Rio de Janeiro prepares to host its Olympics opening ceremony party, hoping to draw a line under a turbulent seven-year build-up dogged by recession, drugs scandals, crime and infrastructure stumbles.
Australian veterans from the Battle of Long Tan will next week receive official recognition for their gallantry, almost 50 years to the day after their heroic efforts in the Vietnam War.
A former top CIA official attacks Donald Trump as a danger to national security, saying President Vladimir Putin made the Republican presidential candidate an "unwitting agent" of Russia.
Newly elected senator Malcolm Roberts denies being a member of a controversial anti-government movement based in the United States and Canada, after a series of letters railing against orthodox climate science appear to link him to the group.
Australia has virtually no hope of claiming victory against Sri Lanka, after another batting collapse in Galle sees the tourists in deep strife at 3-25 at stumps on day two of the second Test.
In the wake of a series of violent crimes in Melbourne's outer western suburbs a number of community patrol groups spring up, which one member says is a result of residents feeling it is a matter of when, not if, they will be targeted.
Newly elected Victorian Senator Derryn Hinch reads out a letter from actress Rachel Griffiths during a Melbourne Press Club address, which asks for his support to help prevent child sex tourism.
Norway's appeal against a legal ruling that found the state violated the human rights of its worst mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is scheduled to begin in late November, an Oslo court says.
The Australian's cartoonist draws a second version of his highly controversial cartoon, saying he is speaking the truth about violence and abuse in Indigenous communities.
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