Zuckerberg backs down on previous free-speech argument as he orders Facebook and Instagram to remove Holocaust denial and distortion posts.

US President Donald Trump’s White House doctor says Trump has tested negative for COVID-19 on consecutive days using a newer rapid test from Abbott laboratories.

Trump tells thousands of cheering, mostly mask-free supporters in Florida at his first campaign rally since he was diagnosed with COVID-19: ‘I feel so powerful’.

UK medical journal Lancet reports that a man who was hospitalised with COVID-19 after he was diagnosed twice had caught two different strains of coronavirus.

The participant’s unexplained illness is under investigation.

A women’s rights group, said 889 rapes, including many gang rapes, occurred between January and August this year. At least 41 victims died.

Australia should be able to open its borders in a limited way to countries such as New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Singapore – but we’ll have to accept the extra risks too.

The value of Australian exports to China fell by more than 5 per cent in the year to September despite China’s global imports surging.

US officials last week repeated calls for Taiwan to spend more on its own defence to make clear to China the risks of attempting to invade.

Authorities have arrested 12 people and dispatched hundreds of armed military and police officers to the camp to try to contain clashes.