| Good afternoon. Here's what's happening now: The lawyer of a young Sydney man jailed for life in Thailand for possession of ecstasy says the Australian had no drugs on his person when he was arrested. Jake Mastroianni, 26, had a double life sentence upheld on appeal in a Bangkok court, after police found 61 ecstasy pills in his girlfriend's apartment Australia's solar power production is set to triple with the construction of 12 new solar power plants. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency will invest $92 million to build six plants in Queensland, five in New South Wales and one in Western Australia The former principal of a Marist Brothers high school in Newcastle has been labelled a "coward and a liar" after telling the child sex abuse royal commission he cannot remember the circumstances surrounding a 13-year-old student's suicide Journalist Vanessa Wood has shared her deeply personal story about mental illness and how it impacts on her decision to start a family Here's what's coming up: 5:30pm AEST: Immigration Department head Michael Pezzullo speaks at a security thinktank 8:10pm AEST: West Coast host the Western Bulldogs in an AFL elimination final 9:30pm AEST: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will head to Micronesia for the Pacific Islands Forum 9:30pm AEST: Competition gets underway at the Paralympics in Rio. First up: shooting 9:30pm AEST: ABC's Lateline will speak with two experts about Islamic State | Howard, Abbott lock in against Indigenous treaty | | Two former Liberal prime ministers reject a treaty with Indigenous Australians, as public debate continues about the merits of holding a referendum to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. | | | Did Apple just kill wired headphones? | | Apple pulled the wraps off the iPhone 7 this morning and announced it's ditching the headphone jack. Is this the beginning of the end for wired headphones? | | | Goose hunters find millennium-old Viking sword in Iceland | | Go hunting for geese, end up discovering a thousand-year-old Viking sword: just another day in Iceland. A group of hunters stumbled across this remarkably well-preserved sword, believed to date to the 10th century, lying on the sand near a lake. | | | Obama meets Duterte after 'whore' slur | | Barack Obama meets briefly with Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte, their two governments said, days after the firebrand politician branded the US President a "son of a whore". | | | About this email You received this email because you are subscribed to ABC News email alerts. This message was sent to you at starnewsposting@gmail.com. Please add newslists@your.abc.net.au to your email address book to see images by default and stop the email being treated as spam. This email address is not monitored - Please don't reply to this email. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. Add or remove topics | Unsubscribe | Contact Us |
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