Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton has confirmed that his family home was the target of an alleged bomb plot but says concerns for his personal safety did not restrict his election campaigning.

Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz have powered the U.S. into the semifinals of the United Cup mixed teams tennis event.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has received a red-carpet welcome in Malaysia on the last leg of a regional tour.

Novak Djokovic made a triumphant return to Perth after a decade and led Serbia to a 2-1 win over China at the United Cup.

Officials say a wildfire burning out of control on the outskirts of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed at least two homes and injured two men.

Australian authorities say dozens of residents have been evacuated and at least 10 homes have been destroyed by a wildfire that's burning out of control during heat wave spring conditions on the northern fringe of the west coast city of Perth.

Morocco has beaten Colombia 1-0 to reach the Women’s World Cup knockout round, creating yet more history in a dramatic conclusion to the group stage.

Canada recovered from conceding directly from a corner kick to seal a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Ireland at the Women’s World Cup.

Australia has suspended a complaint to the World Trade Organization in a bid to reopen the Chinese market to Australian barley for the first time in three years.

Islam Makhachev defied a rowdy crowd and a sustained challenge from Alexander Volkanovski to cement his supremacy in the UFC lightweight division in a grueling fight in Perth, Western Australia.

Authorities in Western Australia have recovered a tiny but dangerous radioactive capsule that fell off a truck while being transported along a 870-mile highway last month.

A mining corporation has apologized for losing a highly radioactive capsule over a 870-mile stretch of Western Australia.

Australia is fully open to vaccinated travelers after Western Australia became the last state to lift border restrictions.

Anyone could be forgiven for forgetting a pandemic ever happened on Australia’s west coast.

Australia's prime minister says the World Trade Organization should penalize China for “bad behavior when it occurs.”.

Protesters rally outside the Rio Tinto office in Perth, Australia, on June 9, 2020. Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson said Wednesday, March 3, 2021 he was accountable for the mining giant destroying sacred Indigenous sites in Australia to access iron ore and he will not seek reelection as a board director next year. Rio Tinto announced on Wednesday that director Michael L’Estrange would retire from the board at the conclusion of the April annual general meetings in Britain and Australia. L’Estrange led a widely criticized internal review of how the rock shelters came to be blasted against traditional owners’ wishes. The Western Australian government has promised to update Indigenous heritage laws that allowed Rio Tinto to legally destroy the sacred sites.

In this photo provided by Department of Fire and Emergency Services, a firefighter attends a fire near Wooroloo, northeast of Perth, Australia, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. An out-of-control wildfire burning northeast of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed dozens of homes and was threatening more. (Evan Collis/DFES via AP)PERTH – More than 70 homes have been lost in a wildfire outside Australia's western city of Perth that is expected to continue burning for days. Many people who had fled to evacuation centers were unsure whether their homes had survived, he said. “We can’t get accurate information yet because the fire ground is unsafe for crews to assess what’s happened there,” Bailey said.

Firefighters attend a fire at Wooroloo, near Perth, Australia, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. An out-of-control wildfire burning northeast of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed an estimated 30 homes and was threatening more Tuesday, with many locals across the region told it is too late to leave. (Evan Collis/DFES via AP)PERTH – An out-of-control wildfire burning northeast of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed at least 59 homes and was threatening more Tuesday, with many residents across the region told it is too late to leave. State Premier Mark McGowan said 80% of all properties at Tilden Park near Gidgegannup on Perth's northeast rural fringe have been lost. McGowan said a large aerial tanker was flying from the Australian east coast to help fight the blaze.

Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques attends an annual general meeting in Perth, May 9, 2019. Jacques will leave the Anglo-Australian mining giant by March, 2021, over the destruction of the sacred sites, the company said on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. (Will Russell/AAP Image via AP)CANBERRA – Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques will leave the Anglo-Australian mining giant by March over the destruction of Australian Indigenous sacred sites to access iron ore, the company said on Friday. “Significant stakeholders have expressed concerns about executive accountability for the failings identified,” Rio Tinto said in a statement. Jamie Lowe, chief executive of the National Native Title Council, which represents Australia's traditional owners of the land, said he had called on Rio Tinto to take more action than cutting executive bonuses.

Protesters rally outside the Rio Tinto office in Perth, Australia, June 9, 2020. Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques will lose around $3.5 million in bonuses due to the destruction in May of Australian indigenous sacred sites, the mining company said on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. (Richard Wainwright/AAP Image via AP)CANBERRA Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques will lose around $3.5 million in bonuses due to the destruction of Australian Indigenous sacred sites to access iron ore, the mining company said on Monday. The destruction of the rock shelters should not have happened and we are absolutely committed to listening, learning and changing, Rio Tinto said in a statement. The Western Australian government has promised to update Indigenous heritage laws that allowed Rio Tinto to legally destroy the sacred sites.