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The NSW Rail, Tram and Bus Union has called off a snap 24-hour strike after the state government cancelled test runs for its new intercity trains.

Julian Assange's partner Stella Moris has tweeted US President Donald Trump on Thanksgiving, appealing to him to pardon the WikiLeaks founder.

South Australia's bid to contain a worrying COVID-19 cluster has hit a snag with two new cases, a school closed and hundreds of more people forced into quarantine.

Researchers led by the World Health Organisation would like to go back to a wholesale food market in Wuhan in China to follow up initial cases of COVID-19 which emerged in the city and investigate how the virus likely first spread from bats.

Amazon.com Inc's widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is experiencing an outage, the company says.

Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers in history and a towering figure in sporting annals, has died of a heart attack at the age of 60.

South Australia will make sweeping reforms to its hotel quarantine system after a cluster of COVID-19 cases, and confirmation of a new infection at an Adelaide high school.

Queensland will dismantle its road border checkpoints as it opens up to almost all of Australia next week.

Big backyard Christmas barbecues are back on the cards after the NSW government eased a slew of COVID-19 restrictions.

Purdue Pharma LP has pleaded guilty to criminal charges over the handling of its addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin, capping a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve an investigation into the drug maker's role in the US opioid crisis.