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Türkiye confirms it is coordinating a major international prisoner swap involving citizens of Belarus, Germany, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Russia and the US. They include Americans Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, who the US says were wrongfully detained in Russia.

Eight new shoots appear on the stump of a famous tree that was illegally felled in northern England last year.

Australia's men's hockey team has booked themselves a quarterfinal berth after hammering New Zealand in Paris, while both Australia's women's basketball teams enjoyed victories on day six of the Olympics.

The teenager suspected to have killed three children in Southport, England on Monday has been named.

The sheer brutality of the conditions ensured the race walk would be a war of attrition. Every finisher is worth their weight in gold.

Wests Tigers centre Justin Olam has been sent off for a high shot in a high-scoring clash with North Queensland where the two teams combined for 78 points. 

Iran's supreme leader vows vengeance for the strike that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who has been farewelled by thousands in a funeral procession in Doha.

For three years in a row, James Dawkins and his old high school mate thought they were on a winning streak — until authorities took notice.

Lawyers for the celebrity crocodile wrangler have indicated he will plead not guilty to perverting the course of justice in relation to the aftermath of a fatal chopper crash, ahead of a potential jury trial in the NT Supreme Court.  

The Waanyi writer has won the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her epic novel Praiseworthy, a fabulist critique of colonisation and climate change.

Some Olympic battles are fought between nations on the mat. Others, it seems, are fought on social media between teammates. This is the story of the latter. 

Keep up with how many medals Aussie athletes won on day six — and where Australia sits on the leaderboard.

The blue roof, or Farm at Le Pouldu, by post-impressionist Paul Gauguin is purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, making it the first of his paintings to enter an Australian public collection.

Australian teenager Ruby Pass is in the artistic gymnastics all-around final, competing alongside US superstars Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee. Follow live.

Thirty redundancies were announced at the Victorian brewery on Wednesday with 50 staff remaining employed to continue trading while the administrators restructure the company.

Susan Ryan was the first female Labor minister and the first female minister for women during her career as part of the Hawke government in the 1980s.

More than 60 per cent of girls, women, and gender-diverse people who menstruate are struggling to buy basic period products amid soaring costs of living, Australia's largest body of data on periods has found.

Labor is well aware that there are no shortage of headaches to contend with as the election looms. But can Anthony Albanese's cabinet reshuffle lessen the pain?

Members of Kyle Chalmers's first swim club in his South Australian hometown are ecstatic over his silver medal success and some are already setting their sights on the Brisbane Games.

The Matildas are on the lookout for a new head coach after Football Australia ended months of speculation and confirmed Tony Gustavsson's contract would not be extended.

A senior Queensland police officer has told an inquest why he made the decision to send in officers to save a young constable before specialised teams arrived.

At the end of 2020, counsellor Caroline Kell hit a breaking point. She asked herself, "do I want to continue to live my life like this?" The answer was no.

Paris has thrown its doors open to the world for these Olympic Games, and that has meant allowing modern intrusion to some of history's most storied places. At Chateau de Versailles that invasion is felt most keenly, but somehow has become something magical.

Hundreds of workers are expected to lose their jobs at Albemarle's Kemerton lithium plant as the miner responds to further volatility in the global market.

Penrith winger Brian To'o has declared he will stay at the three-time defending premiers, after meeting with club bosses and his management.