Australia's states have imposed a range of restrictions on Sydney residents, with South Australia and Western Australia banning all travellers from across NSW. Follow live. 

The Immigration Minister Alex Hawke says he has issued the Murugappan family three-month bridging visas.

Sydney's latest coronavirus cluster has grown to 31 and NSW Health is now in a rush to link five unknown cases. But how did this start, and how fast has it grown?

Ben Roberts-Smith has told a court he may have destroyed a hard drive in 2018 by burning it, but he was not "beginning to panic" amid investigations into his conduct in Afghanistan. 

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has always maintained that social restrictions reintroduced today are in line with the current risk, but concedes she may need to go harder to contain the highly transmissible Delta strain.

Queensland extends its border restrictions to a number of new locations, including Greater Sydney, the Central Coast and Wollongong, as the southern state's cluster of the highly infectious Delta variant grows. 

A West Australian man whose mother died while he was in hotel quarantine in Melbourne is on a hunger strike to draw attention to the way people with compassionate reasons are treated in quarantine.

India vaccinated a record 8.6 million people on Monday as it began offering free shots to all adults, but experts doubt it can maintain that pace amid the spread of new variants.

The coronavirus variant behind the outbreak in NSW is more contagious than what we were dealing with last year — but does it affect children differently to adults?

Greg Swain is just one of about 700 Australians diagnosed with mesothelioma last year. With a breakthrough immunotherapy treatment now available to him, he says the despair brought on by his diagnosis is gone.

Yet another last-minute reprieve is granted to Australia's remaining community television stations in a surprise vote that will allow them three more years on the airwaves before the spectrum is hived off.

Cuba is working on five coronavirus vaccines and has started immunising its population using two of them — but clinical trials have not been completed.

Police are responding to reports a man has been bitten by a shark at Gum Tree Bay near Leeman, about 300km north of Perth.

Police confirm human remains found at a landfill site in Melbourne's north are those of missing mother Ju "Kelly" Zhang, who was last seen alive leaving her Epping home in February.

South Australia has shut its border with New South Wales effective immediately. Premier Steven Marshall says the move is designed to protect South Australians from the spread of the virus.

Justis Huni is out of the Olympics after aggravating injuries in both his hands during his win over former NRL star Paul Gallen last week.

Speaking during her final week as secretary of the Department of Foreign and Trade, Frances Adamson issues a warning over China, saying "insecurity and power can be a volatile combination".

Adam Brookman, who was turned in by his own brother after boasting about his life as an armed medic with foreign fighters in Syria, is jailed but can immediately apply to be released.

Mark Kilian and his wife Anneli Gericke travelled from the US to farewell his father, who has pancreatic cancer, but the couple has so far been refused permission to leave quarantine and enter Queensland.

For the first time, mask-wearing at work will become compulsory in areas of concern as restrictions are tightened and the NSW government tries to contain a growing cluster of cases. 

To be caught up in China's "residential surveillance" prison system is to disappear. Suspects can be detained for six months without charge, without a court's permission, and sometimes without their family knowing their whereabouts.  ...

A busy weekend of sport has been thrown into confusion by Sydney's growing COVID outbreak. Here's what we know.

Victorians will be permitted to have up to 15 visitors per day to their homes and crowds will return to sporting matches in the latest relaxation of COVID-19 rules.

Western Australia closes its border with New South Wales in response to the growing COVID-19 outbreak in that state, with only exempt travellers allowed to head west.

Alice Springs Desert Park is looking to rehome a litter of dingo puppies found in the town — but they certainly aren't your average pet dog.