Australia is aiming to offer coronavirus vaccines to the entire population by October with a $1.9 billion funding injection the latest plank of the country's immunisation plan.
Two people buried in an avalanche in Switzerland have been rescued after their dogs barked for help, attracting the attention of nearby snow-shoers who were able to dig them out.
The travel bubble from New Zealand to Australia has been reopened after health authorities on both sides of the Tasman were satisfied cases of a highly infectious variant of COVID-19 were contained to three people.
Caravanning and camping has been a blessing for Australia's pandemic-ravaged tourism sector, but there's a call to make it even more appealing in the form of a tax deduction.
Nearly 100 foreign tourists have been caught hitting Austria's ski slopes in violation of the country's coronavirus rules during a ski resort raid by police.
As NSW records its 13th day without a local coronavirus transmission, the long-running border control spat between Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her Queensland counterpart remains.