Questions over multimillion-dollar cost of sending the Australian of the Year into space

The former NSW police officer mimicked firing a gun as he told a friend that he had killed two people, a court has heard.

NextDC boss Craig Scroggie has been very public about his extreme diet and exercise regime.

Severe haze in Hong Kong over the past two days has prompted a government warning of serious health risks, with experts urging the elderly and vulnerable to stay indoors until sunset. Air quality health risk levels at some of Hong Kong’s roadside monitoring stations rose on Wednesday and Thursday, with experts attributing the surge to elevated ozone levels caused by sunlight and high temperatures and warning that conditions were likely to persist over the next few days. On Wednesday afternoon,...

Nic Maddinson's struggles end off the bowling of Marco Jansen.

The bodies of a 38-year-old woman and the girl were found outside an apartment building in Box Hill on Thursday.

Amanda Camm insisted the decision to step down was due to her health, but it followed a spate of highly publicised incidents.

This year has opened a rare window of relative calm in global commerce. On October 8, the World Trade Organization doubled its forecast for global goods trade growth, from 1.9 to 3.9 per cent. The easing of US-China and Europe-China tensions has given open economies some breathing space. Hong Kong has seized the moment. Its exports rose 42.5 per cent year on year in the first eight months of 2026, with figures from August alone up 53 per cent, driven largely by AI-related equipment and...

The studio behind Baldur’s Gate, Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect is shutting down; a sad end for a developer that once seemed to have a magic touch with RPGs.

From catching flying fruit on the campaign trail to board level racecourse politics, the PR powerhouse holds back little over lunch.

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Golden Dragon has kicked off drilling on a 3km-long gold anomaly at its Cue project in WA’s Murchison, following auger results that appear to link four prospects.