People in NSW lost a record $8.1 billion on poker machines last year, with heaviest losses suffered in Sydney's most disadvantaged neighbourhoods

Two of the world's richest royal families are flexing multi-billion-dollar war chests to win a battle of the skies.

After a spate of shocking stabbings in Sydney, NSW Police are to be given new 'wand' powers so they can scan people without a warrant.

Insolvency levels have reached their highest point since 2015, according to worrying new data.

Keegan reeled in the million-dollar fish, but it was his little sister who spotted the small sign which led to a 'life changing' jackpot.

Embattled airline Bonza flew tens of thousands of people on routes long ignored by Qantas and Virgin Australia, but Australia's skies are a brutally tough market.

In the weeks leading up to the invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin flew out from Moscow for important visits with two longtime allies.

The ads on social media sure did the trick. Before long, orders flooded in. But problems quickly began to mount.

The mirror-walled mega city touted to stretch 170km across the desert to the Red Sea, and rubberstamped by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now appears in doubt.

Nearly 300 workers will be made redundant, bringing an end to the outlet's 35 years of covering news for New Zealanders.

The campaigner leading a "keep cash alive" movement said banks - not people - are the ones who will profit from a full transition to digital payments.

The 28-year-old suspect was arrested twice in three days; first over the alleged stalking of the rugby league legend, and then allegedly immediately breaching his bail conditions.

The research is cause for concern in Australia, where 1.7 million adults now vape and the trend has grown at a remarkable speed.

University of Queensland researchers called the findings 'a significant step' towards effective treatment of the brain disease.

The cause of Émile's death remains unexplained, despite a major breakthrough in missing person case that shocked France.

The motives for recent attacks on Medibank and Optus go far beyond theft of data and the potential for financial extortion.

A woman who stumbled across a small human skull has solved - at least partially - the mystery of what happened to Émile Soleil.

A recent check found items were missing from the plane's press section, including branded pillow cases, glasses and even gold-rimmed plates.

Painted message to White House urges more pressure on Israel over Gaza.

A second major park in Perth has fallen victim to the polyphagous shot-hole borer beetle, which is about the size of a ballpoint pen nib.

Federal agents today raided multiple homes owned by Sean Combs, the rapper and mogul known as Diddy.

In his time as president, Joe Biden has had multiple public stumbles.

Punishment slammed as weak, because 'nothing good is happening in a pokies venue after midnight'

Locals were horrified when it appeared a vandal armed with a drill and toxic herbicide had sentenced the 100-year-old trees to a slow death.

The fast-moving drones, laden with explosives, can travel hundreds of kilometres to remotely hit massive aircraft carriers and battleships.

Cash buyers, rich with assets and without any need for a mortgage, snapped up more than one in four properties across Australia's three largest states last year.

Over the course of a year, a ruthless UK car heist gang stole more than 50 high-end cars favoured by royals, billionaires, celebrities and athletes, worth almost $8 million.

A passenger on the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner said the plane 'just dropped out of the sky' as it flew from Sydney to Auckland, causing terror and carnage in the cabin.

A Coalition proposal to let first homeowners withdraw their super for a house deposit would force property prices up by nearly $75,000 across Australia's five largest capital cities.

After three days of desperate searching, a shoeless but smiling 12-year-old Hussein Al Mansoory was found alone in a stairwell of a medical centre in Sydney's south-west.

ABF officers spotted something unusual about several jackets packed inside the woman's luggage. It allegedly turned out to be methamphetamine.

If you're thinking an unusually high number of work colleagues have been struck down with flu recently, you'd be right.

The woman and her husband were allegedly ambushed by seven men after setting up an overnight camp in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.

The financial watchdog wiped out thousands of websites in just six months, and are in the process of taking down another 350 sites.

The vessel was laden with 41,000 tons of fertiliser which is now feared a major environmental risk

The 70-year-old, who was dying of stomach cancer, told police wanted to die using his real name, Satoshi Kirishima, instead of his alias.

Three men holed up in two Sydney apartments allegedly sent more than 80 million fraudulent text messages as part of an elaborate SMS phishing scam.

Police have intercepted a multi-million-dollar major shipment of MDMA and ketamine smuggled into the country inside Evian water bottles.

Trolls and critics have swamped the museum's social media accounts, demanding it return a towering artefact taken from Easter Island.

A new study has painted a picture of the typical Australian smoker, and what they have found flies in the face of widespread perceptions.

Social media posts that wrongly identified a house in Perth as a place where former prisoners were living may have led to a home invasion and robbery

An Aldi supermarket, a Catholic school, a kids' sports centre and public pathway near a light rail station are among the new infected locations

Ticketek is bracing for ticket chaos at the MCG and Accor Stadium as nasty plots hatched by scammers months in advance are fully realised.

The couple were driving to work at a Chinese restaurant, where they had been earning extra cash ahead of the arrival of their baby boy.

Following a successful trial of a nine-day fortnight in Australia, Santos is testing the same program for its workers in Port Moresby

All eyes are now on former Fox News star Tucker Carlson, who has been a vocal critic of western support for Ukraine

Notoriously private Holly Valance has just shared some of her political views and it's a fair assumption she's unlikely to vote for Labor and Anthony Albanese.

Police had been been trying to find the 38-year-old, who was last seen at a motel on the Central Coast, between Sydney and Newcastle.

A humble three-bed home in Sydney's eastern suburbs snapped up for $4.6 million has typified a red-hot start to property auctions in 2024.

Eagle-eyed officials noticed something was wrong with the car's carpet, and then found an illegal immigrant curled inside tiny hole under the glovebox.