Australia's foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, says the government is "alarmed" by Israel's attacks on Iran, warning the escalation risks further destabilising the region.
Israel launched strikes on Iran aimed at "dozens" of targets including its nuclear facilities, military commanders and scientists, claiming it took unilateral action because Tehran had begun to build nuclear warheads.
Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the attack, dubbed Rising Lion, was aimed at "rolling back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival", adding that it would take "many days".
Iranian state media said the head of the Revolutionary Guard, Gen Hossein Salami, and the army chief of staff, Maj Gen Mohammad Bagheri, had been killed in the strikes, as well as two scientists whom it named as Fereydoun Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi.
An Iranian security source told the Reuters news agency "the response to the Israeli attack will be harsh and decisive". Israeli media reported that Iran has launched 100 drones towards Israel.
Rescue teams with sniffer dogs were combing the crash site of a London-bound Air India passenger jet that ploughed into a residential area of Ahmedabad, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground. One man aboard the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner - carrying 242 passengers and crew - miraculously survived Thursday's crash, which left the aircraft's tail jutting out of the second floor of a hostel for medical staff from a nearby hospital.
"This is not just an environmental imperative. It's an economic imperative, and we have some great opportunities with our solar and wind resources in Australia to actually become global leaders in that space"- Liberal senator Maria Kovacic.
Kovacic has said Coalition MPs should stop questioning climate change science and instead fully embrace emissions policies to deliver net zero by 2050, warning that Australia's environment and economy are at risk.
New data shows a 25% spike in the number of people leaving Australia for short-term foreign trips, while the country also appears to have become an increasingly popular destination for foreign tourists. About 641,000 visitors arrived in Australia in April 2025 for short-term trips, up 8.1% from the previous April.
Julianne Moore has played some mothers in her time. Her latest screen mum is in the jangling new thriller Echo Valley. She has a lot of heavy lifting to do as Kate, a morally compromised rancher whose farm is falling apart, along with her life.
Ahead of her new film - in which she fights, dives and wrangles horses - the Oscar-winning actor discusses sunburn, age-gaps and hanging from helicopters.
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