The Perth family rescued from South Australia's outback say they are grateful for all of the help and support they have received during a "roller-coaster" week.

The Northern Territory records eight new COVID-19 cases, five of them in the remote community of Robinson River, Chief Minister Michael Gunner says.

Officers are using a combination of technologies to try and make a breakthrough in one of Australia's most high-profile police investigations — the disappearance of the little boy in a Spider-Man suit.

Tim Tszyu meets Takeshi Inoue in a high-risk super welterweight contest at Sydney's Qudos Bank Arena. Follow all the action in our live blog.

The COVID outbreak in the Top End is spread between the regional town of Katherine and the remote community of Robinson River, where a few hundred people have been plunged into lockdown.

A car that once belonged to William Tyrrell's foster-grandmother is seized in Sydney's south and will undergo forensic testing while police begin a third day of searching at the house where the boy was last seen.

Fixed wireless connections are typically used in regional and rural areas, but many Australians are still struggling with access and reliability issues.

Only South Australian residents are now able to enter the state from the Northern Territory, after SA Police imposed new border restrictions in response to a growing COVID-19 cluster in the Top End.

A 15-year-old was waiting for a referral to a Sydney psychiatrist before she killed a 10-year-old girl, but her mother did not get a call before the incident despite a GP describing her behaviour as concerning, court documents reveal. ...

With almost 60 per cent of Australian children aged 12 to 15 now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, focus is turning to younger age groups. But approving vaccines for them is more complex.

James Fletcher, 40, recounts going to the aid of his elderly neighbour in Palm Beach on Queensland's Gold Coast and being stabbed in the chest area, with the blade somehow missing all his vital organs. 

Britney Spears speaks out on new-found freedoms following her release from a strict legal guardianship that controlled her life for 13 years. Spears says she will be an advocate for those living under conservatorships, and tags Oprah. ...

Former federal Labor MP Craig Thomson is refused bail after being charged with 30 fraud-related offences over his alleged involvement in a multi-million-dollar migration scheme.

Katherine's Woolworths — the town's only major supermarket — is struggling to keep its doors open, with half its staff in isolation as the COVID crisis in the town continues.

Severe storms with large hail and damaging winds have swept through central and south-east Queensland.

Japanese researchers recreate a seventh-century Afghan mural destroyed by the Taliban, using a mix of traditional and digital techniques that they hope will salvage the work's "spirit" for future generations.

Indian authorities say they must stop the air quality from deteriorating any further, as Delhi hospitals report a spike in respiratory patients.  

Australians who've splashed their cash on boats during the pandemic are being urged to register with the coastguard before they race off to fish the thriving reefs of North Queensland.

Human remains are discovered for the first time in New Zealand's Pike River mine, more than a decade on from the disaster that killed 29 workers.

The six-time Australian Open champion will be an absentee in Melbourne in January and he also expects to be sidelined from next year's Wimbledon tournament.

The First Energy Clean Energy Network has lofty ambitions to harness Australia's vast solar and wind power resources to end energy insecurity in Indigenous communities and create community-owned power projects.

Debate over the Victorian government's controversial pandemic bill is due to resume in the upper house on Thursday, but the former minister's return to parliament could thwart the changes if he votes against his former party.

The Socceroos' hopes of direct qualification for the World Cup are in the balance with four games left in their qualifying group. What do they have to do to make next year's tournament, and what happens if they don't clinch an automatic spot...

As protesters use violent imagery to demonstrate on the steps of Victorian Parliament, legal groups are sounding the alarm on pandemic laws being debated inside. Here's your quick guide to the controversial bill at the centre.

The federal government announces it will invest $5.8 million to back a pledge it made to the World Health Organization to become the first country in the world to eliminate cervical cancer.