Victorian cricket authorities are on guard as local matches become the focus of international betting.

A new personalised vaccine against melanoma has almost halved the rate of recurrence and death in a major turning point described as cancer’s “penicillin moment”.

A Queensland rookie cop who survived a deadly ambush on a remote Western Downs property sent messages to family saying she thought she was going to die as the killers tried to hunt her down.

And frequently giving young children mobile devices to calm them down may prevent them from learning normal emotion regulation strategies, a study has found.

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