A friend of Trevor Kjeldal says the Australian was a brave soldier who died in a mortar attack while fighting Russian forces in Ukraine's Donbas region.

The 42nd US president makes a last-minute appearance ahead of Tuesday's vote in support of New York Governor Kathy Hochul, warning of "enormous consequences" if the Democratic Party loses control of the House of Representatives and the Sena...

Donald Trump hints at another presidential run, decries "twisted race and gender" teachings in schools, and says his Democratic rivals are "either stupid or they hate our country" during a midterm elections campaign rally in the US.  ...

Danushka Gunathilaka is refused bail after being charged with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent.

Police confirm that a body found in a pond today is that of missing eight-year-old Pranav Vivekanandan, whose mother and young brother were found dead in the same pond yesterday. 

SA Ambulance Service says it has taken five people to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after an incident at Adelaide's Yatala Labour Prison.

A giant Indian bank sits behind a slow-moving Australian energy disaster. It's a tale about billion-dollar bets gone terribly wrong, failed international ambitions and a clash of finance cultures.

The Netherlands cause one of the all-time great upsets in Adelaide, beating South Africa and eliminating the fancied Proteas from the T20 World Cup.

A second body has been found in Central west NSW, as the Forbes CBD remains submerged by the worst flooding in 70 years.

The world's richest man has taken out more than $30 billion in loans to buy Twitter — a relatively unprofitable social media website many have idealised as being a "global town square".

The federal government makes concessions to its contentious industrial relations legislation in a bid to pass the workplace bill before Christmas.  

Saylor Thomson was born with a sacrococcygeal teratoma — a rare tumour occurring in about one in 35,000 births. 

Police are investigating after a car crashed into a home in Albany overnight, ploughing through a verandah, wiping out stairs and wedging itself on top of two parked cars.

The opposition says it will scrap stamp duty for first-home buyers who purchase property worth less than $1 million if it wins the state election, while Labor says it will introduce a Victorian Veterans Card to help with the cost of living...

With election day looming in the US midterms, all eyes are on swing state Pennsylvania, where a Trump-backed celebrity doctor is closing in on his progressive opponent in a key Senate race.

As Ukraine gains ground and pushes Russian forces back, one city looms large as key to its victory. Kherson is the last regional capital under Russian control, losing it would be a blow to Vladimir Putin.   

In his first Boyers lecture, the Indigenous leader says hopes for constitutional recognition through a Voice to Parliament could soon be fulfilled, but hurdles remain. 

The Western Bulldogs kicked the only two goals of the last quarter, but Collingwood held on to win their AFLW elimination final by five points.

Australians are showing up for work even when they're sick or injured because they need to get paid – or keep their job.

Thousands of students across Australia are currently doing their year 12 exams, but only a minority will use their ATAR to get into university. So, is it time to rethink how we measure academic achievement?

Rod Keogh doesn't get a full night's sleep in winter because his "babies" are up in the middle of the night and they're incredibly noisy.

A 34-year-old woman dies after a crash that happened on the same Wheatbelt road, and just metres away, from where a mother-of-six was killed 10 days ago, as a spate of crashes causes traffic chaos in Perth. 

In 1985, Bob Hawke and his treasurer Paul Keating saw the future. They reformed the economy and looked to Beijing. But with much of the world now on the brink of recession, the future doesn't seem as clear today, writes Stan Grant.

Leo Skliros predicts a huge proportion of his healthy mango crop will go to waste this season. And he's not the only one. 

Representatives for Carter’s family confirm the death of the former child star, who had struggled with substance abuse and financial woes in recent years.