A man has been charged with stalking and intimidation after he allegedly threatened the residents of a home in Maitland, northern NSW.

An elderly man has been robbed on a NSW street in broad daylight and police want the public's help to find his assailant.

A man has tried to grab a four-year-old boy at a northwest Sydney shopping centre while the child was with his mother.

Pro-choice advocates are optimistic a bill to decriminalise abortion in NSW will soon become law after it cleared a significant hurdle by passing through the state's lower house.

A magnitude-6 earthquake has shaken Taiwan, the island's Central Weather Bureau says, with one person killed and others injured .

Federal Labor frontbencher Chris Bowen says the parents of stillborn babies are being denied a bereavement payment and is demanding an end to what he says is a terrible injustice.

No forensic evidence, no known eyewitnesses and a "sneaky, complex" abductor make the disappearance of William Tyrrell among the world's hardest cases to solve, an inquest has been told.

The trade war between China and the United States is hurting Australia's stock market and both sides of politics want "cool heads" to ease the tension.

One of Australia's top intelligence chiefs has warned leaks of classified information could cause grave damage to the national interest and global partnerships.

Paul Keating has lashed out at Liberal MPs agitating to scrap a rise in the superannuation guarantee, likening the backbench push to climate change denial.