The Prime Minister says disturbing images of a dead Syrian child on a Turkish beach show the need to "stop the boats", amid stinging criticism from the New York Times of Australia's "unconscionable" border protection methods.
Jarryd Hayne has once again impressed as the San Francisco 49ers take on the San Diego Chargers in their final NFL preseason trial, all-but ensuring himself of a spot in the 53-man squad.
The former head of the Australian Defence Force, Retired General Peter Gration, signs an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott opposing bombing raids in Syria.
Asylum seekers scuffle with riot police while others throw themselves onto train tracks and flee as authorities try to take them to a reception centre in Hungary.
A high-powered parliamentary committee recommends narrowing the scope of proposed new citizenship laws and making them retrospective in limited circumstances.
NSW Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham tells a parliamentary committee he broke the law by consuming cannabis this morning, during a question about the hemp industry.
A county clerk in Kentucky who says she is "upholding the word of God" is held in contempt and sent to jail for refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples.
Republican frontrunner and brash billionaire Donald Trump bows to pressure from the party establishment, signing a pledge not to run as an independent candidate in the November 2016 presidential election.
A hamster-sized BB-8 droid and an updated Millennium Falcon spacecraft emerge as some of the most talked-about new Star Wars toys, ahead of the release of new movie The Force Awakens.
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