Marissa Roy's lead grows over John McKinney in L.A. city attorney race, latest poll shows

Riverton MLA Jagadish Krishnan has vowed to defend the lawsuit, and has countersued the US businessman behind it with defamation proceedings in the WA Supreme Court.

A south-east Queensland mayor has quit, alleging harassment and intimidation, and telling 9News the Helen Haines attack was a sobering reminder of what's important.

Police have identified 55-year-old Elias Serevetas as the victim of a suspected targeted underworld hit in Reservoir.

Hong Kong’s third medical school has dismissed allegations of talent poaching after recruiting a veteran haematologist with nearly three decades of service at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). On Wednesday, Professor Anskar Leung Yu-hung met the press at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in his capacity as the new medical school’s senior associate dean of medicine. “The opportunity to be part of a team to [build] a new medical school from ground zero, with a new...

Hong Kong’s exports jumped by 64.9 per cent year on year in September, the highest growth in more than 40 years, with artificial intelligence-related (AI) products further fuelling the momentum of recent months. Provisional figures released by the Census and Statistics Department on Wednesday showed the total value of exports rose to HK$762.6 billion (US$97.8 billion) last month, after a 53 per cent surge in August. A government spokesman said September marked the 20th consecutive month of...

Private jets, fine jewellery, watches, superyachts and luxury property will feature in a new Hong Kong exhibition offering business opportunities to “brands, yacht owners and connoisseurs”, according to the organiser. The inaugural Festival of Connoisseurs, set to take place between November 4 and 6, is the first exhibition of its kind to secure government funding for large-scale international exhibitions, organiser Informa Markets said on Wednesday. Ryan Hui, deputy event director of the...

A western suburb has long been billed as Melbourne’s next big thing. Some believe data centres could turn that vision into a reality.

One word will hang over the Hong Kong community in the run-up to next month’s anniversary of the dreadful Tai Po fire that took 168 of our fellow citizens’ lives: accountability. By the time we mark the occasion, we will know if we still have a system based on ministers taking political responsibility for failures in their policy areas or whether we must revise our constitutional arrangements. The fire at Wang Fuk Court, which broke out on November 26 last year, traumatised the whole population...

Western Sydney has the newest airport in the world. So what does an entire day spent there look like?

AI-powered facial recognition under a shake-up of security operations comes as relations between the university and student activists are increasingly strained.

After years of extramarital affairs, RAAF pilot Robert Crawford allegedly murdered his wife and staged her death scene to look like a mower accident, prosecutors say.

Australia's worst paedophile, Ashley Paul Griffith has been sent to Sydney to face 200 more charges.