| | | | One of Rupert Murdoch's key business allies arrested in last week's corruption crackdown in Saudi Arabia has quietly sold off his $1.5 billion stake in 21st Century Fox. | | | | The Virginia election shows Democrats and Republicans are both under mounting pressure to move to the political fringes. America's political bridge builders are going out of business, writes John Barron. | | | | Following an ACCC investigation, Telstra has admitted it may have contravened the Australian Consumer Law, and will compensate 42,000 customers who experienced slow NBN speeds. | | | | One Nation's Malcolm Roberts will continue to seek the advice of a one-time staffer during the Queensland election despite him being committed to stand trial for rape. | | | | After a relationship meltdown at 39, Hayley Chapman found herself single and struggling to find the perfect partner to have a family with. So she did what anyone in the digital age would do: she turned to the internet. | | | | Sort it out immediately, don't wait until Christmas, is Bill Shorten's message to Malcolm Turnbull after their meeting over the citizenship fiasco. | | | | Transgender woman Danica Roem unseats one of Virginia's most socially conservative lawmakers, making history in the process. | | | | Marion Collier, who is suing the Country Women's Association after being sacked as a branch secretary, says she was falsely accused of defrauding $10 and is "sick of being treated like an idiot". | | | | The director of the Australian War Memorial pleads with French authorities to rethink building a proposed wind farm near the site of one of the most significant battles in Australian military history. | | | | The surprise social media superstar of New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's cat Paddles, is killed after being hit by a car. | | | | Sia perfectly responds to a photographer's attempts to sell nude photos of her by tweeting out the naked picture herself and using it to plug her Christmas album. | | | | A real estate agent used "subterfuge" to hide a jewellery spending spree after defrauding clients of almost $6.5 million, a Melbourne court is told. | | | | NSW Police search Salim Mehajer's Sydney home as part of an ongoing investigation into a car crash the former Auburn deputy mayor was involved in the day he was supposed to be in court. | | | | It was supposed to be CBA's bold foray into profiting from pop stars including Sheryl Crow, John Denver and The Ramones, but by late 2014 the bank's investment had crashed to a 10th of its initial value. | | | | Just 88 students out of Banksia Road Primary's School community of 570 returned to the school today, a day after a car ploughed into a classroom, killing two of their classmates. | | | | The car believed to be involved in a hit-and-run that left a 13-year-old girl fighting for life in Melbourne's north is seized by police, who say the driver has one "last chance" to come forward. | | | | Tasmania is home to many colourful characters, but not many can match 'Captain Col' Meyers when it comes to narrow escapes. | | | | It was a tip-off that led police to uncover one of WA's worst cases of child sexual abuse and exploitation — a 13-year-old girl raped by her own father and offered up for abuse by strangers he met on the internet. | | | | The mother of a woman who died after a violent sexual assault on a NSW beach says she felt like her heart had been ripped out when she learnt of her daughter's death. | | | | Overcrowding in the Dutch capital is causing tension between locals and visitors and now the historic city is working hard to make sure it won't be loved to death. | | | | We know next to nothing about it, and the Pluto probe New Horizons is headed straight for it. You might not have heard of MU69, but it's about to be really famous — and you can give it a better name. | |  |
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