Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, who was at the airport ahead of the team's departure, said border force officials made multiple representations to the players before they were due to depart Sydney.

Lebanese leaders and aid groups warned of a growing humanitarian crisis as Israel targeted Hezbollah. The Pentagon said 140 American service members had been wounded, eight severely, in the war.

His father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had turned what was traditionally a religious affairs office into a shadowy national security juggernaut.

President Trump's assurances that a rising U.S. death toll and soaring energy prices will be temporary and worth the pain are failing to assuage jittery investors.

Donald Trump said the US is 'very far' ahead of the initial timeframe in its war with Iran, and has made a renewed Strait of Hormuz threat as chaos grips the oil market ...