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Two men have died after a light plane crashed into a paddock near Scone Aerodrome in the NSW Upper Hunter on Friday afternoon, prompting investigations by police, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the coroner.
The federal government has introduced legislation to parliament that would impose a new minimum 30% tax rate on income from discretionary trusts, saying the change is about better aligning the tax treatment of income from assets and income from work.
The future of western security is being decided in the mountains around the Yemeni city of Taiz, the country's former prime minister has warned, as Iran-backed Houthi rebels advance on the strategic gateway to the Bab al-Mandab strait.
With the Victorian election weeks away, the Coalition opposition has proposed winding up Innovation Victoria's investment function and selling its early-stage portfolio of about 100 investments to help finance a $1.27 billion healthcare plan, a move an industry commentator has labelled a false economy.
French lawyers and rights groups have accused police of inflicting war-like injuries on teenagers during school protests, as France enters the fourth week of its biggest youth protest movement in decades and police investigate 36 allegations of officer violence against demonstrators.
Carlton has suspended a defender after the player was charged with drink-driving, the club announced, without disclosing further details.
A firearms manufacturer running for One Nation in New South Wales has promised to repeal gun laws introduced after the Bondi beach massacre, arguing that every rifle his company produces is now banned in the state.
The number of cloned number plates involved in offences on UK roads has reached a record high, with more than 11,400 drivers contacting the DVLA last year after receiving fines for offences they did not recognise, according to RAC analysis of official data.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Donald Trump is not on the right side of history, as Ukrainians accuse the United States of gambling with their lives after Russian strikes devastated residential buildings in the capital.
Sophomore safety Tyler Ulrich, 21, has died five days after sustaining a "traumatic injury" during a college football game, Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma announced Thursday. The school did not disclose the cause of death or the nature of the injury.
An opinion column in The Age has criticised Australia's professional rugby players for seeking more money from the wrong sources, as the Rugby Union Players Association and Rugby Australia remain locked in a public dispute over a new pay deal that must be settled by October 31.
The Reserve Bank of Australia's 2026 annual report reveals governor Michele Bullock received $1.22 million in total remuneration last financial year, released as the bank argues with junior staff over pay and conditions.
Ben Roberts-Smith, the Victoria Cross recipient facing war-crimes charges, has launched a commercial venture called Epic 1 Two with a promotional video, aiming to fund his legal defence. The brand, named after his military radio call sign, will sell branded clothing with a veterans discount.
Media executive and ACM co-owner Antony Catalano has made his first in-person court appearance since being charged with assaulting his wife in March, including alleged strangulation and threats to kill. His barrister told Melbourne Magistrates Court that negotiations with prosecutors were continuing and that the alleged victim did not support the charges proceeding.
Jamaica's petition seeking legal guidance on slavery reparations from the UK will be heard by the privy council in the week of 8 March 2027, the Jamaican government has confirmed.
The FBI has arrested a California real estate agent for allegedly spying on Lai Ting-yu, the eldest child of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, in what analysts describe as part of China's growing transnational repression campaign targeting Taiwanese leaders.
The Greens created and maintained a secret 47-page dossier cataloguing allegations against Senator Jordon Steele-John and detailing strategies to shut down media coverage and monitor party members who raised concerns on social media, according to reporting published Friday by Nine newspapers.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has pledged to work toward Myanmar's reintegration into ASEAN after hosting President Min Aung Hlaing, who promised to send navy ships to repatriate Myanmar nationals at his government's own cost. The October 8 visit to Putrajaya, the first since the 2021 coup, drew criticism that Malaysia is rewarding impunity even as Kuala Lumpur insists the trip was about migration, not recognition.
The owner of an Illawarra homewares store has been refused bail over allegations he stored more than 2,500 child abuse images and videos in cloud-based accounts and sent material on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.
Russia's finance minister attended a Group of 20 financial meeting in Bangkok on Thursday, his second in-person appearance at the gathering since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, testing how far Washington's rapprochement with Moscow will strain ties with European allies.
Las Vegas investigators have identified the man whose remains were found stuffed in a barrel in the receding waters of Lake Mead in 2022, ending a four-year mystery that captured nationwide attention. Clark County coroner Melanie Rouse announced on Thursday that the victim is Edward Lelburian Jackson, also known as "Buddy," a man from Arkansas with no known ties to the Las Vegas area.
Federal agents have launched an investigation aimed at stripping US Representative Ilhan Omar of her citizenship, executing a pre-dawn search of her Washington DC home and issuing more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, according to sources familiar with the case. The probe, conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), is focused on whether Omar's father misrepresented her age when applying for her citizenship, with potential charges including conspiracy, false statements on immigration paperwork and immigration fraud.
Demonstrations demanding the resignation of India's chief election commissioner have entered their second week in New Delhi, with young voters and student groups at the centre of rallies sparked by the removal of more than 130 million names from the draft electoral roll. The protests are continuing despite a heavy official crackdown in which police have arrested journalists, shut down the internet and blockaded the city centre.
Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Russia’s Ryazan region early on Thursday, igniting a fire, just hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky said a short-lived truce brokered by US President Donald Trump was over and that Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure would resume.
Small-time Victorian trainer Andrea Leek has the horse to beat in Saturday's $6 million Group 1 Caulfield Cup, with Cosmic Crusader rocketing into favouritism on the back of a dominant Turnbull Stakes win.
Perth owner Bob Peters has entrusted his star galloper Cosmic Crusader to little-known Victorian trainer Andrea Leek, and the gamble is paying off: the six-year-old gelding has won three of five starts this preparation and heads into Saturday's $6 million Group 1 Caulfield Cup as the favourite.
Kangaroos fullback Reece Walsh has praised rival No.1 James Tedesco for helping him prepare for his World Cup starting debut, and says he will pay "top dollar" to any specialist who can stop him vomiting during matches, a problem that flared again in Australia's 24-22 opening win over New Zealand.
Australian endurance runner Jack Hanley will strive to be the last man standing when he represents Team Australia at the Backyard Ultra in Wollongong on Saturday, hoping to beat his previous record of 74 hours in a race that has no finish line.
Cleveland Police have arrested 50 people as part of a wider operation against organised crime following a fatal head-on crash on the A66 in Teesside that killed seven people, including two police officers.
Undercover footage broadcast by ITV News this week shows a Reform UK local party chairman advising an aspiring candidate to delete social media posts supportive of the far-right activist Tommy Robinson before encouraging them to stand as a councillor, deepening questions over the party's candidate vetting procedures.
Police have locked down part of Dulwich Hill in Sydney's inner west after reports of gunfire and a man armed with a shotgun who allegedly set fire to a stolen car and fled on foot. Heavily armed tactical police, a police helicopter, and general duties officers responded to the area near Williams Parade and Constitution Road on Friday morning.
A Russian jet-powered drone struck the roof of a supermarket in the town of Mayaky in Ukraine's Odesa region on Thursday, injuring at least three people and sparking a major fire, Ukrainian officials said.
Two pipelines carrying gas and oil products were damaged in separate incidents in Syria on Thursday, state media reported, the latest disruptions to an energy network that has suffered a series of suspected sabotage attacks in recent months. The state-owned Syrian Petroleum Company announced the damage, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).
Iraq's parliament has completed the formation of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi's government, approving 11 vacant cabinet posts and three deputy prime ministers, including a senior leader of a US-sanctioned, Iran-backed movement, as the country grapples with severe liquidity shortages linked to the war on Iran.
This week, Ukraine's StarGate aerial medical evacuation drone was handed over to a combat brigade for evaluation under front-line conditions, moving the aircraft a step closer to real combat use after a year of development. The six-propeller drone, built by Ukrainian defence technology company SkyFall, is designed to fly into areas where enemy drones and artillery can leave wounded troops stranded, and carry them out without an evacuation crew.
The order to restrict the SpaceX Starshield satellite service used by Ukraine's military came from inside the White House, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing two US officials and a Western official. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the restrictions "a big mistake" that would bring "a lot of human losses."
The son of the Exclusive Brethren’s world leader has admitted meeting far-right agitators and belonging to secret chats where neo-Nazi associates and church elders plotted an election influence campaign, but told a parliamentary inquiry the encounters were “just business”. In a fiery three-hour hearing on Friday, Gareth Hales also acknowledged a “brief” meeting with then opposition leader Peter Dutton in 2025, while his father Bruce Hales revealed that church members have met with US President Donald Trump in New York.
A Cooloongup man will face court on Friday after allegedly engaging in sexual conversations online with someone he believed was a 12-year-old girl, following an Australian Federal Police investigation.
Western Australia's most senior police officer has publicly defended a police chase that left an elderly man fighting for life.
Greens senator Jordon Steele-John will not attend parliament while allegations about his behaviour in the presence of women are investigated, with party leader David Shoebridge again refusing to say whether the independent inquiry's findings will be made public.
Carlton defender Lachie Cowan will miss the opening two matches of the 2027 AFL season after the league found him guilty of conduct unbecoming over his use of an illicit substance. Cowan collapsed at a party last weekend and was helped by medical professionals, whom he has publicly thanked.
Guam has declared Condition of Readiness 3 as Tropical Storm Champi intensifies east of the Mariana Islands, signalling that destructive winds are possible within 48 hours. Governor Lou Leon Guerrero ordered the alert, urging residents to prepare their homes and stock up on essential supplies as the storm takes aim at the region.
A Victorian coroner has ruled that the death of teenage cricketer Ben Austin was a misadventure and will make no adverse findings or recommendations over the incident, which happened in cricket nets at Ferntree Gully in October last year.
Yemen's Houthis fired two missiles at Aden International Airport on Friday as a passenger plane prepared to take off for Cairo, a day after their attack on the city's presidential palace killed five people. No casualties were reported at the airport, which Yemeni officials said was the second attack on the facility in less than a week.
A US federal judge has ruled that an alleged confession by the Libyan man accused of building the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 can be used as evidence at his trial, despite defence arguments that the confession was coerced and that the document was not an original.
A study published Thursday in JAMA estimates that up to 25 percent of active-duty Army members could receive a low testosterone result under the mandatory screening announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in July, even though the true prevalence of the condition is likely a tiny fraction of that figure. Medical experts warn the program could trigger a cascade of unnecessary evaluations, misdiagnoses and treatments.
Communities across California are bracing for another round of dangerous weather this week, with strong Santa Ana winds and high temperatures expected to create critical fire conditions through Saturday, days after the state was battered by flooding and high surf. Thousands of residents were without electricity on Thursday as utilities cut power to reduce the risk of windblown power lines sparking fires.
Israeli authorities have barred commercial goods from entering Gaza for two days, citing a tax dispute between local merchants and Hamas, a claim Gaza's government media office has rejected as a false statement. The halt cuts off a crucial source of food and winter clothing for the enclave's 2.1 million people.