One man is reported missing and 12 homes are at immediate risk from a bushfire in central Victoria. In all, 250 homes are under threat from the blaze which grew overnight to more than 3,000 hectares despite cooler conditions.
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter says the Pentagon "deeply regrets" the strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Kunduz which killed 22 people. "When we make mistakes, we own up to them," he said.
Here's what's coming up:
9.20am AEDT: Bill Shorten is due to outline a plan to ease the costs of switching to renewable energy
10.30am AEDT: Malcolm Turnbull will be at the launch of an investment app
11.00am AEDT: The Defence Force will give an update on Australian operations in the Middle East
11.00am AEDT: The High Court will begin hearing a challenge to the government's role in offshore detention on Nauru
12.30pm AEDT: Universities Australia chair Professor Barney Glover is at the National Press Club
8.45pm AEDT: The winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced
9.00pm AEDT: The head of MSF will address the media about the US air strike in Kunduz
Police are raiding properties across western Sydney after a raid overnight on the home of a 17-year-old student who allegedly threatened a police station on Facebook.
One man is reported missing as Victorian fire crews battle to protect hundreds of homes still under threat by a bushfire in the Lancefield and Cobaw areas.
The former Labor minister retracts a claim he was offered "hundreds, if not thousands of dollars" by Clubs NSW shortly after entering federal politics.
An American Fox News anchor claims Australians "have no freedom" while lambasting Australia's gun laws during a live discussion on the recent Oregon shooting.
NATO rejects Moscow's explanation that its warplanes violated Turkish air space by mistake, as Russia denies reports that it bombed Islamic State forces in the ancient city of Palmyra.
The future of Australia's offshore detention regime will be under the spotlight in the High Court of Australia in Canberra today with lawyers for a Bangladeshi woman arguing it is illegal to pay for offshore detention in a third country.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas says he does not want the ongoing deadly clashes in East Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank to spiral into armed confrontation with Israel.
Despite receiving a 'very fair hearing' and a reduced ban, Wallabies vice-captain Michael Hooper admits he is gutted to be missing the clash with Wales.
A deal that allows thousands of companies to transfer data from Europe to the United States is ruled invalid, in a landmark decision that follows revelations of mass US government snooping.
Two people are admitted to hospital in Tasmania with paralytic shellfish poisoning after eating mussels they harvested from east coast areas affected by algal blooms.
Japan's Takaaki Kajita and Canada's Arthur McDonald win the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery that neutrinos, labelled nature's most elusive particles, have mass.
A monkey that sneezes when it rains and a "walking" fish are among more than 200 species discovered in the fragile eastern Himalayas in recent years, according to conservation group WWF.
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