The Latest Breaking News from Ben Roberts-Smith

An SAS soldier has testified Ben Roberts-Smith bragged that blowing the brains out of a trembling and unarmed Afghan man was "the most beautiful thing".

Under cross-examination at the defamation trial, the one-time colleague of Ben Roberts-Smith rejects suggestions that he tried to "spread rubbish" about the Victoria Cross recipient, insisting he was telling the truth.

An elite soldier has told the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial that he used the prosthetic leg of a dead Afghan man as a drinking vessel to help him "decompress" and "bond" with fellow soldiers.

MORNING BRIEFING: Escalators up to 46m long are part of the major redevelopment of Sydney's main transport interchange.

Ben Roberts-Smith's lawyer has accused a witness of trying to throw the war hero under a proverbial bus after a clarification emerged in the Federal Court.

On his second day in the witness box in Sydney, SAS member codenamed Person 14 is accused by Ben Roberts-Smith's barrister of punching a female American soldier in the face.

MORNING BRIEFING: Detectives are probing a public shooting in Greenacre overnight, while in Sydney's north a hospital emergency room was evacuated due to fire.

A serving SAS soldier has been pressed on his own disciplinary record after testifying about an alleged war crime during a war hero's defamation trial.

After a six-month pandemic-related delay, Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation battle against three newspapers resumed this week with evidence from two of Australia's most-elite soldiers.