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South Australia's worrying COVID-19 cluster has continued to grow, with a school student and another man both confirmed to have the virus.

Researchers led by the World Health Organisation would like to go back to a wholesale food market in Wuhan in China to follow up initial cases of COVID-19 which emerged in the city and investigate how the virus likely first spread from bats.

Amazon.com Inc's widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is experiencing an outage, the company says.

Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers in history and a towering figure in sporting annals, has died of a heart attack at the age of 60.

South Australia will make sweeping reforms to its hotel quarantine system after a cluster of COVID-19 cases, and confirmation of a new infection at an Adelaide high school.

Queensland will dismantle its road border checkpoints as it opens up to almost all of Australia next week.

Big backyard Christmas barbecues are back on the cards after the NSW government eased a slew of COVID-19 restrictions.

Purdue Pharma LP has pleaded guilty to criminal charges over the handling of its addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin, capping a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve an investigation into the drug maker's role in the US opioid crisis.

Two more cases have been added to South Australia's concerning coronavirus cluster with a couple infected while in hotel quarantine in Adelaide, prompting an investigation into how the virus was transmitted.

The second wave that ravaged Victoria is over, with no active cases for the first time in nearly nine months.