Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern makes the announcement after a couple and their daughter tested positive in Auckland, with the mother working at an airline catering company.

Australia's first shipment of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine will touch down this coming week with the Federal Government conceding distributing it across the country will not be a flawless exercise. ...

Three tram routes and the main fruit and vegetable section of the Queen Victoria Market are listed as coronavirus exposure sites, as the outbreak at the centre of Victoria's snap lockdown grows to 16 cases. ...

Trump's acquittal generates a host of questions around what happens next: Will he face future federal, state or local charges? What about a censure vote? And will he ultimately be free to run again in 2024? ...

Republican senators were put in the peculiar position of being victims of the Capitol assault, then jurors at Donald Trump's trial, while risking being targeted by the former US president if they convicted him, writes Ji...

Phoebe Parker has spent her life surrounded by a loving family. Roy McDonald was left at an orphanage. The siblings' fates were determined by an act that took almost 100 years to uncover.

NSW records its 28th consecutive day of no locally acquired COVID-19 cases — the longest stretch with no community transmission since the pandemic began — but health authorities say it doesn't mean "we can drop our g...

Some experts are questioning the purpose of the World Health Organization's coronavirus probe in China, which wraps up after months of diplomatic tension with no clarity on how the virus began. ...

A site containing about 40 earthenware pots arranged in two rows is uncovered in southern Egypt, with ancient beer believed to be used for "sacrificial rites".

Human remains are found inside a four-metre crocodile believed to have fatally attacked a 69-year-old fisherman in far north Queensland last week, authorities confirm.

With the emergence of international variants of the virus throwing a new spanner in the works, questions are again being raised about the weaknesses of Australia's quarantine programs, and what we can learn from how othe...

A batch of commercial compost leaves a Suez recycling facility in Melbourne bound for Victorian garden centres. Crops begin to die within weeks.

Serena Williams has reached the quarter finals of the Australian Open with a battling victory over Aryna Sabalenka.

When Gigi Mirto's young family returned to Brisbane after out-running COVID-19 in Europe, they had nothing but their suitcases and an empty house but the generosity of the community changed that. ...

In 1991, harbour master Ian Harrod was planning to spend Valentine's Day with the woman who would become his wife. History intervened in the shape of a crisis that would leave an unexpected legacy. ...

Ashley Judd recounts a fall that left her "howling like a wild animal" and almost cost her leg in a Congolese rainforest.

It hit the Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures, the same areas that were devastated by a more powerful earthquake and tsunami a decade ago.

Virat Kohli channels England legend WG Grace after he refused to walk off the field, despite being clean bowled by Moeen Ali on day one of the second Test.

Most politicians tend to be unfamiliar with unemployment because they move from university to the corporate world and then into politics. But more first-hand experience with the difficulty of living in poverty may give t...

Crown Resorts may be pondering how its current predicament could have been averted if the company had just compensated and apologised to a junior employee for putting her in danger in China.

All Australians are in line for a COVID-19 vaccine, but both expats and experts worry this country is not doing enough to support efforts to end the pandemic in poorer nations.

The US Government has called on China to make data from the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak available, stating it is imperative that the World Health Organization's COVID-19 report be independent and free of "alte...

White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo resigns the day after he was suspended for issuing a sexist and profane threat to a journalist seeking to cover his relationship with another reporter. ...

Sydney father Daniel Abdallah decided there was no good to come from holding a grudge against the driver who hit and killed four young family members. He says forgiveness is about "setting yourself free". ...

Fremantle wins its 10th straight AFLW match, putting down a premiership marker against two-time champions Adelaide.