Sydney news

Many terminally-ill Victorians are choosing to end their lives, rather than endure the intolerable suffering they expect to face.

Even a change of format hasn't been able to stop Australia's batting collapses, with India easily chasing down a reduced target in the rain-curtailed first T20 international.

More psychiatrists are needed in Canberra to meet a high need.

The 19th-century method of tintype photography, often referred to as the dark arts, makes a comeback.

Indigenous leaders from across the Northern Territory are calling on the Gunner Government to not give in to pressure from the Prime Minister by overturning its fracking moratorium.

The pressure is on for Australia's biggest dairy processor Murray Goulburn to find a buyer for its Edith Creek milk processing plant before it closes down next month.

World champions New Zealand held off a spirited fight from hosts South Africa to complete their Rugby Championship campaign unbeaten after a 25-24 win in a ferocious physical battle at Newlands on Saturday.

To the Texas brokers who met him in 2004, Stephen Paddock was an unremarkable man looking to buy an unremarkable property near Dallas, hardly distinguishable from other casually dressed Californians who flocked to the area to make investments.

Three men were charged with a 2016 plot targeting New York's Times Square and the city's subway system with coordinated bombings and shootings at concert venues, police said.

Poice said on Saturday a number of pedestrians had been injured near the city's Natural History Museum and that a man had been arrested at the scene.

Hurricane Nate could grow to a Category 2 Hurricane as it bears down on Mississippi's coastline, threatening to bring $4 billion in losses after killing at least 22 people in floods across Central America earlier this week and forcing crews off energy platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Indonesian police detained 51 men including several foreigners in a raid on what authorities described as a "gay spa" in Jakarta late on Friday.

A Port Macquarie man will have his hands and feet amputated this week after suffering catastrophic complications from a streptococcus infection.

Consular assistance is being provided to the family of an Australian woman on her honeymoon in Fiji who died of an unknown medical condition on Friday.

A possible Labour-Green coalition has narrowed the gap with the ruling National Party in New Zealand's final election tally, strengthening their position ahead of talks with the small nationalist party which holds the balance of power.

More than half of Americans don't think Donald Trump is fit to serve as president, yet he has a clear path to winning re-election.

Less than half an hour after the Las Vegas shooting started, DFAT received its first call from a concerned relative in Canberra.

Liquor authorities have targeted south-east Queensland karaoke bars, discovering some serving shots after midnight and supplying alcohol to intoxicated people.

A 33-year-old Queensland man has been charged with murder after a German tourist was fatally stabbed during an apparent road rage incident in Brisbane.

Attorney-General George Brandis says the 'no' campaign was wrong to predict the laws would inhibit freedom of speech.

The poll found 68 per cent of Australians opposed a possible $1 billion loan from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund.

Queensland captain Usman Khawaja starred in his team's 11-run victory over a gallant Victoria in the domestic one-day cup on Saturday.

Sydney FC won the A-League championship last year by being tight at the back, relentless in midfield and good enough to take the chances that came their way once they took control of a game.

Luke Hodge says he could not have played on at Hawthorn because doing so would have risked hindering the development of the club's young talent.

Tom Mitchell's influence occasionally came into question this year but there can be little doubt about the way Hawthorn's match committee feel about him after the first-year Hawk was a runaway winner of the Peter Crimmins medal on Saturday night.

Many in New Zealand are fed up with the dreadful example set by the All Blacks.

More than one thousand protestors came together at Bondi Beach on Saturday morning to protest the construction of the Adani coal mine in Central Queensland.

Saudi Arabia is finally freeing itself from the grip of decades of religious fundamentalism.

Simona Halep will take over as the new No.1 in the WTA world rankings after progressing to the China Open final with a dominant 6-2, 6-4 victory over Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko in Beijing on Saturday.

New Zealand opposition Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern said a final election vote tally put her party in a strengthened position.

Andrew Fifita doesn't have a house that screams NRL player. It's certainly not overflowing with memorabilia celebrating his achievements. In fact, there are only three jumpers in a room where he keeps some of his jerseys and medals. Two of them are Australian jumpers. He showed me those jumpers with pride.

Defending champions Sydney FC get their title defence off to a perfect start a 1-0 win over Melbourne Victory, while the Newcastle Jets demolish Central Coast Mariners 5-1.

The search for a missing woman has ended in the arrest of the man with whom she was travelling.

Danish police said on Saturday divers had found the head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who died in mysterious circumstances on an inventor's homemade submarine.

A 33-year-old man is charged with murder over the fatal stabbing of a German tourist in Brisbane on Friday.

A family's attempt to keep their newborn child from being taken into the care of the Department of Family and Community services has ended in a pedestrian needing surgery, a man on the run from police and multiple people facing serious charges.

A weary Sydney Kings suffered a second-half fade-out to lose their NBL season-opener 105-96 to the Adelaide 36ers at Qudos Bank Arena.

Melbourne's trains are less overcrowded, but it comes at a cost: your seat.

Australian Schoolboy Noah Lolesio will train with the Brumbies after being recruited to Canberra.

Lawyers have sounded the alarm bells over an agreement allowing children as young as 10 to be held without charge for up to two weeks on suspicion of terrorism offences.

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk tweeted that the electric carmaker is feeling the heat.

Ian Warden suggests that I look in the mirror and commit to self-marriage. Why would I want to look any closer?

Royal Randwick was overrun with more florals than the Chelsea Flower Show on Saturday for the Spring Champion Stakes Day.

A candidate for Nick Xenophon's SA-Best party has been fired after the discovery of controversial photos he posted on his Facebook page in 2015.

Darren Weir might have been disappointed by the defeat of Humidor in the Turnbull Stakes, his Caulfield and Melbourne Cup hope  thrashed by the mighty Winx.

Hayden Foxe says nothing changes at the Wanderers, because the plans left by Popovic were as much his own.

Newcastle striker Roy O'Donovan has bagged a first-half A-League hat-trick to help the Jets thrash his former club Central Coast 5-1 in Gosford.

It's a bad tax and an internal review is not going to fix the problem.

During his first trip to Sydney, the iconic shoe designer spoke about his client and friend, the late Princess Diana, and the time Prince Harry mixed him up with "Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan".

Red Bull Formula One pair Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen will start from third and fourth on the grid at Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka.