Roger Franklin
WA’s snap-closed border prompts dismay, return flights and lost pay
Western Australia’s swift new Queensland border restrictions have caused frustration and despair at Perth Airport as travellers were met with a COVID-19...
Inmates surrender after six-day New Zealand prison siege
Sixteen inmates who had been locked in a stand-off with authorities and camped on the roof of a New Zealand prison for...
Grave fears held for two NSW women dragged into a whirlpool
Two canyoners remain missing after being sucked into a whirlpool in regional NSW, with the search suspended due to bad weather. NSW...
Lionel Messi ties the legendary Pele’s goal-scoring record
Lionel Messi has another individual scoring milestone but he sure doesn’t have a team that looks like a champion. Messi equalled Pele’s...
US Navy SEALS pull off daring Nigerian hostage rescue
US forces have pulled off a rescue operation to recover an American citizen kidnapped and being held by insurgents in northern Nigeria....
French firefighters save historic Nantes cathedral after suspected arson attack
French officials have launched an arson inquiry after a fire seriously damaged the Gothic cathedral in French city of Nantes, shattering shattering...
‘Mayday! Mayday!’ At least 100 dead as Airbus falls from the sky in Pakistan
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane carrying 91 passengers and eight crew has crashed into a residential area of Karachi. Two passengers...
High Court’s ruling on AFP raid strands reporter in legal limbo
The case went all the way to the High Court, but News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst still doesn’t know her legal...
Boy escapes latest Fraser Island dingo attack with minor injury
A boy has been bitten by a dingo on Fraser island off the Queensland coast The attack on the school-aged child was...
Indonesian minister Wiranto on the mend after ‘ISIS’ knife attack
Indonesia’s senior security minister is recovering from as would-be assassin’s knife wound after surgery, President Joko Widodo says. Former general Wiranto, 72,...