| | | | The first Ashes Test is still in the balance late on day three, with Australia establishing a first innings lead at the Gabba, thanks to Steve Smith's vital century. Follow the action with our live blog. | | | | Specialised police armed with powerful assault weapons will patrol Northern Territory streets in an effort to reduce summertime crime. | | | | A breakthrough may finally bring an end to one of Western Australia's most baffling missing persons cases, as the trial of Francis Wark comes to an end, writes Joanna Menagh. | | | | There's been a fresh twist in Donald Trump's long and complicated relationship with Time magazine — the US President says he's the frontrunner to take out 2017 Person of the Year but he "took a pass". | | | | A Perth man is charged after allegedly going on a naked rampage in which he doused a contractor at a day care centre with petrol, and attacked two women in their homes with a brick and a pitchfork. | | | | Polls suggest Labor will pick up enough seats in the south-east to counteract a northern swing and gain a small majority over the Tim Nicholls-led LNP. | | | | Giant freshwater crayfish find prompts more calls for the Tasmanian Government to protect the vulnerable species by revoking logging in 30,000 hectares of rainforest. | | | | Japan cannot agree on what to do with a million tonnes of radioactive water being stored at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant — and there's a chance it could spill if another major earthquake or tsunami were to strike. | | | | A woman accused of mailing potentially deadly homemade bombs to Barack Obama and the Governor of Texas is arrested, in part, due to cat hair and an almost-destroyed shipping label bearing her address. | | | | New South Wales and Queensland are slapped with a scathing assessment of compliance with the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, after a review finds poor levels of enforcement and a lack of transparency in the states' water management. | | | | Hobart skater Anneka Lewis may only be 10 years old, but being bullied at school has already inspired her to raise funds for White Ribbon Day to combat domestic violence against women. | | | | NSW Greens senator Lee Rhiannon loses the top spot on the party's Senate ticket to Mehreen Faruqi, meaning it is highly unlikely the Senator will be returned to the Upper House at the next election. | | | | A woman in her 20s dies after she and a man were struck by lightning during a storm in Melbourne's north-east on Friday night. | | | | Two powerful policemen, Bernie Johnson and Don Hancock, and disgraced former premier Ray O'Connor are repeatedly linked to the execution murder of Perth brothel madam Shirley Finn. | | | | Advocates for pill-testing at music festivals resort to their plan-B in order to make test kits available to punters at Canberra's Spilt Milk festival, after a derailed attempt to use the event for Australia's first trial of the controversial practice. | | | | A spinning ice circle forms in a partially frozen river in Hulunbuir, in Inner Mongolia, with tourists daring to walk on the thin ice to pose for photos. | | | | Militants attack a crowded mosque during Friday prayers in the Sinai Peninsula, setting off explosives, spraying worshippers with gunfire and killing 235 people in the deadliest attack of its kind in the region. | | | | Police cordon off parts of one of London's busiest shopping districts after receiving multiple reports of shots being fired, but fail to find sign of any gunshots, suspects or casualties, with authorities later saying the alarm may have been linked to an on-platform altercation between two men. | | | | Slip, slop, slap… ink?… don't wax? Do things like tattoos and hair protect you from UV radiation? | |  |
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