EACH NRL CLUB'S BIGGEST SELECTION HEADACHE HEADING INTO TRIAL SEASONBRISBANE: WingAfter a failed halves experiment last year, former skipper Darius Boyd's best chance to crack the starting side may be on the wing with Jamayne Isaako in line for No.1 and Jack Bird and Kotoni Staggs set for the centres.

Disney's new streaming service Disney+ has reached 28.6 million paying subscribers as its quarterly earnings beat Wall Street forecasts.

A military mother who pushed for a royal commission into veteran suicide after her son took his own life says a new inquiry is a step in the right direction.

A rogue Australian trader at a Sydney-based financial firm who admitted "spoofing" futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has avoided a US prison sentence.

The grandmother of four children killed by an alleged drink-driver as they were going to get ice cream in Sydney's west says the pain of the tragedy is "too much to handle".

Allrounder Mitch Marsh is relieved to return from the international cricket wilderness as Australian selectors snub Marcus Stoinis for the short-format tour of South Africa.

A man swearing and muttering incoherently has opened fire aboard a packed bus in southern California, killing one person and wounding five others in a seemingly random attack before passengers disarmed him.

Another batch of stranded Australians are preparing to evacuate from the epicentre of the coronavirus in China to New Zealand after more than 200 citizens and residents were taken to Christmas Island overnight.

Japanese officials have begun screening more than 3700 passengers and crew on a cruise ship quarantined off the port of Yokohama near Tokyo after a Hong Kong man who sailed on the vessel last month tested positive for coronavirus.

Nationals backbencher Barnaby Joyce has warned colleagues against allowing bushfires to be used for advancing "hobby horse" issues, in a thinly veiled reference to climate change.