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Steve Smith's 19th Test ton and a breakthrough innings from Glenn Maxwell lead Australia to a strong position of 4-299 after day one against India in Ranchi.
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NSW authorities search for Ryan Teasedale, 11, who went missing while playing in floodwaters near a stormwater drain, as heavy rain closes roads, shuts down trains and results in dozens of rescues south of Sydney.
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In a fiery press conference, Federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg and SA Premier Jay Weatherill trade blows over SA's plans to "go it alone" in energy supply for the state.
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A Canberra man who punched another man to the side of the head outside a convenience store in Braddon last year has his appeal thrown out.
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Time is running out for Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May to come up with a compromise deal to stop Scotland holding another independence referendum, Scotland's former first minister Alex Salmond says.
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The Royal Commission into Youth Detention and Child Protection hears from witness "BY" that he was only 17 when moved from the Don Dale centre to an adult prison, and that a guard there threatened him with rape.
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The father of alleged murder victim Sabah Al Mdwali labels her husband and accused killer a dog, and hits out at the defence's suggestions he was in her house at the time she was killed.
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Malcolm Turnbull says his Government will be "very happy" to fund the $2 billion expansion of the Snowy Mountains hydro scheme if the Victorian and New South Wales state governments won't chip in.
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An illustration depicting the debilitating effects of Crohn's disease takes out the top award in science images for 2017.
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A Bangladeshi man believed to have been radicalised while studying at a Victorian university appears in an Islamic State propaganda video to criticise fellow Muslims who have not embraced jihad.
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National Australia Bank lifts home loan rates by as much as a quarter of a percentage point, blaming rising funding costs and increased regulation.
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The Federal Court found Tabcorp failed to alert regulators to reports of suspicious behaviour on 108 occasions over more than five years.
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The ACT Remuneration Tribunal announces a two per cent pay rise for the territory's representatives, with an extra bonus delivered to Deputy Opposition Leader Nicole Lawder.
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Incoming WA premier Mark McGowan unveils his 17-member ministry, including Roger Cook as his deputy and Ben Wyatt as treasurer, following Labor's emphatic victory in Saturday's election.
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A backpacker tells a court of being attacked with a hammer and rammed repeatedly by a four-wheel drive in remote sand dunes at Salt Creek in South Australia.
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A father who doused two of his children with petrol and set one of them alight is claiming he was insane at the time and will have his trial heard by a judge sitting without a jury.
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ACTU secretary Sally McManus defends her comments about breaking the law as Christopher Pyne and other Coalition frontbenchers respond with heavy criticism.
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After collecting dust in high-security vaults for more than 65 years, hundreds of reels of film from the Cold War era of nuclear weapons testing are declassified by the United States.
