Three-week-old mountain lion cub rescued by California biologists
Crimson, seen alone in Santa Monica mountains for days, gets care in Oakland zoo after mother nowhere to be found It was an unusual scene. A lion cub alone for…
Bilby boom: breeding trial to reintroduce species to Mallee Cliffs national park shows signs of success
Fifty ‘founder’ bilbies were released in fenced breeding area in 2019 with the aim of establishing first wild population there in a century Get our breaking news email, free app…
Halting $400m White House ballroom project is national security risk, Trump officials say
US National Park Service lawyers cite materials that will be installed to make ‘heavily fortified’ facility Donald Trump’s administration is arguing that a judge’s order to halt construction of a…
‘Will I be punished for daring to return?’ Australian flotilla activists to head back to Gaza as wider war rages
Organisers say aid mission is ‘a military operation without guns’ – but their plan is at the mercy of regional geopolitics Get our breaking news email, free app or daily…
More than 20 people injured after driver crashes into crowd at Louisiana parade
Alleged drunk driver in custody after 11 people transported by ground and two by air during Lao New Year parade More than 20 people were injured on Saturday after an…
Man arrested attempting to board international flight at Melbourne airport after allegedly murdering woman
Murder charge laid after missing woman’s body discovered in Victorian town of Little River, near Melbourne Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A man is…
‘We’re the experts in our own lives’: Victoria’s First Nations treaty body is holding its first elections
Gellung Warl candidates, Lidia Thorpe’s son among them, are hoping to bring their lived experience to ‘a new era’ of politics in the state Get our breaking news email, free…
#MilitaryTok reactions to Iran war stray from White House messaging: ‘Now I’m regretting everything’
As Trump’s administration aims to bring ‘warrior culture’ back to the military, young service members express anxiety and snark online over potential deployment If posts coming from the White House…
‘You feel utterly helpless’: Lebanese Australians watch in despair as Israeli bombardment forces families to flee
Every morning Mariam Nasereddine, from Sydney, checks for familiar names on a growing list of the dead as war intensifies in her native Lebanon Get our breaking news email, free…
Middle East crisis live: US and Iran race to find missing pilot; Iran rejects Trump’s ‘helpless’ call to open strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it was combing an area near where plane came down in south-western Iran ‘I’m regretting everything’: #MilitaryTok reactions to war stray from White House messaging…