Australia Day celebrations are happening across the country. The formalities are out of the way and attention is turning towards triple j's Hottest 100. You can listen here. For full coverage of events across the country follow our live blog
Experts say the Zika virus that is spreading across South America has been found in Australian travellers returning from the region. The news comes as DFAT issues advice saying Australians should reconsider plans to travel to the 22 affected countries
7:00pm AEDT: A Hall of Fame Ceremony will be held at Rod Laver Arena before the Australian Open quarter-finals get underway
7:30pm AEDT: The first men's match in a three-game T20 series between Australia and India begins at Adelaide Oval. The women's match is being played now
8:00pm AEDT: The triple j Hottest 100 winner is expected to be announced
The mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, has already been discovered in Australian travellers returning from South America, virologists say.
US presidential hopeful Ted Cruz's claim that sexual assaults in Australia increased on the back of gun laws is a "whopper" of a factual error, The Washington Post says.
Citizenship ceremonies, backyard barbies, cockroach races and the Hottest 100 — take a look at how people are spending Australia Day around the country.
Former Army chief David Morrison, the new Australian of the Year, says religious discrimination is "without a doubt" alive and well, and the Islamic community is the subject of particularly unfair commentary.
The 16-year-old artist who created today's Australia Day Google Doodle depicting Indigenous Australians from the Stolen Generation says she is excited by the conversation it has sparked.
An oil fire which started in a restaurant inside a high-rise building in Sydney's CBD has been extinguished after earlier blanketing parts of the city in smoke.
Malcolm Turnbull says there are more urgent issues confronting Australia than the push to become a republic, leading to accusations the PM is backing away from one of his long-held convictions.
British adventurer Henry Worsley dies after suffering exhaustion and dehydration while attempting to become the first man to complete a solo crossing of the Antarctic.
Astronomers studying a lonely planet thought to be floating alone through space have found its host star a trillion kilometres away from it, making it the largest solar system yet found.
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