Chinese Premier Li Qiang has arrived in Canberra after an earlier visit to Adelaide Zoo, where he confirmed China would lend the facility two new giant pandas.

A woman has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after refusing to drop a knife at a park in Melbourne's inner north.

The Israeli Defense Forces says it will hold daily tactical pauses in military activity in parts of southern Gaza to allow more aid to flow into the area, where international aid organisations have warned of a growing humanitarian crisis. 

Two Jewish mates organise an event that brings hundreds of Canberrans together to raise funds for Australian doctors working in Palestine.

The Minns government will build apartment blocks for Sydney's essential workers, offering them cheap rent so they're not priced out of the city.

Central Coast surfer Josh Roden had no idea who he was rescuing when he pulled former Liberal Party deputy leader Bruce Baird from the water last weekend — simple instinct kicked in.