Scott Morrison

LONDON: Britain's Queen Elizabeth has pulled out of the COP26 conference in Glasgow next week after she was advised by doctors to rest, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday, in a blow to the United Nations climate summit. A palace source…

MELBOURNE: One of the world's most locked-down cities will reopen late Thursday, with Melbourne residents hoping this sixth bout of stay-at-home restrictions will be their last. Five million people in Australia's second-biggest city have…

MELBOURNE: The Australian government on Monday began its legal challenge to a Federal Court's landmark decision that it has a duty of care to protect children from future personal injury caused by climate change, according to media…

MELBOURNE: Restaurants and pubs opened at midnight and retail stores witnessed long queues as a four-month lockdown — among the world’s harshest — was eased in Sydney, Australia’s largest city. A drizzle did little to dampen spirits as…

SYDNEY: Britain will send four million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Friday, as his country raced to halt a deadly virus outbreak. The Australian leader said the planes delivering Pfizer…

WELLINGTON: New Zealand's government on Monday said it will extend a strict nationwide lockdown until at least Friday as it tries to extinguish a growing coronavirus outbreak. The news came as health authorities reported 35 new local…

SYDNEY: Sydney's Delta outbreak has not peaked and residents must brace for more deaths, authorities said on Wednesday, as Australia's largest city continued to break records for new daily infections despite a nearly two-month lockdown.…

SYDNEY: Australian authorities on Tuesday vowed to crank up policing of anti-Covid lockdown rules in Sydney, but dismissed suggestions that tougher measures, including a curfew, were needed after the city reported its biggest single-day…

CANBERRA: The Australian government says Moderna next month will become the third Covid-19 vaccine available in Australia. Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, said the Australian vaccine regulator approved the Moderna shot on Monday for…

SYDNEY: Australian officials on Monday extended a snap three-day lockdown in the city of Brisbane and some neighbouring regions while hundreds of army personnel began patrolling Sydney to help enforce Covid-19 lockdown rules. Sydney,…