Australia

It’s expected more Britons than usual will want to come because so many have not watched cricket since the pandemic and fans are energised by their team’s recent success.Read More

Australian Open organisers say some players may have “brushed off” advice that 14-day hard quarantine was on the table if they were close contacts of positive COVID-19 cases.Read More

Queensland is on track to reduce restrictions in Greater Brisbane area on Friday after it recorded another day of no locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. Read More

Australian Open players have started arriving in Melbourne, while the nation braces itself for more arrivals carrying the highly contagious UK strain of the coronavirus.Read More

You may think Rudy Giuliani’s recent call for a “trial by combat” was inciting violence, but he’s here to say: You know nothing, Jon Snow. Shortly before a Trump-supporting mob attacked the US Capitol last week in a failed and deadly attempt to overturn the presidential election, Giuliani, Donald Trump’s …

If 2020 was the year when the poor were hammered while investors made out like bandits, 2021 will see the tables turned. We may see a thriving economy even as Wall Street languishes.Read More

Health authorities are baffled by how the highly contagious UK strain of coronavirus spread through a quarantine hotel in Brisbane, which led to more than 100 guests being urgently evacuated yesterday. “Was it in the air conditioning? Was it movement? Was it picking up something? We just don’t know those …

The financial crime watchdog has issued a grovelling apology after accidentally giving Parliament a massively inflated figure.Read More

President Donald Trump is on the verge of being impeached for a second time in an unprecedented House vote Wednesday, a week after he encouraged a mob of loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results just before they stormed the US Capitol in a deadly siege. The House chaplain …

Coronavirus deaths in the US hit another one-day high of more than 4300 with the country’s attention focused largely on the fallout from the deadly uprising at the Capitol.Read More