Australia

Melbourne City's second-stringers show their wares, earning a point with a gritty comeback to draw 2-2 with the Roar in Brisbane.

After leading by 19 points at half-time, Collingwood goes scoreless in the second half as Melbourne wins at Princes Park.

Carlton is unbeaten after two rounds of the AFL Women's season, coming home with a wet sail to beat GWS.

Victoria wicketkeeper Sam Harper heads to hospital for scans after being hit in the head by South Australian Jake Lehmann's bat during a Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide Oval.

Here's some of the best photos of how Aussies are spending the day escaping the heat.

Khaled Sharrouf becomes the first Islamic State fighter to be stripped of Australian citizenship.

New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT swelter in a heatwave, while southern Western Australia braced for more rain and flooding.

A woman and a man are shot in Gordon home in Canberra's south overnight, after two men entered the home about 9:30pm.

The Canberra region swelters through its second day of blistering conditions with temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius.

How do you cope with the heat when you're in one of the hottest towns in Australia?

NSW gears up for catastrophic fire ratings today worse than the Black Saturday conditions in 2009.

A luxury cruise ship broken down off Victoria's coast with more than 3,000 passengers and crew on board also experienced a problem with its propulsion system a fortnight ago.

The NT's royal commission into youth detention travels to New Zealand to look at alternative approaches to youth justice.

The use of tasers on children should be eliminated, the National Children's Commissioner says.

Lack of funding could force ice rehabilitation centre to close beds.

Queenslanders will be able to buy bulk meat on Sundays and hardware supplies from 6am Sundays under streamlined new trading hours laws.

Melbourne City's second-stringers show their wares, earning a point with a gritty comeback to draw 2-2 with the Roar in Brisbane.

You are in trouble in the Gold Coast surf and in urgent need of a lifesaver, but fear not when you find the man coming to your rescue could be your grandfather.

Victoria wicketkeeper Sam Harper heads to hospital for scans after being hit in the head by South Australian Jake Lehmann's bat during a Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide Oval.

A 52-year-old man is arrested over the alleged abduction and sexual assault of a European backpacker in South Australia.

New low-emission buses are about to go into service in Adelaide, with dozens more to be built to fill interstate orders.

An environmental group is warning water quality in Macquarie Harbour is threatening the survival of an ancient skate species.

New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT swelter in a heatwave, while southern Western Australia braced for more rain and flooding.

An administrative error may have led to 25 workers at the Royal Hobart hospital revamp being exposed to asbestos.

Melbourne City's second-stringers show their wares, earning a point with a gritty comeback to draw 2-2 with the Roar in Brisbane.

After leading by 19 points at half-time, Collingwood goes scoreless in the second half as Melbourne wins at Princes Park.

Carlton is unbeaten after two rounds of the AFL Women's season, coming home with a wet sail to beat GWS.

Australia's oldest micro-nation officially has a new leader who says he hopes to grow its population under his reign.

A helicopter rescues about 15 people trapped by floodwaters on Western Australia's south coast.

WA Labor says it will set aside 50 per cent of iron ore royalties to pay down state debt, but it has not ruled out increasing taxes.