Strengthening winds are hindering the efforts of firefighters to contain a massive bushfire east of Perth that has burnt more than 11,000 hectares of land and destroyed more than 70 homes.

DFES Deputy Commissioner Craig Waters says terrain is one of the biggest issues firefighters are having to deal with as they work to contain the Perth Hills fires. Follow live.

Victorian authorities investigate the possible transmission of COVID-19 within the state's hotel quarantine system after two groups of travellers on the same floor test positive for the same UK variant of the virus. ...

Singaporean officials say they expect the nation's first shipment of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine to arrive around March, in the wake of the country becoming Asia's first to approve the jab.

For China, Myanmar's coup against Aung San Suu Kyi will likely present as much a risk as an opportunity. Beijing's caution in even calling it a coup reflects a desire to foster good relations with a military that has had...

Police say a woman with stab wounds is "fortunate to be alive" after she was found locked in the boot of a car in the NSW Southern Highlands — she smashed a tail light and waved down a truck driver who called authoriti...

While waiting in limbo for news of their homes, the common theme among bushfire victims is a resounding sense of appreciation for firefighters and emergency personnel.

St George Illawarra says "discussions have now ceased" between the NRL club and controversial cross-code player Israel Folau.

Large hospitals are forming the backbone of Australia's coronavirus vaccination rollout plan. Here's what we know.

Uyghur advocacy groups have renewed calls for the international community to take action after the BBC published horrifying new accounts of rape and torture in China's network of internment camps in Xinjiang. ...

Brian Sicknick, the Capitol police officer killed when supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the US Senate, is "laying in honour" in Washington DC.

A 2013 remark about Adam Goodes should have been the last straw for Collingwood president Eddie McGuire, Allen Christensen says.

Western Australia records another day of no new coronavirus cases, with Mark McGowan saying the state is on track to come out of lockdown in time for the weekend, but warns some restrictions will remain. ...

NSW Health warns all clients of Detoxologie in Bondi to get tested for blood-borne viruses due to poor infection controls at the clinic which was shut down only months ago due to poor hygiene.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison offers his first public rebuke of Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly for spreading misinformation about COVID-19.

The corridors of the press gallery in Canberra became the stage for Parliament's latest theatre piece, this time COVID-themed and featuring Craig Kelly as the villain with Labor's Tanya Plibersek as the heroine, politica...

The Reserve Bank is optimistic about Australia's post-COVID economic outlook, but those forecasts rely on people running down the savings they built up during 2020.

A panel of judges denies the appeal of former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor against his conviction for murdering Australian woman Justine Damond Ruszczyk.

Microsoft publicly backs the Federal Government's proposed news media bargaining code, suggesting its search engine Bing can fill the gap if Google follows through on a threat to leave the Australian market. ...

Westpac is facing millions of dollars in fines after the High Court ruled it overstepped financial advice laws in promoting superannuation services to its customers.

World Health Organization investigators visit a research centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus.

The recent emergence of several new coronavirus variants has triggered a fresh wave of concerns over how quickly the virus is changing, and new questions about whether COVID-19 vaccines will be able to keep up. ...

Donald Trump launched Space Force in 2019, trumpeting it as a creation for the ages. Now that Joe Biden is in charge, what will become of it?

Sue-Ellen realised she was different from other kids when her teacher asked what her dad did for work. She had to lie.

Patients have been asked to supply their own bandages and country doctors are effectively running a "crisis medical service" in a damning snapshot of rural and regional health care in NSW.

As devastating fires claim scores of homes in the Perth Hills a tropical low is tracking down the north-west coast, a transient Tasman low is brewing in the east and a front is making its way across the Bight. ...

A teenager is left shaken after a shark emerged from the water before sinking its teeth into the rear of his surf ski during lifesaving training, more than a kilometre out from Adelaide's Glenelg beach. ...

News outlets dubbed the 'MAGA media' are beginning to cover Joe Biden's presidency and struggling to find their place without his vocal Republican predecessor, writes Matt Bevan.