A fourth woman has come forward to allege she was sexually assaulted by the same political staffer accused of raping a colleague inside Parliament House. The woman alleges the former Liberal Party staffer reached under the table to stroke her thigh at a Canberra bar in 2017. She has filed a report at a police station in Canberra and will …

The US Senate has voted to acquit former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. A two-thirds majority — 67 or more guilty votes — was required to convict the former president. Senators voted 57-43 guilty on the charge of incitement of insurrection. In the vote, seven of the 50 Senate Republicans joined the chamber’s unified Democrats in favouring …

An Australian infectious disease expert says Chinese authorities refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic. The team had requested raw patient data on the 174 cases of COVID-19 that China had identified from the early phase of the outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, as well …

Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial could conclude on Saturday, leaving a divided U.S. Senate to decide whether the former president incited his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a last-ditch effort to stay in power after his November election defeat. Trump is the first U.S. president to be impeached twice and the first to face trial …

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. The use of the air compression device by the man for his asthma has been blamed for spreading the UK strain of COVID-19 through the Holiday Inn hotel at Melbourne Airport, leading to a five-day lockdown …

Georgia’s secretary of state has opened an investigation into former US president Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. The investigation comes after Mr Trump was recorded in a January 2 phone call pressuring Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results based on false voter fraud claims. “The Secretary of State’s office investigates complaints it receives,” said …

The World Health Organization team in the Chinese city of Wuhan says viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 can be found in many animals, but they have been unable to find direct evidence of animal-human transmission. The team, along with Chinese experts and counterparts, held a press conference to announce the conclusion into their fact-finding mission into the origins of COVID-19 in the …

Grace Tame will confront “heavy topics” and wants to dismantle the system of grooming used by predators as 2021’s Australian of the Year. When she was just 15 years old, Ms Tame was groomed and sexually abused. Ms Tame went on to fight for reform to Tasmanian laws that prevented survivors of sexual abuse from speaking publicly and self-identifying. As Australian of the …

Spanish tennis player Paula Badosa has described her time in hotel quarantine as the worst experience of her career, saying she felt “abandoned” by Australian Open organisers. Badosa, ranked 67th in the world, was the first player to test positive for coronavirus upon arriving in Australia ahead of the tournament and she has been in quarantine in Melbourne along with about 70 …

In a show of gratitude with his palms together and wearing a black blindfold, the first of 11 Chinese gold miners has been winched to safety on Sunday, 14 days after they were trapped by an underground explosion. Footage showed the first miner to be rescued, a black blindfold across his eyes, being lifted out of a mine shaft on …