| | | | The Prime Minister confirms the role of deputy will remain vacant following Barnaby Joyce's ousting from Federal Parliament, but says the Foreign Minister will act as Prime Minister during his upcoming trip to Israel. | | | | It wasn't comfortable, but Winx does enough in the final sprint to take home an incredible third consecutive Cox Plate title, and 22nd win on the trot. | | | | Sorry dual citizens, you're still not allowed to serve in Australia's Parliament with the High Court sticking by Section 44(i) of the constitution. But there may be a glimmer of hope. Here's why. | | | | A federal grand jury in Washington approves the first charges in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in last year's presidential election, US media reports, but the details are still under wraps. | | | | Two women who spent five months adrift at sea during a failed voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti open up about their ordeal, saying they are "just incredibly lucky" to be alive. | | | | US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis says while the threat of a nuclear missile attack by North Korea is accelerating, any use of weapons will be met with a "massive" and "overwhelming" military response. | | | | An anonymous phone call about "big news" just moments before John F Kennedy is shot dead, and details of Lee Harvey Oswald's meeting with a KGB agent are among the nuggets revealed in the previously secret documents known as the JFK files. | | | | The son of Canberra woman Tania Klemke, who was killed by her own dog, says he has lost the most important person in his life and cannot shake thoughts of his mother's final moments. | | | | An Israeli judoka who won gold at an international competition in Abu Dhabi quietly sings his national anthem during the medal ceremony, after organisers warned they would not play the music or raise his country's flag. | | | | Former US president Barack Obama will be serving his country again — this time, by carrying out jury duty. | | | | "I have been silenced for 20 years. I have been slut shamed, I've been harassed. And you know what, I'm just like you." The American actress tells a women's convention in Detroit that sexual assault and harassment is not isolated to Hollywood, and society can no longer ignore it. | | | | The Spanish Parliament moves to assert its authority over Catalonia by dissolving its parliament and calling fresh elections minutes after the restive region declared independence. | | | | Retired Adelaide doctor Rosemary Stuart-Kregor tells the ABC about the time she "kidnapped" her stepson and two others from the Moonies cult in the United States during the 1970s. | | | | It's not every day a journalist finds themselves on the other end of the microphone but in China, local reporters are eager to get a quote on what the foreign media thinks of the Communist Party's Congress, writes correspondent Bill Birtles. | | | | A young joyrider takes his family car for the second time in two weeks and leads police and state troopers on an interstate chase that reaches speeds of 160 kilometres per hour. | | | | The US President dispenses compliments and lollies to little witches, pint-sized Princess Leias and a purple-haired unicorn in the Oval Office ahead of Halloween. | | | | Clever detective work by an ABC reader has helped identify an Anzac amputee in a mysterious photo from the Australian War Memorial's collection. | | | | Socialite and popular television host Ksenia Sobchak has nominated to seize the Russian presidency from Vladimir Putin — but not everyone's buying the idea she's a genuine presidential candidate. | | | | Employing Chinese-speaking staff and using Chinese social media starts to pay dividends for tourism businesses in WA's Midwest. | | | | President Trump expresses aggressive hostility to all but a handful of political websites or conservative TV personalities who praise him, and labels everything else "fake news", argues Joseph Kahn. | | | | Usman Khawaja and David Warner tune up with solid knocks, but a number of Test hopefuls miss chances to seriously stake their claim as the Sheffield Shield continues. | | | | Researchers from WA's Murdoch University use drones to gather missing information on the once near-extinct humpback whale at key points of their annual migration. | |  |
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