Samantha Hawley

You might not get much protection from another COVID booster. Here’s why you should get one anyway.

“He’s a top G. He’s a cool guy. He knows what he’s doing.” This is how hundreds of Australian teenage boys feel about internet celebrity and alleged human trafficker Andrew Tate, according to a recent survey.

Flood insurance claims since 2020 have surpassed $12.3 billion and flood victims say they can't afford to pay premiums — but what can be done about it? 

Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges says Vladimir Putin’s flailing invasion has revealed three things that could lead to the collapse of Russia as we know it.

Russia’s elite businessmen are dying in more and more suspicious circumstances. Human rights campaigner Bill Browder suspects the hand of the man in the Kremlin.

New South Wales will join other states in testing sewage for polio, as cases of the largely eradicated disease emerge overseas.

Professor Eddie Holmes can still remember the exact moment he first learned about COVID-19. The story jumped out because he had visited that very market in 2014 and thought, “that’s not right”.

Robert Craig's memories of foot-and-mouth disease tearing through the north of England are more than 20 years old, but they're as painful as ever.

For the first time in decades, it seems the US may be falling behind its competitors in an increasingly important new arms race: the rush to develop hypersonic missiles.

An international human rights organisation is criticising the Australian government’s response to the execution of four pro-democracy activists by Myanmar’s military, accusing Canberra of being a “laggard” and out of step with its allies.

Remember whack-a-mole, the arcade game where a plastic mole pops its head up and you whack it with a mallet? Well, immunising people against the various strains of COVID-19 has been a little like that, but that may be about to change.

An epidemiologist has warned that if current trends continue, at least another 7,500 Australians will die from COVID-19 by the end of the year.

Thousands across Australia took to the streets on the weekend to protest against the United States Roe v Wade ruling, with some protesters afraid that Australia’s laws protecting a person’s rights to abortion are “fragile”.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will not be pressured into publicly intervening in the Julian Assange extradition case, despite international law experts arguing that direct involvement by Australia would carry “significant” diplomatic sway.

Photos of death and destruction in Ukraine could be laying the groundwork for war crime investigators

Doctors and their families are living inside Ukraine's largest children's hospital, and have moved sick children underground to keep them safe.

People infected with COVID-19 will no longer be legally required to self-isolate in England, after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces the end of several major COVID-19 precautions would end from Thursday this week.

Some 40 villages sit in between the Ukrainian army’s area of control and the breakaway territories controlled by Russian-backed militias.

Doctor Morgan Eutermoser is confronted every day with overflowing waiting rooms, and like many American doctors, she is finding Omicron the most challenging wave of the pandemic yet.

Saudi Arabia is spending billions to attract the world’s travellers. But can a country long locked up behind austere religious law become a tourist destination?