The extent of the devastation in quake-hit central Italy has been revealed. The country's PM says the death toll is at least 120 and hundreds more are injured. ABC correspondent Lisa Millar is there: "It's late evening here and the efforts and energy of the rescuers has not dimmed ... they are going to ensure they comb every single house here."
Millar spoke to one rescuer who said no-one would be left behind: "[There is] nothing to be positive about because where we're working at the moment is almost completely destructed (sic). I have no idea how many people are buried under the houses at the moment. I hope there are a lot that survive."
"Cancer has to live with me, not me living with it." They are the brave words from 73-year-old Margaret who battled three kinds of cancer over a decade. Read her story from ABC Health & Wellbeing
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rattled a remote area of central Italy on Wednesday rises to at least 120, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says.
Foreign staff and dozens of students are trapped inside the campus of the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul after suspected militants attacked it with explosives and gunfire, a senior Government official says.
Over the course of decade, Margaret has had ovarian, breast and skin cancer — and was once told she might only have years to live. Now in remission, she says the spectre is always there, but "cancer has to live with me".
A new planet discovered orbiting the closest star to Earth's solar system could have the conditions to harbour life, according to a team of international scientists.
Denpasar Police Chief Hadi Purnomo says he hopes police will be able to hand over a murder case against Australian woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend David Taylor to prosecutors within days.
The Queensland Government asks the Supreme Court to force the alleged boss of the outlaw Black Uhlans bikie gang to hand over $360,000 in alleged proceeds from drug sales.
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels enter the Islamic State-held town of Jarablus in northern Syria in an operation supported by Turkish tanks, special forces units and US-led coalition warplanes, rebel sources say.
The Federal Opposition looks increasingly likely to have enough support in the Senate to prevent the AFP from using thousands of documents as part of its investigation into damaging leaks from the company building the NBN.
New South Wales becomes the first state to launch a complaints register publicly listing the companies which receive the most complaints to authorities, with real estate agent LJ Hooker topping the list.
Police say they are looking into whether a French man who allegedly said "Allahu akbar" as he stabbed a 21-year-old British woman to death in a north Queensland backpackers' hostel has any links to extremist groups.
Two companies are being investigated over alleged bribery scandals linked to the presidents of Sri Lanka and the Congo, after the firms sought to secure multi-million dollar contracts in those countries.
Smoke is rising once again from the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, one year after haze from Indonesian land-clearing fires caused major health problems across South-East Asia.
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