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Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, carried a colourful rainbow umbrella for a reception to launch the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, in London.

The Victoria Chief Health Officer has defended his decision to fly to Canberra for a work event while much of the state were still restricted from travel.

Daredevil Alex Harvill died on Thursday while practicing for a world record motorcycle ramp jump, officials in Washington state said. He was 28 years old.

It's something that can happen to any dog but now this rare "ecological event" has been captured on film for the first-time involving dingoes.

An Ikea and multiple Sydney train lines are among new exposure sites linked to coronavirus cases in the city.

German police are appealing for information about the possible owners of two 17th-century paintings discovered in a highway rest stop dumpster.

Sydney's new coronavirus cluster has grown by a single case, as new alerts were issued for train stations.

When Kat Fraser's mother Angela was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Kat's daughter, Ella, 11, remarked, "at least it's not breast cancer."

Terror police have arrested a Western Sydney man who allegedly had details on how to make improvised explosives.

A single new coronavirus cases has been in Victoria, in a close contact of somebody previously diagnosed.

A crucial national hockey final in the US descended into chaos as players dropped the gloves for a mighty scrap.

The Australian Federal Government has confirmed it is taking China to the World Trade Organisation over the anti-dumping duties it has imposed on Australian wine.

A leading epidemiologist has warned Sydney faces more fresh restrictions amid a new virus cluster.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has bigger problems than the United States right now. He needs to feed his people, and his options are not good.

President Joe Biden on Friday marked the United States administering 300 million COVID-19 shots in 150 days, urging unvaccinated Americans to roll up their sleeves to protect themselves against emerging variants of the virus.

A jet's foremost wheel has collapsed at Heathrow Airport in the UK, sending the cockpit thumping into the tarmac.

Gunmen abducted scores of children from a school in northwest Nigeria, the second kidnapping from a school in the country's north within a week, officials said.

The U.N. General Assembly unanimously elected Antonio Guterres to a second term as secretary-general on Friday, giving him another five years at the helm of the 193-member organisation

A Greek helicopter pilot was charged Friday with the murder of his British-Greek wife, whose death he had initially claimed was caused by burglars during a brutal invasion of their home on the outskirts of Athens

New survey reveals lack of vaccine enthusiasm in WA aged care workers as state and federal leaders discuss potentially enforcing the jab.

Underworld figure Bilal Hamze, the cousin of notorious gang leader Bassam Hamzy, was shot dead from a black Audi in the city last night.

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Intense footage shows three boys almost get hit by cars as they dart across the Kwinana Freeway in Perth's southwest.

Another rainy weekend lies ahead for Sydney, with heavy clouds set to dominate most capitals' skies.

A man has been charged over the death of a three-week-old baby boy in Adelaide's south.

A coroner has found Queensland schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer likely choked or asphyxiated to death at the hands of her foster father Rick Thorburn, who may also have been sexually abusing her while she was in his care.

A journalist is facing the theat of prosecution for refusing to reveal the source of a confidential tip that led to television reporting of an arrest.

An Echuca ski racing hero has been jailed for stealing boats on the Murray River, with one of his victims including V8 Supercars driver, Mark Winterbottom.

Dozens of parents are pleading with their local Catholic Education office not to close their school, which caters to students with learning difficulties and disabilities.

Driver Ricky Butler wept as he was jailed for nearly six years for 2020 death of Aiesha Smith.

A man has died and two others were injured in a train crash at Westwood, west of Rockhampton.

Hairdresser Nardia Vajda has been to hell and back this past year - after the love of her life and father of her two children suddenly died.

Storm victims fear they will be tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket.

Nearly four years ago Keith Wass took to the slopes dressed as Chewbacca and he was a crowd favourite before two parents complained about his bizarre behaviour.

A Victorian couple has been slapped with a $4003 fine each after allegedly skipping Melbourne's lockdown and taking COVID-19 to the Sunshine Coast.

Victoria has recorded one locally transmitted case of COVID-19, a close contact of an existing case.

A public inquiry into a mass attack at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in northwest England has revealed "serious shortcomings".

An inquest into the deadly Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub bombing has been told police officers were warned of arson threats but didn't act on them.

The PM has called an emergency national Cabinet meeting for Monday to deal with the fallout from the drastic change to the coronavirus vaccine program.

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Dozens of new beds are being put in a vacant nursing home but the very important makeover is not for the elderly.

The cost of major toll roads across Sydney will increase next month - here's what it means for you.

Trina and Alvin Toh took to the waters off Jervis Bay looking for a glimpse of a migrating whale, but instead were treated to a close encounter with a juvenile humpback.

A widowed grandmother claims she's been betrayed after loaning a friend thousands of dollars.

A man has ended up in hospital with leg injuries after allegedly trying to scale the outside of a building to escape Queensland hotel quarantine.

A coronavirus outbreak in southern China has clogged ports critical to global trade, causing a shipping backlog that could take months to clear and lead to shortages during the year-end holiday shopping season.

Detectives have located what they believe to be human remains in their search for missing Melbourne woman, Kelly 'Ju' Zhang.

The man in his 50s attended Myer at Westfield Bondi Junction and had "fleeting" contact with an infected driver.