A NSW police constable fired their gun at a car after the driver of the vehicle allegedly sped towards officers in Sydney’s inner west. The incident, which is under investigation, took place in an underground car park of a unit block in St Peters on Sunday morning. Three officers were called to the apartment complex about 1:15am, following reports of …

he father of the 16-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed an Assyrian Bishop at at Western Sydney church on Monday night was “shocked” and had not noted signs of extremism in his son, a community leader says. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was allegedly lunged at by the 16-year-old boy during a mass service at Assyrian Orthodox Church, Christ The Good Shepherd …

A religious leader has been stabbed and up to three others injured in an attack at a church in Sydney’s west. The attack happened at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley tonight while a bishop was giving a service that was being livestreamed online. Multiple police and ambulance crews have raced to the scene. The injured include four men, believed to be aged …

Six people are dead and at eight others are injured, including a baby, after a mass stabbing at a busy shopping centre in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Police believe there was only one attacker, who was shot dead by officers at Westfield Bondi Junction after an emergency call at about 3.40pm on Saturday. The identity of the victims and attacker are yet to …

More than 60 people have been killed and 145 wounded when camouflage-clad gunmen fired automatic weapons on concertgoers near Moscow with Islamic State claiming responsibility for what was one of the deadliest attacks on Russia in decades. Gunmen sprayed civilians with bullets just before Soviet-era rock group Picnic was to perform to a full house at the 6200-seat the Crocus …

A Queensland father who sexually abused his own daughter nearly every second day over an 11-year period before handing himself into police has been jailed for 12 years for what a judge described as disgusting and unbelievable behaviour. Warning: This story contains content that some readers may find distressing. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced …

A nursing home resident has been credited for fighting off an intruder during a violent sexual attack on New Year’s Day. The 76-year-old woman was in her room in a Coffs Harbour aged-care facility when an unknown man, wearing a stocking over his head, entered through a courtyard door about 2.20am. The man pinned his screaming victim to the bed …

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a judicial decision barring the former US president from Colorado’s Republican primary ballot, taking up a politically explosive case with major implications for the 2024 presidential election. At issue is the Colorado Supreme Court’s December 19 ruling disqualifying Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot based on language in the …

Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyers say their client should receive “substantial damages” even if the judge in his defamation trial finds he was dishonest on “occasions”. Lehrmann’s legal team filed a 136-page written submission with the Federal Court of Australia, which was made public on Friday. They accepted that Justice Michael Lee could make adverse findings about the former Liberal staffer’s honesty. …

An 11-year-old girl has died following a horror crash in the Blue Mountains two weeks ago. She is the third person to die after five vehicles crashed on the Great Western Highway at Wallerawang, 15 kilometres north of Lithgow, in December 29. Two people died initially, while more than a dozen others – including at least five children – were injured. …