An elite Australian soldier tells a court that war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith repeatedly shot an Afghan man in the back and ordered a colleague to execute another.

The reserve bank governor urges people to have financial buffers, admitting that interest rates might rise this year - two years earlier than it previously predicted.

And disaster-hit Tonga feared post tsunami aid deliveries would also bring COVID, now two port workers are positive and a lockdown's descending, but is the virus already spreading?