The expert panel advising on Australia's COVID-19 vaccines is meeting to reconsider its advice limiting AstraZeneca vaccines to people over 60.

Details are still emerging about the journey taken by two people working as removalists across multiple states last week who have since tested positive to COVID-19.

NSW today recorded the highest number of cases since the outbreak began in Bondi last month. Now the "vast majority" of cases are coming from Fairfield in Sydney's south-west.

A COVID-positive Sydney man who works as a removalist and was working during the trip, also stayed overnight in Victoria on July 8, before travelling to South Australia.

Business owners have lashed out at state governments over border closures, saying they're again being impacted by COVID cases hundreds of kilometres away. 

While the US has yet to confirm the incident, China says USS Benfold illegally entered its territorial waters near the Paracel Islands on the anniversary of an international court ruling against Beijing's claim to the region.

Pfizer has flatly denied any suggestion former prime minister Kevin Rudd was responsible in Australia securing earlier access to its vaccines, insisting negotiations were only with the federal government.

Italy loomed large over Euro 2020 from start to finish. Roberto Mancini's side are deserving winners and look set to build a legacy in the years to come, writes Dan Colasimone. 

A 72-year-old South Australian woman is believed to have died from the rare blood clotting syndrome linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

A billionaire from Bundaberg mixed with the world's richest and most powerful before losing a fortune. Some say they never bought his story.

England's Football Association says it wants the "toughest punishments possible" for people found to have racially abused members of the national side.

Lawyer Michael Gatenby, who is representing all eight accused men, says it is "no secret" they were being investigated by police over the shooting death of Shane Bowden, but some of the charges levelled against them are "quite spurious". ...

Just 25 big cities — almost all of them in China — account for more than half of the climate-warming gases pumped out by a sample of 167 urban hubs around the world, an analysis of emissions trends shows.

As NSW's coronavirus outbreak worsens, Health Minister Greg Hunt says federal economic and mental health support packages for the state will be finalised "in the very near future".

A man faces the ACT Magistrates Court, charged with the attempted murder of three Canberra police officers, who were struck by a car near the National Arboretum on Sunday afternoon.

NSW records 112 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases as over 40s in the state are offered the AstraZeneca vaccine.

The Ltyentye Apurte rangers enlist Docker River Kaltukatjara rangers for help to protect ancient Utyetye rock art from nesting swallows.

Nick Xenophon says his threat to return to politics over a lawsuit involving ugg boots has had a cold reception from a Coalition Cabinet minister who has admitted "nobody wants him back".

A rare, unopened copy of Super Mario 64 is now the most expensive video game ever sold after being bought at an auction for more than $US1.5 million.

Tighter restrictions will be put in place for South Australians returning from Greater Sydney, but no exposure sites have been linked to two NSW removalists who tested positive after visiting SA. 

A professor who studied lockdowns in Melbourne, Wuhan, Italy and the UK warns that Sydney's COVID numbers during the current outbreak could take two weeks to start dropping. 

More manatees have died in waters around Florida this year than at any previous time on record, according to conservationists.

David Billett's rental was in such a squalid condition the council found no person could safely occupy it. Experts say Australia has a largely unrecognised problem with poor housing.

We desperately need to know more about how this outbreak is being handled, starting with these questions, writes Rafael Epstein.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she is monitoring the escalating COVID-19 situation in Greater Sydney, but will not shut the border with New South Wales "at this stage".