Consumer advocates say tough new button battery regulations are needed. The small batteries, used to power everything from toys to bathroom scales, have contributed to the deaths of two Australian children and cause about 20 emergency department visits each week
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will today pledge $20 million for a program to identify the genes that cause childhood cancers. Under the program, analysis of a child's individual genetic makeup would be used to determine their treatment
Rodrigo Duterte has snubbed his own nationally televised proclamation as the next Philippine president. The trash-talking politician who has threated to kill criminals said, "I've never attended any proclamation all my life"
A football world cup for countries that don't exist has kicked off. Huh? The tournament of the Confederation of Independent Football Associations brings together teams from 12 unrecognised states, including host Abkhazia, Georgia's breakaway republic. Other competitors include Kurdistan, the Chagos Islands, and Western Armenia
Here's what's coming up:
8:00am AEST: Coalition frontbencher Christopher Pyne will be interviewed on ABC's AM
9:30am AEST: Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is scheduled to make an announcement about Inland Rail at Narrabri, NSW
10:00am AEST: Suspended Parramatta Eels officials are due back in the NSW Supreme Court for their hearing against the NRL
11:00am AEST: A ceremony will be held to repatriate Australian war dead from Malaysia
12:45pm AEST: Shadow foreign affairs minister Tanya Plibersek will give a speech at the Lowy Institute about Australia's foreign policy
A woman feared dead after being taken by a crocodile during a night swim at a beach in far north Queensland was in the region to celebrate her friend's recovery from cancer.
MPs blame WA's economic downturn and voters' dissatisfaction with their premier for polling which shows the Coalition could lose three seats in the state at the federal election.
A Central Coast chiropractor charged over a racist Facebook rant aimed at departing Aboriginal senator Nova Peris is stripped of his Liberal Party membership, despite claiming his account was hacked.
Thousands of women hoping to fall pregnant put their faith in fertility specialists. Three women talk about their struggles on — and getting off — the IVF treadmill.
Report to be tabled in NSW Parliament recommends specific measures to foster economic development in order to improve Indigenous people's social outcomes.
Ancient charred grains of rice and mung beans excavated from Madagascar provide the first archaeological evidence that ancestors of people living on the East African island came from South-East Asia more than 1000 years ago, say scientists.
Gambling using one of the world's most popular video games is out-of-control and nothing is being done in Australia to protect young people from it, experts have told the ABC.
A bitter stoush erupts in India over the alleged cruelty to animals in a well-known circus, including four performing elephants restrained with spiked chains.
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