A teenager accused of cutting another boy’s hand off in a park has faced a children’s court.

Rescue teams raced on Wednesday to reach dozens of workers believed to be trapped inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal’s mountains, offering one of the last hopes of ‌finding survivors a week after a Himalayan flood killed more than 1,200 people.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the renewed ​U.S. campaign against Iran ‌would not continue for “too long” after the biggest exchange of fire between ​Tehran and Washington since July.

An online register of racism and discrimination against First Nations people is receiving up to $2 million in Commonwealth funding to help inform anti-racism action.

Australia could be a leader in women’s health innovation, but investors are not prioritising health tech and it is sending female innovators overseas.

Fears of renewed escalation gripped the Middle East on Wednesday after the United States and Iran exchanged their biggest barrage ​since July, with Washington striking Iran’s southern coast and Tehran firing at U.S. bases across the region.

The world will exceed 1.5 degrees of warming within years, a United Nations report has found, exposing communities to more extreme heatwaves, cyclones, floods, fires and rising sea levels.

An Uber driver performed a sex act on himself in broad daylight while a young female passenger was in the car, a judge has heard.

Russian air ​attacks killed 12 people and injured many more in Kyiv and the surrounding region early on Tuesday, authorities said, marking the sixth straight day of ‌intense strikes on the Ukrainian capital.

Amazon.com opens new tab illegally raised prices for advertisers by surreptitiously raising the minimum price required to place ads that ‌promote their products, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed in federal court.

EU antitrust regulators are seeking feedback from publishers on Google’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab proposal to let them ​opt out of AI search without affecting their rankings ‌in search results, a questionnaire seen by Reuters showed.

The U.S. launched new air strikes on Iranian targets on Tuesday, in a move that threatened to reignite the six-month-old conflict ‌that has driven global energy prices higher and weighed heavily on President Donald Trump’s popularity at home.