It was a family affair at the Met Gala for the Kardashian-Jenner sisters as all five attended for the very first time.
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A woman allegedly murdered by her on-off boyfriend said he had emotionally hurt her and had hit her, a jury has been told.Ebru Mercan testified that after her friend Samah Baker revealed she had been hit, she suggested she get an AVO against him but "she brushed it off".
Dominic Perrottet has urged people across NSW to stop calling ambulances for minor ailments, as paramedics say they are operating in a constant state of crisis.The premier's plea comes as Labor claims long ambulance ramping times has led to multiple regional centres going without access to an ambulance.
A Woolies shopper has made an amusing discovery in a pack of fresh biscuits from the supermarket's bakery.
Eva Mireles, 44, and her fourth grade co-teacher Irma Garcia, 46, have been praised for trying to save students’ lives by giving up their own.
Like a story from the Age of Discovery, Stephanie Gilmore is on a quest to find the rare treasure of a World Surf League trophy deep in the jungles of Indonesia.For the first time on the women's tour, the world's best surfers will compete in an event at the isolated G-Land break - a venue that hasn't featured on the WSL's top tier since 1997.
Russia's separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine have claimed full control of the important battlefield town of Lyman, as Moscow presses its biggest advance for weeks.Lyman, site of a key railway hub, has been a major front line as Russian forces press down from the north, one of three directions from which they have been attacking Ukraine's industrial Donbas region.
A cruise ship passenger filmed the massive blaze.
By now it is as predictable as the calls for thoughts and prayers: A mass shooting leaves many dead, and wild conspiracy theories and misinformation about the carnage soon follow.It happened after Sandy Hook, after Parkland, after the Orlando nightclub shooting and after the deadly rampage earlier this month at a Buffalo grocery store.
A family of Tamil asylum seekers who captured the hearts of Australians has been permitted to return to their home in the regional Queensland town of Biloela on bridging visas.Nadesalingam and Priya Murugappan fled Sri Lanka after the country's civil war, arriving separately on people-smuggling vessels in 2012 and 2013.
Queensland is planning to strengthen its gambling laws before a new casino opens at Brisbane's Queen's Wharf development, to be operated by Star Entertainment.The proposed changes are a response to recent inquiries into interstate casinos, and will help prevent criminal influence, Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman says.
A Sydney content creator went exploring inside a shopping centre which has been abandoned for over a decade. See what they found.
ShutterstockHow fast is evolution? In adaptive evolution, natural selection causes genetic changes in traits that favour the survival and reproduction of individual organisms. Although Charles Darwin thought the process occurred over geological timescales, we have seen examples of dramatic adaptive evolution over only a handful of generations. The peppered moth changed colour in response to air pollution, poaching has driven some elephants to lose their tusks and fish have evolved resistance to
A puncture on stage 18 of the Giro d'Italia could not prevent Jai Hindley hanging on to second place with three days to go.The Australian suffered a punctured tyre within the final three kilometres, meaning he was given the same finishing time as the other leaders he was riding with when he had to stop for mechanical help.
The worker who stopped the woman from stealing was fired, but now new information has come to light. Watch it for yourself.
A 14-month-old boy spent two days on life support after his mother tied a dog leash around his neck, a court has been told.A 21-year-old woman has been jailed after trying to kill her infant son by hanging him by the leash off a backyard clothesline at her southeast Queensland home.
ShutterstockThe new government has inherited an extraordinarily difficult budget situation. The budget deficit amounts to 3.5% of gross domestic product this financial year and it will be almost as high next financial year at 3.4%, after which the budget papers project deficits for the entire ten-year forecast period. At the same time, the unemployment rate has fallen to 3.9% – the lowest in five decades. It is so low it is below the 4.25% the treasury believes is needed to stop inflation accele
Unsplash/Lux Graves, CC BYAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is the most common form of motor neuron disease. People with ALS progressively lose the ability to initiate and control muscle movements, including the ability to speak, swallow and breathe. There is no known cure. But recently, we studied mice and identified a new target in the fight against this devastating disease: the brain’s waste clearance system. Neurodegenerative diseases – including Parkin
Police made the "wrong decision" in waiting nearly an hour for additional officers before breaching the classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, a law enforcement official says, after days of mounting questions about the law enforcement response.Survivors, including children, were calling the 911 emergency number from the classroom long after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos had entered the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle while police officers w
In explaining the reasons for Russia’s unexpected military weakness in Ukraine, few have expressed it better than The Economist. The magazine noted “the incurable inadequacy of despotic power” and “the cheating, bribery and peculation” that is “characteristic of the entire administration”. Peculation means embezzlement. It’s a word rarely used nowadays; these words were in fact published by The Economist in October 1854, when Russia was in the process of losing the Crimean War. But they might ju
After delivering a soggy summer and autumn, La Nina will continue to drench swathes of eastern Australia with above-average rainfall throughout winter.The Bureau of Meteorology also says there will be at least an 80 per cent chance of warmer than average minimum temperatures for June to August for most of the country.
