A German court has convicted an 84-year-old man of illegal weapons possession for having a personal arsenal that included a Panther tank, a flak cannon and multiple...
Poppy Olsen will compete for Australia in the women’s skateboarding park event, while Kareena Lee is Australia’s sole competitor in the women’s 10km marathon swimming. Follow...
In 1989, a magnitude-8.2 earthquake on Macquarie Island shook expeditioners out of their bunks. Key points: Macquarie Island is 1,542 kilometres from Hobart, Tasmania and is located...
Zen’s Harry Potter-themed birthday party was cancelled when he was diagnosed with the Delta variant of COVID-19. Key points: Zen and his mum only have direct...
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese wants to pay $300 to every Australian who is fully vaccinated by December 1, and he might be on the right track....
An investigation has found that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women inside and outside state government and worked to retaliate against one of his...
Part one of a two-piece article. From the start, those sceptical of lockdowns for managing the coronavirus pandemic have offered three complementary lines of argument. First, a respiratory virus...
Each morning before dawn, Mohamad Kreiydye bids silent farewell to his sleeping family and begins the day’s hunt for fuel. From his neighbourhood in central Beirut,...
North Korea is releasing emergency military rice reserves as its food shortage worsens, according to South Korea’s spy agency, with a heatwave and drought reducing the country’s...
Opposition and cross bench MPs are piling pressure on the federal government to introduce new laws making it easier to impose sanctions on serious human rights...