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Sick woman rushed off Qantas flight to be quarantined in Melbourne Airport

Passengers on board a plane feared a woman had contracted coronavirus after she was quarantined at Melbourne Airport.




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Qantas will DOUBLE flights between Adelaide and Kangaroo Island after Regional Express pulled out

Qantas will more than double the number of flights between Adelaide and Kangaroo Island after a decision by Regional Express to withdraw from the route.




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Coronavirus: Australians stranded in Wuhan are rescued by Qantas as second jet departs China

A flight aimed at evacuating the Australian citizens and permanent residents from Wuhan to and old mining facility in Darwin has left China after it was delayed.




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Married At First Sight viewers notice another bizarre editing fail

Married At First Sight has racked up its fair share of editing fails this season.




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Airports brace for 24 hours of chaos as Jetstar crew stage Australia-wide strike 

Jetstar baggage handlers and ground crew are set for a 24-hour strike over the Australian budget airline's current employment proposal.




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Jetstar releases list of dozens of flights it will cancel this week due to strike action

Jetstar has released a list of flights they have been forced to cancel on February 19 due to upcoming strike action by baggage handlers and ground staff.




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Qantas unveils in-flight safety video which reflects on 100 years of airline history

The Australian airline spent a year recreating flight memories from each decade, including cabin crew members with mullet hairstyles from the 1980s and moustaches from the 1970s.




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Australian celebrities lose tens of thousands of Qantas frequent flyer points without warning

Two Australian actors have hit out at the firm for the policy, which they said removes the points without warning - despite collecting them for 15 years.




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Virgin Australia's share price falls to below 10 cents as S&P gives airline negative outlook

Virgin Australia shares are worth less than 10 cents. Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's has warned the airline's debt problems were likely to worsen in light of the coronavirus.




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Qantas cancels MORE flights including routes to Hong Kong and Auckland amid coronavirus fears

Qantas said on Friday it will cut more international flights this month including to Japan and New Zealand amid falling bookings because of coronavirus fears. 




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Traveller claims Russell Brand was rude to Qantas staff before cancelling gig over coronavirus fears

The British comedian announced on Monday he decided to cancel his sell-out gig in Perth after a woman who attended the venue was found to have contracted the deadly illness.




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Virgin Australia fires back at Qantas' warnings the coronavirus will cause an airline survival fight

The CEO of the Qantas Group, Alan Joyce, announced on Tuesday that major capacity cuts would be brought in to fight the plunging demand for international travel.




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Qantas is found to have underpaid hundreds of workers up to $7.1MILLION over the past eight years

The national carrier on Friday said they entered an enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman to rectify a misclassification issue.




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Qantas and Jetstar have slashed NINETY per cent of their international flights due to coronavirus

Qantas and Jetstar have slashed 90 per cent of their international flights. The cuts would initially be in place from the end of March until the end of May this year.




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Reprieve sacked Qantas staff Woolies, Telstra Rio Tinto step forward employ 20,000 laid off workers

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths were the first to flag offers for staff members being made redundant during the coronavirus pandemic.




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Coronavirus: BHP offers 1,500 roles at mines around the country

The roles include machinery and production operators, truck drivers, mechanics, electricians, boilermakers, cleaners and warehouse roles.




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The jobs that are thriving in the coronavirus pandemic as thousands are laid off in Australia 

Almost 90,000 Australians lost their jobs on Monday as the government moved to shut all pubs, bars, cinemas and gyms in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19.




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Alan Jones blasts Qantas and CEO Alan Joyce for not stopping the planes to China earlier

The 2GB morning show host slammed the airline boss as Qantas continues international flights before they're suspended next week, despite the outbreak growing to 2,675 cases in Australia and 11 deaths.




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Six Qantas baggage handlers test positive for coronavirus and other staff are told to quarantine 

South Australia Health on Tuesday said they are investigating a COVID-19 cluster at Adelaide Airport.




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Virgin Australia claims the price of Qantas and Jetstar flights could surge if the airline closes

Virgin Australia has warned the cost of flights would soar if the airline was forced to close, leaving Qantas and their budget arm Jetstar with a monopoly on the industry. 




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Four Qantas flight attendants exempt from 14-day hotel quarantine test positive for coronavirus

The crew flew from Santiago to Sydney on March 29, with all passengers on the flight taken to hotels to quarantine for 14 days.




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Thousands of Australian workers are told they're NOT eligible for $1500 JobKeeper payment

5,500 workers at Dnata, which supplies frozen meals to businesses like Qantas received the news they were no longer eligible for the $1500/fortnight payment on Monday.




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Royal Navy veteran says he was 'treated like a leper' after coronavirus hospital discharge

Veteran Robert Embleton, 79, was left devastated by residents' response when he returned to his Plymouth retirement home after beating coronavirus in hospital.




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Man, 38, is arrested on suspicion of murder after woman 'falls from fourth-storey window'

A woman in her 40s was found dead after emergency services were called to Greenall Court in Prescot, Merseyside, at around 3.30am on Saturday. A man, 38, was arrested at the scene.




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Italy's parks are filled with sunseekers as coronavirus deaths rise by 194 to 30,395

The Italian public took to bicycles around the Piazza Venezia and the Via dei Fori Imperiali in Rome while people of all ages walked and cycled to Ruffini Park in Turin during Phase Two of lockdown.




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Boy, 4, who beat coronavirus and battled rare cancer is allowed outside for first time in two months

Essex cancer patient Archie Wilks, four, (right) was allowed outdoors for a family walk after testing negative for coronavirus. He walked through fields with his twin brother Henry (left) and parents.




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Harry Dunn´s parents call for parliamentary inquiry into the handling of their son's death

Ms Nandy has raised the case with the UK ambassador to the US, Karen Pierce. Harry, 19, was killed when his motorbike crashed into a car outside a US military base in Northamptonshire.




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Samantha Cameron's father is robbed after thief 'reached into his car and grabbed his iPhone'

Sir Reginald Sheffield, Samantha Cameron's father, was targeted in the grounds of Normanby Hall near Flixborough outside Scunthorpe, in an alleged tussle with a man accused of stealing his iPhone 8.




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Polar Vortex blasts the northeastern US as latest snow ever is recorded in New York's Central Park

Polar Vortex has blasted into the northeast with record low temperatures, winds and snow. Mt. Washington has a low of just 10 degrees, while Death Valley, California, is could reach 110 degrees.




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Russian troops are using drones to track down members of failed Venezuelan coup, local media claims

El Nacional published allegedly deleted tweets from state military command ZODI La Guaira center which claimed that Russian special forces members were aiding the search for coup members.




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Three children in New York die from a rare inflammatory syndrome that may be linked to coronavirus

Three children in New York have died and 73 more cases have been reported of a rare inflammatory syndrome exhibiting symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease or toxic shock-like syndrome.




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French resistance heroine who helped liberate Paris from the Nazis has died aged 101

Cecile Rol Tanguy (pictured) died yesterday at her home in Monteaux, central France, as Europe commemorated the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany to Allied forces.




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Ahmaud Arbery's heartbroken mom hopes her son's killers spend the rest of their lives behind bars

Wanda Cooper spoke out over her son's brutal slaying on what would have been his 26th birthday and slammed law enforcement for failing to bring his killers to justice for months.




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Harry says life has `changed dramatically´ in video message

In a video posted on the event's Twitter account, the Duke of Sussex urged the 'Invictus family' to look out for each other and encouraged them to get involved with virtual activities.




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Piers Morgan admits he has probably 'taken things a bit too far' with his criticism of Meghan Markle

The Good Morning Britain presenter has previously accused the Duchess of Sussex of having 'ditched' her own relatives and splitting her husband Prince Harry from the Royal Family.




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Fifteen Royal Caribbean crew members go on hunger strike until bosses agree to let them go home

The 15 crew members have not eaten since Thursday afternoon, out of desperation and after waiting close to two months out at sea stranded because of COVID-19.




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Harry Dunn's life mattered and we will honour it

Almost nine months since 19-year-old Harry Dunn tragically lost his life, his family wake every day with the knowledge that justice has not been served.




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Up to 50,000 coronavirus test samples are sent to the US for analysis after 'operational issues' 

Daily coronavirus tests fell the below 100,000 target for a seventh day in a row. Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged Boris Johnson to 'give me a break' in a furious bust-up over the coronavirus crisis.




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Lawyer: Deputy led armed group to black teen's home

An armed group of white people knocked on the door of Monica Shepard. The group demanded to know information about a young missing girl. Among the mob was an off-duty Sheriff's deputy.




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British Airways owner's boss Willie Walsh warns against two week quarantine

The CEO of International Airlines Group has waded into the row over the UK government's proposals to force travellers arriving into Britain, including UK citizens returning from holiday, into quarantine.




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Texas man who lives near El Paso arrested for allegedly making online threat to shoot up a Walmart

Alex R. Barron, 29, of Horizon City, Texas, was arrested Friday evening after the FBI said it received a tip on Thursday evening about a social media post containing a threat against Walmart.




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Trump says US will start buying $3billion of agricultural goods from farmers to give to food banks

President Trump announced the $3billion food buy - part of April's $16billion farmer assistance program - would begin next week, as unemployment continues to soar in the US.




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Professional baseball pitcher Mary Pratt, of the Rockford Peaches, has died aged 101 

Mary Pratt (pictured), who played for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League teams, The Rockford Peaches and Kenosha Comets in the 1940s, died Wednesday.




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Surfer killed in shark attack in Northern California

A surfer has been killed in a shark attack off a Northern California beach, state park officials said Saturday.




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Dr. Fauci goes into 'modified quarantine' and two other Trump aides begin self-isolation

Dr. Anthony Fauci (left), CDC head Robert Redfield (bottom right), and FDA chief Stephen Hahn (top right) will self-quarantine after coming into contact with an infected White House staffer.




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One-third of US coronavirus deaths are nursing home residents or workers with one-fifth in New York

At least 25,600 residents and workers at US nursing homes or long-term care facilities for the elderly have died from coronavirus as of Saturday, new statistics show.




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Britain's biggest unions threaten to tell workers to refuse return unless workplaces are made safe

Leaders of unions such as Unite, Unison and the General have written an open letter to Boris Johnson demanding the government puts policies in place to make workplaces safe.




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Fighters put in last-minute preparations ahead of UFC 249 headlined by Ferguson v Gaethje

UFC 249 will be the first major US sporting event since the shutdown due to coronavirus. The main event will see Tony Ferguson fight Justin Gaethje for the interim lightweight championship.




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UFC star Niko Price suffers gruesome eye injury in defeat to Vincente Luque

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: The Hybrid was felled in the third round and, with his eye noticeably swelling shut, the welterweight clash was called to a halt.




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Oprah walks 2.26 miles to mark Ahmaud Arbery's 26th birthday who was gunned down while jogging

Oprah Winfrey walked 2.26 miles to mark Ahmaud Arbery's 26th birthday. 'I wonder what was he thinking in those last seconds of his life?,' Oprah wrote in the Instagram post.