Australians might have been shivering through some cold nights, but this year's winter was the hottest on record, with the average maximum daily temperature up nearly 2 degrees Celsius.
The lack of moderates in the Liberals' succession list is notable, given Christopher Pyne's ill-judged boast to the faction that it was in the 'winners' circle'.
Brisbane man Pete Matthews spent 18 months collecting and wiring together thousands of discarded batteries to create his own "homebrew" version of a Tesla Powerwall. He says it's reduced his power bill by quarters.
The first man to be convicted under New South Wales' one-punch laws falls asleep in court as his victim's mother speaks of her pain at losing her only son — a 21-year-old nurse who wanted to help people with alcohol addiction.
Parents and students are divided over etiquette classes offered by regional Victorian Christian schools, which include lessons for female students on how to walk in high heels.
Forget the traditional sausage sizzle — a brazen possum is caught red-handed with enough greens to last a lifetime after busting into a Brisbane Bunnings nursery in broad daylight.
There are reports scores of Muslim Rohingyas — including women and children — have been killed by Myanmar security forces and Buddhist vigilantes in a surge of ethnic violence.
An influenza outbreak at a retirement village in north-east Victoria claims seven lives, after 123 patients and stuff were struck down by the illness over a few weeks.
South Korean and Japanese jets join exercises with two supersonic US B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula, two days after North Korea fired a missile over Japan, sharply raising tensions.
A Tasmanian family has their house auctioned off by the local council after they refused to pay rates for seven years because they said the land belonged to God.
The father of the three-year-old girl fatally shot in Sydney's west rocks back and fourth and screams in court, with his lawyer describing him as being in a "very cruel state".
An out-of-control deer, weighing in at about 250kg, smashes into a funeral home in Melbourne's east, leaving the place looking like "a horrific crime scene" a staff member says.
The cartoonist behind the Pepe the Frog meme cartoon takes legal action to force a self-published children's book that uses the character to promote anti-Islamic themes to give all of the profits to a Muslim advocacy organisation.
A fire-tailed titi monkey, a pink river dolphin and a stingray with a honeycomb pattern on its surface are among 381 new species discovered in the Amazon in a two-year period.
A US policeman who was filmed reassuring a woman that "we only shoot black people" during a traffic stop retires to avoid being sacked, after dashcam video of the incident was released on a local TV channel.
The family of presumed murder victim Tanja Ebert refuses to give up hope of finding the young mum alive, despite police searching for Ms Ebert's body on a remote South Australian pastoral property.
The taps are barely dribbling water and roads remain closed in Beaumont, near Houston, after Tropical Storm Harvey dumped flooding rain over Texas, but the worst is not over yet.
Players and spectators at an English county cricket game between Surrey and Middlesex are ordered to take cover after a metal-tipped crossbow bolt was shot onto field.
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