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Maricarmen Abascal was taken from her home on a stretcher but is now considering an offer to return.

A Massachusetts judge has been asked to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty of murder for the killing of her three young children in 2023.

Acting Home Affairs Minister Richard Marles says government systems must "keep up" with the rapid changes sparked by artificial intelligence.

An investigation finds Russian involvement in a factory fire in Estonia where drones were manufactured for Ukraine.

An Israeli air-strike kills Izz al-Din Al-Beik, the head of Hamas' armed wing in the northern Gaza Strip.

More than 100 mine workers have gathered in Collie, accusing Chinese-owned Premier Coal and the WA government of failing to heed their concerns over pay and their future employment prospects.

An emotional service in Canberra for National Police Remembrance Day has honoured officers who have died in the line of duty, with new touchstones displaying the names of four officers added to the National Police Memorial.

Newcastle Knights hooker Phoenix Crossland is suspended for four games by the NRL judiciary for the tackle that left Penrith's Nathan Cleary with a broken leg.

A teenager who left an 18-year-old with a traumatic brain injury avoids a custodial sentence over the assault.

More than $10 million worth of cocaine stored at a Fiji court as evidence in a long-running drug-trafficking trial has been replaced with flour.

Why is Australia stuck in an inflation problem that has sent interest rates to 15-year highs?

Police have arrested a man after two bodies were found at the same property in northern NSW two weeks apart.

The Socceroos once again gave Brazil an enormous scare, but the five-time world champions rallied to secure a 4-2 win at a packed Lang Park in Brisbane.

Disability accommodation support is under federal government review to reduce NDIS costs, advocates say it should also encourage providers to expand the types of housing offered.

Vietnamese authorities charge an Australian man and two other people with planning to carry out terrorist activities, but a pro-democracy group believes the men were abducted in an act of "transnational repression".

Homes and businesses across Newcastle have been painted red and blue as the city gets behind the Knights ahead of their first NRL grand final in 25 years.

More than a dozen places in South Australia have recorded their hottest September day on record.

The court heard Adam Britt, 41, murdered his partner, Tiffany Spence, in an attack that took place over two days to "punish her".

Fremantle gets some badly needed good news in the wake of its AFL grand final disaster, confirming captain Alex Pearce will not need surgery.

Abuse survivor Grace Tame has told a Tasmanian court that she feared for her life, following tweets made by the man who sexually abused her as a child.

A study finds AI models are more likely to answer harmful questions or mishandle confidential information when told to act drunk.

Fremantle Dockers captain Alex Pearce will avoid surgery and is expected to return to pre-season training after suffering an Achilles injury in Saturday's dramatic AFL Grand Final loss to Brisbane.

A 14-year-old who died in a horror collision in western Victoria on Sunday night while returning from a volleyball tournament has been remembered as an "amazing human being".

A UK citizen on a working holiday visa has been taken into custody after allegedly drowning and beating a pet dog to death.

Geelong premiership defender Jake Kolodjashnij, who was at the centre of the club's concussion waiver scandal, has medically retired.

Taxpayers are funding the reopening of the Austral factory, which the government hopes will help address the shortage of bricks plaguing the construction industry.

Victor George Dennison, who was 64 at the time, lost an eye and was left with a traumatic brain injury after a bicycle crash on a Brisbane footpath in 2009.

Industry leaders say backpackers are already leaving sectors that are heavily reliant on them because of federal government's planned changes to the working holiday visa.

A Labor MP vows to press her own government for reform, as a union leader calls the University of Wollongong (UOW) the "poster child" for the sector's failures.

Nathan Ballesty was arrested in December after the AFP launched an investigation into a post in which he called for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to be kidnapped.

At least four people have been killed, including a 14-year-old boy, during drone attacks across Russia and Ukraine.

Patients waited more than 13 hours to be treated at the biggest emergency department in Adelaide's northern suburbs, which has been operating at "crisis" levels for months, according to SA's doctors' union.

The tourist spot will be closed over the long weekend following a deadly fall on Friday afternoon.

Former Sydney childcare worker Hamish Tait is now 444 facing charges related to the alleged abuse of children over a 16-year period.

The Socceroos kick off a two-game international friendly series against five-time world champions Brazil in Townsville.

Sam Walker has been passed fit to play and will start for the Sydney Roosters in their NRL preliminary final clash with the Dolphins.

A Queensland father says he will seek to have the findings of an inquest into his five-day-old son's death set aside.

Robert Hickman, now aged 81, had already served time in New South Wales for similar offences, with the court hearing that he first started abusing children in the late 1970s.

The former underling of disgraced developer Jean Nassif has denied in ICAC he was part of a campaign to smear the state's building commissioner.

Essendon slumps to a 0–7 record after a final-quarter fightback against West Coast fell short, while the Bulldogs beat Port to move to 5–2.

A police security officer is acquitted of domestic violence charges, but an Adelaide judge has said that does not mean the "complainant has lied in her evidence".

The former foster carers of an eight-month-old baby girl who died days after being returned to her biological parents say the entire child protection system needs to be demolished and rebuilt from the ground up.

A mining maintenance company in Western Australia's Goldfields has pleaded guilty over the death of a worker nearly three years ago.

The NSW independent regulator in early education and child care has shut down an Albury childcare service for six months while it investigates alleged child safety risks.

Dash-cam footage captures the frightening moment a caravan begins fishtailing while overtaking a truck driver in Western Australia's Great Southern region.

The Australian War Memorial is displaying highly commended pieces while people can vote online for a people's choice winner.

Georgia Cook, a friend of former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon, gave evidence at his murder trial on Friday and said she had met the defendant at a boat party in 2021.

Three unions have voted for work stoppages and work bans after a new payroll system has been routinely paying employees incorrectly or late since July.

Fremantle fans Danni Bloomfield and Matt Abbott have flown to Melbourne from Karratha to get married outside the MCG before watching their beloved Dockers contest the premiership.

Donald Trump says the US and China have "never gotten along better" as China's President Xi Jinping joins him at a lavish White House state dinner.