Anyone in Perth, Peel or WA's South West with COVID symptoms is urged to get tested immediately and isolate until receiving a negative result as the state records seven new local cases.

Your Hottest song of 2021 is a wild, internet-breaking cover powered by a fusion of Australian music icons: The Wiggles. Tame Impala. Like A Version.

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Minister for International Development Zed Seselja says Tongan officials and defence personnel are doing an "extraordinary job" in aid and clean-up efforts.

Wildcard Chris O'Connell falls short of reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open, while tournament heavyweights Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas make it through to the second week in Melbourne.

Perth records a record five consecutive days of temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius, with little relief in sight until Monday.

Strbak pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the 2009 death of her four-year-old son, Tyrell Cobb. The ABC understands she is now in a Gold Coast hospital following an incident early this morning.

As disaster response teams work to deliver aid, scientists are also scrambling to piece together an unprecedented cascade of events that led to and followed an enormous volcanic eruption in Tonga.

Two prominent pro-democracy figures in Myanmar, one of whom has links to Australia, are sentenced to death by the ruling military junta, renewing fears for detained Australian citizen Sean Turnell.

Australia's Maddison Inglis shows plenty of fight but can't get past Estonian veteran Kaia Kanepi, who wins their third-round match in three sets.

A large-scale land and air search continues to locate a 49-year-old man after a boat capsized overnight in Sydney's north harbour as his dog and another man are found alive.

US researchers are finding patients with mild COVID-19 are developing long COVID, and they suggest "pushing through" the illness — even if it's mild — could be part of the problem.

The Perth Scorchers and Sydney Sixers have the opportunity to advance to the final of BBL 11. Check out the live scores and stats in our ScoreCentre.

The children's music legends make the Hottest 100 for the first time, securing top spot with the first Like a Version song to win the countdown. Follow live.

The evidence is firming up that at least one state — New South Wales — has reached its hospitalisation peak for this wave of the pandemic.

A lockout has been extended in Alice Springs, and the remote communities of Amoonguna, Yuendumu and Yuelamu for a further seven days, NT Health Minister Natasha Fyles says.

Faced with the sobering prospect of losing their beloved watering hole, the people of Grong Grong banded together and bought it themselves.

For decades, Macau has pledged its loyalty to Beijing in exchange for a longer leash and a steady influx of cashed-up gamblers. But the dramatic arrest of a high-flying casino owner leaves many wondering what lies in this port city's future....

Sam Kerr and the Matildas both re-wrote Australian football history on Friday, but their 18-0 thrashing of Indonesia is a reminder that sometimes, the lessons aren't always for us.

ACT police confirm a man has been found dead after he was seen struggling in the water and disappeared while at Kambah Rock Pool, south of Canberra.

Revered Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, who helped pioneer the concept of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in Asia, dies at 95.

Dredgers are spotted off Cambodia's Ream naval base, where China is funding construction work, with deeper port facilities necessary for the docking of larger military ships, a US think tank says.

Parts of regional South Australia have again been inundated with torrential downpours, turning tracks into waterways and completely submerging the green of one local bowls club.

The boyfriend of slain cross-country traveller Gabby Petito admitted killing her in a notebook discovered near his body in a Florida swamp, the FBI says.

The stakes are high as an Australian company's proposal to frack onshore oil in the Kimberley is considered by Western Australia's environmental watchdog.