New Zealand mother jailed for life after murdering children and hiding bodies in suitcase
Hakyung Lee gave her two children, aged 6 and eight, a fatal dose of medicine mixed into orange juice in 2018

Final moments before helicopter crash that killed Britons caught on camera
Passengers seen in onboard video footage frantically trying to warn pilot before mid-air collision on Queensland coast

Bee species with horns discovered and named ‘Lucifer’
Insect gets name from Netflix series after scientist finds it on critically endangered wildflower

Aboriginal tracker helping to find missing boy from single footprint
Four-year-old Augustus Lamont was last seen playing at family’s remote Outback farm on Saturday

Parents told to pay £1,000 for their children’s nursery art
Australian school accused of ‘emotional blackmail’ after it said money was needed to pay teachers’ wages

Pictured: Camp where New Zealand fugitive hid three children with weapons and ammo
New Zealand police release images of the base in dense bushland where Tom Phillips and his children eluded detection

Fugitive father shot dead in New Zealand after four years on the run
Tom Phillips had evaded capture since December 2021 when he fled into bushland with his three young children

Australian mushroom murderer sentenced to life in prison
Erin Patterson was convicted of triple murder in July for serving a toxic beef Wellington to her estranged husband’s family

New Zealand fugitive missing for four years seen on CCTV
Police believe footage of supermarket break-in features Tom Phillips and one of his children

Soldier with far-Right ties first person to be convicted of spying in New Zealand
Serviceman admits offering military base maps and photographs to a foreign nation

I chased Australia’s mushroom killer down the street in hopeless pursuit of a motive
Erin Patterson murdered three of her estranged husband’s family with a toxic beef Wellington

Woman loses arm in lion attack at Australian zoo
The victim, in her 50s, was airlifted to hospital after being mauled in the zoo’s ‘carnivore precinct’

‘Death to IDF’: Pro-Palestine protesters storm Jewish restaurant
Glastonbury chant spreads to Australia in ‘return to anti-Semitic terror’

Australian man dies from ‘extremely rare’ virus after bat bite
The man dies several months after contracting Australian bat lyssavirus – a pathogen closely related to rabies

Australian senator who heckled King makes rude gesture at Buckingham Palace
Lidia Thorpe mocked online that she had ‘dropped by to collect all the stuff this lot stole’

Ditching Aukus would harm US, close ally tells Trump
Virginia’s Republican governor says he hopes shipbuilders will ‘have chance’ to continue to ‘build for our allies’

Children of ‘beef wellington killer’ were taken to hospital after eating leftovers
Erin Patterson claimed she removed lethal death cap mushrooms from dish but medics feared toxins may have contaminated the meat, court hears

Jacinda Ardern reveals Queen Elizabeth II’s parenting advice
Former prime minister of New Zealand recalls in memoir what late monarch told her about raising a child in public eye

Watch: Australian MP does a ‘shoey’ in parliament
Kyle McGinn shocks fellow politicians on his last day in office by downing a drink from his shoe

New Zealand abandons Jacinda Ardern’s net zero push
Country plans to expand offshore gas fields following ‘disaster’ ban on oil drilling

Oxford to award degree to Maori princess who died 100 years ago
Makereti Papakura, who enrolled in 1927, is thought to be the first indigenous woman to matriculate from the university

Left-wing government wins Australian election
Incumbent Anthony Albanese declares victory as rival Peter Dutton loses seat

Australia election 2025: Opinion poll tracker
Anthony Albanese goes head-to-head with Peter Dutton in tight race to victory

Woman who served deadly beef wellington ‘put own lunch on different coloured plate’
Alleged killer used grey crockery for her guests while helping herself to orange set during meal in Melbourne, Australia

Runaway sausage dog captured after 529 days on Australian island
Valerie, a miniature dachshund, is alive and well after escaping during a camping trip in 2023

New Zealand could follow Britain in defining sex as biological
Deputy prime minister Winston Peters says ‘the pendulum is swinging back towards common sense and proving us right’

Faulty antenna linked to Australian helicopter crash that killed British couple
Diane and Ron Hughes, from Cheshire, died in a two-aircraft collision near Sea World on the Gold Coast in 2023

New Zealand had a plan to be as rich as Australia. Here’s how it failed
Thousands of Kiwis are leaving the country amid rising unemployment and a gloomy economic outlook

Australia PM candidate drops plan to end government home-working
Peter Dutton apologises for unpopular election pledge which would have involved mass redundancies
