Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has died aged 82. He is best known for his haunting song Hallelujah, which has been covered hundreds of times since he released it in 1984
Essendon's Jobe Watson will hand back the Brownlow Medal he won in 2012, leaving it up to the AFL Commission to decide what to do with it. Watson has just served a one-year ban after the club was embroiled in a supplements scandal
A Brisbane mother has been charged with torture and fraud after allegedly underfeeding her baby then trying to raise money for the girl's recovery. She was bailed to reappear in court next month
Hillary Clinton portrayed it as a doomsday scenario but do we really need to be afraid that Donald Trump has control of the "nuclear codes"? Anne Barker writes that the president alone has the power to authorise a retaliatory nuclear strike and only a mutiny could stand in his way.
Here's what's coming up:
5:30pm AEDT: New Zealand Breakers v Cairns Taipans in the NBL
6:30pm AEDT: Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein will deliver the City of Sydney Peace Prize lecture
7:00pm AEDT: Defence Minister Marise Payne and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will farewell troops bound for Iraq in Darwin
7:50pm AEDT: Adelaide United v Brisbane Roar in the A-League
Legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, known best for his haunting hit song Hallelujah, dies at the age of 82, with a post on his Facebook page saying "we have lost one of music's most revered and prolific visionaries".
A reported deal to send refugees currently on Nauru and Manus Island to the US could be revealed within days, with Christopher Pyne saying there is plenty of time to put it in place before anti-immigration President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
US President-elect Donald Trump has met Barack Obama in the Oval Office to discuss the transition of power after the Republican's stunning election victory, in talks the White House says were "a little less awkward than some might have expected".
Matthew Leveson's parents return to the bushland crime scene where police are searching for the remains of their son, heartbroken by the knowledge they may have been in the area during their own search.
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools Australia organisation has been involved in "high risk" business practices potentially leaving the schools open to possible fraud and official misconduct, according to a confidential government audit of the Cape York Academy schools.
Beyond Blue chairman Jeff Kennett urges Australians to do more to help returned soldiers with mental scars, not only honour those who died in battle, at the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Canberra.
If you could know decades in advance that you would develop Alzheimer's disease, would you want to know? That's one of the issues a US scientist is thinking about as his research shows a simple eye test may provide early diagnosis.
A coalition of Australia's most influential doctors' groups come together to push for a tax on sugar sweetened drink and changes to the way obesity is defined.
The fossil of a new species of dinosaur is unearthed by construction workers in China, who almost unknowingly destroyed the bones while blasting bedrock to build a school.
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