A clash at Punt Road on Tuesday will showcase leading servicewomen footballers.

A rattled Shaun Higgins says he now has greater respect for the work that’s being done to reduce the rate of concussion in football, but the North Melbourne star has no ill feelings towards Hawthorn’s Ryan Burton.

With his blunt, outspoken stage persona, Wayne Deakin is "a front foot comedian". And at 6 foot 2, few people's idea of a rape victim.

It will be romantic, it will be fun, and the higher the hype the more the Republican cause is helped.

Liz Cambage is ready to show the WNBA her best play as her Dallas Wings open the US season in Phoenix on Saturday.

Union-dominated super funds would lose their special status under a draft Productivity Commission recommendation that would delink superannuation from awards and allocate new workers to default funds only once.

Autism groups are angry about reports the National Disability Insurance Scheme will cut the number of autistic people who automatically get support.

Anzac Day has veered from what should be solemn commemoration.

White plumes of acid and fine shards of glass billowed into the sky over Hawaii, creating another hazard from the Kilauea volcano eruption: a toxic steam cloud.

Sydney and Melbourne residents are being encouraged to chug down a Canberra experience.

Artificial intelligence is making its way into the global sex market, bringing with it a revolution in robotic "sex tech".

Love, Actually star Hugh Grant is a married man for the first time at 57.

A month or so before his tragic death, Hunter tennis great Peter Doohan took the time to write an email to Newcastle Herald journalist Carrie Fellner about his memories of the 'greatest upset in Wimbledon history'.

Not even scenes reminiscent of an old Holden on a freezing cold winter's morning could stop Victoria' Eli Evans winning the National Capital Rally.

Cameron White has all but shut the door on his chances of playing international cricket again, with the veteran batsman suggesting that if he was still in Australia's selectors' thoughts a return would have happened by now.

Growth in Australia's manufacturing sector moderated in December, but still stretched its run of either expanding or stable conditions to 15 months.

The troubled former child sporting prodigy is not an archetype Tomic created or can trademark, nor is it a harbinger for mental health problems or an excuse for bad behaviour in adulthood.

The best photos from the international wire agencies.

Queenslanders lose more than $2 billion every year to pokies, with calls for them to be phased out in Queensland.

Authorities say 2000 litres of the drug GBL was found in a shipping container from China.