The first flight to leave Australia under the new arrangement will be at Jetstar flight 201 from Sydney to Auckland at 6.15am on Monday April 19.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia’s vaccine efforts put us were ahead of New Zealand. But ahead of the border opening, where is New Zealand’s vaccine rollout?

So there’s finally a bubble across the Tasman but how does it work and what happens if there’s a lockdown?

In Florida, the state’s Republican Governor has banned any form of vaccine passport. In New York, where Democrats rule, they are seen as an important tool.

The lists published in the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper include actors, musicians and social media influencers.

California’s wildlife department has reported four instances of bear cubs with a mysterious brain illness that makes them behave like puppies around humans.

The ex-US president and many of his allies have publicly painted a picture of the January 6 events jarringly at odds with reality.

Weinstein’s lawyers argue he was tried in ‘carnival-like conditions’ and challenged the refusal to remove a juror who had written a novel about predatory men.

Far from being oppressed, the musical seems to say, the Uighurs and other minorities are singing and dancing happily in colourful dress.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is due to announce the official date of the quarantine-free travel corridor between Australia and NZ on Tuesday.

Officer Derek Chauvin failed to render first aid before the ambulance arrived and violated policy requiring officers to de-escalate tense situations, his ex-boss said.

The crush of coronavirus patients has been relentless for hospitals running out of ICU beds in Poland, France and Ukraine among others.

On the first day of his corruption trial, prosecutors accuse the Israeli Prime Minister of helping clinch deals in return for positive media coverage.

The 38-year-old Trump ally from Florida is under scrutiny over whether he had sex with underage girls and violated federal sex trafficking laws.

Once the hardest-hit country in Europe, the number of infections, hospitalisations and deaths in Britain has collapsed.

The 68-year-old Russian President already has been in power for more than two decades, longer than any other Kremlin leader since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

India now has a seven-day rolling average of more than 73,000 cases per day and infections in the country are being reported faster than anywhere else in the world.

The extremist movement’s leader had purported to be a top-secret government operative. But a possible slip-up in a new documentary suggests otherwise.

Egypt’s first female ship captain says she was subject to a fake news campaign blaming her for grounding the Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal, despite at the time working on a ship that was hundreds of kilometres away.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said everyone in England will be able to take a COVID-19 test twice a week in a new drive to track the pandemic as society reopens.

Multiple disasters caused by torrential rains in eastern Indonesia have killed at least 55 people and displaced thousands, the country’s disaster relief agency said Monday. More than 40 other people were missing.

While at least 564 people have been killed in the junta’s brutal crackdown, many more have been detained or “forcibly disappeared”.

Without urgent intervention from ASEAN, instability and violence from Myanmar coup will bleed into neighbouring countries - destabilising Asia.

France’s oldest student union is being attacked by Macron’s government for holding minority-only meetings to discuss discrimination.

The Yorkshire moors that inspired the Bronte sisters could soon offer views of 150 new homes, under a local council plan.

Thousands of Pakistanis rushed to get inoculated in the first round of commercial sales of COVID-19 vaccines that began over the weekend, with vaccination sites in the southern city of Karachi saying they had already sold out.

The FA Cup semifinals, nightclubs and comedy shows will be part of a trial of COVID-testing fans, as Boris Johnson readies his verdict on vaccination passports.

Beijing fears criticism from the Chinese filmmakers shortlisted for best director, best international feature and best short documentary.

Israel’s vaccination program allowed dozens of worshippers to celebrate at Jerusalem’s newly reopened Church of the Holy Sepulchre but there were no pilgrims.

The military long refused to acknowledge the location of Camp 7, which still holds five prisoners charged with assisting the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Christa Avery and Matthew O’Kane were refused permission to leave Myanmar in March as they tried to board a flight home.

Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi accused the country’s former crown prince of conspiring with foreign interests to threaten national security.

So reclusive that shareholders had recently demanded proof that he was still alive, multi-millionaire businessman, aviator and star-maker Howard Hughes died 45 years ago, aged 70.

Already facing a worrying new COVID-19 outbreak, Australia’s close neighbour has been hit by devastating flooding and landslides, claiming the lives of at least 11 people.

New data shows more than 75 per cent of coronavirus cases sequenced in Europe last month were found to be the more contagious UK variant.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency after a significant leak at a large pond of wastewater threatened to flood roads and burst a system that stores polluted waters.

All ships stranded by the grounding of the giant container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal in March have passed through the canal, ending the backlog that built up during the blockage, the canal authority said.

Demands for refunds spiked. Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared. But the money helped keep former President Donald Trump’s struggling campaign afloat.

The Biden administration has put Johnson & Johnson in charge of a Baltimore manufacturing plant that ruined 15 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, and moved to stop the facility from making another vaccine developed by AstraZeneca.

Amazon.com has apologised to US congressman Mark Pocan, admitting to scoring an “own goal” in its initial denial of his suggestion that its drivers were sometimes forced to urinate in bottles during their delivery rounds.

Argentine President Alberto Fernández says he had an initial positive test for COVID-19, despite having been vaccinated in January.

Egypt has held a gala parade celebrating the transport of 22 of its prized royal mummies from central Cairo to their new resting place in a massive new museum further south in the capital.

The influential rapper and actor is gravely ill after a heart attack.

The half-brother of Jordan’s King Abdullah II said he has been placed under house arrest and accused the country’s “ruling system” of incompetence and corruption.

Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli has been released from a California prison and is under home confinement following his imprisonment for his role in a college admissions bribery scheme, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The family of the man identified as the person who killed one Capitol Police officer and injured another by ramming them with a vehicle on Friday has released a statement expressing condolences and saying the suspect “was not a terrorist by any mea...

Security forces in central Myanmar opened fire on anti-coup protesters on Saturday, killing at least two people according to local media.

Since the bill was brought before Parliament last month, there have been sporadic protests, including violent ones in which a police station was bombarded with bricks and glass bottles.

“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans,” said MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, following discussions with the baseball clubs and players.