This blog is now closedHeat records tumble in Victoria as authorities warn against complacency amid significant blazesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictoria to open nation’s first offshore wind auction this yearAustralia’s ...

Authorities allege Ryan Wedding, 44, ‘turned to a life of crime’ after his snowboarding career endedRyan Wedding, the Canadian former Olympic snowboarder accused of cocaine distribution and orchestrating several murders, appeared on Monday in a souther...

Experts suggest Xi Jinping is asserting his authority by sidelining an officer who has significantly betrayed his trustStanding inches from Xi Jinping at a military ceremony in late December, China’s highest-ranking general, Zhang Youxia, may have had ...

American forces, aided by Israel, could have enough firepower to mount attack designed to topple regimeThe Iranian government is bracing itself for a fresh US and Israeli missile assault after it was announced that the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carr...

Azruddin Mohamed’s election comes six months after he formed political party that became country’s second largestA Guyanese businessman facing extradition to the US on gold-smuggling and money-laundering charges has been elected as the country’s opposi...

Fifty killed in one incident as Italian authorities estimate 380 people may have drowned last weekUp to 380 people may have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean last week as Cyclone Harry battered southern Italy and Malta, the Italian coastgua...

More than 100 people killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in South Africa, Mozambique and ZimbabweDevastating floods have killed more than 100 people in southern Africa since the beginning of the year and displaced hundreds of thousands, as autho...

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSeveral beaches in Sydney are closed this morning after shark sightings in the water.Lifeguards have evacuated the water at Manly beach, Dee Why beach and Palm beach thi...

Some elected officials condemn Trump’s federal surge in Minnesota and say DHS agents should leave stateAlex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimonyCalls mount on Trump administration to fully investigate killingMinnesota workers p...

This live blog is now closed.US winter storm leaves seven people dead as more than 1 million lose powerWinter storm Fern is officially operating in full force in the northeastern US. New Yorkers may not be strangers to snow, but these conditions have a...

Home Office will set out changes to policing on Monday that it claims are biggest overhaul in two centuriesPolice forces in England and Wales will be told to respond to emergency calls within strict time limits as part of plans to be announced on Monda...

Former president says killing should be ‘wake-up call’ and that federal agents are not operating in a lawful wayPressure mounted on Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday to fully investigate the previous day’s killing by federal immigration officers ...

GoFundMe campaign quickly surpasses goal of $20,000 a day after federal agents killed US citizen in MinneapolisAn online fundraiser benefiting the family of Alex Pretti had raised nearly $700,000 by Sunday afternoon, a day after federal agents killed t...