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More than 10 million Americans have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as the year-old pandemic roars on unchecked.

NSW will require at least another three weeks to fully extinguish COVID-19 clusters around Greater Sydney, health authorities have warned.

The world faces a ghastly future, threatening the survival of all species, unless urgent and decisive action is taken to slow climate change and biodiversity loss, an international group of 17 leading scientists says.

Tasmania is calling on citizen scientists to help record little penguin numbers so threats to their colonies can be better managed.

St Kilda defender Dylan Roberton has taken time away from football as he contemplates his AFL career.

Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has been rewarded with a two-year contract extension after helping lift the AFL club back into premiership contention last season.

A $1 million reward is on offer to help solve the cold case bashing murder of a Victorian grandmother during a "burglary gone wrong".

Anthony Albanese has declined to buy into a backlash against the renaming of iconic Australian cheese brand Coon.

Australia's two-time Dakar motorcycle champion Toby Price has been forced to exit this year's race after crashing in the Saudi Arabian desert.

The start of the Formula One season has been delayed after the Australian Grand Prix was postponed from March to November because of the COVID-19 pandemic.