'Sad day indeed': Greater search powers for police in Melbourne
Police in Melbourne will have the power to stop and search people without warrants in designated areas as part of a push to improve safety.
Zelenskiy says Ukraine ready to advance peace plan
Zelenskiy says Ukraine ready to advance peace plan
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he is ready to advance a US-backed framework for ending the war with Russia.
Bushfire risk spikes as temperatures soar in Australia
Bushfire risk spikes as temperatures soar in Australia
Forecasts of soaring temperatures and damaging wind gusts have prompted Australian authorities to raise bushfire alerts to their highest levels in more than two years.
Trump adds turkeys to big pardon list
Trump adds turkeys to big pardon list
Gobble and Waddle have been spared from Thanksgiving dinner tables.
23 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls released
23 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls released
Twenty-four girls abducted from a government boarding school in northwestern Nigeria have been released, it has been confirmed.
Conservative leads in polls
Conservative leads in polls
Chile ultra-conservative presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast secured a commanding double-digit lead in the first polls taken since he and a leftist rival advanced to the country’s runoff vote.
Set up to drop the ball here
Set up to drop the ball here
A newly created New Year’s Eve ball adorned with 5280 Waterford crystals is raised for the first time above One Times Square yesterday
Opposition leader flees after disputed vote
Opposition leader flees after disputed vote
Opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary has fled Cameroon for Gambia following the re-election of Paul Biya, the world’s oldest president
Street named after former prince to be changed
Council votes to change street named after former prince
A Northern Irish council has agreed to begin work to rename a street named after Britain's former Prince Andrew.
Queensland braces for more wild storms after destruction
Queensland braces for more wild storms after destruction
Emergency crews are battling heatwave conditions as they restore power to thousands in Queensland ahead of another round of dangerous superstorms.
Global Insight: 'Time to team up' to tackle climate change
Global Insight: 'Time to team up' to tackle climate change
Tag-teaming with other countries to wrestle climate change should be NZ's urgent task given the United States’ lack of leadership, Prof Robert Patman says.
Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff dies
Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff dies
Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican singer who along with Bob Marley popularized reggae, ska and rocksteady music over a six decade career, has died
Search for missing Aussie boy resumes
Mine shafts focus as search for missing Aussie boy resumes
A new search for a missing four-year-old boy is about to ramp up two months after he vanished from his family's remote outback farmhouse.
Fifty kidnapped students escape in Nigeria
Fifty kidnapped students escape in Nigeria
Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have escaped and have been reunited with their parents, the Catholic Church and Christian...
Massive clean-up as tropical cyclone moves on
Massive clean-up in Australia's Top End as tropical cyclone moves on
Thousands remain without power and a stack of schools are closed, but Top Enders have been spared serious injuries and significant damage from tropical cyclone Fina.
US lauds Ukraine peace talks but major hurdles remain
US lauds Ukraine peace talks but major hurdles remain
The US says it has made significant progress on crafting a plan to end the war in Ukraine during talks on Sunday but no agreement was reached on how to guarantee Kyiv's security amid concerns about the threat posed by Russia.
Israeli strike kills Hezbollah official despite truce
Israeli strike kills Hezbollah official despite truce
Israel killed militant group Hezbollah's top military official in an airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday, the Israeli military said, despite a US-brokered truce a year ago.
Uneasy climate deal sidesteps fossil fuels
Uneasy climate deal sidesteps fossil fuels
Brazil's COP30 presidency has pushed through a compromise climate deal boosting finance for poor nations coping with global warming, but omitting any mention of fossil fuels driving it.
Nigeria gunmen kidnap over 200 Catholic school students
Nigeria gunmen kidnap over 200 Catholic school students
Friday's incident in Niger state is the largest mass kidnapping of school children since March 2024.
Ukraine's 'difficult choice' over peace plan
Ukraine's 'difficult choice' over peace plan
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned Ukraine risks losing its dignity and freedom - or Washington’s backing - over a US peace plan that endorses key Russian demands.