Donald Trump has held his first press conference as President-elect. He refused to answer questions from "fake news" organisations like BuzzFeed and CNN, suggested that US intelligence agencies may have released unsubstantiated reports about him, and insisted that a wall (not a fence) would be built along the Mexican border
Indonesia's Department of Transport has accused Tigerair Australia of breaching its licence conditions. Hundreds of passengers have been left stranded by the snap decision to suspend the budget airline from flying from Bali to Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne
The prosecution has delivered its opening address in the second indecent assault trial involving Rolf Harris. The 86-year-old Australian entertainer is facing seven charges of sexual assault made by seven separate women
Is hot desking all it's cracked up to be? Engineering consultant Andrew Pettifer doesn't think so: "You get nice, clean desks, but are people being more productive or not? I'd say it's pretty marginal."
Here's what's coming up:
9:20am AEDT: The Elvis Express departs Sydney train for the 25th annual Parkes Elvis Festival
10:00am AEDT: The retrial of Robert Xie continues at the Supreme Court in Sydney
11:00am AEDT: Day five of the Sydney International begins
7:40pm AEDT: Melbourne Renegades take on Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash
7:50pm AEDT: Adelaide United take on Melbourne City in the A-League
Donald Trump hits out at the release of unsubstantiated intelligence reports during his first formal press conference in New York as President-elect, characterising it as "nonsense maybe released by US intelligence agencies".
Former One Nation turned independent WA senator Rod Culleton loses his seat after the President of the Senate determines it is a "necessary and automatic consequence" of being declared bankrupt.
The Department of Transport in Indonesia suggests the budget airline operates charter flights and should not be issuing one way tickets, following a snap decision to suspend the carrier from flying from Bali.
The prosecution delivers its opening address, alleging the entertainer assaulted seven women and girls and all the incidents "appear to have occurred in public settings".
Even those living on sewers in Cambodia's capital are not safe from eviction, with lakes being filled in for a billion-dollar development and little hope of compensation for the city's poorest.
Israel announces new charges against Mohammad El Halabi, World Vision's manager of operations in Gaza, just days after he rejected a plea deal and less than 24 hours before he is due in court over allegations of diverting money to Hamas.
A 15-year-old girl appears in court accused of murdering a seven-year-old girl in the northern English town of York, in a case that has shocked the nation.
Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is still a threat and ever-more convinced by his Nazi-style ideology, Norway's Attorney-General says in defending Breivik's near-isolation in jail after a court rules the conditions breach his rights.
Four cancelled Anzac Day marches in NSW's Blue Mountains region may go ahead as the local council agrees to help cover the costs of new anti-terrorism requirements.
A Singapore court finds a former manager at a Swiss private bank guilty of failing to report more than $US1.26 billion in suspicious transactions in a case linked to the indebted Malaysian state fund 1 MDB.
The soon to close Shane Warne Foundation is cleared of any unlawful conduct by Consumer Affairs Victoria after the watchdog investigated the charity over its finances.
South Australia's electricity distributor will make compensation payments totalling $20 million to about 75,000 customers who experienced lengthy blackouts following a wild storm on December 28.
Conceding disappointments during his eight-year presidency yet offering vigorous encouragement for the nation's future, Barack Obama issues an emotional defence of his vision to Americans facing a moment of anxiety and a dramatic change in leadership.
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