity is not just good business sense. Ethically it’s the right thing to do.

Artificial intelligence crowdsourcing provider Appen spent this week trying to answer the question that has wiped as much as $4 billion from its market valuation

There’s a lot we don’t know about our much-maligned waterways. The RISING festival goes beneath the surface.

The latest show, Lumen, at White Rabbit Gallery offers a visual, visceral and provocative experience.

This year’s German Film Festival celebrates the city that never snores.

Martha Marlow’s Medicine Man, Yulugi’s Chasing Stars to the Mother Tree, CHAI’s Wink and Omar Sosa’s An East African Journey.

The novelist and poet indulges in post-Trump self-absorption after more than 30 years of living in New York.

Geoffrey Robertson’s latest book examines the origins of the Magnitsky Law that is designed to penalise human rights abusers.

The landscape features prominently in Benjamin Myers’ collection of short stories.

Two much admired Australian writers who wrote very different types of books died within a few days of each other.

My parents paid off their mortgage two years early. Imagine that.

Thousands have attended the first School Strike 4 Climate rally since the pandemic began, with the event in Brisbane coinciding with dozens more around the country.

There’s another key recruit – aside from ruck revelation Tom Hickey and assistant coach Don Pyke – who has re-energised the Sydney Swans this year.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian will do a last-minute trip to the Upper Hunter for Saturday’s byelection to warn voters that abandoning the Coalition could lead to 18 months of government instability.

Truly, you shouldn’t need to have Michael Clarke’s expertise and experience to see  what’s most likely happened here.

It’s the portrait prize that stops the nation. Behind the scenes and inside the controversies of an art award so popular that you can bet on it.

If only more of us had a partner who encouraged us to get therapy. If only all of us had access to good therapy.

Israeli and US officials may tout the return of calm after a ceasefire, but experts fear the opposite.

New Zealand Warriors players are unlikely to commit to the World Cup now they will essentially spend two seasons on the road with a tournament survey due next week.