Water police and rescue helicopters scour the ocean off Port Beach in Fremantle, WA, for a man missing after a shark attack, with horrified onlookers being warned to get out of the water and nearby beaches closed.

Eighty per cent of eligible Australians aged 16 and over have now received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, Scott Morrison says.

A veteran police officer urges people to "be kind to each other" while detailing how a 10-year-old boy witnessed an apparent murder-suicide in which two men died and a woman — the boy's mother — was wounded.

Official figures suggest China may have become a global leader in keeping COVID-19 patients alive. But can the numbers be believed? 

As residents of La Palma flee their destroyed communities, one photographer captures the final moments of some homes before they are engulfed with volcanic ash and lava.

Forensic police officers at the centre of the investigation into Cleo Smith's abduction are expected to spend at least the next week at the Carnarvon house where she was found.

Australia has reached a key COVID vaccination milestone with more than 80 per cent of the population aged 16 and older now double-dosed.

At least eight people are dead and several others injured after a crowd surge at the Astroworld Festival in the US state of Texas.

Pfizer will ask regulators for the pill to be made available for global use as soon as possible after clinical trials suggested it was 89 per cent effective in cutting the risk of hospitalisation and death from COVID-19. 

Just weeks after returning to the classroom due to COVID-19, several Sydney schools have copped another blow with the decommissioning of the inner-west light rail due to cracking.

Somewhere along the way, the idea that Scott Morrison and his government should be judged on how they are protecting the national interest rather than playing the political game seems to have been well and truly lost, writes Laura Tingle. ...

Some of Melbourne's richest areas are among the least vaccinated in Victoria, figures show, with the trend leaving local doctors concerned about what is to come.

The anti-capitalist event coincides with Guy Fawkes celebrations in the UK, with many of the protesters wearing masks bearing the face of the man behind the gunpowder plot of 1605.

Led Zeppelin's rock epic was only 21 when Wayne's World made the comic — and true — point that the guitar classic had been played to death, but the song's reputation lives on. 

The Melbourne Renegades post a team total of 4-207 against the Brisbane Heat — the second-highest in WBBL history — to secure a 15-run victory.

Marília Mendonça dies in a plane crash on her way to a concert, triggering an outpouring of sadness and shock on social media from Brazilian sport stars, fans and politicians.

The unvaccinated woman is the fourth person in the Queensland border town to test positive this week. All cases have been linked to a woman from the NSW town of Moree who had crossed the border to go shopping. 

Summer hibernation, sweltering days, more natural disasters. As the world watches Glasgow, is this the future for Australia’s children?

England players and staff will spend two weeks in a Gold Coast resort with exemptions to train at Carrara after landing in Australia for the Ashes.

Students skip school to join teenage activist Greta Thunberg in a youth-led rally outside the COP26 climate change conference, with thousands demanding greater action from world leaders.

Hundreds of protesters demonstrating against mandatory vaccines clash with NT police, who use capsicum spray to disperse them during a standoff in Darwin. 

On the opening day of arguments, prosecutors reveal footage of the 25-year-old's fatal shooting, saying he was "under attack" when three white men in pickup trucks chased him through a neighbourhood in Georgia.

Part of Australia's net zero by 2050 plan is to use carbon capture and storage to help get emissions down from burning coal and gas. But is it a realistic option?

Up until this week hundreds of Queensland small businesses earned their crust by servicing fire protection equipment in buildings like schools and offices – but a licensing change has rendered them unqualified to do the work.

No one wants to be that helicopter parent. But then little Cleo is snatched and your carefully constructed, self-confident world falls in, writes Virginia Trioli.