A community is in shock after a boy was killed and four other children injured in a "tragic accident" where a car crashed through a school fence and into them.
Multiple revellers have suffered suspected overdoses at a festival, with eight people rushed to hospital in a critical condition and placed in an induced coma.
Pro-Palestine rallies will go ahead in Canberra, Perth and Brisbane on Friday, and more will take place in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide over the weekend.
The cold-blooded murder of a Melbourne woman and her husband by her dad, upset his permission wasn't sought for their marriage, justified a life sentence, a court has determined.
A jury has found former ultra-Orthodox Jewish principal Malka Leifer guilty of 18 sexual abuse charges against two former students at the Adass Israel School.
A Deakin University lecturer who killed his wife at their family home after an argument about childcare has apologised to a court for the brutal murder.
