The World Today

US President Donald Trump is departing the G7 in Canada early to deal with the unfolding crisis in the Middle East, reportedly ordering the situation room be prepared. Earlier, he called for a complete evacuation of the Iranian capital Tehran.

As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prepares to meet with US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Canada, key defence figures on both sides of the Atlantic warn the risks to the AUKUS security pact run much deeper than previously acknowledged. 

Middle east tensions dramatically escalate, with Israel launching strikes against Iran, targeting what it says are Iranian nuclear facilities.

The Trump administration announces a review into the AUKUS defence pact. Is it a wake-up call for Australia? Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks with The World Today.

A majority fertility group incorrectly transfers the wrong embryo from a patient - the second such incident in recent months.

Donald Trump condemned for sending US troops in to quell unrest on the streets of Los Angeles - despite local officials insisting they'll only escalate tensions.

The rift is widening between US President Donald Trump and his former close ally - tech billionaire Elon Musk - with the pair trading bitter accusations on social media. 

The US has banned visitors from 12 countries like Afghanistan, Haiti and Iran, with stricter border controls on another seven countries.

Alarming new national accounts data shows gross domestic product or G-D-P rose just point-two of one per cent in the March quarter. 

Erin Patterson has broken down in tears giving evidence for the second day in her triple-murder trial in regional Victoria.

Investigations are underway after a man used a makeshift flamethrower on a crowd gathered to support hostages in Gaza.

The Trump administration's sweeping tariffs are back on, reinstated by a United States federal appeals court after another court deemed them illegal.

The cross-examination of the prosecution's last witness, the investigating police detective, has taken the stand in Victoria's mushroom triple murder trial

As the NSW flood clean up continues, a team of veterans funded by the federal government joins the recovery effort.

Flood-ravaged communities on the New South Wales mid-north coast are moving into recovery mode with Defence personnel and specialist disaster relief teams now on the ground to help with the clean up.

The Prime Minister has announced further flood support for the Mid North coast of New South Wales, including deploying defence personnel, to help with the clean up.

There have been at least four deaths in the New South Wales flood emergency which has isolated tens of thousands from the state's central coast to Grafton in the north.

The first death has been recorded in the New South Wales flood emergency and three people are missing as severe rain and record river levels inundate towns on the state's Mid North Coast.

The UK halts free trade negotiations with Israel and sanctions West Bank settlements, in an unprecedented rebuke of Israel's military actions in Gaza.

The Nationals will not be re-entering a Coalition agreement with the Liberal party, ending a 79-year-relationship.

Former US President Joe Biden, and his family, are reviewing treatment options, after the 82-year-old was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Special Forces veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has lost his appeal over a multi-million dollar defamation ruling.

New employment figures reveal much stronger jobs growth than had been forecast.

New official data shows Australian workers have seen their wages rise faster than inflation.

Sussan Ley has become Australia's first female Opposition leader and the first woman to lead the Liberal party in its 81 year history.

A handful of knife-edge seats have been decided in the Federal election, as Nationals MPs prepare for a leadership vote.

World leaders have congratulated the first American pope - Chicago-born Robert Prevost on his election as Pope Leo XIV.

Cardinals in the Vatican will continuing voting for a new Pope, after their first attempt to elect the next Pontiff was unsuccessful.

Indian missile strikes hit nine sites in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, killing eight and injuring 35, in major escalating tensions on the subcontinent.

The only guest left alive after the fatal mushroom lunch takes the stand in Victoria's triple murder trial.

The Coalition has been left reeling without a leader after a major election defeat on the weekend.

Queues have formed outside many early voting centres again today, as Australians choose who will sit in the next Federal Parliament.

Erin Patterson's estranged husband, whose parents both died after the fateful meal, has given emotional evidence in the triple-murder trial.

New figures show the RBA's preferred measure of inflation has fallen within its target band for the first time in more than three years.

A lunch of Beef Wellington, allegedly laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms, is at the heart of a triple murder trial which began in Morwell, Victoria today.

With just five days to go until election day both leaders have stepped up the tempo of their campaigns, in the hopes of winning over millions of undecided voters.

Hundreds of thousands of Australians have gathered at Dawn Services across the country to pay tribute to the ANZACs. 

Chronic disease now afflicts more than 60 per cent of Australians and one of the issues on voters' minds this election is the availability and cost of seeing a doctor.

Donald Trump softens on his trade war with China.

Cardinals are gathering in the Vatican, as Catholics around the world mourn Pope Francis.

It's been a tragic weekend in the water this Easter with the death of a young boy taking the toll to seven; 

New jobs data in the middle of the federal election campaign has shown the unemployment rate has risen  to 4.1 per cent.