Bureau of Meteorology expects cold front to bring damaging weather and dangerous wind gusts across Victoria, NSW and Tasmania on FridayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSevere thunderstorms with “giant hail” the size of golfballs, wild winds and heavy rainfall are lashing...

US president joins western leaders in urging Israeli PM to seek end to war, as Iran suggests death inspires future generations and Hezbollah vows escalationMiddle East crisis: live updatesJoe Biden has urged Israel’s prime minister to “move on” and make progress towards a ceasefire in Gaza after the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader and mastermind...

Shoalhaven River on NSW south coast filled with grain after two silos collapse. Follow today’s news liveGet our weekly media email, free app or daily news podcastMax Chandler-Mather continued, and told ABC News Breakfast:I would argue in this instance in the context of one of the worst housing crises we have seen in generations … now is precisely the...

The Harris campaign, which has been praised for how it has managed to reach out to women, is now having to balance their attention and pitch some policies that would appeal to men.But is it too little too late? Jonathan Freedland speaks to Richard Reeves, the president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, and Gloria Oladipo, a breaking news reporter...

Thinktank says government should set up arm’s-length company to buy Harland & Wolff site, which is in administrationThe UK government should set up an arm’s-length company to buy the Harland & Wolff naval shipyard in Belfast as part of a drive to repurpose arms manufacturing towards producing green infrastructure, according to a report.The study...

From Australia to Belgium, the French woman at the centre of a mass rape trial has galvanised conversations about sexual violenceShe has been hailed as a feminist hero across France, commended for her courage at rallies across the country and applauded by supporters each time she enters or leaves the courtroom in the southern city of Avignon.But the...