World news breaking headlines live now
Australia has avoided having the Great Barrier Reef listed as an endangered world heritage site by UNESCO, despite concerns about climate change-fuelled damage to the ecosystem’s corals. At a World …
Read More
The state of Mississippi on Thursday urged the US Supreme Court in a major case set to be argued in its next term to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling that …
Read More
Four weeks since the New South Wales government locked down four Sydney local government areas, the state is bracing for daily coronavirus case numbers to exceed the outbreak high of …
Read More
New South Wales has reported 124 new locally acquired cases of coronavirus, its highest daily tally of the year. Of the new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on …
Read More
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said he is sorry for delays in the COVID-19 vaccine program and announced more pharmacies will be brought into rollout sooner. Mr Morrison had previously …
Read More
Hong Kong’s national security police detained two former senior staff of shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily on Wednesday, shortly after they arrested the paper’s former executive editor-in-chief. Local media reported …
Read More
Staying physically fit to keep mentally fit is important to 21-year-old Sam Matty. He and his family fled war-torn Iraq in 2014 and spent three-and-a-half years in limbo in Turkey, …
Read More
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has conceded the weeks ahead will be tough as Australia struggles to contain the Delta COVID-19 variant, but defended the financial support on offer for those …
Read More
Haiti is set to usher in a new prime minister as Ariel Henry takes the reins of the Caribbean country, nearly two weeks after President Jovenel Moise was gunned down …
Read More
Three Central West New South Wales local government areas will imminently enter a seven-day lockdown over coronavirus fears. NSW Health on Tuesday night announced that stay-at-home orders would be introduced …
Read More