Melbourne

A 68-year-old man is fighting for his life after being run over by his own car in Heidelberg West, and police are pleading with the driver to hand herself in

The man had been inside his home for about a minute before a woman took the running Honda CR-V from outside on Saturday night.

National

A GP on trial for manslaughter arrived at a home birth without her medical bag and was talked through CPR by a triple zero operator, a court has heard

Robyn Mary James has pleaded not guilty over the death of Vicki Butler, who died hours after giving birth at her Ipswich home in December 2017.

Melbourne

Victorian public hospital doctors will strike for the first time in 20 years, walking out of the Royal Melbourne, Royal Children's and Royal Women's on August 13

Ninety-seven per cent of members voted for the stoppage, which halts non-urgent services at Parkville and CBD hospitals for three and a half hours.

Melbourne

Victoria had one bird flu case on Thursday. It has seven today, and the shearwaters land in seven weeks.

Six more cases were confirmed in Victoria on Monday, four days after the state's first, as Australia recorded its first mass bird flu mortality event.

Melbourne

One Nation barred the ABC, The Age and the Guardian from its Victorian launch, the third time it has locked reporters out this year

Pauline Hanson is running the sequence Donald Trump used on the White House press corps, in a country with no constitutional protection for the press.

Sport

Lucas Herrington is about to become Australia’s most expensive footballer, seven months after Brisbane Roar sold him for $750,000

The Roar also sold their sell-on clause to Colorado, so a fee of up to $38 million will earn the A-League club nothing.

Melbourne

Dandenong is the worst suburb in the state for numberplate theft off the street, with 310 in a year

The five worst suburbs in Victoria are all in Melbourne, and police have named the individual streets where it happens most.

Technology

WATCH: AI companies are buying rare books in bulk, cutting the spines off and shredding them, and a US judge has ruled it legal

Booksellers in four countries report bulk orders with no pattern beyond an ISBN, and the broker marketing the service warned clients the optics were a problem.

National

In the first three months of the under-16 social media ban, the number of kids using it fell from 85.9 per cent to 81.5

The eSafety data was collected in March and April and published today, more than seven months after the restrictions took effect.

Melbourne

Victorian teachers will strike for a third time on August 19, and there is currently no education minister to negotiate with

The Australian Education Union says nothing has moved since the July 17 offer was rejected, and no further talks have been scheduled.

Technology

Anthropic found its own models had hacked three real companies, and it only went looking because OpenAI got caught

A review of 141,006 test runs found breaches dating back to April, and two of the three companies did not know until Anthropic told them.

world

Fauci refused to answer 15 questions about the last pandemic while Trump pushes to strip vaccines before the next one

Rand Paul will move a contempt vote next week, days after the administration banned the gain-of-function research at the centre of his case.