Beau Lamarre-Condon trial live updates: Former NSW Police officer says he acted in self-defence as trial continues over alleged murders of Jesse Baird, Luke Davies

Republicans, fearful of losing control of Congress, are pressuring the US president to ban or restrict diesel exports to stop the fuel’s price surge as the midterm elections loom. It would backfire, and not just on America.

Cabin crew want dedicated cleaning crews to return as the mess left by passengers and gruelling turnaround duties leave staff working up to 10 hours without a break.

Folk singer and former Olympian Paul Greene has been issued an apprehended violence order to protect the woman and her current partner.

Detectives have released images of a group of men they believe “can assist” their investigation into the offensive behaviour last Saturday.

A Queensland man has been charged with bribing officials in Bangladesh in relation to an investigation into a woman's death

When Tung Chee-hwa died, the obituaries predictably described a Hong Kong shipping mogul who became the city’s first postcolonial chief executive. How his government navigated the Asian financial crisis and severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic and its retreat from Article 23 were highlighted. There was less attention paid to the political hybrid he embodied. Tung sat as vice-chairman of China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference,...

The Australian sharemarket advanced in early trade after a tech-fuelled rally on Wall Street and a drop in oil prices and bond yields amid hopes for diplomatic progress in the Iran war.

A driver handed himself in after a woman was allegedly hit and killed on a major road in Melbourne’s bayside early Tuesday morning.

Beyond warm meetings between their leaders, the countries are engaging in tit-for-tat measures that call into question the stability of their arrangement.

When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets US President Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday, the leader casting the longest shadow over the meeting will not even be in the building. Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington on Thursday – two days after Takaichi meets the US leader on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. It will be Xi’s first state visit to the US in over 10 years. Faced with an unpredictable American president eager for tangible results...

Dual national Rehana Parvin’s body was discovered by Bangaldeshi police in 2024.