Terror attack in Australia exposes growing jihadist networks as security experts warn ISIS remains far from defeated despite recent government claims.

The Ashes are over as a contest, but there is still plenty to play for when Australia and England line up for the Boxing Day Test at the MCG.  The hosts seek to extend an 18-match unbeaten

The massacre has prompted a national reckoning about antisemitism and questions about whether the country’s leaders took seriously enough the threat to Australian Jews.

Israel’s Amichai Chikli said Australian officials overlooked rising antisemitism and extremist rhetoric ahead of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack, criticizing the focus on gun laws.

Australia cancelled the visa of a British national after he was charged with displaying a banned Nazi symbol, the immigration minister said on Wednesday, as the country cracks down on antisemitism in the wake of a mass shooting at Bondi Beach.

The authorities are vowing to crack down after a mass shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration. Experts say that what the country needs might not be new laws.

Matilda, described by her school teachers as “our little ray of sunshine,” was enjoying a petting zoo at the festivities on Sunday just before she was killed along with 14 other people.

Australia is on track for a significant expansion of desalination capacity — converting seawater to freshwater — to meet the needs of a swelling population at a time of declining average rainfall.

For Australia’s tiny Jewish population, Bondi Beach was a refuge within a vast country that offered sanctuary to families fleeing a seething hate that killed six million of their kind within the lifetime of some of their oldest members.

Australias Pat Cummins (rested) and Nathan Lyon (hamstring) out of final two Ashes Tests vs England; Jhye Richardson and Todd Murphy added to squad for Boxing Day Test; Steve Smith set to captain at MCG;