Telstra will face legal ramifications for delaying payments totalling $11 million dollars to 67,000 customers.

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday warned the government to stage fresh elections or face more mass protests, after leading thousands of supporters to the capital Islamabad in a showdown with his political rivals.

Former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer clashed with panellists on the ABC’s Q&A on Thursday over Australia’s intelligence gathering in the Pacific.

Melbourne Victory’s stunning rise from the bottom of the A-League ladder in 2022 didn’t include passage to the grand final, but their season was recognised by scooping two major awards, including the Johnny Warren Medal for the league’s best player on Thursday night.

Health officials have advised anyone who has been in the Sydney CBD in the past 10 days to be on the lookout for symptoms of Legionnaires’ disease.

A rare outbreak of meningococcal at a north Queensland school has health authorities worried after two students were hospitalised.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has promised Australia will be a partner to Pacific Islands nations “that doesn’t come with strings attached”.

Hundreds of Indian air travellers were stranded inside their planes after the low-cost airline SpiceJet cancelled or delayed flights due to an "attempted ransomware attack", the company has said.

China's premier has sounded an unusually stark warning about the world's second-largest economy, saying it must return to normal as the country's zero-Covid strategy bites into growth.

A man on trial for the stabbing murder of a father-of-five on a Queensland highway has been jailed for life.

A pair of crooks have made of with cash after robbing three fast food stores in Brisbane’s south overnight.

Premier Mark McGowan has taken another swing at the Victorian and NSW governments after both launched “attacks” on Western Australia over the GST distribution deal.

Sport Integrity Australia has referred three complaints to police and is continuing to investigate two others as part of its probe into off-field misconduct at the national level of football.

Losses for the iron ore miners and retail behemoths Woolworths and Wesfarmers helped wipe Wednesday’s gains and consign the local sharemarket to its worst session in a week.

Mothers hosting playdates near cordoned-off parks, mahjong maestros huddled in streets and youngsters slugging night-time beers on barricaded sidewalks -- Beijingers are making the most of the small spaces available as China's coronavirus controls close in.

Western powers sounded the alarm Thursday over leaked plans to dramatically expand China's security and economic reach in the South Pacific, in what one regional leader called a thinly veiled effort to lock island states into "Beijing's orbit".

The fiercely competitive buy now, pay later space has a brand new entrant, with National Australia Bank making a pitch to prise shoppers away from the likes of Afterpay, Zip Co, Step Pay and Klarna.

Sydney will unleash a second player from its 2021 draft class against Richmond at the SCG on Friday night, with midfielder Matt Roberts to make his AFL debut.

Labor is one seat away from forming a majority government after retaining the Lyons electorate in Tasmania.

World champion Max Verstappen heads home this weekend hoping to survive the chaos and beat arch-rival and luckless local hero Charles Leclerc again in Sunday's 79th running of the Monaco Grand Prix.

They came to see the superstars of Barcelona and were left gobsmacked by the teenager from the Central Coast.

Eleven newborn babies died in a hospital fire in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, the president of the country said late Wednesday. 

Senior Labor MP Tanya Plibersek has apologised for comparing Liberal leadership candidate Peter Dutton to a Harry Potter villain.

Four men have been arrested in relation to the alleged murder of a Sydney teenager two years ago.

Newly elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has had a “very positive” conversation with the French President in a sign relations between the two countries could be thawing.

The widow of a father of two who was stabbed to death in Perth on Sunday has broken her silence, paying tribute to the man whose desire to help those in need carried up to his dying breath.

A crash involving at least 15 cars on one of Sydney’s major highways brought traffic to a standstill on Thursday morning.

Australian superstar Sam Kerr has cemented her place among the world’s best footballers after taking out the Women‘s Super League Player of the Year award among a swag of gongs so far in 2022.

Boeing's Starliner capsule headed back to Earth Wednesday in the final step of a key test flight to prove itself worthy of providing rides for NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.

NSW Police is appealing for public assistance to locate a teenager who has been missing from her western Sydney home for a month.

Queensland is set to become the second Australian jurisdiction to ban the Nazi swastika in a bill that will also outlaw other hate symbols.

Police have launched an investigation into allegations a man has been lurking outside an all female share house for months.

Seconds before he presents a news bulletin, Afghan television anchor Nisar Nabil puts on a black mask as a symbolic protest against the Taliban authorities for ordering women presenters to cover their faces on air.

Boeing's Starliner capsule headed back to Earth Wednesday in the final step of a key test flight to prove itself worthy of providing rides for NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.

Four bombs ripped through minibuses and a mosque in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people, officials said.

Spanish teenage sensation Carlos Alcaraz and third seed Alexander Zverev both saved a match point in five-set French Open thrillers, while reigning champion Novak Djokovic eased into the third round Wednesday.

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Wednesday said it would sell its patented drugs on a not-for-profit basis to the world's poorest countries, as part of a new initiative announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

North Korea fired a volley of missiles Wednesday, including possibly its largest intercontinental ballistic missile, just hours after US President Joe Biden left Asia after a trip overshadowed by Pyongyang's sabre-rattling.

A former head of ASIO says Australians should sacrifice their standard of living to enable more spending on defence amid building global tensions.

Cannes is set to be shaken, rattled and rolled on Wednesday as the world premiere of "Elvis" rocks the film festival on the French Riviera, in what is proving a vintage year for music-lovers.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson presided over a culture of lockdown-breaking parties that featured drunken fighting among staff, according to a long-awaited inquiry Wednesday that prompted renewed calls for his resignation.

John Aloisi never doubted his ability as a coach, but the Socceroos legend had lost hope that he would get another job in the A-League – until he was interviewed by Western United CEO Chris Pehlivanis.

As tensions flared in Melbourne amid last year’s Covid-19 lockdowns, several journalists claim they were targeted by police in painful attacks.

A teenage gunman killed at least 19 young children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, prompting a furious President Joe Biden to denounce the US gun lobby and vow to end the nation's cycle of mass shootings.

The British government announced Wednesday it had approved Todd Boehly's £4.25 billion ($5.3 billion) purchase of Chelsea football club from the sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

Ahead of his 100th NRL game, Parramatta Eels enforcer Isaiah Papali’i has paid tribute to his mother, former New Zealand international Lorina, whom he credits as his inspiration on the path to rugby league stardom.

Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video call with UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday, as she visits Xinjiang during a mission overshadowed by fresh allegations of Uyghur abuses and fears she is being used as a public relations tool.

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Wednesday said it would sell its patented drugs at a not-for-profit basis to the world's poorest countries, as part of a new initiative announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The UK government announced Wednesday it had given the green light to Todd Boehly's proposed takeover of Chelsea football club from the sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

The UK government announced Wednesday it had given the green light to Todd Boehly's proposed takeover of Chelsea football club from the sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.