LIVE UPDATES: Hurricane Melissa is now heading towards Cuba after ripping through Jamaica in the most powerful storm to ever hit the Caribbean island.
Amy Lee, Max Corstorphan and Kimberley Braddish
Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica with full force as a category five storm and 295km/h winds, the strongest to lash the island since record keeping began.
Staff Writers
US Vice President JD Vance has reaffirmed the ceasefire in Gaza remains intact despite ongoing ‘little skirmishes’ following Israel’s powerful military strikes after a Hamas ‘attack on IDF soldiers’.
Kimberley Braddish
Aussie travellers heading to Thailand have been warned the country will mourn the death of Queen Mother Sirikit for one year.
Emma Kirk
The US President and Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi didn’t just sign a critical minerals deal, they also autographed matching MAGA-style black caps proclaiming ‘JAPAN IS BACK’.
Andrew Greene
The Prime Minister is on the final leg of meeting with regional leaders in South East Asia, a week after blindsiding China with a historic critical minerals deal.
Ria Pandey
A judge has ruled in favour of the 22-year-old Utah man charged with shooting dead right wing political activist Charlie Kirk at a university rally.
Hannah Schoenbaum
The 25-year-old’s girlfriend confirmed the heartbreaking news.
Caleb Taylor
Hurricane Melissa has intensified to a category five storm, the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale, as Jamaicans brace for catastrophic flooding and 280km/h winds.
Amy Lee
Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip say they are ready to hand over another body of a deceased hostage that has been recovered.
A protester has heckled King Charles about Prince Andrew’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a visit to Lichfield Cathedral.
Russian President Vladimir Putin should end the Ukraine conflict rather than test nuclear-powered missiles, US President Donald Trump says.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s posthumous memoir exposes the shocking world of the abuse and exploitation she endured, and reading it “breaks” her brother.
Andrew Hedgman
The Aussie sharemarket rose higher on Monday on the back of growing optimism around a trade deal between the US and China.
Duncan Evans
Israel has named a senior Iranian commander it says is behind shocking anti-Semitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
A father has paid the ultimate price trying to rescue his daughter after her truck overturned on a beehive, with both tragically stung to death.
Matt Shrivell
A US Navy helicopter and fighter jet have crashed within minutes of each other during operations in the South China Sea.
Ukraine officials have accused the Albanese Government of turning a blind eye to a ‘loophole’ allowing illegal Russian oil imports into Australia, pumping millions back to Vladimir Putin’s regime.
Anthony Albanese has been grilled after he called China a “friend”, telling the media that he’s a straight shooter.
The Mossad intelligence agency and the Israeli Government say an Iranian official organised attacks in Australia, Germany and Greece.
Officials from the United States and China are working on a potential deal to pause steeper tariffs and rare earths export controls ahead of a leaders' meeting.
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the audacious $157 million Louvre heist - just a week after chainsaw-wielding robbers made off with a trove of jewels.
Amy Cavender
Anthony Albanese could come face-to-face with Xi Jinping in the coming days after inking a major deal challenging China’s grasp on a key global sector.
The attack took place during homecoming weekend at one of the United States’ first historically Black campuses.
Dennis Romero and Janat Batra
