The fallout from the Four Corners report on mistreatment within the Northern Territory youth justice system continues. PM Malcolm Turnbull announced a royal commission, NT Corrections Minister John Elferink got the sack and the NT Government announced it would build a new youth detention facility
The opening day of the Democratic National Convention was dominated by boos from disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters. US First Lady Michelle Obama got the most positive reponse with her emotional speech describing Hillary Clinton as a "true public servant" who had showed young girls that a woman could be president
Bangladeshi police say they have killed nine suspected Islamist extremists who had been planning a large-scale assault. Officials say those killed belonged to the same group blamed for a Dhaka cafe attack, in which 20 hostages were killed
A world-first study has found koalas are clever enough to learn how to use structures designed to reduce road kill. Professor Darryl Jones said he was initially sceptical and thought koalas were "not that smart" but they started using the structures to get safely under roads within three weeks.
Here's what's coming up:
5:00pm AEST: Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and her counterparts from across the Asian region will attend the final day of a security summit in Laos. It's expected China will be pressured to respect a tribunal ruling that rejected its claims to parts of the South China Sea
6:00pm AEST: NT Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy will be on Radio National
9:30pm AEST: Irish and British prime ministers will meet in London for Brexit talks
A "shocked and appalled" Malcolm Turnbull says he will establish a royal commission into the mistreatment of young offenders at Darwin's Don Dale facility.
NT Chief Minister Adam Giles removes John Elferink as NT Corrections Minister to take on the role himself following last night's Four Corners, which showed video of young offenders being tear-gassed.
What happens next after the Prime Minister announced a royal commission into Northern Territory juvenile detention? Here's seven things we still don't know.
A knife-wielding former employee has killed 19 people and injured 25 at a care centre for the mentally disabled in Japan, in the country's worst mass killing in decades.
Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders offer contrasting heartfelt and hard-headed endorsements of Hillary Clinton, imploring the party convention to unite to stop her Republican rival Donald Trump.
NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner defends her handling of an error in a Sydney hospital that led to the death of a newborn baby and left another with severe disabilities.
Harriet Wran, daughter of former New South Wales premier Neville Wran, is sentenced to a minimum two years' jail, for robbery in company and accessory to murder.
Kitty Chiller says organisers have made "fantastic" progress in addressing concerns over unfinished housing at the Olympic Village and her team expects to move into its Rio 2016 accommodation on Wednesday.
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