Video posted to social media showed large waves washing ashore in coastal areas in Tonga, and photos showed ash falling from the sky. 

Emergency services are involved in a large-scale search in the Blue Mountains for a nine-year-old girl who has not been seen since Thursday. 

Novak Djokovic is appealing against his second visa cancellation after Immigration Minister Alex Hawke last night cancelled it on health and good order grounds.

Australia's quicks rip through England's batting line up, taking a 115-run first innings lead on day two of the fifth and final Ashes Test in Hobart. Follow live.

Two women linked to previously-reported COVID-19 cases test positive to the virus, with one new exposure site confirmed so far.

Lawyers for Novak Djokovic say the Immigration Minister has erroneously cancelled his visa on the grounds he is seen as a "talisman of a community of anti-vaccine sentiment", as a court battle to determine the tennis star's Australian Open f...

The White House believes Russia could attack its own forces to create a pretext for invading Ukraine. 

Rapid antigen tests have suddenly become the key to society functioning, and the best symbol of how the whole "government getting out of your face" thing seems to have gone so spectacularly awry in the past six weeks, writes Laura Tingle. ...

Football Australia takes action after Cavallo says he was targeted with homophobic abuse during Adelaide United's away A-League Men match with Melbourne Victory.

The number of people who capsized in the Calais region of France more than tripled last year.

With a New York judge throwing out Prince Andrew's attempt to dismiss a civil lawsuit against him, the Queen's "favourite" son faces a lonely wait for a trial that could spell catastrophe.

In a matter of weeks, Emma has taken six months' unpaid leave, downsized to a rural block, taken up golf and started waitressing again. She hopes to be "a bit more brave".

The Northern Territory has recorded its second COVID-related death, after an Aboriginal woman in her 40s died in Royal Darwin Hospital.

Rafael Nadal says the Australian Open will still be "great" if Novak Djokovic is forced out of the tournament, admitting he is a "little bit tired" of the controversy surrounding his rival.

Former tennis star Chris Evert has been diagnosed with an early stage of ovarian cancer and will begin chemotherapy treatments this week.

Cleaning a two-metre alligator is no easy feat, requiring eight people to hold the animal down and operate the cleaning equipment. 

Four more people die from COVID-19 in South Australia, while there have been 4,349 new positive cases. Meanwhile, dozens of people have been sent the wrong test result, SA Pathology says.

Health Minister Yvette D'Ath says Queensland has recorded six deaths and 19,709 new COVID cases.

Of the patients in Victorian hospitals, 115 are in intensive care, including 30 on ventilators. It comes as at least 91,000 Victorians are informed the results of their PCR tests are no longer valid.

The small Argentine town of Santa Isabel shuts down street and public building lights after being invaded by a large number of beetles.

Kanye West, the rapper officially named Ye, is named in a battery report filed in Los Angeles.

NSW records 20 deaths from COVID-19 as case numbers decline slightly, and the number of people in hospital increases to 2,576, up from 2,525 the previous day.

The judge in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial sets a sentencing date of June 28 but says she is still weighing a request to overturn the British socialite's conviction because of concerns about a juror's conduct.

Thousands more essential workers will be allowed back to work rather than having to self-isolate for seven days but we need to keep a close eye on how that change influences case numbers at these critical workplaces, writes Catherine Bennet...

Yes, it can get very hot in Tasmania – and to understand how such weather occurs, try imagining a big blob of air, writes meteorologist Luke Johnson.