A US judge has blocked President Donald Trump from placing thousands of USAID workers on leave and giving service workers abroad a 30-day deadline to return.
Andrew Goudsward, Nate Raymond and Daphne Psaledakis
Labour groups representing employees at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have sued President Donald Trump's administration.
Brendan Pierson
NSW police have arrested two men over allegedly displaying a flag with a swastika symbol in Kings Cross.
Staff Writers
Mechanical failure has caused a vintage vessel to sink on its way to a wooden boat festival, forcing its crew members to scramble to safety.
Holly Hales
Germany's top court has ruled banks cannot charge so-called custody fees for deposits in savings and instant access accounts.
FBI agents have sued the Justice Department over a questionnaire seeking to identify those who worked on January 6 Capitol riot investigations.
Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward
The second day of the trial of Australia women's soccer captain Sam Kerr on charges of racially aggravated harassment has heard her regret the night's events.
Glenn Moore
Google has argued in an appeals court that the trial judge in the antitrust case filed by Epic Games made legal errors.
Michael Liedtke
In a video played to a London court Sam Kerr has described how she and her partner felt they were kidnapped by a taxi driver on the night she was arrested.
Despite resistance from the coalition, the federal government is pushing ahead with national laws requiring employers to set and meet gender equality targets.
Maeve Bannister
A mountain in New Zealand has gained the same rights as a human being under a new law.
A father has defended his son over allegations he helped bash two off-duty officers, saying the incident was out of character for the "young kid".
Duncan Murray and Alex Mitchell
The Court of Arbitration in the Hague will hear whether a British ban on fishing sand eels in its waters breaches the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement.
Stephanie van den Berg
WA cyclists fear minimum-safe-passing laws are not doing enough to protect them after a horror start to the year that has left two dead.
Kate Emery
A businessman has been granted bail, five years after he was charged with complicity in the murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
A coroner has identified serious deficiencies at a faith-based aged-care centre during a devastating COVID-19 outbreak that led to the deaths of 19 residents.
Miklos Bolza
Police are on the hunt for four vandals who decapitated two statues of Australian prime ministers and damaged another 18 figures.
Holly Hales and Callum Godde
An aged care centre's operator has apologised after a coroner found residents were left without medication, food and water during a deadly COVID-19 outbreak.
Miklos Bolza and Duncan Murray
South Korean investigators have asked prosecutors to indict detained President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Ju-min Park and Hyonhee Shin
A centrepiece Labor policy will be put to the test months before an election as mining companies, clean energy groups and unions comb through its implications.
Kat Wong
President Prabowo Subianto plans to grant amnesty to convicted Papua prisoners if they pledge loyalty to Indonesia, a law and human rights minister says.
Ananda Teresia
A major pride march will not feature officers after a state police force withdrew from participating following a ban on uniforms.
Callum Godde
Managing toxic forever chemicals already in the environment is becoming increasingly difficult and work needs to be done to prevent the introduction of more.
Jack Gramenz and Stephanie Gardiner
The federal government is considering legal reforms to require businesses to set and meet gender equality targets, with penalties for non-compliance.
