Gladys Berejiklian cuts short her final daily 11:00am press COVID-19 press conference, after announcing 1,262 new cases and seven deaths.

The document details contacts the hijackers had with Saudi associates in the United States but does not provide proof that senior Saudi government officials were complicit in the terrorism plot.

Paramedics slam Illawarra residents for flocking to beaches as the region records its highest daily number of COVID infections since the start of the Delta outbreak.

Scott Morrison says the vaccines will arrive from Europe as early as next week, with children as young as 12 able to receive the jab at community pharmacies.

Audrey Diwan's 1960s abortion drama L'Événement wins the Golden Lion at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, which also sees Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez back on the red carpet together.

Senior Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek declines three times to say whether she supports her party's decision to parachute Kristina Keneally into a safe Labor seat, at the expense of a local Vietnamese-Australian lawyer.

Lindsay Thompson was among nine people killed when a cliff gave way above a beach in WA. Twenty-five years on, the surfing community still gathers to pay tribute to those lost in the tragedy.

Photographers from around the world are awarded for their striking use of drone technology to produce stunning aerial images for the Drone Awards 2021.

Western Australia pushes to get young people vaccinated, with arrangements being urgently rolled out to get Year 11 and 12 students through the doors of clinics.

Victoria records 392 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, as vaccines and new pop-up clinics are being directed to Melbourne's hotspot areas.

Grappling with a lingering pandemic and a fraught exit from Afghanistan, Americans pause to unite and once again remember the September 11 terrorist attacks, writes Kathryn Diss. 

Politicians find themselves in dangerous territories when they start listing names, as Anthony Albanese was reminded this week, writes Brett Worthington.

Queensland records no new cases of COVID-19. It is "the best result we could have hoped for", Deputy Premier Steven Miles says.

The K-Pop powerhouses prove the popularity of the genre continues to soar, with six groups vying for a prize at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Some familiar faces remain in Matthew Guy's new shadow cabinet, but a number of MPs who voted against a leadership spill have been dumped from their positions.

It was a week of contradictions, as NSW put their COVID winter in the rearview mirror and marched towards freedom to the alarm of medical experts. 

Parramatta lives to fight another day following its 28-20 victory over Newcastle in their elimination final in Rockhampton.

To mark September 11, the Taliban have raised their flag above the presidential palace and orchestrated a march for local women.

In the final game of the absorbing US Open final between Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez, Raducanu took an injury timeout at a crucial time, swinging momentum back her way. So was it controversial?

Britain's Emma Raducanu completes an amazing run at Flushing Meadows, beating Leylah Fernandez in the first all-teenage women's grand slam final since 1999 to win the US Open title.

Police lament the behaviour at a Darwin sandbar party yesterday that saw large crowds become "extremely intoxicated" before nearly being trapped by a fast-approaching tide.

Health Minister Yvette D'Ath says health professionals need to get jabbed by the end of September, and have both doses by the end of October. 

Viruses are, at their most basic, simply a bunch of genetic instructions encased in a protein shell. So why are they so hard to cure?

Hands up if you're sick of being locked out of the housing market right now. You aren't alone. But there are some alternative options you may not have considered.

Twenty years on from the September 11 terrorist attacks, Australian Muslims reveal how they pursue healing from the everyday, individual damage done during the fallout.