In December 2019, president Donald Trump launched Space Force, the US’s first new military service since 1947, declaring space the “world’s new war-fighting domain”. Space Force’s...
England has begun COVID-19 testing every household in some communities as authorities try to snuff out a new variant of the coronavirus before it undermines the...
Tasmanian environmentalists have lost their Federal Court challenge aimed at ending native forest logging in Tasmania. The Bob Brown Foundation took the Federal and Tasmanian Governments,...
South Australia’s police chief has defended his decision to terminate the employment of an officer who gave cannabis to a mentally distressed man in what a...
A native bird with a taste for the sugary sap on the back of insects, and a particular talent in “farming” them, could be indirectly causing...
Pete Buttigieg has won US Senate approval as transportation secretary, the first openly gay person to be confirmed to a Cabinet post. Key points: Mr Buttigieg...
As devastating fires claim scores of homes in the Perth Hills a tropical low is tracking down the north-west coast, a transient Tasman low is brewing...
A coastal Victorian town will get a new 1,400-square-metre inflatable water park, replacing a paddleboat business which has been operating in the region for 38 years....
When 18-year-old transgender teen Lorelei Tuxworth started the process of updating her name and birth certificate to reflect her identity, she didn’t expect to get a...
The High Court has ordered fresh hearings into the planned expansion of a controversial coal mine on Queensland’s Darling Downs, potentially putting a halt to the...