409 articles tagged "abc-news"
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed one of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, defying condemnations from Western governments, businesses and human rights activists. Same-sex relations were already illeg
Central Victoria's football community is mourning the loss of a 17-year-old player who died after becoming unresponsive during a game on Saturday. Police said emergency services were called to reports of an unrespo
In the late 80s, rugby league — and Australia, was a very different place. The sport of rugby league was far from the multimillion dollar behemoth it is today. Still known as the NSWRL and dripping with toba
A paralysed man has regained the ability to walk smoothly using only his thoughts for the first time, researchers said, thanks to two implants that restored communication between brain and spinal cord. The patient
A 40-year-old Australian man has died while descending Mount Everest. Jason Kennison, a South Australian living in Perth, died during the descent on Friday morning. His father Jock Kennison said he was notifie
Even by Papua New Guinea's standards, it has been a madcap fortnight. Just as the world turned its eyes to the Pacific nation for a historic US presidential visit, things suddenly started to fall off the rails.
People across Queensland last night caught a rare glimpse of what an astrophysicist says can only have been a meteor. Sightings are being reported across the state with hundreds of people taking to social media to
An elderly Perth doctor who had been held captive in West Africa after being kidnapped in Burkina Faso has been released more than seven years later. Kenneth Elliott, now aged 88, was abducted with his wife Jocelyn
The police officer involved in a critical incident where a 95-year-old woman was tasered remains on the job, despite having his duties under review. Great-grandmother Clare Nowland is in critical condition at Cooma
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, were trailed in their car by photographers as they left a New York City charity event on Tuesday night, local time, briefly taking refuge at a police station before
Eastern Australia is facing the increased likelihood of a dry winter and spring with a United States federal agency declaring an El Niño pattern almost a foregone conclusion. The US Climate Prediction Centre (CPC)
Bobi, a 31-year-old guard dog who cheated death in his first days, has celebrated his birthday as a celebrity in central Portugal after being declared the world's oldest dog ever two months ago. Bobi's owner Leonel
A new crocodile detection device will be rolled out and experts in human behaviour change will be called in as the Queensland government tries to reduce the risk of crocodile attacks around waterways. Last week, th
In January 1995 Tony Lucas joined Qantas as a junior pilot – crisscrossing the globe as second officer in the cockpit of the famous Boeing 747-400. As a graduate of flight school in Adelaide, winning a full-time
The pomp and ceremony of King Charles III's coronation is over, but the spectacle has reignited debates about slavery, colonial legacies and republicanism. Just as the monarch's reign is beginning, a number of Comm
An alleged gunman accused of threatening the mother of Nick Kyrgios before stealing the Australian tennis star's luxury car has been refused bail. A court has heard details of how Kyrgios used his car's technology
Gordon Jackson remembers the hype around Sun Cable. "The world's biggest solar farm," is the pitch he recalls. It was just a few years ago that Gordon, who owns a sub-contracting business in the outback town o
Rumours of Marvel's imminent death have – for now, at least – been greatly exaggerated. After a string of lacklustre releases, from The Eternals to Thor: Love and Thunder, and the relative box-office underperfo
MasterChef Australia judges Melissa Leong and Andy Allen have paid tribute to fellow judge Jock Zonfrillo on social media, after the chef's death earlier this week. Zonfrillo died in Melbourne, aged 46. Leong
It's the first Monday in May. And it's one of the most-photographed events in the world. It isn't enough to just look "nice" at the Met Gala: It's about making sure you're remembered. Here's what we know
