Perth’s iconic Cottesloe beach has been shut down after a two-metre bronze whaler shark breached the barrier net on Wednesday morning, winding up trapped on the swimmer side of the ocean.

A two-metre bronze whaler inside a new shark barrier at Cottesloe Beach has been freed after a 27-hour operation, but the probe into the animal allegedly being shot with a speargun continues.

Disgraced former congressman George Santos, facing a federal prison sentence, has won a few months' freedom to come up with ...

We brought you reports earlier that one person had been killed following a Russian attack in Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia (see 2.05pm post). The region's governor has now reported ...

As talks continued in Qatar, the Israeli military carried out strikes across the enclave, killing at least 17 people, Palestinian medics said.