Category: World News

Russian forces are pressing forward with air and ground attacks on several settlements in eastern Ukraine, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated seizing territory during the nine-month war. Near the city of Lysychansk, Russia deployed more troops to try to capture the village of Bilohorivka, Ukraine’s governor of

Marnus Labuschagne has set the foundation for a big nine months as centuries from he and Travis Head took Australia to 3-330 at stumps on night one against West Indies in Adelaide. With the biggest year of Australian cricket this century ahead, Labuschagne continued his sparkling start to the summer

Ash Barty’s on-court heroics and off-court humility have been recognised again after she became just the third athlete to win the coveted The Don Award for a second time. Barty shocked the tennis world in March when she announced her retirement at the age of 25 – less than two

A new policy vision from the Albanese government is too narrow and too focused on beating up Peter Dutton, a top expert on national security has said. Government minister Clare O’Neil outlined her vision for the department responsible for much of federal national security policy across what is known as

Almost a year since Australia’s borders reopened, the latest job ads data shows the scramble for workers is slowing down. Seek data for November shows national job ads fell almost -5 per cent from the month before, and an -8.2 per cent change from the same time last year. Matt

Australian wine producers are hoping to claw back revenue lost from China when the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (AI-ECTA) goes live later this month. Wine exports to China dropped by 92 per cent to $21 million in the year ending September 30, due to COVID disruptions and Beijing

The first reviews for the long-awaited Avatar sequel are trickling in – and they’re glowing. Set 15 years after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water, will see Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and their children battle to keep each other safe and stay

An artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot has gone viral online, with the bot able to write entire songs, essays and poems on demand. ChatGPT was released to the public by OpenAI just over a week ago. Within days, the program has garnered more than a million active users, who have pushed

Federal, state and territory governments have agreed to create a new capacity mechanism to make fresh investments in renewable energy in a bid to protect Australians from soaring power bills. Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen on Thursday announced changes he says will help “keep the lights on”, ahead of a

Prince Harry says it was his duty to expose the “exploitation and bribery” of the media, saying members of the British royal family regarded the harassment of his wife Meghan as a rite of passage. In the first episodes of the couple’s much anticipated Netflix documentary series, Harry, who stepped

South Korea has passed laws to scrap its traditional method of counting ages and adopt the international standard – a shift which will make its citizens either one or two years younger on official documents. Koreans are deemed to be a year old when born and a year is

Iran has executed a protester convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and closing off a street in the capital, Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reports. Nationwide protests that erupted after the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini on September 16 represent one of the

White shorts have been axed from the AFLW to ease anxiety for players who are menstruating. The move, announced on Thursday, will take effect immediately across all women’s competitions run by and associated with the AFL. The league is following similar measures that have been rolled out in tennis (Wimbledon), cricket

While many Chinese embrace new-found freedoms after the country dropped key parts of its tough zero-COVID-19 regime, some cities are warning residents to maintain vigilance against a virus that, until now, has been largely kept in check. Three years into the pandemic, many in China had been itching for Beijing

Queensland’s child protection workforce is short-staffed and must be restructured to meet the needs of vulnerable young people, a report says. The Child Death Review Board (CDRB) has called for a restructure after probing 55 of the 69 child deaths in the protection system in 2021-22 in a report released

The ACT’s top prosecutor says a public inquiry is needed into “political and police conduct” in the case of a former political staffer accused of raping colleague Brittany Higgins. In a document revealed under freedom of information laws, Shane Drumgold wrote that police had engaged in a campaign to pressure

David Warner’s manager has sensationally claimed players were given permission to tamper with the ball by unnamed officials some 16 months before the Cape Town scandal. The drama of Warner’s leadership ban continued on Thursday after Warner pulled his application to have his sanction lifted due to frustration over the

Medibank will go offline to complete an overhaul of its cyber security systems following the massive hack of its sensitive customer data. The nation’s biggest health insurer will shut down its IT network, retail stores and customer call centre from 8.30pm on Friday until Sunday to “further strengthen systems and enhance

A senior public servant told a Social Services official to tone down language indicating the robodebt welfare management scheme wouldn’t be lawful before it was introduced. Andrew Whitecross, from the Social Services department, told the royal commission investigating the scheme it “couldn’t be clearer” calculating welfare debts based on an

A teenager accused of throwing a concrete block at a Perth mother, killing her and her unborn child, has had his charge upgraded to murder. Diane Miller suffered a heart attack last week when the object was thrown through the open window of her car at a Karawara shopping centre.

President Vladimir Putin has warned the threat of nuclear war is increasing as he boasted Russia has the world’s most advanced nuclear weapons. In his latest chilling comments on the threat of nuclear war, Mr Putin said Russia would strike back against any such threats. But he hoped that its

The Australian government has updated its travel advice to Indonesia after the country’s parliament passed laws criminalising sex outside of marriage. The so-called ‘bonk ban’, which will also apply to foreigners, would be punishable by up to one year in jail. Cohabitation between unmarried couples would also be prohibited under

A new cyber security strategy will be drawn up by global experts in a bid to make Australia the most secure nation in the world, having become “unnecessarily vulnerable”. Cyber Security Minister Clare O’Neil announced the drafting of the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy at the National Press Club in

Australian actress Toni Collette has revealed she and her husband Dave Galafassi are divorcing after 19 years of marriage. The split was confirmed by Collette in an Instagram post on Thursday, which came just hours after photos emerged of Galafassi passionately kissing a blonde mystery woman off a Sydney beach.

Hillsong’s general manager says it was his job to make sure the church complied with NSW laws, but he didn’t inform authorities about disciplinary action taken against senior pastor Frank Houston following reports of child sexual abuse. George Aghajanian was previously the business manager of the Hills Christian Life Centre,

Airport authorities in the US got a big shock this week when an X-ray machine detected a highly unusual find in a passenger’s backpack. The high-tech machine at the Wisconsin airport picked up the outline of a small brown pup curled up in the bag. “A dog was accidentally sent

Financial regulators have ordered life insurance companies to review their policies following complaints about rises in the cost of premiums and poor quality information. In a joint letter to all insurers, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission said they had concerns companies had

Former shadow attorney-general John Pesutto will lead the Victorian Liberals as the party looks to rebuild after its third election loss. Liberal MPs elected Mr Pesutto to replace Matthew Guy in a secret ballot during a party room meeting on Thursday morning, beating out Berwick MP Brad Battin. Mr Pesutto narrowly reclaimed the

With the cost of repairing Australia’s flood-damaged roads estimated at around $3.8 billion, there are calls for a new approach to road construction, maintenance and funding. Australian Local Government Association President Linda Scott says thousands of kilometres of local roads across NSW, Victoria South Australia and Queensland have been severely

The defence ministers of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have met for the first time, endorsing a “pathway” to deliver nuclear-powered submarines. Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles met with US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and British Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace in Washington DC under the

Brisbane is mopping up this morning after a night of wild storms with about 250,000 lightning strikes hitting the southeast with a repeat performance expected today. There were power outages affecting about 20,000 homes, mostly on the Sunshine Coast. The northern suburbs of Brisbane were also hit and storms were

At least two more items marked as classified were found in a storage unit in Florida after lawyers for Donald Trump arranged for a firm to search for additional material, according to a report. The Washington Post said the items were discovered by an outside team brought in by Mr

The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia have agreed to pursue a merger, a move that would create the nation’s largest university for Australian students. After months of discussions with the state government, the two universities will develop a business case and financial plan but have already

The consumer watchdog has warned of further electricity price rises as the number of retailers shrinks and global factors weigh on the energy market. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in its latest national electricity market report the typical household power bill between April and October increased by about

The Reserve Bank will pilot a form of digital money next year but remains unconvinced that Australia needs it. “Our project team is in the process of selecting a number of proposed eAUD use cases to take forward into the pilot phase early next year,” Assistant Governor Brad Jones told

Peru’s Congress has sworn in a new president in a day of sweeping political drama that saw the former leader, Pedro Castillo, ousted in an impeachment trial hours after he attempted a last-ditch bid to stay in power by trying to dissolve Congress. Ignoring Mr Castillo’s attempt to shut down