Crown chief executive Ken Barton appears likely to step down in the coming days after increasing pressure from gaming authorities, following a damning report into the Australian casino giant.

Victoria's coronavirus testing commander Jeroen Weimar says the results of cases five and six have come back as the UK variant, therefore they are working under the assumption the rest are too. ...

Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the US Senate gathered steam on day two as Democrats laid out their evidence the former president incited an insurrection by encouraging thousands of supporters to march on the Capitol...

A 17-year-old girl is released from custody on probation after pleading guilty to charges over a car crash that killed 22-year-old motorcyclist Jennifer Board in Townsville in north Queensland. ...

The Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn coronavirus cluster grows to 11 after another worker and two close contacts of workers test positive.

A man who works at a childcare centre in the Hobart area has been charged with producing child exploitation material.

Australian microbiologist Dominic Dwyer was part of a 10-person team sent to the Chinese city of Wuhan to investigate the origins of COVID-19, but he says the probe faced political pressure and tensions with its hosts. ...

The scathing Bergin Inquiry into Crown casino recommends taking gambling regulation away the states, and experts agree that states are too conflicted and under-resourced to do the job.

A 17-year-old boy fatally assaulted a teenage mother of two in the Pilbara town of Newman and then took her body to hospital in a wheelie bin, the Perth Children's Court has heard.

US President Joe Biden raises China's "coercive and unfair economic practices, crackdown in Hong Kong and human rights abuses in Xinjiang" in his first call with his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping. ...

Want to know how fish emerged onto land 400 million years ago? Then look closely at the Australian lungfish in the waters of south-east Queensland.

Thanasi Kokkinakis's return to the major tennis scene is ended by fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in a second-round five-setter that lasted four-and-a-half hours — the longest match of this year's tournament. ...

The actor and former MMA fighter likened the experience of Jews during the Holocaust to the US political climate in a since-deleted social media post.

China's Tianwen-1 probe successfully enters orbit around Mars after a nearly seven-month voyage from Earth.

A Texas lawyer's appearance as a fluffy kitten during an online court hearing was a moment of levity in a pandemic-fatigued world. But that specific, adorable filter may be tough to find for anyone looking to replicate t...

Last year's winner fought back tears as she reflected on her straight-sets loss to Kaia Kanepi at Melbourne Park, which marked the earliest departure of a defending women's champion since 2003. ...

The Monash University research offers hope for muscular dystrophy sufferers, the elderly and people with muscular limb damage.

The children, aged between two and 16, were removed in an operation by the Philippine National Police as a result of an investigation into a Victorian man who was charged with procuring a child to engage in sexual activi...

Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, will step down over sexist remarks he made saying women talked too much, according to Reuters.

Larry Flynt, who built Hustler magazine into an adult entertainment empire while championing First Amendment rights, dies aged 78.

A British DJ convicted over the death of a police officer in Bali, alongside Australian Sara Connor, walks free from prison after completing around four years of his six-year sentence.

Police arrest the partner of missing woman Ju "Kelly" Zhang at Melbourne Airport and expand their search to parklands in the city's north, more than a week after she first disappeared.

An Indian woman who overstayed her visa performed chores and stayed in a Melbourne family home for eight years, but a couple charged with enslavement say the "Ammachi" was a beloved, "integrated member of the family". ...

The prominent film and TV creator is criticised for overseeing "toxic" work environments and bullying a pregnant star on the hit 90s show.

By piecing together satellite imagery and footage captured on the ground, we've visualised the path of destruction caused by a glacier collapse in the Indian Himalayas.

Four people, including locals who stepped in to help fire crews, were hurt as a ferocious fire destroyed Tibooburra's historic Two Storey hotel in outback NSW last night.

Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady pulls off a risky throw during Super Bowl victory celebrations, successfully tossing the Lombardi Trophy between boats to cheers from fans.

A significant percentage of a Great Ocean Road town's 247 residents oppose a plan by Singaporean company Big Tiny to build an accommodation park near a "delicate" estuary.