WHAT HAS BEEN APPROVED?The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been approved after meeting stringent safety, efficacy and quality standards.

Arrests are being considered after police raids in Brisbane and the Gold Coast following a tip from German police who busted the world's largest illegal online marketplace.

A driver has crashed into a tree and died in Melbourne after allegedly failing to stop for police.

If you had told Sophie Westlake this time last year that she would soon create a disinfectant to battle a virus causing a global pandemic, she would have "keeled over in laughter".

Larry King, the suspender-wearing broadcaster whose interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary people helped define American conversation for decades, has died aged 87.

A lucky Michigan lottery player holds the winning ticket for a jackpot of more than $US1 billion, the third-largest lottery prize in US history.

Quick-thinking bystanders have helped potentially save a man's life after he was bitten on the arm by a shark in the NSW Hunter region.

A volunteer NSW firefighter has been charged with deliberately lighting more than 30 grass fires during the state's catastrophic Black Summer bushfires last summer.

Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for former US President Donald Trump on the charge of incitement of insurrection for the Capitol riot will begin the week of February 8.

A former teacher is accused of sexually abusing more than a dozen students at a Sydney school over an 18-year period.