A United Nations report has accused the Syrian Government of exterminating prisoners on a mass scale through execution, torture and squalid conditions. One witness described how an elderly man was severely beaten and hung from his wrists while guards pierced his body with hot, sharp metal objects
Indigenous leaders have warned the Closing the Gap policy has slipped seriously off track and is doomed to fail without more input from Indigenous communities. The policy is now in its tenth year and the new report will be released tomorrow
Missed Q&A last night? We've got the full wrap of what happened here, including Rural Affairs Minister Fiona Nash promising to ditch her private health cover while in office
People in China are paying upwards of $160 for a jar of clean country air. The bizarre new industry is proving popular in heavily-polluted cities such as Beijing and Shanghai
Here's what's coming up:
8:30am AEDT: Experts from around Australia will come together to discuss the public health effects of children and young people being exposed to pornography too early
9:00am AEDT: Head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, will speak to reporters in Canberra with Resources Minister Josh Frydenberg
9:00am AEDT: Defence Minister Marise Payne gives the keynote address to the Australian Defence Magazine Annual Congress. Defence Force Chief Mark Binskin and Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Tim Barrett will also speak at the event
10:00am AEDT: The Supreme Court trial continues for Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara, who are accused of murdering Jamie Gao
11:30am AEDT: V/Line bosses will appear before the Victorian Parliament's infrastructure inquiry to explain the ongoing debacle with train wheel wear and boom gates
Detainees held by the Syrian government are dying on a massive scale amounting to a state policy of "extermination" of the civilian population, a United Nations investigation says.
Aboriginal leaders are calling for a new compact with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull amid warnings that the Government's signature Closing the Gap has slipped seriously off track.
Increased air pollution around the world is giving rise to a bizarre new industry known as air farming, where bottled fresh air is sold to consumers at a premium.
Questions are raised over whether one of Australia's most decorated and respected military minds is linked to potential war crimes carried out by United Arab Emirates forces in Yemen.
The right decision was ultimately made, but the process in which Mitchell Marsh was given out in the deciding ODI against New Zealand has left Australia's captain seething.
A Sydney businessman accused of running a dodgy visa program is continuing to operate despite being charged with 22 counts of fraud and misleading behaviour.
A man in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu is killed by a meteorite that reportedly shattered window panes and left a 1.5-metre crater in the ground.
The hard-to-kill cockroach inspires the development of a soft-bodied robot that can compress itself and crawl into confined spaces, and may help locate people trapped in buildings destroyed by disasters.
Jocelyn Elliott returns to Burkina Faso's capital after a kidnapping ordeal involving Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists, and says she hopes her husband is soon released so they can continue their medical work in the country.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority was aware an Australian crew would be removed from the cargo ship MV Portland three weeks before they were escorted off and replaced with foreign workers, a Senate committee hears.
Footage of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi driving along four kilometres of red carpet laid over public roads sparks outrage on social media in a country plagued by poverty.
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