The world has celebrated the arrival of 2025 with fireworks, prayers and stunning light displays. Newly released cabinet documents have shed light on Australia's ill-advised decision to become ...

While most of us were glued to the fireworks, New Year's celebrations looked very different for the parents of the first babies of the year.

Woolworths will mark Australia Day this year, revealing it will be selling selected merchandise in its stores. Snake catcher Troy Hovenden, known as The Reptile Bloke, removes an eastern brown snake ...

Minutes after midnight, Budianto and Siska Apriyanti Sim welcomed their second son Shawn, the first baby born in Sydney in 2025. "I planned to go to Darling Harbour to see the fireworks around 11 to ...

Australia committed troops to Iraq in 2003 in the US-led invasion based on wrong information, but it was not a "malicious" decision, former prime minister John Howard said.

Balta, who plays for Richmond, was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He was given conditional bail, and is expected to appear before Corrorow Local Court on January 30. In a ...

Six teens have been charged after an allegedly stolen Land Rover reached speeds of 170km/h in a police pursuit overnight.

The federal lawsuit was filed in New York just hours after Baldoni and many of the other defendants in Lively's suit sued The New York Times for libel for its story on her allegations, saying the ...

Former US president Donald Trump met ex prime minister Scott Morrison during a private meeting in New York. (Supplied) Donald Trump and Scott Morrison meet at the White House in 2 ...

Auckland has become the first major city to welcome 2025, with thousands of revellers counting down to the new year and ...

Emergency Services were called to Wave Break Island, near Biggera Waters, just after 10am after the woman ...

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women's rights since they took power in August 2021.