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As US investigators built their case against Indian call centre scam mastermind Hitesh Madhubhai Patel they accessed his gmail account and searched for the keyword "script".

Two private schools in Sydney's eastern suburbs have sent students home after positive coronavirus cases were discovered.

Tests of hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19 patients have been halted following a recent report that the anti-malarial drug could increase the mortality in coronavirus patients, the World Health Organisation says.

Millions of dollars raised by Celeste Barber's bushfire appeal can't go to interstate charities but can be used to support injured firefighters and the families of those who died, a NSW court has ruled.

Coronavirus outbreaks will be contained locally rather than by returning to the sweeping statewide shutdowns which succeeded in squashing the deadly disease.

After a day of mixed messages, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says state borders are a matter for Australia and doesn't expect their reopening before the establishment of a trans-Tasman bubble.

The massively underspent JobKeeper scheme could be used to support the battered tourism sector, while the government remains firm it won't be expanded to workers who missed out.

The coronavirus pandemic may exacerbate a widening socio-economic gap in premature death rates that is contributing to a stagnation in Australians' life expectancy, researchers say.

Beauty salons in NSW will be able to open for business in one week as the state government further eases COVID-19 restrictions.

A man has been charged with murdering his 63-year-old neighbour in Adelaide.