Scammers stole more than $2 billion from Australians last year — more than double the amount from 2020. Here's why losses from scams are going up so fast.

New Zealand property prices have fallen every month this year following a series of punishing interest rate hikes that began last October. So far, the hikes have yet to dent inflation.

President Vladimir Putin's seizure of a major oil and gas project is a powerful warning for foreign companies: Move fast or else.

An Australian senator demands answers from TikTok following revelations US-based user data is accessible by employees in China.

A court has heard 31-year-old Jie William Smith, accused of the murder of a six-month-old boy, allege the child's mother injured her own baby, but admitted to police he had also dropped the child.

A devoted aunt investigates the mysterious death of her niece Amy Wensley, throwing doubt on the police case and exposing devastating investigative failures. 

Recriminations over the Coalition's federal election loss have spectacularly boiled over, with senior Liberal Party figures engaging in a vicious blame game.

The Prime Minister's visit to war-torn Ukraine was meant to remain secret until he was safely out of the country. But it was soon revealed as he met with locals.

The Hawkesbury River is reaching peak flood levels as some regions of south-east NSW experience their fourth inundation in 18 months. 

Two Australian children are hospitalised with rare cases of diphtheria of the throat. So, what is diphtheria? How is it treated? And how important is vaccination?

A judge says self-proclaimed body modifier Brendan Russell was "grossly negligent from start to finish" when a woman died from septicaemia after he inserted a snowflake-shaped implant in her right hand.

Sydney is likely to earn a reprieve from the wild weather tomorrow but residents are warned "it can change quite dramatically" as catchments continue to rise.

An operation is underway to tow a cargo ship that had been drifting towards rocks amid wild seas near Sydney to deeper waters.

Solomon Islands has been shut off from the world for more than two years. It was thrust into the global spotlight during that time when it signed a security pact with China. Now it has opened up again, what do the people of Solomon Islan...

Early morning commuters are accustomed to fog blanketing the roads in winter, but those in the aviation game know of something more insidious: freezing fog.  

An intersex prisoner, who identifies as female, was placed in a male prison where she was exposed to "ridicule" and "cruel and degrading treatment", a South Australian tribunal hears.

Across Ukraine, accounts of rape by Russian soldiers are growing. It is the 'most hidden' war crime and as the first rape case of the war begins in a Ukrainian court, human rights lawyers are working out how victims like Olha can get justic...

Seventeen people will be awarded America's "highest civilian honour" this week. Here's who, and why they were chosen to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

A woman who — as a 16-year-old hospital patient was in the care of a notorious paedophile — says she remembers "a lot of red flags" and is baffled why no one in authority did anything about it at the time.

A passenger bus slides off a mountain road in northern India, falling into a deep gorge and killing 16 people, including schoolchildren.

Copenhagen police arrest a 22-year-old Danish man over the shopping centre attack, saying he acted alone and they doubt the motive was terror-related.

A South Australian District Court judge describes the crash that killed a pedestrian in the Adelaide Hills as a "crime" rather than an accident given the driver's gross level of intoxication.

A livestock disease that could shut down Australia's meat and livestock trade has reached Bali, sparking calls for harsher border measures for those returning from the popular tourist destination.

As the federal government announces a review into Australia's carbon credit scheme, landowners and livestock producers have been warned "the biggest losers will be farmers" if the market is perceived to be a rort.

The WorkSafe charges brought against St Basil's, in Melbourne's north, relate to the facility's alleged failure to ensure PPE was worn and correctly used by staff after a positive case emerged in July 2020.