Australians are still spending record amounts of money, but surveys show that could change quickly as interest rate rises send consumer confidence towards pandemic lows.

Flight delays due to weather and staff shortages have created chaos for families during the school holidays, with the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) renewing calls for an independent tribunal to look at structural issues within the sector...

Sri Lanka's economic crisis reached boiling point when citizens stormed the President's palace. Videos from inside show how it unfolded.

The first "deep field" image from the $13 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of time and the edge of the universe.

There's been chilling testimony from the January 6 public hearings, revealing graphic video and bombshell testimony from inside the White House. With two more sessions in coming days, here's every hearing re-capped and what's coming next. ...

Health officials are tackling a COVID-19 outbreak that has so far infected more than 100 people on the Coral Princess, which docked on the NSW South Coast on Tuesday. Here's what we know so far.

A five-year-old Bendigo boy who needs open-heart surgery is waiting for his next operation date after having the procedure cancelled twice minutes before it was to take place due to Victoria's ongoing hospital crisis.

Evidence from the parliamentary inquiry into the process that saw former deputy premier John Barilaro given a plum trade job will be referred to NSW's Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Sri Lankan immigration officials say they have prevented the President's brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country, amid growing anger at the powerful political family over the country's debilitating ...

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says strengthening the Australia-US alliance is the only way to "deter future employment in Europe, the Indo-Pacific, or elsewhere".

Australians with long COVID have had their lives turned upside down, but there is very little support or relief available. Sufferers say that needs to change.

Australia and the US call for the acceleration of the renewable energy transition as a form of insurance, arguing that no country has ever been "held hostage" over access to the wind or sun.

Melbourne locals Erin Watkins and Mick Porter are among hundreds of people stranded in the Northern Territory due to a high volume of recent flight cancellations by Qantas and its budget subsidiary Jetstar.

Vanuatu's Prime Minister criticises the slow pace of international negotiations to reduce carbon emissions as "totally out of step" with the threat facing Pacific Island nations.

With prayers, flowers and flags draped in black ribbons, Japan bids a tearful farewell to its longest-serving PM, who was gunned down at a campaign rally last week.

The energy giant has temporarily halted production on its trouble-plagued, multi-billion dollar Prelude facility off the WA coast. So what does that mean for gas prices?

An Adelaide restaurant manager is jailed for nine years for raping a prospective employee he was training as well as sexually abusing an underage worker.

As the whistleblower was revealed and the fallout hits France's President, here's a quick look at the so-called Uber Files.

The owner of a house in north-west Sydney that partially fell into a 6 metre-deep hole during a landslide says it felt "like an earthquake".

Australia's Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he is in discussions with business about a temporary increase to the nation's skilled migration intake, as the sector lobbies for 200,000 visas to be offered to address labour shortages.

As flooding continues to impact large areas of New South Wales, flood-relief payments are being extended to eight more local government areas: Cumberland, Mid Coast, Muswellbrook, Nambucca, Newcastle, Port Stephens, Randwick and Warren. ...

Researchers in WA say a severe heart condition affecting close to 100,000 Australians will kill more than 50 per cent of sufferers within five years without treatment.

Carbon, born inside stars, catalysed life on Earth — but lately it's been getting a bad rap. This is carbon's journey from cosmic wonder to global pariah. It starts at an (in)famous music festival in 1970.

The running of the bulls is back after a two-year hiatus due to COVID. Three people have been gored during the festival, which finishes on Thursday.

A survivor of a Russian rocket attack in eastern Ukraine is pulled from the ruins of a building, as emergency workers continue to search for other people.