Residents of eastern Nebraska were warned to avoid travel as blizzard conditions reduced visibility, causing several car crashes on January 15, reports said. This footage, posted to Twitter by Kevin Morris, shows snow being whipped up by strong winds in a residential area of the city. A blizzard war...

Helicopters were called in to provide aerial support in Quilpué, Chile, for firefighting crews on Friday, January 15, as a wildfire devastated hundreds of acres in the region. This video uploaded to Twitter by the Chilean government’s National Forestry Corporation shows a Chinook helicopter carry...

Victoria will loosen its border restrictions on people travelling from Greater Brisbane from 6pm on Saturday.

Health authorities are working to investigate how a western Sydney man contracted COVID-19.

New South Wales has recorded one new locally acquired case of COVID-19, believed to be linked to the Berala cluster.

Quarantined residents in the city of Shijiazhuang, China cheered each other on from their balconies on Thursday, January 14, after authorities tightened coronavirus restrictions in the region. This video uploaded to Weibo, shows residents of high rise apartments screaming “Come on Shijiazhuang”,...

A Sydney man has been arrested after he allegedly failed to comply with a condition of a control order by accessing online material that supported executions, beheadings and torture.

At least two inches of snow fell in northern Indiana on January 15, providing an opportunity for Belvidere North High School students and faculty to throw snowballs after school. This footage posted from the school’s math department shows the scene outside the Belvidere, Indiana-based school. The ...

Queensland health authorities have rejected a desperate bid from a man wanting to leave quarantine to visit his dying mother.

A leaked email from tennis Australia to some of the world’s top players declares they will be sent into hard lockdown and unable to leave their rooms for 14 days.

Two people were recorded sledding down a snow-overed road in Zurich, Switzerland, as the city was blanketed by heavy snowfall on January 15. Video shared by Steffen Ehrhardt showed what he called a “normally very busy road in Zurich city center” transformed into a snow slope. SRF Meteo reported ...

A strong earthquake hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island on January 15, killing at least 34 people, the country’s National Disaster Management Agency said. Reuters reported that thousands of residents fled their homes for higher ground when the 6.2 magnitude quake struck 6 km (3.73 miles) northeast o...

Sky News contributor Peter Switzer says the trade tensions with China is a “political battle with the Morrison government” rather than an economic one as the price of Australian commodities skyrockets.

Liberal MP Craig Kelly says the state by state coronavirus restrictions are “causing enormous harm” to Australians without providing much of a health benefit.

A meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS) in Omaha, Nebraska, battled blizzard conditions to launch a weather balloon into fierce winds on Friday morning, January 15. “Our meteorologist managed to launch just the balloon and not herself into the sky this morning!” wrote NWS Omaha o...

A huge snowball fight took place in Leeds, England, as the UK Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for parts of northern England on January 14. This clip, taken by photographer Liam Ford, shows a large group of people having a snowball fight in the Hyde Park area of Leeds. Coronavirus restrict...

Patients received their COVID-19 vaccinations in the impressive surroundings of Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire, England, on Friday, January 15. This timelapse video taken by artist Peter Walker shows a long line of people moving in and out of the building as vaccines are given. A post on the c...

Social commentator Prue MacSween says an altercation between a police officer and a mask-less woman should remind people of their “responsibilities towards the rest of us” in the fight against COVID-19.

Snow fell over in Iowa overnight Thursday, January 14, with accumulations of more than seven inches in some parts of the state by the Friday morning, the National Weather Service (NWS) reported. Snow began falling late Thursday, which, carried by gusty winds, created dangerous blizzard conditions an...

Security measures were bolstered in Washington with the erection of barricades around the US Capitol on January 14, ahead of Inauguration Day. This footage shows fences and barriers near the White House on Thursday. It follows the events of January 6, when Trump supporters violently stormed the Capi...

Workers with the Oregon Department of Transportation carried out damage assessments on Route 224 on September 16, as the Riverside Fire continued to burn. By September 17, the fire had burned over 137,000 acres and was 6 percent contained. “Lots of down[ed] trees and debris, a few landslides, lots...

Sky News host James Morrow says the Left has been trying to undermine the concept of family values because it goes against the social revolution they are trying to impose.

Residents were forced to flee their homes in several communities near the northern slope of California’s San Gabriel Mountains on September 17, as the Bobcat Fire grew to more than 55,000 acres. This footage, posted to Instagram, shows an orange haze blanketing Juniper Hills, which was under an ev...

Chief Editorial Cartoonist at The Australian Johannes Leak has taken a look at the week that was in world politics portrayed through cartoons with Sky News host Chris Kenny.

Psychiatrist Dr Tanveer Ahmed says authoritarian state premiers are whimsically making calls about border restrictions and lockdown rules in the name of science.