People in Georges Hall and parts of Chipping Norton, Lansvale, Milperra, Moorebank and Warwick Farm are told to leave their homes by 3am as heavy rain continues to fall in Sydney. Follow live.

Authorities say Russian missiles have hit the centre of Ukraine's second-largest city, including residential areas and the regional administration building.

Flood evacuation orders are issued for several areas in Western Sydney as heavy rain pelts NSW and authorities warn people it will be a "tough night" ahead.

Since he took office, Joe Biden has faced new COVID-19 variants, a struggling US economy and a war in Ukraine. These were the biggest moments from his State of the Union address as he laid out his plans for the year ahead. 

Russian commanders intensify their bombardment of urban areas in a shift of tactics after their nearly week-long assault stalls, with Ukrainian resistance so far stopping the invading forces from taking a single city.

Authorities say a fourth body has been recovered in the northern NSW town of Lismore, as one flood victim's daughter confirms his death on social media.

Australian billionaire and United Australia Party founder Clive Palmer reportedly buys one of Adolf Hitler's cars at auction from a Russian billionaire.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges the European Union to prove that it stands with Ukraine in its war with Russia, a day after signing an official request to join the bloc.

Just $150 million from a $5 billion fund has been set aside for disaster-mitigation projects, and much less than that has actually been spent. It's prompted the question: With a big slice of eastern Australia either underwater or recently ...

On Monday, a 64-kilometre-long convoy of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles was spotted via satellite on a road to Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, but reports say it may have slowed.

Dozens of children are removed from harm and more than 100 Australians are arrested as a result of a three-year investigation into child abuse material.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he will work through his COVID infection — but what happens when the country's leader gets COVID, and who has he been in contact with?

Australia's economy just posted its equal-best quarter of economic growth in nearly 46 years as it bounced back from the east-coast Delta lockdowns. But not everyone is cheering, with rising costs and supply shortages still hitting many busi...

Some Australians had fled Ukrainian cities for safer areas or neighbouring countries, but not everyone has been able to get out.

The day before Western Australia lifts its hard border and reopens to the world, the state records 1,766 new local cases of COVID-19, with the hospital system put on red alert.

Constable Zachary Rolfe told the court he was trained to shoot assailants armed with edged weapons until they are incapacitated, "no matter how many rounds that takes".

East coast lows have wrought historic destruction in the past and with this system set to coincide with the highest astronomical tides of the year, warnings are in place for much of the state.

While Ukrainian citizens rush to defend its cities from Russian invaders, the country's Vice Prime Minister makes an unusual call-to-arms, pleading with global hackers to fight the Kremlin on the "cyber front".

Supermarkets in the state's north are quickly running out of supplies as flood-affected residents scramble to stock up.

The collapse of the construction giant is being dubbed "nightmarish" by its administrators, with 800 workers owed $14 million, while trade and contracting creditors are potentially owed much more.

If they are not fighting alongside Ukraine's armed forces, the citizens who remain in the war-ravaged country are contributing in anyway they can towards efforts on the front line.

Cut off from essential services for three days following major flooding in the state's south-east, residents in Brisbane's west are starting to receive emergency supply packages by helicopter.

Here's a quick wrap of what's happening in COVID news across Australia.

A burnt-out cargo vessel carrying luxury cars sinks in the mid-Atlantic, 13 days after a fire broke out aboard, the ship's manager and the Portuguese navy say.

New Zealand police launch a renewed push to end an anti-vaccine mandate protest that has disrupted the country's capital for the past three weeks, dismantling an encampment set up outside parliament and towing away vehicles.