Five-time major champion Maria Sharapova has had her two-year doping ban reduced by the Court of Arbitration of Sport. She had tested positive for Meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open
British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz have won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics for their studies of unusual states of matter, which may open up new applications in electronics. The pair scored a cool 8 million Swedish crown ($1.2 million AUD) for their efforts.
Here's what's coming up:
7:10am AEDT: Senator Simon Birmingham will be on AM
9:15am AEDT: ANZ Bank CEO Shayne Elliott is scheduled to appear before the Parliamentary Inquiry challenging the banks market power
11:00am AEDT: Consumer group Choice will hold its annual Shonky Awards on products and services
12:00pm AEDT: US Republican VP candidate Mike Pence will face off against Democratic VP candidate Tim Kaine in their first formal debate
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the organisation will publish documents related to the US election and three governments, but denies the release is aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton.
Private colleges will no longer be able to use brokers or cold-callers to try and recruit new students under a wide-ranging crackdown on dodgy operators to be announced by the Federal Government.
Nine Australians arrested at the Malaysian Grand Prix on the weekend are still being held in custody with the public prosecutor yet to reveal if they will be charged with any crime.
The second Sky Muster satellite, built for the National Broadband Network, will be launched this week from French Guiana in South America after a particularly difficult week for the network.
Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova could be eligible to appear at the 2017 French Open after her doping ban was slashed by nine months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz's Nobel Prize-winning research into unusual states of matter is described as "pioneering" and could shape the future of electronics.
Hurricane Matthew roars across the south-western coast of Haiti with 230-kilometre-per-hour winds, uprooting trees and tearing roofs from homes in a largely rural corner of the impoverished country as it heads north toward Cuba and the eastern coast of Florida.
Local residents and police are at loggerheads trying to resolve the conflict in Charlotte, North Carolina, a city which has seen violent protests over police shootings and the deaths of two black men in the past month.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party says it intends to run candidates in the West Australian state election, where its preferences could help determine the outcome of key seats.
4chan, the website notorious for its memes and for publishing a cache of celebrity nude photos, is buckling under the pressure of infrastructure pressure and server costs, its owner says.
The Philippines and the United States launch annual joint military exercises barely a week after the new president in Manila said they would be the last.
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