| | The US gun lobby takes the rare step of calling for tougher firearm regulation with a crackdown on "bump stock" devices, which were used by shooter Stephen Paddock to slay almost 60 people and injure nearly 500 in Las Vegas this week. | | | Take a guided tour of what the polls tell us about the same-sex marriage survey — then take the reins of our calculator to explore how the result might pan out. | | | Cardinal George Pell is expected to return to the Melbourne Magistrates' Court today for a brief hearing as he fights historical sexual offences. | | | The Socceroos will need to get the job done on Tuesday night in Sydney after Syria held Australia to a 1-1 draw thanks to a late penalty in Malaysia. | | | DNA has verified that a captive population of stick insect is genetically the same as the "extinct" Lord Howe Island species, as the island prepares for a controversial pest eradication program. | | | A study analysing honey from around the world has found 75 per cent of products contain residue of at least one type of pesticide. | | | The popular holiday spot is the most dangerous destination for Australian tourists, with 203 deaths recorded in the last year. And Indonesia and the United States aren't far behind. | | | The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to British author Kazuo Ishiguro, who wrote The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go. | | | A man who pulled a helicopter pilot from a crevasse in Antarctica tells a coronial inquest he feared he would have to watch his colleague die. | | | The silent disco phenomenon has taken clubs and festivals by storm but it is having surprising benefits for those with dementia, giving them a sense of calm and happiness that is often hard to achieve. | | | One of two women accused of murdering Perth teenager Aaron Pajich spoke about having a growing desire to kill someone and liked to rent horror and serial killer movies, a video store manager tells a court. | | | The consumer group Choice announces the winners of its annual Shonky awards, with big names including Viagogo, Samsung and Nature's Way nabbing gongs. | | | To close the security gap between domestic and international terminals, the Federal Government will announce mandatory ID checks for those flying in Australia before the end of the year, the ABC understands. | | | Authorities work to piece together Elisa Curry's movements before her disappearance from her family's holiday home on Victoria's Surf Coast five days ago. | | | The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 US election takes over FBI inquiries into a former British spy's scandalous dossier of Donald Trump's purported ties to the Kremlin. | | | Traces of a banned nerve agent were found on the two women who are standing trial on charges of murdering the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader, a government chemist testifies. | | | We all lived through it, but the Bureau of Meteorology has made it official that September 2017 had some significantly hot days. | | | An Australian man is in "fairly high spirits" after being shot in the buttocks during what appears to be an attempted robbery in Port Moresby's CBD. | | | Cambodia's opposition party is calling for targeted sanctions and a suspension of technical aid, saying democracy is dead in the South-East Asian nation which hosts a small number of refugees from Nauru. | | | Customer complaints over financial services surge, forcing the ombudsman's office to bulk up its staff to deal with almost 1,000 calls a day from aggrieved clients. | | | By business reporter Michael Janda |
| | By RN Breakfast technology editor Peter Marks in San Francisco |
| | By Europe correspondent James Glenday |
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