A magnitude 7.5 earthquake has killed more than 200 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The toll, which includes 12 girls killed in a stampede to flee their school, is expected to rise as rescuers reach remote areas.
A man in his 50s and a four-year-old boy have been injured when shots were fired into a house in Melbourne. ABC reporter Gloria Kalache says one of the rounds hit and critically injured the man.
Eating 50g a day of processed meats such as bacon, ham or sausages raises the risk of colon cancer by 18 per cent, the WHO says. They're now listed in the same category as tobacco, but an expert says "that doesn't mean eating meat is the same as smoking cigarettes". (Phew...)
Put down your phone. Your selfies will never match this guy's.
Here's what's coming up today:
8:00am AEDT: Senate hearings into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan begin in Griffith, NSW
A powerful earthquake strikes the remote Afghan north-east, killing more than 200 people in Afghanistan and nearby northern Pakistan and sending shock waves as far as New Delhi.
Eating sausages, ham and other processed meats causes colon cancer, and red meat "probably" does too, an arm of the World Health Organisation says, in a potentially heavy blow for the global meat industry.
The Coalition pulls ahead of Labor in a new opinion poll, recording its strongest result in almost two years, as Malcolm Turnbull extends his lead over the Labor leader.
More young Australians need to be encouraged to consider a career in cyber-security to help build a "human firewall" against online attacks, according to the Federal Government's eSafety Commissioner for Children.
Four years ago Ella Ingram was unable to travel on a school trip to New York because of depression. The resulting legal tussle with her insurance company could become a watershed for an industry which routinely refuses to cover people with a mental illness.
An Australian soldier turned Al Qaeda member who dropped off the map years ago appears to have dramatically resurfaced as a senior combat commander fighting against Western forces in Syria.
The former head of the Reserve Bank and Climate Change Authority says it is "nonsense" and "obscene" for the Federal Government to argue there is a "moral case" to open new coal mines.
A South Australian company will launch the country's first 100 per cent renewable energy utility business, the latest in an energy revolution sweeping across Australia which could spell the end of the power grid as we know it.
In response to a question from the daughter of a farmer who took his own life after battling coal seam gas companies, Nationals senator Fiona Nash calls for law changes to allow farmers to block exploration on their properties.
One of India's most wanted gangsters, sought by police since 1995 for running a crime syndicate that engaged in extortion, arms smuggling and contract killing, is arrested on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Taiwanese marine biologists discover a mass of plastic bags and fishing net in the stomach of a dead whale, underlying the dangers posed by floating ocean trash.
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