Taylor Swift has been handed a secret weapon other celebrities can only dream about: the right to censor comments about her on social media.

The latest advice from the Bureau of Meteorology is that the low is expected to develop into a tropical cyclone, to be called Lucas, on Wednesday. A severe weather warning has been issued for damaging winds and "squally" rain bands.

DEADLY riots on Manus Island were “eminently foreseeable’’, a Senate inquiry has found.

Standard & Poor’s has said that the budget must be brought back into surplus or risk losing the coveted AAA rating.

THE Foreign Minister has said she is confident a draft text will be agreed to at protracted climate talks in Lima.

AN apologetic Coles faces penalties of up to $10m and has offered refunds after admitting to unconscionable treatment of supermarket suppliers.

FEDERAL Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has told banks to stop throwing drought-stricken farmers off their pro­perties.

THE doubling of budget deficits to $100bn shows up the Abbott government’s “cheap and silly games” in opposition, Labor says.

Just before America’s worst mass shooting, Kevin West, a regular at Pulse nightclub, recognised the man in front of him.

University of Melbourne researchers have found rates of self-harm among asylum seekers as high as 260 per 1,000 people on Nauru, but say unreported rates are unknown and they expect the real figures to be much higher.