NSW records one new case of COVID-19 community transmission after a man who spent time in Sydney's east tests positive for the virus.

Marino Sotiropoulos, the brother of the former Test cricketer's ex-partner, is among four men accused of bundling him into a car before driving to a home in Sydney’s west where police say he was bashed and held at gunpoint.

India's daily COVID death toll reaches another high, as PM Narendra Modi continues to resist calls to impose a national lockdown.

Cricket Australia announces all Australians involved in the Indian Premier League will leave the country this week, after the tournament was cancelled due to the worsening COVID-19 situation in India.

An Australian man lodges a Federal Court challenge to the government's ban on travel from India, arguing it is illegal on constitutional grounds.

Health authorities in NSW are concerned after a man who was infectious with COVID-19 visited a cinema at a busy Westfield shopping centre in Bondi along with a number of other venues across Sydney. 

Matthew Mason-Cox is expelled from the Liberal Party after nominating for, and securing, the position of president of the New South Wales Upper House against Premier Gladys Berejiklian's preferred candidate.

Australia's High Commissioner to India, Barry O'Farrell, says the number of Australians classified as "vulnerable" by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has shot up as the country's COVID catastrophe worsens.

A 39-year-old Perth woman who posted on social media she wanted to change her grandmother's "life status" gives evidence at her trial, denying she murdered the 91-year-old by swapping her medication.

On his last night, Isaac asked to stay over at his family home because he was worried about the high number of medications he was prescribed to take. He died the next morning.

The general manager of infection control at the agency running Victoria's hotel quarantine program is stood down pending an investigation, after allegedly breaching their own protocols twice in the past two months.

The success of Pfizer's mRNA-based COVID vaccine looks set to secure the company a multi-billion-dollar windfall for many years as countries already start booking in for booster shots.

If you can brave the early hours of the morning from Thursday onwards, you may catch one of the year's most spectacular meteor showers.

Three new hydrogen plants are approved in regional Australia and will share in more than $100 million worth of conditional federal government funding.

A 17-year-old Perth girl is charged as part of an international investigation into drug smuggling after allegedly trying to import 22 kilograms of heroin from China.

Raya — jokingly referred to as Illuminati Tinder — has gained attention thanks to Ben Affleck sliding into a comedian's DMs.

In the action filed at the Supreme Court, Monique Smead says she and her family were left traumatised by an interaction with the CFA.

The Prime Minister says he is not concerned that the current ban on travel from India will damage the relationship between it and Australia.

The former US president's website lets him write a stream of Twitter-like posts. Now his supporters can share them on their own timelines. 

For years they were mixed up with other stingray species, but scientists hope more research into this alien-like species will lead to better management of its populations.  

The films criticise the media for her treatment in the past, but Britney Spears says filmmakers are doing the same thing by bringing up the "most negative" times in her life.

New research based on new tracking technology suggests the pilot in command of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 deliberately made a series of turns to avoid detection before flying the doomed plane into the southern Indian Ocean.

When $50 and $100 notes appeared on the conveyor belt at a Perth recycling centre, staff pocketed them, police say, and pledged to keep quiet about what they thought was a $1 million haul.

Glacial melt near the famous Stelvio Pass in northern Italy reveals a cave shelter used by Austro-Hungarian soldiers, complete with weapons, lamps, eating utensils and corpses. 

A giant wood moth has been discovered at a south-east Queensland primary school perched on the edge of a rainforest.