By 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, the temperature had already reached a scorching 30 degrees Celsius, before hitting over 40 degrees for the second consecutive day.
On Saturday, Sydney CBD approached 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) while western New South Wales, South Australia, and northern Victoria baked at even higher temperatures of close to 45 degrees.
Marshall said a man who claimed to be a customer at a hotspot in a pizza parlor — leading authorities to conclude that the strain of coronavirus was virulent enough to be spread via a takeaway package...
"No child, whether a family member, a childcare worker or a soccer coach, should be subjected to abuse and violence from the individuals they trust," Gough said. "Sadly and heartbreakingly, this was t...
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On Thursday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government would purchase 40 million Novavax doses of vaccine and 10 million from Pfizer and BioNTech.
The government of Kim also directed diplomats abroad to refrain from any actions that could offend the United States because it is worried about the anticipated new approach of President-elect Joe Bid...
It will be the first time in more than two years that such charges have been brought under the so-called lese majeste laws concerning insults to the royal family. They can spend up to 15 years in jail...
Arab News reported citing an anonymous al-Qaida interpreter that 69-year-old al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian-trained physician who rose to the top of the Islamic terrorist group when founder Osama bin Laden...
Two days before the big donor conference for Afghanistan in Geneva, the explosions near the diplomatic enclave sent warning sirens blaring from the embassies.
The statement reported that Fakhrizadeh died in hospital due to injuries sustained during a shoot-out on Friday afternoon between his bodyguards and "armed terrorists."
Vienna-based diplomat Assadolah Assadi and the other Iranians were charged by Belgian prosecutors with the suspected plot against the rally, where the keynote speaker was the U.S. The personal counsel...
Early on Wednesday, the Syrian army said Israel had conducted airstrikes on a region on the southern outskirts of Damascus where Syrian defectors believe Iran's military presence is high. The second s...
Although several militant groups are operating out of the Palestinian enclave, Israel holds Gaza's Hamas rulers accountable for any rocket fire from the region and in retaliation, usually strikes Hama...
In the preliminary results of its Phase 3 clinical trial, the COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford University, developed in collaboration with drugmaker AstraZeneca, has been shown to be 70.4 percent effectiv...
Just after 6pm, people started walking up the Strand, chanting 'freedom' and 'no more lockdown' and the police urged them to go home.
Johnson made a sudden about-face on the day the United Kingdom passed 1 million confirmed Covid-19 cases and confirmed that strict restrictions on business and daily life would begin on Thursday and l...
The papers seen by the BBC are understood to be part of a presentation shown to Boris Johnson by the government's pandemic modeling group SPI-M.
Mr. Hutchings told the local KSLTV news channel, "That was the strangest thing I've come across out there in all my flying years."
"I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our Country. She has been harassed, threatened, and abused – and I do not want to see this happen to her, her family, o...
A woman walking a Florida beach thought she had come across a decapitated body.
On Twitter, San Jose Police Media Relations said that response units were at the scene of the Grace Baptist Church at 484 E San Fernando St., reacting to a possible stabbing" noting that it was an act...
"We have built a response plan together with all the agencies for about 20,000 people," Axel Bisschop, representative of the United Nations refugee agency in Sudan, told a briefing in Geneva, as repor...
In the northern region bordering Eritrea and Sudan, the flare-up threatens to destabilize the second most populous nation in Africa, where ethnic conflict has already killed hundreds since the takeove...
The first phase of voting covers 14 of the 27 provinces of the country, including Giza, the twin city of Cairo, and Alexandria, the Mediterranean city.
A curfew was defied by Nigerian protesters demanding an end to police brutality as gunfire rang out where they were setting up a blockade Wednesday, the day after shots were fired at a crowd of protes...
The move was intended to contain the virus, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, and it came two days after the government ordered the cull of all 15 million minks bred at 1,139 mink farms in Denmar...
Officials watching Putin's recent footage pointed out that the president's legs seemed to be in constant motion.
As he was closing the church, the priest was fired twice at about 4:00 p.m. (local time) and was being treated for life-threatening injuries, the police source said.
A day after an assailant shouting 'Allahu Akbar' (God is Greatest) decapitated a woman and killed two other people in a church in Nice, Minister Gerald Damarnin was speaking.
