Donald Trump's ordering of a cruise missile attack on a Syrian airbase in retaliation over this week's chemical massacre is "aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law", Russia says. Follow live.
The attack, which killed about six people, targets Syria's Shayrat air base, home to warplanes which the US says mounted this week's chemical weapons raid and inflicted a "slow and brutal death" on civilians.
At this early stage, it's impossible to tell if this is the beginning to an end to the hell of Syria, or just another violent twist in a tortured story of missed opportunities and outright malevolence, writes Philip Williams.
The NSW Police Joint Counter-Terrorism Unit joins the investigation into a fatal stabbing and "horrific" violent rampage across Queanbeyan and Canberra overnight.
Young men like Junior are key to Aboriginal culture surviving in remote Australian communities in West Arnhem Land. But first his parents are sending him on an adventure 3,800km away, with the hope it'll help him walk confidently in both worlds.
Treasurer Scott Morrison's parrying of Labor demands he produce the numbers that spelled out the economic benefit of tax cuts to small business wasn't elegant, writes Andrew Probyn.
The 25-year-old fake wellness blogger is ordered to pay $30,000 in costs — with a further six-figure penalty possible — over misleading and deceptive conduct.
New research suggests an infection with a seemingly harmless virus could be behind why some people's immune systems react to gluten as if it were a dangerous pathogen instead of a harmless food protein.
A Queensland mother fears toxins used in firefighting foam at a nearby Army base has been ingested by her daughter through breastfeeding, after the child's blood test came back 23 times higher than the state average.
Rockhampton's Fitzroy River is holding steady, inundating parts of the central Queensland city while a temporary flood levee saves others, but fluctuations have the Bureau of Meteorology holding off calling a peak.
As a downtrodden Gary Ablett says he is "hurt" and on the brink of what would be a regrettable early retirement, nobody could begrudge the champ some self-indulgence.
Australian spinner Steve O'Keefe is fined for "highly inappropriate comments" made in an alcohol-related incident after the Steve Waugh Medal, and is banned from 2017's domestic one-day cup.
A national recruitment project is underway calling for Australians to sing against domestic and family violence in an innovative move led by some of the country's top musicians.
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