The Boomers have finished their campaign in Rio without a medal. The team went down to Spain 89-88 in the basketball bronze medal game. It was tight. With 10 seconds on the clock, the Aussies were up by a point but the Spaniards sunk two free throws in the game's dying seconds, secured their spot on the podium and crushed our dreams. Here's the full (devastating) story
In other news, Indonesian defence lawyers are mounting a case against Byron Bay woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend. The pair have been charged with the murder of a local police officer. Stay across developments with this story
And because we've only got one more day to give you Rio news, let us bring you this story about the Mongolian wrestling team. Their man Mandakhnaran Ganzorig lost his bronze medal match. So his coaches protested by taking off their clothes. The games might be over, but the fighting spirit is alive and well
Here's what's coming up:
7:10am AEST: Coalition senator Mitch Fifield will be on AM
7:40am AEST: Former High Court judge Michael Kirby will be on RN talking plebiscite
9:00am AEST: After 16 days of competition, the Rio Olympics closing ceremony gets underway
Sara Connor, a 45-year-old mother of two from Byron Bay, has spent a third night at the Denpasar police station, where she has been detained for allegedly murdering a local policeman on Kuta Beach.
Team USA leads Serbia in the gold medal match of the men's basketball as the Rio Olympic Games draw towards a close. Follow all the action as it happens in our live blog.
Businesses with Chinese connections gave Australia's major parties more than $5.5 million in 2013 and 2015, helping explain increasing official unease about China's influence on everything from politics to critical infrastructure like power grids.
An ABC investigation of political donations from the past two years reveals Chinese businesses are by far the largest foreign-linked donors to both major parties.
Furious Mongolian officials strip off in protest after their wrestler is judged the loser of a bronze medal contest after taunting his opponent in a victory dance.
The Federal Opposition says complaints about banks and financial services have increased by 60 per cent, while the big four banks have posted multi-billion dollar profits.
A suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14 was responsible for the attack on a wedding in the Turkish city of Gaziantep that killed at least 51, the country's president says.
Port Adelaide Football Club bans one of its members indefinitely after she was filmed throwing a banana in the direction of Indigenous Adelaide Crows star Eddie Betts.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatens to leave the United Nations and invite China and others to form a new global organisation after it calls for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs.
NASA is preparing to send its OSIRIS-REx probe to an asteroid, where it will scoop up 4.5-billion-year-old dust that could reveal how the materials necessary for life, such as carbon and ice, made their way to Earth.
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