3:19PM
The Saudi-led military coalition has announced a 48-hour ceasefire in the Yemen conflict.
2:55PM
The bodies of a pair of moose have been found in Alaska poking through the ice on their sides with antlers apparently locked together.
2:53PM
Polls suggest a tight race to become the Republicans candidate for the French presidential election.
2:50PM
Three conservative loyalists have been chosen by US President-elect Donald Trump to fill key national security and law enforcement positions.
2:43PMBy Scott Smith
An aerial survey shows there are 36 million more dead trees since May in California and a 100 per cent increase since 2015 due to drought.
2:24PMRashida Yosufzai
One Nation appears to be gaining ground in Queensland, with a poll showing 45 per cent of voters feel Pauline Hanson responds better to concerns.
2:17PM
Police needed help to arrest a man after he punched a female officer in the face, spear tackled another man and fled over a fence in Sydney.
2:04PMLucy Hughes Jones
Acting Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says indigenous men cannot use claims of cultural practice to justify shocking family violence and sexual abuse.
1:53PMDaniel Gilhooly
A watchful Pakistan have nearly knocked off their first innings deficit against New Zealand in the first Test.
1:49PMLisa Martin
The prime minister's office is remaining coy over the prospects of a refugee resettlement deal with Malaysia.
1:45PM
Barnaby Joyce has joked that he'd be treated much differently if he'd levelled the expletives South Australia's water minister has been accused of using.
1:41PMDarren Cartwright
The Queensland government says it has overhauled public housing rents to the benefit those most in need.
1:38PM
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is heading for a magical US opening weekend and is likely to earn $US30 million just from Thursday and Friday showings.
1:10PMJustin Kroll
Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is joining the Star Wars Han Solo spin-off.
12:58PM
Members of the public found a woman near the side of the road only to discover one of her fingers had been severed and two people are facing torture charges.
12:50PM
Award-winning US songwriter Mentor Williams has died, his brother says.
12:50PMLucy Hughes Jones
Acting Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says a city like Darwin, which was bombed in World War II, can't afford Labor's "naive" attempts to shake up foreign policy.
12:27PM
A deputy US marshal has been shot dead while trying to arrest a man already wanted for attempting to murder police in Georgia.
12:27PM
A neurosurgeon planning to carry out the first human head transplant hopes to perform the operation in the UK.
12:06PMBy Nate Raymond
Two nephews of Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores have been convicted of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.
11:47AMRashida Yosufzai
US Homeland Security officials are in Australia as part of the Australian government's one-off refugee resettlement deal with the Obama administration.
11:42AM
A Texas collector has paid nearly $A40,000 for an angry John Lennon letter to Paul and Linda McCartney written shortly after the Beatles' breakup.
11:42AMBy Tom Hays
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has complained of the unprecedented security effort for a US president's unofficial residence required outside Trump Tower..
11:29AM
Former Survivor II: The Australian Outback contestant Michael Skupin has been convicted on four counts of possessing child pornography in the US.
11:03AM
The World Health Organisation says the Zika virus no longer constitutes an international emergency but it will continue to counter it with a "robust program".
11:01AM
Rapper Kanye West has been booed at a concert after telling fans that if he had voted, he would have voted for Donald Trump.
10:57AMBy David Klepper and Elliot Spagat
President-elect Donald Trump has agreed to settled three Trump University lawsuits for $25 million ($A34m), says New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
10:46AM
President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks so far suggest he considers loyalty paramount.
10:46AM
A shot was fired in a Melbourne park on Saturday morning as a car allegedly attempted to ram two police officers.
10:10AM
Four people have died in a single car roll-over near Penola in South Australia.
Chris Kenny
Hedley Thomas
PHILLIP HUDSON
Cameron Stewart
SIMON BENSON in LIMA
SEAN PARNELL
GREG BEARUP in Tofo, Mozambique
Brent Kendall
RICK MORTON
