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A 16-year-old boy has allegedly ridden an unregistered motorbike and crashed into a pole while trying to avoid police in Melbourne.

A teenager has been charged with assaulting a 44-year-old man northwest of Sydney.

Two men and a woman have been charged after a traffic officer was allegedly assaulted while carrying out random breath tests on a road on the Gold Coast.

A woman is in hospital after rolling her car following a police chase in Sydney's west.

A man wanted on warrants in the ACT has been charged in southern New South Wales for a clutch of further offences including drug possession and carrying an illegal firearm.

Colombian police have raised the death toll from a car bomb that exploded in a police academy in the capital Bogota to 21.

International student Aiia Maasarwe loved Melbourne, the city in which she lost her life and where on Friday police arrested a man in connection with the 21-year-old's appalling death.

Queen Elizabeth's 97-year-old husband Prince Philip is recovering at the couple's home in eastern England after escaping without injury when his Land Rover flipped over following a crash with another vehicle.

Sufficient evidence exists to support pill testing trials, a prominent group of doctors has told state and territory leaders.

The royal commission into Australia's aged care sector comes amid a "rising torrent" of concern over safety and quality but is a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to forge a better path, the inquiry has been told.