NSW’s plans to quash quarantine for fully vaccinated arrivals has delighted Australians stuck overseas - but some worry about their reception in other states.

Monica Juma wants to reset the Commonwealth as part of her bid to oust Baroness Patricia Scotland from the London-based job.

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Audio reveals the 95-year-old monarch sharing her unguarded views about the COP26 climate summit: “they talk, but they don’t do.”

The only plane sighted lately is a retired Boeing 737 a Russian developer has perched on a clifftop as a draw for the tourists who haven’t arrived.

Former US President Bill Clinton was hospitalised on Tuesday in California with a suspected blood infection, CNN has reported.

Norwegian media reported a court granted a restraining order for the suspect to keep him away from his parents for six months after threatening to kill one of them.

“I can’t tell you how terrified I am to bring down this hammer,” joked Sotheby’s auctioneer Oliver Barker after 10 minutes of bidding.  

The Iran-backed Hezbollah accuse a Christian party of attacking its supporters, who were gathering to demand the removal of the judge investigating last year’s port blast.

A combination of Brexit and COVID-19 has sparked an exodus of east European workers, leaving some 120,000 pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

BHP shareholders have offered a resounding endorsement of the Australian mining giant’s climate transition strategy.

Around 300 more people fled their homes early on Thursday as flows of molten rock pouring from the Cumbre Vieja volcano threatened to engulf another area on the Spanish island of La Palma.

Dozens of people living in a 13-storey residential building in Taipei have died after an “extremely fierce” fire ripped through the floors, local authorities said.

The Philippine Foreign Secretary has backed in Australia’s nuclear-powered submarines deal, and also called for it to become part of ASEAN.

Five people died and two are in intensive care, including an officer who was off duty and inside a shop where an attack took place, police say.

Dr Duane Mitchell sat next to Mark by chance. After three hours of conversation, Mark decided he was ready to get vaccinated - with Dr Mitchell by his side.

A mayor’s idea of raffling off cows as an incentive to be immunised has been well-received but supply disruptions and public doubts are stumbling blocks.

The changes come amid mounting criticism of the company’s handling of hate speech, misinformation and negative content.

The UN health agency says there were about 2.8 million new cases and 46,000 confirmed deaths in the last week, a drop of 7 per cent and 10 per cent respectively.

Donald Trump is back in the spotlight. Not the real Trump, who has kept a relatively low profile since losing re-election last year, but a wax version of the former president and his wife Melania.

Hollywood’s Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner, blasted into space on Wednesday in a convergence of science fiction and science reality, reaching the final frontier aboard a ship built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company.

The World Health Organisation on Wednesday named 26 scientists to a new advisory body devoted to understanding the origins of COVID-19.

President Xi Jinping is isolated from world leaders just as his country - still pursuing COVID-zero - is from the world.

Health authorities allowed the Vuse tobacco flavoured pods produced by British American Tobacco, saying they can reduce smokers’ exposure to harmful chemicals.

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The government’s new position on royal succession and gay marriage comes ahead of Princess Amalia’s 18th birthday in December.

What most needs doing in the hunt for COVID-19’s origins is something that the new advisory group will be powerless to get: evidence from China.

People should win the prize for science, the head of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said, “because they made the most important discovery”.

Here’s a quick guide to some of the key terms ahead of the United Nations’ climate crisis summit in Glasgow next month.

Bereaved families reacted to the report with outrage, furious that the people who died of COVID-19 received scant mention in the 150-page document

The influencer had been on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend, when she was reported missing on September 11 by her parents, in a case that has drawn attention.

Only 10 years ago diesel cars accounted for 75 per cent of new sales in Norway. Today they make up just 2.3 per cent.

Older adults without heart disease shouldn’t take daily low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, an influential US health guidelines group said.

Chinese government-controlled media has threatened Australia with further trade strikes after former prime minister Tony Abbott accused Beijing of bullying Taiwan.

France wants to be a leader in green hydrogen by 2030 and build new, smaller nuclear reactors as part of a road map aimed at decarbonising the country’s industry, President Emmanuel Macron said.

The North Korean leader used a rare exhibition of weapons systems as a backdrop for his effort to drive a wedge between Washington and Seoul.

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A bat-filled cave complex close to wildlife farms is under scrutiny in China’s Hubei province.

Vladimir Chishov, the Kremlin’s ambassador to the EU, earlier suggested Europe could have more gas if it stopped treating Russia as “an adversary”.

“The segregation of toys by a social construct of what is appropriate for which gender is the antithesis of modern thinking,” one of the law’s sponsors wrote.

Earlier Enrico Michetti said Rome’s citizens should revive the stiff-armed Roman salute because that way they could greet each other without the risk of touching and spreading COVID-19.

Observational data on Sinopharm and Sinovac shots “clearly showed that in older age groups ... the vaccine performs less well after two doses”, the health body said.

None of the National Earthquake Information Centre’s stations had found any evidence of an earthquake in the region during the past seven days.

Beijing regarded Australia as something of a nuisance, but it is becoming a leader among nations coalescing against China’s threats.

Researchers estimate the facility, which dates back some 1500 years, could produce about 2 million litres of wine a year.

British police have announced they will not take any action against Prince Andrew after a review prompted by a Jeffrey Epstein accuser who claims that he sexually assaulted her.

The future king said it would be a “disaster” if next month’s COP26 summit collapsed, and appeared taken aback when told Morrison still did not know whether he would go.

The prize is the last awarded of this year’s crop.

The findings are a boost to the British drug maker’s efforts to develop coronavirus medicines beyond vaccines.

The blaxe is the latest blow to a nation grappling with a deep economic crisis and crippling fuel and power shortages.