Good morning. Thailand's junta chief says the Bangkok bombing prime suspect is linked to the heartland of the Red Shirt protest movement. (Analysts disagree.) An armed robber who escaped a NSW prison by tying bedsheets together and putting a pillow over his waist to scale a razor-wired wall has been caught. And Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken a mini-sub to explore a shipwreck off Crimea.
Coming up today: At 9.30am AEST there'll be half-year profit results from Woodside; also today expect full-year results from SEEK, iiNet, Stockland and others. At 10.30am AEST, we're promised a "major announcement" at the National Gallery. At 11.00am AEST, the Defence Force will give an update on Australian operations in the Middle East. At 12pm AEST, a decision is due in the civil trial of former union official Kathy Jackson. At 12.30pm AEST, the AFL's CEO Gillon McLachlan speaks at the National Press Club.
Thai authorities say they are hunting for a suspect seen on CCTV footage strolling into a religious shrine and placing a bomb-laden backpack before an explosion that claimed at least 22 lives.
The Federal Government's plan to change the law to stop environmentalists "sabotaging" major projects could actually result in more time being spent in the courts, a barrister warns.
Armed robber Stephen Jamieson is back behind bars after a jailbreak which saw him escape his maximum security cell and use bed sheets to scale the prison wall.
Australian mountaineer Andrew Lock will receive a bravery commendation for his role in helping rescue three semi-comatose climbers on the slopes of Mount Everest - a feat he described as a "big day out".
The boyfriend and friends of murdered Melbourne schoolgirl Masa Vukotic describe how they will not remember her for the way she died but rather for the life full of fun, love and colour she lived.
Take a look inside Japan's "Strange Hotel", where service at the front desk comes courtesy of a talking dinosaur and your room is complete with a personal assistant the size of a doll.
South Africa's justice minister says he is seeking legal advice on whether the parole board is right to release Oscar Pistorius on house arrest on Friday, after serving a sixth of his five year sentence for killing his girlfriend.
More than three times as many migrants were tracked entering the European Union by irregular means in July compared to the same month last year, official data shows, as a record 107,500 migrants reached the union's borders in July.
Four of the most prominent advocates for Indigenous recognition in the constitution are called to Canberra for talks with the Prime Minister on the way forward to a referendum.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has burnished his action-man image by diving in a mini-submarine to explore a shipwreck off the coast of the Crimea peninsula that Moscow seized from Ukraine last year.
A man known for dressing up in a Batman costume to cheer up sick children in hospital is struck and killed on a highway after his Batmobile breaks down.
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