One child is airlifted to hospital with serious burns after a blast at Manly West Public School, while another 10 students and an adult are also injured.

Violence and abuse are prevalent in teenage relationships and this behaviour can have life-long impacts, according to an Anglicare report that calls for governments and communities to do more to protect young people. 

Families had pushed to have a pro-suicide website blocked after it was linked to deaths. Now the administrators have denied access to Australians, but not because of the dangers to vulnerable people.

The head of the World Trade Organisation says Australia should aim to reduce its reliance on coal exports and instead focus on green hydrogen.

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie says documents given to him by a coal industry executive reveal that exporters have been lying about their lab results, and that the regulator has failed to act on widespread "shocking misconduct".

South-east Australia is shivering through a biting cold snap while the north swelters in another episode of Australia's wild weather. 

Shaun Gilchrist was contesting Narracan in Victoria's east, covering the regional centres of Drouin and Warragul and smaller rural towns in north-west Gippsland.

The South Australian government has declared a major emergency as River Murray floodwaters continue to rise, with the potential for a second peak "even higher than the first".

Police say technological advances have identified a serial rapist behind 31 unsolved sexual assaults in the city's eastern suburbs — however, the man will never be charged.

Towns in the state's Central West and Riverina are monitoring hastily-built defences against major flooding while strong winds cause damage across the state. 

A new alert system will see bushfire-style emergency warnings issued for heatwaves across Australia, as authorities warn their dangers are potentially being overlooked.

For seven decades the Somerton Man was simply known by his anonymous autopsy photo. But now he has a name — Charles Webb. And for the first time his relatives explain the answers were in a family photo album all along.

A relative of Victorian Labor candidate Lauren O'Dwyer, who has described herself as a "proud Yorta Yorta woman" and is running in the seat of Richmond at Saturday's state election, says their family has no Indigenous ancestry.

A report into Queensland police responses to domestic violence finds a "failure of leadership" allowed cultural issues within the service to fester "unchecked" for years, recommending the state government establish a police integrity unit t...

As the Socceroos count down to their World Cup opener against France, coach Graham Arnold has a 'Master Mind' behind the scenes helping him motivate the team for the task ahead.

A dust storm sweeps across Doha on the first day of the Qatar World Cup, turning the Sun a deep red — a wide, unblinking eye staring down at the unusual tournament about to begin below, writes Samantha Lewis.

Bob Iger comes out of retirement to try and turn around the company, which disappointed investors this month after revealing mounting losses at streaming platform Disney+.

A pilot who received $370,000 for chartered flights, some of which carried MP Bob Katter, will spend two years in jail for fraud.

A coronial inquest into the deaths by suicide of four Tasmanian police officers hears one took his own life on the same day he received an unannounced visit from the Professional Standards Unit.

Brisbane jockey Ric McMahon pleaded guilty to possessing a jigger while on a racetrack in outback Queensland.

Carol Marie McHenry used Danielle Easey's Facebook account to contact her mother until shortly before the young woman's body was found, a jury hears.

Powerful explosions from shelling rock Ukraine's Russian-controlled nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, drawing condemnation from UN nuclear watchdog: "You're playing with fire." 

The court finds New Zealand's current voting age of 18 to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights, which gives people a right to be free from age discrimination when they turn 16. 

China records 27,095 new COVID-19 infections and two new deaths a day after recording its first COVID-related death since May 26. 

Jeffrey Brooks was shot in the chest by a 12-gauge single-barrel shotgun at a crayfish farm he worked on in Beenleigh in March 1996.