Queensland's Deputy Premier has announced she is standing aside from her ministerial duties over a Crime and Corruption Commission investigation.

As the National Horse Traceability Scheme awaits an official launch, experts say horse welfare is falling short while volunteers take the lead.

Venezuela's Chief Prosecutor Tarek Saab requests the detention and extradition of US military veteran Jordan Goudreau and two Venezuelans accused of involvement in a failed armed incursion earlier this week.

Cyber security experts and the State Opposition say there are still questions to be answered after an article published in the New York Times claimed an Israeli software company found hackers with links to China had sent malware in an email sent to the Premier's office in January.

STRUGGLING parents say they don’t know how they will scrape together enough cash to pay for school uniforms, shoes and fees after being stripped of the Schoolkids Bonus.

CHARGES against a man who was more than double the legal alcohol limit when he killed his mate and injured two others have been downgraded, angering one of the survivors.

MORE than 20,000 calls to Victoria’s child abuse hotline went unanswered in an 18-month period, with some callers waiting more than two hours for an operator.

SUGAR has been found to shorten the lives of flies, prompting fears a diet rich in the sweet stuff could also be reducing our own longevity.

LEONARD French, the Australian artist who designed the stained glass ceiling for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Great Hall, has died aged 88.

THE same process used by an international matchmaking site to pair lonely hearts may hold the key to improving the outcomes of liver transplants.

MORE than 50 firefighters on the ground and in the air were needed to tackle a huge factory fire in Melbourne’s west overnight.

WHEN Seven News reporter Michael Scanlan asked his interview subject to spell her first and last name the result of hilarious. WATCH THE VIDEO

TWO more Melbourne real estate agencies have been punished for underquoting, with one caught telling a client the practice was “just a little (marketing) ploy” to “get people through the door”.

A WOMAN is dead after a truck failed to stop at a red light and ploughed into the back of her stationary motorcycle in Melbourne’s outer east.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced what will be first to reopen under the national cabinet's three-step plan to lift coronavirus restrictions.Morrison announced the plan agreed upon by state leaders in today's...

The US government on Friday is poised to report the worst set of jobs numbers since record-keeping began in 1948, a snapshot of the devastating damage the coronavirus outbreak has inflicted on the economy.The unemployment rate for...

In an abrupt about-face, the Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry...

Georgia authorities arrested a white father and son on Thursday (US time) and charged them with murder in the February shooting death of a black man they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighbourhood.The...

Billionaire and new dad Elon Musk has opened up about the alarming "privacy issues" that sparked his property-buying bonanza.The Tesla and SpaceX founder, who has just welcomed his sixth child, was interviewed by comedian Joe Rogan...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing "a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scaremongering" and appealed for "an all-out effort to end hate speech globally".The UN chief...

At first, it was believed children were not susceptible to the symptoms of coronavirus, and acted only as carriers.But disturbing new evidence shows that is unlikely to be true.In his daily press briefing New York's governor Andrew...

The coronavirus crisis has sent the US unemployment rate surging to 14.7 per cent, a level last seen when the country was in the throes of the Depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt was assuring Americans the only thing to...

US Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary has the coronavirus, the White House said today, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week.President Donald Trump,...

Sweden's former top virus expert says lockdowns are just a way of delaying the inevitable and warns that New Zealand could face years of quarantining foreigners entering the country, even after wiping out Covid-19.Johan Giesecke...

The World Health Organisation said yesterday that although a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan selling live animals likely played a significant role in the emergence of the new coronavirus, it does not recommend that such markets...

Almost every day a new study is published that shines light on the way in which the new coronavirus is spread. It will be years before the precise dynamics of transmission are nailed down, but the broad outline of how the disease...

South African Breweries, one of the world's largest brewers, says it may have to destroy 400 million bottles of beer as a result of the country's ban on alcohol sales that is part of its lockdown measures to combat the spread of the...

The United States has suffered the largest coronavirus outbreak in the world by far, with five times as many reported cases as any other country and more than twice as many deaths.The numbers are astonishing. America has 1.3 million...

It's one of the great mysteries of Australia's Covid-19 experiment: despite fears supermarkets and hairdressers could prove high risk for the spread of the virus, there have been no major outbreaks detected.When pubs, clubs, and...

A Colombian advertising company is pitching a novel if morbid solution to shortages of hospital beds and coffins during the coronavirus pandemic: combine them.ABC Displays has created a cardboard bed with metal railings that designers...

The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation's top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House, according to internal government emails...

She's the young, blonde and beautiful at the forefront of Donald Trump's war on fake news.The US President's new press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany – his fourth since his term began three and a half years ago – has kicked off her...

The white father and son stood quietly on Friday (US time) as the judge read murder and aggravated assault charges against them in the fatal shooting of a black man who was running through their Georgia neighbourhood. In just a few...

New Zealand's careful climb out of Covid-19 restrictions has been a tale of two journeys.To envious overseas eyes, we have been a smooth success story and a source of hope to others. At home, the reaction has been a lot more mixed.We...

L’attaquant des Golden Knights Jonathan Marchessault a découvert avec joie, vendredi, que finalement, Antoine Roussel, c’est plutôt un bon gars.

Depuis longtemps, on a l’impression que Montréal et le reste du Québec s’en vont dans des directions opposées.

Les régions veulent rester fermées pour se protéger des gens de la zone rouge montréalaise. Ont-ils raison?

Du jamais-vu ! Rien de moins que 821 000 emplois perdus en deux mois, dont 543 000 à temps plein.

Las Vegas est presque aussi vide que le désert qui la cerne.

Le Québec en dehors de la grande région de Montréal s’apprête à rouvrir les écoles et les garderies, et plusieurs inquiétudes persistent.

Les services psychologiques devraient être intégrés dans le régime public pour bénéficier à l’ensemble de la population, plaide le PLQ.

L’ancien hockeyeur est de retour à Shawinigan, non seulement comme actionnaire, mais aussi dans l’état-major de l’équipe.

Le combattant Ronaldo Souza, qui devait affronter Uriah Hall dimanche lors du gala UFC 249, a reçu un diagnostic positif à la COVID-19, vendredi.

Les employés en chômage, les étudiants désœuvrés, les agriculteurs dans l’impasse... il n’y a pas une semaine sans qu’Ottawa sorte un programme.

Le bon docteur Arruda a dénoncé les gérants d’estrade, les accusant de prétendre détenir la vérité absolue lorsqu’ils osent poser des questions.

Le premier ministre est à Québec, le patron de la santé publique est à Québec, la haute fonction publique est à Québec, mais la crise est à Montréal.

Les services de police de Montréal et Québec précisent leur interprétation de la loi.

Fierté collective ou tache dans l’histoire, les Québécois débattent encore sur leur héritage des Jeux olympiques de 1976 à Montréal.

La solution infonuagique de la santé publique doit être fonctionnelle mercredi avec trois semaines de retard.

Un fabricant québécois de présentoirs réfrigérés séduit les multinationales avec son nouvel appareil pour désinfecter.