Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Afternoon Update here, and start your day with our Morning Mail newsletter.Welcome, readers, to Afternoon Update.The Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, has died in a helicopter crash in foggy weather in the mountains near the border with Azerbaijan, Iranian state media has reported. The foreign...

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Psychologist admitted to supplying or offering crystal meth, amphetamine and Xanax to a patient on multiple occasionsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA psychologist who supplied crystal methamphetamine to a patient and asked others to take urine tests on her...

Police commissioner Michael Murphy tells court he did not accept recommendation to demote the sergeant because he admitted sharing the photo and was contriteFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA Northern Territory police sergeant shared a photo of a topless Aboriginal...

Hundreds of Australian and New Zealand travellers are stuck in the French Pacific territory where protests and violence are preventing access to the airportHundreds of Australian and New Zealand tourists stranded in New Caledonia amid deadly unrest are anxiously waiting on French authorities to allow air travel out of the territory, as their governments...

The Australian Electoral Commission says Australia won't be 'immune' to AI-generated misinformation at its next election. 'I can't give you a prediction about whether it will be used,' the AEC commissioner, Tom Rogers, said. 'But we're seeing increased use in these types of tactics in elections around the world. I don't think we're going to be immune...