| | | | In another blow to the Turnbull Government, Liberal senator Stephen Parry confirms he is a British citizen and will now stand down as Senate President and resign from the Parliament. | | | | Scaling the iconic landmark and sacred site is set to be a thing of the past after the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park board decided unanimously to ban the activity, starting in 2019. | | | | Five friends from Argentina, who were on holiday celebrating their 30th high school reunion, were killed in an horror terror attack in Manhattan which left eight dead and 11 injured. | | | | He has failed to pass legislation, under a legal cloud and facing threats of impeachment, but that's not the end of the story. Donald Trump is on a high, writes Bruce Wolpe. | | | | Victoria's Premier defends a Minister who encouraged people to avoid scammers by "automatically" telling anyone with an Irish accent to leave their property. | | | | A man accused of being a member of the "evil 8" paedophile ring says his client's admissions to police about having sex with a 13-year-old girl can't be relied upon because of his distressed state. | | | | A second actor makes a sexual harassment allegation against House of Cards actor Kevin Spacey, while an actress claims she was groped by Entourage star Jeremy Piven. | | | | Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov is accused of bringing terrorism to the heart of Manhattan on a sunny afternoon in New York, when people were heading home from work and school. Here's how police say it happened. | | | | From a solemn ceremony to a dusty desert re-enactment, it was a day of commemoration in southern Israel to mark 100 years since the Battle of Beersheba. | | | | WA Premier Mark McGowan formally apologises to hundreds of people in the State convicted under laws that banned homosexual acts, describing it as a process that denied these men their humanity. | | | | Cricket Australia's newest guidelines aim to prevent cases like the oft-injured James Pattinson's by managing the amount of bowling kids as young as 12 are able to do. | | | | Tony Sergi, the country mafia godfather who was instrumental in sanctioning the murder of anti-drugs crusader Don Mackay four decades ago, dies without ever being charged. | | | | Two women from Hawaii who were rescued at sea defend their account of the ordeal, insisting a storm was whipping up 9-metre waves and near hurricane-force winds on the night they set sail, despite records showing no severe weather in the area. | | | | Compiled from handwritten notes, Dare Not Linger is Nelson Mandela's own warts-and-all account of his presidency. | | | | The founders of the global civil rights movement, and young black Australians talk about what Black Lives Matter means to them. | | | | Townsville's Mayor says ratepayers will get value for money when the council funds an airstrip for the proposed Adani coal mine. But the decision has come under fire from locals, who say the company could "afford at least two dozen of them and then gold plate them". | | | | A challenger has unexpectedly stepped forward to take Nick Xenophon's South Australian Senate seat, Premier Jay Weatherill tells State Parliament. | | | | Alex Wubbels, who was arrested for refusing to let a police officer draw blood from an unconscious patient, is settling with Salt Lake City and the university that runs the hospital. | | | | The PNG Defence Force could start to take control of the now closed Manus Island detention centre with hundreds of asylum seekers refusing to leave, as Acting Prime Minster Julie Bishops says it is not up to Australia to protect the men. | | | | Australia has it tough in the world of eSports. But with some signature Aussie grit, Blank Esports has taken Australia to the Overwatch World Cup finals. And they're not done yet. | |  |
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