National News

Two Sydney brothers have been confirmed dead in the New Zealand volcano tragedy.

The wife of former world heavyweight boxing champion Leon Spinks has asked for prayers for her husband amid a media report that he is in a Las Vegas hospital in a serious condition.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2019.

A trio of friends, a football loving dad and an adventurous mother and daughter are among seven Australians identified as victims of the White Island volcanic eruption in New Zealand.

NSW firefighters have worked to take advantage of easing conditions as dozens of blazes continue burning throughout the state and more than 720 homes confirmed destroyed this bushfire season.

Police in the New York metropolitan area have been put on high alert to protect Jewish neighbourhoods after an hours-long gunbattle with two men around a Jersey City kosher market that killed six people.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is standing firm in her opposition to pill testing but has announced amnesty bins will be allowed at festivals so revellers can discard illegal drugs without penalty.

Somali security have forces shot dead five al-Shabaab gunmen who had killed three civilians and two soldiers during an attack on a hotel near the presidential residence in Mogadishu, police say.