Ukraine officials say a series of Russian strikes have hit a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, igniting a huge fire and frantic rescue effort in a 15-storey apartment building. Follow live.

Police say a boarding house fire in Sydney's inner-west was "maliciously lit", killing three people and leaving a fourth unaccounted for.

Police say the bodies of a woman aged in her 40s, an eight-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl were discovered in a burnt-out car in Coogee yesterday, adding they are not looking for anybody else in connection with their deaths.

The Queensland government orders two separate investigations into the state's Office of the Public Trustee, after a Four Corners report revealed exorbitant fees and dire financial mismanagement.

Former NSW Police commissioner Mick Fuller has been cleared of any wrongdoing following an investigation into his historical part-ownership of two racehorses.

With millions of people in lockdown, China has recorded more than 3,500 new cases of COVID-19 — with local health authorities saying a fast-spreading "stealth Omicron" variant is to blame.

Australia declares 505 runs ahead, as Pakistan looks to survive two days with the bat in the face of a brutal Aussie bowling attack in the second Test in Karachi. Follow live.

The federal government department says the logo was rebranded along with several others and the final design was "consulted on widely".

Amid allegations of political interference and a rushed investigation into the shooting death of Yuendumu man Kumanjayi Walker, the NT anti-corruption watchdog is considering whether to investigate the circumstances that led to Constable ...

In May 2019, Tiffany Skeggs went to police to report childhood sexual abuse. She never imagined that step would be the beginnings of Tasmania's version of a royal commission.

A man and woman in Sydney are charged over online threats to Senator Kristina Keneally, as the AFP warns it expects threats of violence to rise at the election.

Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley successfully argues she does not have a duty of care to protect young people from climate change when assessing fossil fuel projects.

New equipment, new ideas about future war, a more professional force at higher readiness and lessons from recent combat in Syria. In theory, these elements should have given Russia a war-winning combination in Ukraine. What has gone wrong?...

A former soldier tells a Sydney court he saw Ben Roberts-Smith shoot an unarmed Afghan man in the back in an "exhibition execution" the decorated veteran "wanted people to see".

A Tasmanian councillor accused of flashing his genitals at a Crown prosecutor on a beach says it is not true and he was actually still wearing a G-string when his shorts became snagged on a rock.

The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show the average property price across Australia's eight capital cities has now risen by 23.7 per cent over the past 12 months.

A fired-up Nick Kyrgios lets his feelings be known after defeating Casper Ruud in Indian Wells, while fellow Australian Daria Saville causes an upset to reach the last 16.

From July the federal government will require fuel importers to maintain minimum levels of petrol, diesel and jet fuel — but despite advice from his own department, the Energy Minister denies it will push petrol prices up further.

With war raging in Ukraine, families are being torn apart, and men are forced to stay behind and fight while their children escape to safety.

With influenza infections dropping to record lows during the social distancing phase of the pandemic, Australia is in uncharted waters as we approach winter with a new sub-variant in play. 

The federal government has plunged about $100 million into expanding and redeveloping the facility, which is emerging as a key strategic asset in the Pacific.

A historian says the world is in the midst of a sensory revolution: the biggest shift in sensory experience since human history began.

Police arrest eight activists who broke into the property with plans to use the mansion to house Ukranian refugees who have fled the Russian invasion.

The National Gallery of Victoria Contemporary site will be located adjacent to the current NGV site and is scheduled for completion in 2028.

McDonald's first opened its doors in Moscow just after the Berlin Wall came down, but now it's closing those same doors as Russia moves from once optimistically embracing symbols of the West to now outwardly rejecting them.