Firefighters prepare for potentially devastating conditions across Victoria today as locals warned to get out of danger zones before it's too late.

Russia urged respect international law as desperate efforts are made to locate Oscar Jenkins - the Melbourne man captured while fighting for Ukraine.

Renters deal with unprecedented price increases - making life increasingly difficult in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.

French man Dominique Pelicot has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars after he was found guilty of drugging and raping his wife Gisele.

Penny Wong uses a visit to Kyiv to reopen Australia's Ukraine Embassy as Russia makes an arrest over the assassination of a top general in Moscow.

Australia rushing aid to Vanuatu as a massive earthquakes strikes - destroying houses and critical infrastructure - with the death toll expected to rise.

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad says he would have stayed and fought - if it wasn't for his Russian allies making him to leave.

The story behind the top secret negotiations which has seen the last of the Bali 9 drug smugglers released from an Indonesian prison and returned to Australia as free men.

The Coalition claims its nuclear plan is significantly cheaper than Labor's renewable energy policy

Iran's Supreme leader accuses the US and Israel of toppling the Assad Regime in Syria as fears grow that the instability could allow the return of Islamic State.