There were emotional scenes at Sydney airport yesterday evening as a mother and daughter involved in a cocktail poisoning scare arrived home from Fiji; Brisbane is on high alert for measles after a 2-year-old boy tested positive for the disease at the weekend; US officials are sending a drone detection system to New York following panic and confusion over unidentified objects in the skies over the east coast.

7NEWS Headlines with Gemma Acton for December 17, 2024.

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