The flights will take off from "priority areas" around the world and will be organised by the Commonwealth over the next few months.

A second plane of tennis players flown into Melbourne for the Australian Open will be confined to their rooms and unable to train for 14 days after a person on the charter flight tested positive for COVID-19. ...

Sarah Hassan says she woke up to news that "broke my whole life", having fallen into a coma due to being given 100 milligrams of morphine to ease labour pains, rather than 10mg, at a Bunbury private hospital last month. ...

From Tuesday next week, Emirates will stop flying to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Here's what's going to happen to the people who already had Emirates flights booked, as well as the 37,000-odd Australians stuck overse...

Wet weather leads to an early end to play on day two in Brisbane, while young Australian all-rounder Cameron Green continues his Test cricket education with both bat and ball, writes Russell Jackson. ...

The emergency warning applies to a wide area — bounded by a number of roads including Rowley Road, Kwinana Freeway, and Thomas Road — with the out-of-control and unpredictable blaze moving quickly in a westerly direc...

President Donald Trump reportedly now plans to leave Washington on the morning of Inauguration Day on Wednesday, after considering a departure on Tuesday.

Jacob Chansley, who allegedly left a note warning the US Vice-President "justice is coming", is in detention pending trial after a judge ruled he took part in a "violent insurrection" in storming the US Capitol. ...

Western Australia will reclassify Victoria as "low-risk", while Victoria is declaring Greater Brisbane an "orange zone". Here are the current coronavirus border restrictions in place across Australia. ...

The team of experts who advise the Federal Government on COVID-19 prevention measures looks to reconsider its advice around the airborne spread of the virus.

As corporate donors flee Republicans after the Capitol riot, shareholder activists are turning their attention to boardrooms that supported Donald Trump.

The world's most popular messaging app, WhatsApp, is being abandoned by users across the world for its "take it or leave it" privacy policy, which forces them to share personal information with Facebook. ...

A Sydney man aligned to the Islamic State group is charged with breaching federal orders after he allegedly accessed online material supporting the carrying out of executions, beheadings and torture. ...

NSW Health warns it is "very likely COVID-19 is continuing to circulate" after recording a positive infection in Western Sydney, after two days with no locally acquired cases.

Whether it was from the fireground, at the forefront of a national coronavirus response or from a remote region, the 2021 finalists strove to better the lives of their country men and women.

Ian Chappell says Marnus Labuschagne — who has seen five catches dropped off his bat this series — will soon face challenges in his career when his run of good fortune at the crease comes to an end. ...

After four years of tearing itself in two over the question of how to beat the rise of Trumpism, the Democratic party has never looked more united — and you could say it's because of Trumpism, writes Emily Olson. ...

The US National Rifle Association announces it has filed for bankruptcy, seeking protection from creditors by restructuring as a Texas non-profit.

One new case of coronavirus is recorded in Queensland — in the child of a couple already hospitalised with the virus after returning from South Africa. That child is also in hospital, Chief Health Officer Jeannette You...

People in Brisbane are allowed to travel to Victoria without needing to apply for an exemption under a relaxation of the state's border restrictions.

After a rollercoaster few years, the success of Australian film The Dry is finally giving residents of Beulah, in western Victoria, a reason to smile.

An Australian man has been arrested in Germany, accused of operating the biggest illegal marketplace on the darknet. So what is a darknet store and why are vendors so hard to catch? Craig Valli explains. ...

There is a push to give Aboriginal people a greater voice in decisions on mineral exploration of sacred sites in SA, after a contentious project was approved for Lake Torrens in the state's outback. ...

Around the world, dark night skies filled with stars are increasingly being brightened by artificial light pollution. But now new housing developments could be forced to comply with a "dark sky" policy aimed at preservin...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK will tighten its border controls to block new variants of COVID-19, suspending all "travel corridor" arrangements.

Life had just about returned to normal in Thailand at the end of last year. Then, the week before Christmas, a vendor at a seafood market tested positive to COVID-19 despite no overseas travel records. It remains a myste...