Samantha Hawley

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? 

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.

As calls continue for an end to military activity around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant, experts are warning there’s significant risk of a nuclear accident.

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.

Tens of thousands have been ordered to evacuate their homes, thousands more are on watch to evacuate, and millions across the city, its surrounds and beyond are battling flooded roads, mouldy homes and umbrellas that simply are not up to the task.