Victorian emergency services have warned Halls Gap residents to leave immediately and holiday-makers to stay away, as an expanding bushfire is expected to burn for weeks.
As Congress prepared to vote on a budget bill to fund government services and avoid a shutdown, Elon Musk posted scores of tweets calling for the bill to be killed.
Prosecutors are expected to charge the suspected attacker with murder and attempted murder, as investigations continue into whether he harboured "Islamophobic" views.
People in Vanuatu applaud its latest show of resilience following a deadly magnitude-7.3 earthquake, but they say it can't respond to its cascading natural disasters alone.
A man says his truck displaying the Palestinian flag was burned outside his inner-Melbourne home, as also investigate a separate incident involving an anti-Semitic sign that was displayed outside state parliament.
All year, I had been looking forward to launching my book in a city that never forgets, never forgives, let alone never sleeps. When I arrived in Manhattan, it was obvious grace was in short supply.
