At least 717 pilgrims are killed in a crush at Mina, outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca, where two million people are performing the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
Telecommunications companies urge the Government to urgently shed light on the distribution of $131 million of funds to help them collect and keep customer information for national security purposes.
Environment Minister Greg Hunt confirms he "killed" the idea of a review into the Bureau of Meteorology over claims it was exaggerating estimates of global warming.
Environmentalists and teachers are up in arms over a new Federal Government anti-radicalisation kit that links green activism and "alternative music" to terrorism.
A "not-for-profit" Aboriginal organisation in the Northern Territory makes a $700,000 termination payment to a former general manager in circumstances described by a government watchdog as "questionable".
Pope Francis tells Congress the United States should reject hostility to immigrants and treat them humanely, directly addressing a thorny subject that is dividing the country.
A 50-year-old woman is charged with extorting Queensland MP Billy Gordon. It comes after police yesterday said they would not proceed with domestic violence allegations against him owing to insufficient evidence.
Italian researchers say they might have found bone fragments belonging to the woman immortalised by Leonardo da Vinci in his acclaimed Mona Lisa portrait, but it is impossible to know for sure.
Mandatory minimum jail sentences should apply to domestic violence perpetrators, mimicking New South Wales' "one-punch" laws, an advisor to the Prime Minister says
Plastic surgeons are urged to stop using popular breast implants manufactured by Brazilian company Silimed, sales of which have been suspended in Europe.
Syrians who have come to Australia by boat and are held in detention centres plead for the Government to accept them as part of its special intake of 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
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