It has been revealed one of the COVID-19 clusters Victorian health authorities are currently trying to suppress was spread through five families breaking lockdown rules.

A recent ad by Joe Biden’s campaign attacks President Trump’s payroll tax plan, saying it will deplete Social Security funds. But as WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib explains, both parties’ allegiance to preserving Social Security means Trump is unlikely to do that. Photo: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

A tunnel nearing completion in the Indian Himalayas will slash by hours the time it takes troops to reach the Chinese border, part of an infrastructure blitz by New Delhi that is gathering pace since a bloody border clash.

A video posted on a social-media account of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny shows his team searching a hotel room where he stayed before he fell ill from Novichok poisoning. His supporters say traces of the nerve agent were found on a water bottle collected from the room. Photo: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuter...

A man is suing Starbucks claiming he was so severely scalded by a hot tea he spent 11 days in a burns unit and was left unable to play the piano or be intimate with his partner.