Australia

A man, armed with sharp objects, has been shot dead by police following a tense six-hour stand-off.

The most intense heatwave forecast to hit Australia in six years has descended.

A push to give the AFP and Home Affairs Department more counter-terrorism resources is intensifying after revelations that a national surveillance team was demobilised shortly before the Bondi attacks.

‘A better place with him here.’

ANDREW GREENE: One Labor insider believes a federal royal commission would ‘set us up for a year of pain’.

A disability worker has been charged over the death of a man in a house fire at an assisted living facility nearly five years ago.

Parents are being warned to check the batch number of a popular brand of baby formula that may be contaminated with a toxin. 

The Sydney-born singer shared a major update following multiple allegations about his behaviour with fans surfaced at the end of last year.

The identity and school of a WA teacher charged with sexually abusing a male student have been revealed.

The former wife of late businessman Geoffrey Edelsten has fronted court after being charged with drug trafficking and possession offences.

Longwood locals are being told to ‘take shelter now’ in order to survive as an out of control bushfires threatens homes.

Here’s how to escape the heat and stay safe as extreme temperatures sweep across Australia in a significant heatwave this week.

Two men have been charged with the murder of a notorious convicted pedophile, who died following an alleged altercation in prison.

The drawing in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald could have appeared in Der Stürmer, a pro-nazi newspaper that called for the extermination of Jews as early as 1933, one Jewish leader said.

A French national extradited from Sydney to Melbourne over his alleged rape and assault of a woman he met at a club on New Year's Day has faced court.