An Australian politician convicted of rape is fighting – from his jail cell – to remain a member of the New South Wales (NSW) state parliament. Gareth Ward was last month found guilty of s...
An Indigenous group has launched legal action to stop a 63,000-seat stadium for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics being built on culturally significant land. The Queensland government announced in March that...
WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts linked to scammers targeting people around the world in the first half of this year, its parent company Meta says. Many were tied to scam centres run by or...
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has said he and Donald Trump discussed sanctions against Russia, defence cooperation and drone production ahead of a visit to Moscow by US envoy Steve Witkoff. Thank...
Dan Whitworth & Dearbail Jordan Reporting fromWinsford, Cheshire Getty Images Few councils offer school uniform support, and one of the UK’s largest debt advisers has called on the governmen...
Getty Images Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began nearly 40 years ago, according to a new report. Northern and southern branches ...
Taxes must rise in the autumn if Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to meet her self-imposed borrowing rules, according to an economic thinktank. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr...
Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent Watch: Texas Speaker plans civil arrest warrants against absent Democrats Dozens of Texas Democrats have secretly left the state in a dramatic effort to sto...
MaryLou Costa Technology Reporter Getty Images Queensland has seen serious winter and spring flooding As the skies unleashed six months of rain in February over North Queensland, Australia, many local...
Zara Two adverts by fashion brand Zara have been banned for featuring models who appeared “unhealthily thin”. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said shadows and a slick back bun ha...