Stephanie Smail

After talks at ambassador-level at the White House Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend their current ceasefire by three weeks.

Fierce debate continues over Australia's gas and how much the companies that extract and export it should be paying in taxes and charges.

A growing number of Labour MPs are calling for UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's resignation, following last week's crushing results at local elections.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he's going to throw everything at housing in tonight's budget, with an overhaul of tax settings likely to headline what he's calling ambitious, but responsible reform.

Chaos has erupted at the Philippine Senate, with gunshots fired in the building where a senator wanted by the International Criminal Court is taking refuge.

Officials in the Philippines are urging calm, after gunfire erupted in the country's Senate building where a former police chief turned Senator is taking refuge.

The Federal Government has announced a $7 million funding package to tackle the diphtheria outbreak as it continues to spread.

Northern Territory health officials say a third of the people with diphtheria there have been hospitalised as the outbreak continues to spread.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to leave southern Lebanon, as Israel prepares to intensify its attacks on Hezbollah.

There are signs artificial intelligence is already hitting parts of the Australian job market, but new research shows the impact is limited so far.