In a Washington Anzac Day speech, Australia's ambassador to the US says one of the messages from the Anzac story is that defending freedom takes human, physical and individual courage.
Famously fickle New Yorkers have embraced a new Australian-themed pub backed by comedians Andy Lee and Hamish Blake. But the venue's popularity has created problems.
In just hours, the streets of Rome will be flooded with mourners from around the globe as Pope Francis is laid to rest in the simple manner he requested.
Mykola Bychok says he had personally spoken of the war with the late pontiff and asked Francis to pray for the 20,000 Ukrainian children taken by force to Russia.
The pontiff was dismissed as "woke” by MAGA conservatives, but he stood up for humanity against their weird cult, helping to redefine Catholicism along the way.
Caleb Ragland voted Republican three times and doesn't regret it. But he is about to plant a field of crops that China loves to buy – and he is very worried.
As the world teeters under the weight of war, its leaders, adversaries and allies alike will sit shoulder to shoulder in an extraordinary – and historically charged – gathering.
You'd have to go back to Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration in 1933 to find a presidency that has operated with such verve during its first 100 days.
He killed 23 people in one of the worst mass shootings in US history. At his final court hearing this week, the sister of one of his victims looked him straight in the face.
The Department of Government Efficiency has already made an immense imprint on the government, but it has not come close to Elon Musk's pledge of cutting $US1 trillion.
Leighterton still relied on horse-drawn carts when a few hundred young Australians arrived in 1918, weaving their way through the skies above and into the hearts of the villagers below.
The Duchess of Sussex has defended her passion for edible sprinkles, joking that she had been portrayed like a "little fairy tossing them around all the time”.
Despite the fallout from the devastating 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan remains locked in to nuclear power. Australia can still choose other less dangerous sources of energy.
The US president's social media post illustrates his sensitivity to any comments from the Ukrainian leader he interprets as dragging the chain on a peace deal.
The death of Pope Francis on Monday has set in motion a series of ancient rituals that will include his funeral on Saturday and will culminate with the election of a new pope in the weeks ahead.
Delivery driver Ricardo Prada Vásquez was heading to a customer's address in Detroit when he found himself on a bridge that leads to Canada. What happened next upended his life.
The daughter of Australian-born Queen Mary and King Frederik X has caused a stir online after posing for a strikingly modern photograph that breaks with royal protocol.
Multiple deaths are feared after gunmen indiscriminately fired at tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said, with police calling it a "terror attack" and blaming militants fighting against Indian rule.
The details mark the first time the Vatican has disclosed how the pontiff spent his final hours, ending speculation about the sudden nature of his passing.
It was co-founded by a Texan, but the US-China trade war means American beef will soon be off the table at this chain of eateries - to Australia's benefit.
Donald Trump's vice president had come on the busiest weekend of the church's Jubilee year, expecting a meeting with a sickly pope who had condemned his policies.
Christine Keeler's story is so notorious it featured in the Netflix hit The Crown and helped usher the Swinging Sixties into Britain. Her son just wants to clear her name.
Rather than taking a hard look at his troubled defence secretary, the president is studying how he could fire the Federal Reserve chairman for failing to cut interest rates.
An olive tree native to Jerusalem grew into a tree from a branch in the ground fertilised with prayer. Twenty-two years later, claims of the miraculous are still rooted near "The Miracle Tree" in Concepcion, Texas.
The FAA is investigating after an engine fire resulted in passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight evacuating down emergency slides onto the tarmac in Florida.
Vatican officials seal the doors to the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace using a red ribbon and wax, part of the rituals after Pope Francis' death.
In the end, it was not the solemn corridors of a hospital ward that bore witness to the Pope's final days, but the sun-drenched square of St Peter's Basilica.
The US president is under growing pressure to sack his most controversial cabinet pick, but both men have so far portrayed the scandal as an unjustified "hit” by disgruntled former employees.
Francis travelled to many countries, drawing immense crowds. Despite a concerted push by Australian Catholics, he never made it here, not even on his way to Timor-Leste.
After two years of insisting that he could end the Russia-Ukraine war in his first 24 hours if returned to the White House, Trump is preparing to walk away from the problem entirely.
Some cardinals expected Francis to be a caretaker pope, yet in just 12 years he reshaped the church in ways that will not be easy to reverse or ignore.
He changed the face of the modern papacy more than any predecessor, but his attempts to make the Catholic Church more inclusive made him an enemy to conservatives.
Pope Francis, the reforming head of the Catholic Church who sought to modernise the pastoral and public priorities of the Vatican, has died at the age of 88.
The existence of a second chat in which the US defence secretary shared highly sensitive military information is the latest development that has put his judgment under scrutiny.
The Pope stopped occasionally to bless babies brought up to him, a scene that was common in the past but unthinkable just a few weeks ago as he fought for his life.
An internal investigation into the killing last month by Israeli forces found a chain of "professional failures”, while a deputy commander who was first to open fire has been sacked.
Pope Francis emerged from his convalescence on Easter Sunday to bless the thousands of people in St Peter's Square and treat them to a surprise popemobile romp through the piazza.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Moscow continued to launch attacks overnight after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral temporary truce in Ukraine.
The court issued the order after the men's lawyers asked it to intervene on an emergency basis, saying they faced imminent deportation without the judicial review the justices previously ordered.
Thousands of demonstrators rallied at hundreds of events to speak out against the US president's handling of immigration, civil liberties, job cuts and many other issues.
The Supreme Court today ordered US President Donald Trump's administration to "facilitate" the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
Chris Van Hollen finally got to meet the wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but accused El Salvador's government of aiming to "deceive” by staging it as a chat with drinks appearing to be alcohol, garnished with maraschino cherries.
One robot fell at the starting line and lay flat for a few minutes before getting up and taking off. Another crashed into a railing, causing its human operator to fall over.
The deadly shooting at Florida State University was dreadful reminder for several students who were also at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the 2018 massacre.
The White House has thrown its weight behind an origin theory that is so far not backed by direct evidence and that many scientists consider less likely than it having emerged at a Wuhan wild-animal market.
US President Donald Trump says a ceasefire deal between Ukraine and Russia is within reach as he welcomes a controversial European leader to the White House.
An American military veteran was fatally shot after he hijacked a small passenger plane in Belize on Thursday, officials in Belize and the United States confirmed.
A cable car carrying tourists south of Naples in Italy has crashed after the cable snapped, killing at least three people and injuring one, officials say.
The King and Queen have taken part in one of the oldest royal traditions with the Monarch all smiles as he greeted well wishers and made a quip about his health.
With the leader of the free world lining up with tyrants, and the UN neutered by its veto provisions, a new international union of democracies is worth considering. Australia has a role to play.
Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly's study of its tablet, orforglipron, has raised hopes of an effective and easy-to-use treatment reaching a market dominated by injections.
Erik and Lyle Menendez could learn this week whether they will get reduced sentences nearly 30 years after they were convicted of murdering their parents.
Israel says it needs to hold on to the zones to prevent future attacks, but the takeovers appear to meet the dictionary definition of military occupation.
In a potential landmark discovery, scientists have detected the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.
China has been practising unusual manoeuvres off its southern coast involving three special barges. Experts say it changes the equation on Beijing's war readiness.
The unanimous decision – hailed by gender-critical campaigners but condemned by trans rights advocates – could have implications in healthcare, education and sport.
District Judge James Boasberg accused administration officials of wilfully disregarding his order that planes already in the air should return to the US.
The world is now seeing Donald Trump's America for exactly what it is becoming: a rogue state led by an impulsive strongman disconnected from the rule of law.
The former US president has largely avoided speaking publicly since leaving the White House in January, but came out to deliver a speech full of punches.
In his first public comments, the man, who set the house on fire in his desperation to escape, said he wanted justice and was working to "reclaim control” of his future.
Residents in a small town in Michigan formed a human chain to help a bookshop owner move 9100 books to their new store one by one.
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From now until May 4, remote cameras will - hopefully - capture the moose on their annual spring migration to summer grazing pastures, with millions of people set to tune in.
Donald Trump has already hit out at Xi Jinping's visit to Vietnam, accusing the two sides of "trying to figure out, 'How do we screw the United States of America?' ”
The highly intelligent and social animals can feel sound through their feet, with cameras catching the herd scrambling to shield their young when they became alert to a threat.
Veteran Democrat Nancy Pelosi is among those accusing the Trump administration of defying the courts by refusing to return a man from a notorious Salvadorean jail.
Trump's demands include ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs, changing admissions and hiring, and curbing the "power” of certain students, faculty members.
The massive dataset from a new study is a step towards unravelling the mystery of how our brains work and could lead to treatment of human brain diseases.
It was the latest wave in space tourism, where the rich and famous – or lucky and well-connected – can enter the zero-gravity realm of professional astronauts.
Donald Trump believes his tariff folly will isolate its superpower adversary. But it will be the US, not China, that could find itself outside the tent.