| | | | There are confrontations outside the Merrylands home of underworld figure John Ibrahim's mother, with media pushed and shoved as deliveries for a high-profile wedding roll in, less than 24 hours after the shooting of the family's bodyguard. | | | | Liberal backbencher John Alexander will face a challenge from Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives in Bennelong — held until recently by the former tennis pro — as polls predict a tight race with Labor's Kristina Keneally in the looming by-election. | | | | An international human rights treaty may be incorporated into a bill to legalise same-sex marriage, in an attempt to pacify conservative members of the Government. | | | | Cricket is changing and a former ABC Grandstand manager says it's time Channel Nine "stepped up" and changed too after the network's commentary team gets slammed for its lack of diversity. | | | | The family of a five-year-old boy whose skull was crushed in the rotating wall of a hotel restaurant sues the Atlanta hotel, accusing it of negligence in his death. | | | | A 70-year-old judge who wants to be governor of Ohio offers candid details of his sexual past on Facebook, saying he was "speaking for all heterosexual males" in taking a swipe at the "media frenzy" over sexual misconduct. | | | | A time-lapse camera captures eerie footage of a "fireball" lighting up the winter night sky over Finland's northernmost region, Lapland. | | | | Salvatore 'Toto' Riina, the Sicilian Mafia's most powerful boss of the 20th century who was convicted for ordering dozens of murders and was known as 'the Beast', dies of natural causes after almost a quarter of a century in jail. | | | | The US President tweeted that he wanted to "review all conservation facts", a day after his administration's decision to relax a ban on importing elephant body parts sparked a fierce backlash. | | | | Queensland's Child Safety minister Shannon Fentiman says she is "horrified" a man with child pornography convictions was working in her electorate office. | | | | Australian golfer Jason Day vows he will get back to the top of the golf rankings in a one-on-one chat with Grandstand ahead of next week's Australian Open. | | | | Zimbabwe state media says the country's ruling ZANU-PF party has called for President Robert Mugabe to resign, in the latest sign that the aging leader's authority has collapsed after an army takeover. | | | | US civil rights icon Jesse Jackson reveals he has Parkinson's disease but vows to keep working, saying he would "rather wear out than rust out". | | | | While much focus is placed on human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, research from teams around the world suggests plants could be contributing up to 11 times as much. | | | | Police charge a man over violent threats allegedly made against a female LNP candidate and her daughter on the campaign trail south of Brisbane. | | | | Argentina's navy steps up its search of stormy South Atlantic seas for a submarine with 44 crew on board that remains missing two days after its last communication. | | | | Anggi Aji Pangestu's wounds leak through the white bandages wrapped around much of his body. He survived an Indonesian factory fire which killed dozens of workers. But sub-standard medical treatment and workplace exploitation mean there's more suffering in store. | | | | Former Northern Territory corrections minister John Elferink says the lack of recommendations for criminal prosecution in the NT royal commission shows allegations of "barbarism and torture" are unfounded. | | | | US Navy officials have been forced to say sorry for "sophomoric and immature antics" after one of their pilots drew a large penis in the sky over Washington state. | | | | Esperance tourism leaders are urging a name change as the town's famous Pink Lake fades to white, leaving tourists confused and the town with an identity crisis. | | | | With the help of their kelpies, the Mannion family have found great success in mustering feral goats in western NSW. | |  |
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