A former elite soldier tells a Sydney court how he found a cache of weapons but no insurgents inside a tunnel at an Afghan compound that has become central to war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation case.

The Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is blaming international volatility for today's inflation figures, which show the sharpest rise in cost of living pressures in more than two decades.

The share market is screaming a message right now: the economy is not OK. And the ramifications will hit all of us, writes David Taylor.

Dozens of homes have been 'extensively damaged' in violent clashes in the remote Northern Territory community of Wadeye in recent weeks, amid escalating unrest. 

The Climate 200 or "teal" independents tend to be, as a general rule, educated white women running against moderate Liberal MPs in affluent electorates — and boy, have they got some Liberal blokes' undies in a bunch, writes Annabel Crabb.Â...

It is the Kremlin's toughest response yet to the crippling sanctions imposed by the West for the invasion of Ukraine.

The Targa Tasmania car event is again marred by a crash, a year after a triple tragedy shocked the racing fraternity.

The US says allies need to deliver more and heavier weapons to Kyiv as Russian forces rain fire on eastern and southern Ukraine. Follow live.

Russia's energy giant halts gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland and threatens more European countries relying on it will follow if they don't bend to one specific demand.

The former elite soldier, who previously gave evidence in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial, has appeared in court charged with obstructing and intimidating one Commonwealth official and harming another.  

The four astronauts have begun a 17-hour journey to the International Space Station, where they will begin a six-month science mission.

A coronial inquest will examine the role tightening bail laws in the wake of the Bourke Street tragedy may have played in Veronica Nelson's treatment by authorities in the lead-up to her death.

A man accused of orchestrating an alleged $105 million tax fraud told his alleged co-conspirator it would be "bigger than Ben Hur" if the scheme was uncovered, tapped phone calls played in court reveal. 

Former Australian cricket star Michael Slater avoids jail with a successful bid to have the domestic violence and AVO charges against him dealt with on mental health grounds. 

An intellectually disabled man is executed in Singapore for drug offences, despite a high-profile campaign to save him by the likes of business mogul Richard Branson.

A pall of smoke from forestry burns makes the air quality in parts of Hobart and southern Tasmania worse and less healthy than in Beijing.

Ukraine accuses Russia of orchestrating attacks in the Moldovan separatist region of Transnistria, which Latvia's foreign minister says reminds him of Russia's action in Donbas at the start of the invasion of Ukraine.

A nation's peak caravan club says young families are joining grey nomads heading to regional areas for a new lifestyle after pandemic restrictions.

William "Bill" Spedding is suing the State of NSW saying  police maliciously prosecuted him for historical child sex crimes while he was being investigated over the disappearance of William Tyrrell.

There are more than 1.3 billion Twitter accounts, but only 192 million of them are daily active users – so who is Elon Musk buying Twitter for?

Consumer prices jump by the most since the GST was introduced, with the cost of living up 5.1 per cent over the past year, prompting increasing speculation of an interest rate rise as early as next week.

The Home Affairs Minister says China intentionally timed a worrying security pact with Solomon Islands to hurt the Coalition's chances at the federal election.

Lime Cordiale, Paul Kelly, Grinspoon and Daryl Braithwaite are just some of the big names set to perform at a free concert in Lismore for thousands of flood-affected locals.

Kate Buckman's home is cut off from town by a road damaged by floods earlier this year. She needs to access the town's services, so she's set up camp on the other side of a landslip.

While 118-year-old Sister Andre is "happy" to take the title, the director of her nursing home says it is merely a step towards her goal of living longer than anyone before.