Sydney news

Asian culinary delights, some with innovative Western twists, are attracting crowds to Docklands.

Two men are facing firearms and drugs charges after their car was searched by South Australian police during a routine traffic stop at Munno Para in Adelaide's north.

A Queensland woman who travelled to El Salvador in December is the latest person in Australia confirmed as having contracted the Zika virus.

Queensland has confirmed its first case of Zika for 2016 as the globe deals with the new threat posed by the virus.

WA's Education Minister says the State Government is "very close" to reaching an agreement that will allow it to use the former City Beach High School site to house its planned new western suburbs school.

A Fringe World performer launches a "walk-sharing" service to help artists escort each other around Northbridge amid continuing reports of assault.

A campaign to attract at least another 130 people to become foster carers in South Australia begins, with the State Government set to pump $9 million into the sector in a bid to boost recruitment.

An Italian woman could face up to six years in jail after her husband accused her of not doing enough cooking and cleaning at home.

This Super Bowl has all the makings of a perfect story. But standing in the way of Peyton Manning's dream is the best team in the league.

The Florida senator has presented himself as a Republican bright young hope but his background is of a party insider.

A militant group says it will release an Australian woman kidnapped in Burkina Faso in January.

True to male supermodel form Ben Stiller has taken the cast of Zoolander No 2 into the record books - with a selfie.

Noela Rukundo sat in a car outside her home in Melbourne's west, watching as the last few mourners filed out. They were leaving a funeral - her funeral.

The Australian dollar plunged 1.9 per cent after a drop in US unemployment forced investors to reconsider the timing and pace of future interest-rate increases.

Under-fire Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold says he is satisfied with Friday's 2-2 draw against Adelaide United at Hindmarsh Stadium despite the Sky Blues failing to win for a third successive match.

Activity in the Melbourne weekend home auction market will rise sharply this Saturday.

Seven years on from Black Saturday, victims of the bushfires have found out they won't get their class action payouts until much later than expected. It's another financial and psychological blow and some are worried about the impact the bad news will have.

The 18-year-old wife of a terror suspect is charged by NSW Police on 31 counts and is due to appear in a Parramatta court today.

Shares of Atlassian plunged 15 per cent as the Nasdaq Composite Index fell to its lowest since October 2014.

A powerful earthquake struck southern Taiwan early on Saturday near the city of Tainan, triggering at least one partial building collapse and other damages but no immediate reports of deaths or serious injuries.

LinkedIn Corp's shares plunged as much as 43 per cent on Friday, wiping out nearly $US11 billion ($15.56 billion) of market value, after the social network for professionals shocked Wall Street with a revenue forecast that fell far short of expectations.

 Prince's surprise tour of Australia now has dates and venues but still not show times.

A woman has been charged with attempted murder, following an incident at a fast food restaurant north of Brisbane.

AGL's decision to dump its coal seam gas projects in NSW came despite unflinching support from state agencies, members of an anti-CSG group said.

Cameron McEvoy has swum a personal best time in the 100 metres freestyle at the Perth Aquatic Super Series to edge out Olympic silver medallist James Magnussen.

Scientists identified the Zika virus in the saliva and urine of two infected patients, a top Brazilian biomedical research institution said on Friday, prompting its president to urge pregnant women not to kiss strangers just as local carnival celebrations begin.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on Britain and Sweden to let leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a UN panel ruled he had been arbitrarily detained.

The poor quality and short supply of water from the Darling River in New South Wales is putting growers' livelihoods in limbo.

One person sitting in a parked car was killed and three people were injured Friday when a huge construction crane collapsed in lower Manhattan as workers tried to lower and secure it against rising winds, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

Two men have been taken to the hospital after an alleged stabbing at Federation Square in the early hours of Saturday morning.

A teenage tourist who illegally scaled an ancient pyramid to take death-defying selfies has been banned from the country for life.

New South Wales Farmers says coal seam gas must be ruled out in the Gloucester Basin for good.

Newcastle Knights forward Robbie Rochow says the club's rising talent will be on show at the Auckland Nines tournament this weekend.

Newcastle Jets captain Nigel Boogaard says the team needs to create more chances.

Melbourne's northern suburbs are absorbing thousands of new homes within existing streets, while large swathes of "green leafy" suburbs in Melbourne's inner east have are being shielded from densification.

The United States has deployed missile defence systems that will work with the Japanese and South Korean militaries to track a rocket North Korea says it will launch in the next 18 days.

China plans to chop as much as 17 per cent its coal production capacity to cut overcapacity and use cleaner energy sources amid sliding demand for the fuel.

Iron ore, dogged for years by rising supply and soggy demand, went on a tear ahead of China's Lunar New Year break.

Shares of News Corp, controlled by billionaire Rupert Murdoch, had a record decline after the company reported a quarterly profit that missed expectations.

Job growth settled into a more sustainable pace in January and the unemployment rate dropped to an almost eight-year low of 4.9 per cent.

The Australian dollar plunged 1.5 per cent after a drop in US unemployment forced investors to reconsider the timing and pace of future interest-rate increases.

After just over a year of arming its officers, Norway has orders its police to keep their firearms locked in their cars. Here's why.

A Japanese volcano about 50 kilometres from a nuclear plant erupted on Friday, shooting ash nearly two kilometres into the night sky and spewing fountains of lava.

​Australia will break a commitment made at the Paris climate summit less than two months ago if CSIRO goes ahead with its plan to axe its research programs, one of the agency's leading scientists has warned.

In the courtyard of Teatro Lux, a theatre in Pisa, the performance of an experimental production has ended in disaster.

Road giant Transurban is set to reap tens of billions of dollars tolling CityLink users for up to 12 additional years under its proposal to build a second crossing linking western and central Melbourne

Plans for a land-grab to house a new 55,000 seat stadium are putting the SCG Trust on a collision course with Malcolm Turnbull.

The number of people affected by a "serious outbreak" of salmonella linked to popular pre-packaged supermarket salads has almost doubled and is expected to keep rising, while the cause of the health emergency remains a mystery.

 Sporting organisations are playing with fire when they get involved with betting agencies.

The Sydney Morning Herald Cole Classic has shifted in a positive way since moving to Manly, Christopher Cole says.