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Authorities are yet to rule out an extension to Victoria's five-day "circuit breaker" lockdown, as the state recorded one new locally acquired case of COVID-19.

China has fired back at the US over allegations that Beijing withheld some information about the coronavirus outbreak from World Health Organisation investigators.

A false-negative test result from a Holiday Inn hotel worker put Victorian authorities off the scent of a family function where COVID-19 spread into the community.

The US Senate has acquitted Donald Trump of inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol last month, sparing him from conviction in his second impeachment trial in a year despite broad condemnation of his role in sparking the deadly siege.

Victoria's hotel quarantine authority denies it knew a man took a nebuliser into the venue at the heart of the state's current coronavirus outbreak.

A four-metre crocodile believed to be behind a fatal attack on a missing fisherman in north Queensland has been captured and killed, after human remains were found.

NSW police and surf lifesavers have been praised for their heroic efforts after two rock fishermen drowned but a third survived after being swept off rocks near Port Kembla south of Sydney.

The defence lawyers for former president Donald Trump have wrapped up their presentation in the former president's impeachment trial.

Victoria will enter a "short, sharp circuit-breaker" lockdown for five days amid fears the highly infectious UK strain of coronavirus has spread in the community.

MELBOURNE AIRPORT HOLIDAY INN OUTBREAK* Thirteen COVID-19 cases have been linked to the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport, with hundreds of close contacts in isolation* Genetic testing has confirmed the virus is the highly-infectious B.1.1.7 UK variant* Anyone who visited Jetstar (Terminal 4) at Melbourne Airport on Tuesday between 4.45am...