| | | | A Clean Energy Target recommended by Australia's chief scientist will not be adopted, with the Federal Government instead proposing a new plan to bring down electricity prices. |
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| | For the first time, astronomers have detected a burst of gravitational waves and also glimpsed its source — in this case, an explosive collision between two dead stars — using 70 different telescopes, in what has been hailed as the dawn of a new era in astronomy. |
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| | Scientists say this is a game-changing discovery that rivals the original Nobel Prize-winning detection. Here's why. |
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| | Single parents Erin and Leon have it out over whether mums and dads are on an equal playing field when a relationship breaks down. |
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| | The US Department of Homeland Security warns of cyber risks associated with a widely-used system for securing wi-fi communications, after Belgian researchers discover a flaw that could allow hackers to read information thought to be encrypted. |
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| | Having swept aside his rivals, Xi Jinping is set to turn China's most important political event into his coronation. There's growing speculation he'll be named party chairman, a title not given since Mao Zedong. |
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| | Health experts are cautioning asthma patients not to rely solely on reliever medications, saying people who choose to only treat symptoms as they arise without also treating the underlying condition run a "very real risk of winding up in hospital". |
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| | Jimmy Barnes speaks on Q&A about his struggles with drug and alcohol abuse, "staring into the abyss", and the frightening moment in an Auckland hotel room which forced him to reassess the trajectory of his life. |
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| | Australia is elected among 15 nations to join the United Nations Human Rights Council, the agency responsible for protecting human rights around the world. |
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| | Hillary Clinton says her "horrible" election defeat to Donald Trump has forced her to come to terms with the fact that "millions of people decided they just didn't like me". It has also reconfigured her interaction with the world, writes Sarah Ferguson. |
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| | More than 150 unrecognisable bodies have already been buried and Mogadishu locals continue to pack hospitals searching for friends and relatives caught up in Somalia's deadliest attack in a decade. |
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| | Lisa Wilkinson's 10-year run on Channel Nine's Today Show has come to an abrupt halt, with the host moving to the rival Ten Network to co-host The Project. |
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| | Three people die as Tropical Storm Ophelia batters Ireland's southern coast, whipping up 10-metre waves, knocking down trees and power lines, and leaving more than 200,000 properties without power. |
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| | Have you seen the posts on Facebook and Twitter? Thousands of women are taking to social media to share their stories of sexual harassment using the #MeToo hashtag. |
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| | Police say they are not treating the death of missing Melbourne mother Elisa Curry as suspicious, after confirming human remains found washed up on a beach near Anglesea in Victoria belonged to her. |
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| | Iraqi Government forces capture the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk with a bold offensive marking the most decisive action Baghdad has taken to quash the Kurds' bid for independence. |
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| | Julian Assange launches a personal attack on Hillary Clinton, accusing her of lying and displaying a "cold creepiness" after the former Democratic presidential candidate tells the ABC the WikiLeaks founder is a "tool of Russian intelligence". |
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| | You might want to keep your eyes on the sky over the next few months — a Chinese space lab is currently plummeting towards Earth and is expected to re-enter into our atmosphere sometime between now and early next year. |
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| | Doctors are seeing an alarming spike in the number of young people using "nangs" — small canisters of nitrous oxide gas designed for whipping cream that can cause brain damage and death. |
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| | One of the women accused of killing teenager Aaron Pajich tiled and concreted an area of her backyard where his body was found because she wanted to create a "nice" area to relax in, a court is told. |
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| | North Korea has threatened Australia with "disaster" — but could its missiles reach our shores? And just how much of the world is in potential danger? |
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