The Australian government says children under 16 will be banned from social media next month as scheduled despite a legal challenge.

Meta has started notifying young Australians to download their digital histories and delete their accounts from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

Researchers have found that shouting is more effective than speaking when trying to scare off seagulls.

Australia has added Reddit and Kick to its list of social media platforms that must ban children under 16 from having accounts.

Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler — Augustus Caesar instead of his predecessor, Julius Caesar.

The Australian government has begun a public education campaign with tips on how to wean children off social media ahead of a world-first national 16-year age limit taking effect.

An Australian judge has fined telecommunications giant Optus $66 million for unconscionable conduct under consumer law.

A man in his 50s has died after a shark attack near Sydney, Australia.

Iran's ambassador to Australia has been seen preparing to leave the country as a result of a diplomatic rift between the two countries.

Billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk says he plans to sue Apple for not featuring X and its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot app in its top recommended apps in its App Store.

Australia’s central bank has reduced its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point for a third time this year to 3.6%, with inflation tamed and economic growth stalling.

Japanese warships on Friday docked in New Zealand’s capital for a rare visit.

Microsoft is issuing an emergency fix to close off a vulnerability in Microsoft’s SharePoint software that hackers have exploited to carry out widespread attacks on businesses and at least some federal agencies.

Elon Musk's social media platform X is denying accusations of data tampering and fraud by French prosecutors.

After Outlook users ran into issues accessing their email accounts on Wednesday and Thursday, Microsoft says that affected systems are back online.

A report is recommending Australian universities lose government funding unless they address attacks on Jewish students and for potential immigrants to be screened for political affiliations.

Sydney’s harbor becomes a humpback highway in winter as the whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding areas off Australia’s coast.

Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day.

Things like cellphones and social media were designed to connect us, but it seems they are disconnecting us from the people we are physically with. Three out of five parents admit to spending more time on their electronic devices than with their kids, according to a survey conducted by OnePoll.

Sydney beachfront properties were flooded and coastal infrastructure damaged after a large swell combined with a king tide to batter the shore.

Former police officer Tiara Brown became WBC world featherweight champion by beating Skye Nicolson in a split-decision victory.

Police in Australia say an explosives-filled trailer that politicians earlier described as an antisemitic terrorism plot and a foiled mass casualty event was staged by criminals in a complicated hoax.

Australia’s central bank has reduced its benchmark interest rate for the first time since October 2020 as the nation’s inflation cools.

An Australian hospital is examining its patient records after a nurse claimed online to have killed Israelis.

A man described feeling “the shudders” as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a pile of mulch in his Sydney backyard.

As three more episodes of antisemitic graffiti were discovered across Sydney on Thursday morning, Australian political leaders warned of an escalation in hatred and decried as terrorism an incident of explosives found in a trailer on the city’s outskirts.

An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a greenhouse in Sydney.

If it seems as though the 2025 professional tennis year started pretty much immediately right after 2024 ended, that’s because that’s exactly what happens in a sport where the offseason really does not leave players much time to be “off.”.

Karolina Muchova turned on the style during a 6-2, 6-2 victory over fourth-ranked Jasmine Paolini at the United Cup to help the Czech Republic secure a win over Italy and a semifinal spot against the United States.

Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz have powered the U.S. into the semifinals of the United Cup mixed teams tennis event.

Australia rang in the year 2025 with an awe-inspiring fireworks display that lit up the night sky over Sydney Harbour.

Champagne corks often pop and loud, boisterous cheers are usually heard around Constitution Dock when the Sydney to Hobart line honors winner finishes in the Tasmanian state capital.

Two sailors on separate boats have been killed in boom accidents two hours apart on a storm-ravaged first night of the annual Sydney to Hobart race, adding to the event’s long history of deaths at sea.

Comanche has taken an eight nautical-mile lead over defending line honors champion and fellow 100-foot super maxi LawConnect early in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.

Australian breaker Rachael “Raygun” Gunn has tried to be a good sport about the jokes and criticism that poured in from around the globe after her controversial performance at the Paris Olympics.

Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal linked to limiting Chinese influence in the South Pacific.

A police officer who shocked a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a Taser was found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court.

An advocate for major social media platforms has told Australia's Parliament that a plan to ban children younger than 16 from the sites should be delayed rather than being rushed to approval this week.

Australian communications minister says the government won’t force social media users to hand over personal information to tech companies, as children younger than 16 are set to be banned from the platforms.

Chelsea women’s team manager Sonia Bompastor has condemned the homophobic abuse that striker Sam Kerr and U.S. midfielder Kristie Mewis faced after they announced they are expecting a baby.

Chelsea striker Sam Kerr and U.S. midfielder Kristie Mewis are expecting a baby.

Australia plans to require social media platforms to act to prevent online harms to users such as bullying, predatory behavior and algorithms pushing destructive content.

Australia’s states and territories have unanimously backed a world-first national plan to ban children younger than 16 from most forms of social media.

An Australian judge has anti-immigration party leader Sen. Pauline Hanson breached racial discrimination laws by crudely telling Pakistan-born Sen. Mehreen Faruqi to return to her homeland.

A restaurateur has pleaded guilty to displaying a Nazi symbol during a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney earlier in October.

Photo portraits of King Charles are available in Australia under a little-known government policy that says every citizen there can request, and receive, a portrait of their monarch.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have arrived in Sydney on the first Australian visit by a reigning monarch in more than a decade.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is being criticized for buying a multimillion dollar waterfront home during a national housing crisis with federal elections only months away.

The brother of a boxer who had just won a bout punched the opponent's trainer in the ring in a chaotic post-fight melee in Sydney.

The penguin in a world famous same-sex penguin couple has died in a Sydney aquarium at 11 years old.

A small brand safety initiative is ceasing operations — days after being targeted by social media platform X in a lawsuit alleging the group helped coordinate a “massive advertiser boycott” after billionaire Elon Musk bought the company in 2022.

The Australian government has named a special envoy to confront a rise in antisemitism across the country since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged activists on both sides of the Israel-Palestinian debate to “turn the heat down” after the U.S. Consulate in Sydney was vandalized.

New South Wales has become the last Australian state to apologize for laws criminalizing homosexual acts, 40 years after decriminalization.

The social media platform X says it will now formally allow people to show consensual adult content, as long as it is clearly labeled as such.

Soccer’s international governing body is introducing new measures designed to further support the well-being of players and coaches during pregnancy and after the birth of their children.

A Sydney judge has ruled that former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan can be extradited to the United States on allegations he illegally trained Chinese aviators, leaving the attorney-general as Duggan’s last hope of remaining in Australia.

An Australian judge has ruled that the social media platform X is subject to a state’s anti-discrimination law even though it does not have an office in Australia.

An Australian judge says it would be unreasonable for the country’s internet safety watchdog to require social platform X to hide video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church from all of its users around the world.

An Australian judge has extended a ban on social media platform X allowing videos of the stabbing of a Sydney bishop in his church last month after government lawyers condemned the company's free speech argument for keeping the graphic images circulating.

Brazil’s bid for the 2027 Women’s World Cup has been ranked higher than the bid submitted by Germany, Netherlands and Belgium in an evaluation report released by FIFA.

Australian police say they have arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids around Sydney to protect the community from a potential attack.

An Australian judge has ruled that social media platform X must block every user in the world from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church, extending the prohibition beyond users in Australia.

Shoppers and workers have returned to a “really quiet” Sydney mall, where six days earlier an assailant stabbed six people to death in an attack that police believe targeted women.

A Muslim community leader says a 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics during a Sydney church service might have “anger management and behavioral issues” and a “short fuse” but had shown no signs of being radicalized.

French construction worker Damien Guerot has spoken of his mixed emotions at being made an Australian permanent resident as reward for his heroism during a knife attack in a Sydney shopping mall that left six victims dead and a dozen wounded.

A Muslim community leader in Australia says the father of a boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics saw no signs of his son’s extremism.

A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop and priest during a church service in a second high-profile knife attack to rock Sydney in recent days, leaving communities on edge, leaders calling for calm and a besieged church urging against retaliation.

Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during a church service as horrified worshippers watched online and in person was an act of terrorism.

The people killed and wounded by an assailant at a Sydney shopping mall were mostly women.

Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall and injured more than a dozen others targeted women while avoiding men.

A police officer and several bystanders are being hailed for running “towards danger” to confront the attacker who stabbed and killed six people at a suburban Sydney shopping center.

Police have identified the assailant who stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center before he was fatally shot by a police officer.

Police in Sydney say a man stabbed six people to death at a busy shopping center before he was fatally shot.

Taylor Swift’s father will not be charged over a photographer's claim that Scott Swift assaulted him on the Sydney waterfront hours after the pop star’s Australian tour ended last month.

Officials are investigating what caused a “strong shake” before a sudden plunge on a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand.

Officials say at least 50 people have been injured by what they described as a “strong movement” on a Chilean plane traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand.

Organizers of Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have agreed to relax their ban on police marching in their annual parade with a compromise condition that officers do not wear uniforms.

Australian police have found the bodies of a couple shot and killed by an ex-boyfriend, who happened to be a police officer, hours after he admitted to killing and hiding them under rocks and debris on a rural property.

Thousands of Australians protested the anniversary of British colonization of their country with large crowds urging for Australia Day to be moved and for a day of mourning on the holiday some call “Invasion Day.”.

A Russian national has been sanctioned by the U.S., U.K. and Australian governments for his role in a cyber attack that compromised the personal details of more than 10 million Australians.

Reigning Olympic champion Alexander Zverev saved two match points in a remarkable comeback to win his singles tie in an epic three-setter and then helped clinch the United Cup final for Germany in the deciding mixed doubles match on Sunday.

The largest male specimen of the world's most venomous spider that boasts fangs powerful enough to pierce a human fingernail has found a new home after being discovered north of Sydney, Australia.

Women’s World Cup winner Spain has risen atop the FIFA rankings after advancing to the final four of the UEFA Nations League.

King Charles III has paid a light-hearted tribute to the late Barry Humphries, who was remembered at a state memorial service in Australia.

A report prepared by FIFA and the global players' association says players at the Women’s World Cup were 29% more likely to receive online abuse than those at the men’s tournament in 2022.

The U.S. Soccer Federation and Mexico Football Federation submitted a joint bid to host the 2027 Women’s World Cup projecting $3 billion in revenue, competing against a proposal from Brazil and a joint Germany-Netherlands-Belgium plan.

A survey of players involved in this year’s Women’s World Cup suggests women’s soccer is falling short in key areas including medical support and pay.

A cruise operator that failed to cancel a voyage from Sydney that led to a COVID-19 outbreak has been ruled negligent in an Australian class-action case.

Indigenous campaigners who wanted Australia to create an advisory body representing its most disadvantaged ethnic minority say its rejection in a constitutional referendum was a “shameful act.”.

Australia's failed referendum on the Indigenous Voice has set back the government’s plans to cut the nation's constitutional ties to Britain’s King Charles III.

Australia’s online safety watchdog has fined X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — 610,500 Australian dollars ($385,000) for failing to fully explain how it tackled child sexual exploitation content.

Australians have resoundingly rejected a referendum proposal to create an advocacy committee to offer advice to Parliament on policies that affect Indigenous people — the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority.

Soccer officials in Australia and Indonesia have floated the idea of teaming up in a bid to rival Saudi Arabia for the hosting rights to the men’s World Cup in 2034.

Australians appear likely to reject a proposal that would create an advocate for the Indigenous population in a referendum outcome that some see as a victory for racism.

Australia’s government is telling the online dating industry to improve safety standards or be forced to make changes through legislation.

The boss of Australian airline Qantas says he will leave his job immediately — two months earlier than planned — following a series of embarrassing revelations about the company, including allegations it sold tickets for flights that had already been canceled.

Women’s World Cup winner Spain rose to No. 2 in the newly published FIFA rankings with the United States falling off the top spot for the first time in more than six years.

FIFA has opened a disciplinary case against the Spanish soccer official who kissed a player on the lips while celebrating the team’s victory in the Women’s World Cup final.

That is the gamut of emotions Spain soccer player Olga Carmona had to go through on Sunday.