| | Australia must develop greater missile defences to ward off a strike from North Korea, a former high-ranking Pentagon official says. | | | In a move straight out of a Hollywood movie, South Korea once formed a team of killers made up of criminals and thugs to take out the North Korean leader. Now it is getting the gang back together. | | | For one year, the United States embassy in Canberra has had no ambassador and people are starting to wonder why. | | | China orders North Korean-owned businesses to close, cutting foreign revenue to Pyongyang under the latest set of UN Security Council sanctions imposed over Kim Jong-un's nuclear and missile programs. | | | The number of people taking shelter in makeshift evacuation centres on the Indonesian island of Bali surges to around 104,000, amid warnings the increasingly active Mount Agung volcano could erupt any time. | | | Scientists fear invasive pests are among the 289 animal species that have arrived on the US west coast on rubbish from Japan's 2011 tsunami. | | | Star of Seinfeld and Veep Julia Louis-Dreyfus uses breast cancer announcement to highlight case for universal healthcare. Louis Dreyfus plays fictitious US president Selina Meyer on Veep. | | | Australia is building three new satellites that will conduct audio and visual surveillance for the Defence Force. | | | Waleed Aly is known mostly as a TV and radio presenter, but there are two other roles he's not as well known for that will bring him the most pride this grand final weekend. | | | Despite two Dally M Medals, a Clive Churchill Medal and countless other team and individual honours, Cooper Cronk risks ending his career as a criminally underrated player. | | | North Queensland MP Bob Katter accuses the NRL of insulting and offending fans by choosing vocal American same-sex-marriage supporter Macklemore as its half-time act. | | | The Prime Minister is the man responsible for bringing Playboy magazine to Australia nearly 40 years ago, when he negotiated the Australian rights for Kerry Packer. | | | Queenslanders will be given a fresh set of electoral boundaries on Friday, and the changes could help protect senior minister Peter Dutton in a tight election race. | | | The big gas producers have promised to fill any domestic supply shortfall, but that doesn't mean prices are coming down, writes Stephen Letts. | | | David Warner scores and impressive ton as Australia gets its first one-day international win away from home in more than a year. | | | It's been just over than a week since Hurricane Maria smashed Puerto Rico and the recovery effort is struggling to keep up. | | | A million Australian households will be the target of an automated phone poll on same-sex marriage conducted on behalf of conservative senator Cory Bernardi. | | | Federal politicians embroiled in the dual citizenship saga are seemingly agreeing with the Commonwealth's argument that ignorance of their foreign citizenship is grounds to remain in Parliament. | | | By business reporter Stephen Letts |
| | By Richard Ogier |
| | By Zareh Ghazarian, Jacqueline Laughland-Booy and Zlatko Skrbis, Monash University |
| | By Michael Freeman, Bond University |
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