In a move that has been welcomed by climate campaigners, South Korea has vowed to phase out coal, sparking a warning for Australian exporters.

After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.

The Australian share market posts its worst one-day loss since the fallout from Donald Trump's Liberation Day tariff announcement in early April, with more than $59 billion wiped off the value of listed companies.

An Australian lab discovered asbestos in children's play sand by chance and regulators only found out about it because of a podcast interview, the ABC can reveal.

A previous disclosure that the head of the federal corruption watchdog had been consulted 11 times has been corrected to 21.

Matthew Gruter spends the night in a detention centre after having his visa revoked for attending a protest organised by the National Socialist Network.

The organiser of this fight club says it saves lives. But critics say it is putting young men at serious risk.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits the future West Australian gallium processing plant site, central to the United States critical minerals deal, heralding it as a "game changing" project.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued its first forecast track map for a tropical low over the NT, showing the system is expected to strengthen into a category two cyclone by Thursday night.

Victoria's first female Liberal Party leader is facing a gargantuan task to unite her party and prove the opposition is worth voting for, Richard Willingham writes.

Rajwinder Singh, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 24-year-old Toyah Cordingley, is on trial in the Supreme Court in Cairns.

Lachlan Young strangled Ms McGuire in their Sebastopol home, then placed her body in her ute and set it alight in bushland on Ballarat's outskirts, staging the scene to look like a suicide.

After the man who threatened her life via email was sentenced in court earlier this week, Senator Fatima Payman is being targeted by online abuse.

A woman who stabbed a federal police officer at Perth Airport with a pen in a "vicious" attack is sentenced to more than two years in prison.

While the childcare crisis has left me concerned about my own child's safety, as a male early childhood educator, I'm also worried about the future of men in the sector, writes Ben. 

Ahead of the 2025/26 Ashes series getting underway on November 21 in Perth, test out your knowledge in our fiendish Ashes quiz.

The fleet of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart yacht race set sail from the harbour city, unaware they were travelling directly into the path of a huge storm and unrelenting swell that would throw the race into disarray and claim six lives. 

A Vanuatu provincial government says it will repeal parts of its new bylaw banning menstruating women from preparing and selling food at markets and roadside stalls after the decision sparked a public outcry.

Cameras that record the number plates of all the vehicles that enter one of Perth's biggest shopping centres are being used to track criminals, WA police have revealed.

Melbourne Storm star Eli Katoa will miss the 2026 NRL season as he continues his recovery from head knocks that forced him to have brain surgery.

TPG Telecom says a Sydney customer died after outdated software blocked a Samsung phone from making Triple Zero calls.

Restrictions on IUDs and IVF and decades of imprisonment for having an abortion could become the reality for some women living in South Carolina if the legislation passes.

The bill — to direct the US Justice Department to release its documents about late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — now looks set to sail through the House of Representatives.

Sydney Water is working to determine the source of high levels of grease and oil that caused debris balls to wash up on beaches across Sydney and the Central Coast.

Legal Aid NT says it will refuse all new criminal clients who are not already in custody, including children as young as 10, due to funding constraints.