MELBOURNE, Australia — After three years as a prisoner in Beijing, Cheng Lei is busy rebuilding her life. She’s written a ...

Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak arrived Friday in Australia for a quarantine expected to last ...

Gabriel Perkhofer was arrested in 2024 after he traveled from Missouri to Arkansas with the hopes of meeting a mother with ...

Unlike in 2024, China sees an opportunity to influence Australia. That has led Beijing to refrain from criticism.

May 4 (UPI) --Police in central Australia have arrested or charged at least 19 people in connection with last week's riot in Alice Springs, including another 13 charged Monday. The Northern Territory ...

The police in Alice Springs fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse an angry crowd demanding justice. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia Violence erupted across a rural town in ...

FBI Director Kash Patel says a trip to Italy that raised questions earlier in 2026 helped set the stage for the arrest of a Chinese national accused of hacking U.S. COVID-19 research. Xu Zewei is now ...

Prosecutors accused Dr. David Morens, a former adviser to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, of hiding records related to the onset of the pandemic. By Benjamin Mueller Dr. David Morens, a former senior adviser to ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

SWAT team arrests shirtless man in a towel in the missing USF doctoral students case. I moved back to Australia after decades in the US. The culture shock stunned me. Five early signs of bowel cancer ...

Huan Yan is in the State Key Laboratory of Virology and Biosafety, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China. Tackling this question is difficult because ...