Thousands of people are told to leave their homes across Sydney, with 29 people rescued from rising floodwaters in the escalating weather event. 

Authorities are warning of a life-threatening emergency in NSW due to floods in Sydney and parts of the state's south-east.

In an explosive postscript to their epic clash, Stefanos Tsitsipas says Nick Kyrgios's antics should not be accepted in the sport.

Western ideas of progress are founded on burying the past, killing God, and making the human divine. It can be liberating and holds the promise of freedom. But it doesn't speak to all. It doesn't even speak to all in the West who replace old...

He was a man so famous everybody knew him, yet such an enigma that nobody seemed to know anything about him. I was on a journalistic road to nowhere, but once I started, I couldn't stop, writes Louisa Lim.

There will be "significant changes to leadership roles" at a Tasmanian hospital following a week of harrowing victim accounts at a child sexual abuse inquiry, the government announces.

SES warns of flash flooding, overflowing rivers and coastal erosion with torrential rain forecast across the Illawarra, South Coast and Southern Highlands until Tuesday. 

Yvette D'Ath says it is important for people to remember that COVID-19 is still having an impact on communities, with more than 600 Queenslanders currently in hospital with the disease.

Two unvaccinated children have contracted diphtheria of the throat, the first cases of the life-threatening but preventable disease last seen in NSW in the early 1990s.

The NSW State Emergency Service issues dozens of flood evacuation orders and warnings as torrential rain hits the state. Conditions are expected to deteriorate as an east coast low continues to develop off the coast.

Fury at Libya's feuding leaders boils over, with protesters storming the parliament building in the eastern city of Tobruk and staging the biggest demonstration in years. 

The shift comes after residents in the inner-Melbourne local government area were given an opportunity to vote for one of three Aboriginal Woi-wurrung words as the new name.

Even before Roe v Wade fell, life legally began at the moment of conception in Oklahoma. Now it offers a glimpse of what life could be like for pregnant people and health providers in America's abortion desert. 

At least three people were killed and dozens of homes damaged in the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukraine border, as Kyiv acknowledges possible loss to its last big bastion in eastern Ukraine to Kremlin forces.

Ukraine has now been under almost constant bombardment from Russia for more than five months, but analysts say the defining months could be just ahead.

WHO says the last two weeks have seen a huge spike of monkeypox cases across the region, as African nations ask the West for vaccines.  

What do you do when something you know exists vanishes without a trace? You go searching for it.

Ayelet Marha was born with a form of hand difference called symbrachydactyly. She shares photos of her "nubbins" on her travel Instagram account, instead of selfies.

The Western Australian Cricket Association confirms it removed a former elite junior coach's name from a commemorative shield after abuse allegations from a former player.

There’s been a lot of hype around microdosing psychedelics as a potential treatment for depression, anxiety and PTSD — but what does the research actually say about it?

Gilbert's Potoroo, the rarest marsupial on earth, is having babies in its brand new home on Middle Island and researchers are celebrating. 

Pete Arredondo announces he is stepping down from the Uvalde City Council "to minimise further distractions".

A study of bone loss in 17 astronauts who flew aboard the International Space Station provides a fuller understanding of the effects of space travel on the human body and steps that can mitigate it.

The rising cost of living has forced Australians like Zofia to make difficult decisions in their lives, but many have also found practical ways to save.

The ultra-conservative city in southern Queensland has long been considered one of Australia's most religious communities, but the latest census shows attitudes are changing.