WhatsApp messenger users are urged to upgrade the app and their operating systems after hackers were able to exploit a flaw in the platform to remotely install surveillance software on phones using it. After discovering the flaw, platform owner Facebook released its fix this week. All the hackers had to do to get into the app was to call it …

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have shown their baby boy to the world in their first media appearance since his birth. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex posed with their two-day-old baby for a select group of media in St George’s Hall at Windsor Castle on Wednesday morning local time. “He has the sweetest temperament, he’s really calm,” Meghan said. …

A woman has been charged after allegedly egging Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a Country Women’s Association event in Albury. The 24-year-old protestor allegedly went up behind Morrison on Tuesday morning and tried to crack the egg, which then bounced off his head. Morrison’s security team leapt into action and a 70-year-old woman was knocked to the ground. The prime …

Tony Abbott has raised the prospect of restarting car-making in Australia – less than six years after he oversaw the effective shutdown of the nation’s automotive industry. The comments came as a debate between the former prime minister and hustings rival, Independent Zali Steggall, saw jeers and boos erupt at a surf club in Queenscliff, New South Wales, in response …

Police have confirmed they still don’t have the “doctored” lewd Facebook posts of a Tasmanian candidate despite the Prime Minister insisting the Australian Federal Police had been called in to investigate. The New Daily has confirmed with AFP sources that as of 9pm on Thursday there was no referral to the relevant line area of the posts by Tasmanian Liberal candidate …

Sri Lankan authorities have confirmed one of the suicide bombers responsible for the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks attended an Australian university. Sri Lankan Junior Minister for Defence Ruwan Wijewardene said the bomber completed his post-graduate education in Australia. It comes after the death toll was revised up to 359 earlier today. “What I can say is this group, some of …

North Korean state media has confirmed that leader Kim Jong-un will travel to Russia “soon” for his first ever meeting with Vladimir Putin. While no date has been announced, the Kremlin has also said the two will meet “in the second half of April”. Speculation is growing that they’ll meet in Russia’s eastern port of Vladivostok, just hours from their …

A Barnaby Joyce interview and efforts to secure Clive Palmer’s preferences offered bi-partisan distractions as the campaigns continued their charm offensive in marginal battlegrounds. The Opposition Leader kept his campaign in the north, walking a political tightrope over the Adani coal mine in an effort to pick off National Party seats in central Queensland. The Prime Minister, meanwhile, took his …

A Sri Lankan minister says an initial investigation shows the deadly Easter Sunday attacks were carried out in retaliation for last month’s Christchurch mosque shootings. Police announced they had arrested 40 people in connection with the coordinated bomb blasts, while the death toll from the attacks had risen to 321, with more than 500 injured. Two domestic Islamist organisations, including …

A judge in London has found WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange guilty of breaching his bail at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Judge Michael Snow quickly issued his verdict on Thursday after Assange appeared in court, with his supporters packing the public gallery. The basis of Assange’s defence was that he couldn’t expect a fair trial in British courts as the United Kingdom’s …