Medical regulators around the world are drawing a connection between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the rare side effect — and at the same time insisting it is safe. So what is going on?

A Canberra man will next week lodge formal complaints against six other men, accusing them of engaging in sex acts within Parliament House. 

It's dusk in southern Texas and rush hour on the US border with Mexico is just beginning. The biggest concern is migrant children arriving on America's doorstep without parents. 

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says 1,000 aged care facilities have received first doses and 435 have received second doses. Follow live.

Karen Pack was the target of existing religious discrimination laws which allowed her employer, the Baptist Church's Morling College, to sack her because she is openly gay. 

Gladys Berejiklian refuses to rule out a second inquest into the 1979 Luna Park Ghost Train fire that killed six people, after an ABC investigation revealed new evidence.

The woman who made a historical allegation of rape against former attorney-general Christian Porter asked NSW Police to conduct an interview via Skype two months before her death.

The government's response to Kate Jenkins' landmark report on sexual harassment in the workplace includes several positive measures. But does it go far enough?

The man accused of the murders of Doris McCartney and Ronald Swann has significant health issues and is currently being treated with morphine, a court hears.

AFL chief Gillon McLachlan says the league's integrity unit has been in touch with St Kilda over the case of former player Rod Owen's childhood sexual abuse linked with the club's Little League program and he urges other potential victims ...

A cyclone brewing off the West Australian coast is joined by a second tropical low, adding to what was already a rare weather event.

A picture of Khloe Kardashian that was posted without the reality star's permission to social media has prompted a swift and fierce response from the family's lawyers.

Central Australia's Chantelle Mulladad's artwork, Crossroads, covers three carriages of the iconic train, The Ghan, effectively creating a moving canvas for this year's Parrtjima light festival in the heart of Australia.

If there's one thing that has been noticeably different about the NRL this year it is how superior the top of the ladder are to the very bottom, and it's due to a combination of reasons.

After being trapped by floodwaters in their "rainforest homestead" for days, this young family decided to hike to safety, carrying supplies and a baby. They look forward to the day they can return to their home and rebuild.

While world attention focused on troubles in the House of Windsor, Jordan's King Abdullah says a seditious plot was unfolding inside the Hashemite Kingdom.

Companies like Nike and Adidas use kangaroo leather to make football boots. But global animal rights groups are vowing to stop Australia's kangaroo industry.

The action comes as the federal government seeks to regulate the controversial sale of so-called "junk" insurance to consumers at the point of sale. But the travel industry is being given an exemption.

The federal government will amend the Sex Discrimination Act to include politicians and judges, who have previously been exempt from the laws. 

Foreign Minister Joseph Wu's promise that Taiwan is prepared to defend itself against China comes as the minister overseeing the Coast Guard says they are prepared to fire upon Chinese drones in the South China Sea.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is forced to sit on a couch after only two chairs are laid out for her male counterparts during discussions in the Turkish capital.

A lead investigator examining George Floyd's death believes the 46-year-old US man says "I ain't do no drugs" in police body-camera footage shot before his death.

The identity of the man charged with the murder of Adelaide carer Jasmeen Kaur, whose body was found in a shallow grave in the Flinders Ranges, can be revealed as 20-year-old Tarikjot Singh.

The US failed to manage the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. But its vaccination drive is blazing ahead as Australia struggles to ramp up.

We're just a stone's throw from the Australian mainland in PNG, but the situation couldn't be more different, writes Bernadette Yakopa.