| | | | Australian woman Cassie Sainsbury is sentenced to six years in a Colombian prison for trafficking cocaine after a judge accepted her plea deal. | | | | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull takes a swipe at the outgoing Senate President Stephen Parry, saying he is disappointed the fellow Liberal did not make concerns he was a dual citizen public earlier and that it should have been referred to the High Court with the Citizenship Seven. | | | | Donald Trump seizes on the New York City terrorist attack that left eight dead to call for tighter immigration measures, asking Congress to "immediately" end a visa program under which the Uzbek immigrant accused entered the country. | | | | The number of teaching students with below average high school marks has surged in the past decade. While some are calling for Australia to tough up the requirements and bring smarter kids to the profession, universities say there's more to teaching than academia. | | | | Thousands make the celebrated trek every year, but the Kokoda Track is still providing a treasure trove for historians investigating the battle that took place there 75 years ago. | | | | An experimental procedure that could preserve the fertility of kids with cancer is now being offered, and for mum Lara it's a case of trying anything that might help her little girl. | | | | Six women — including actress Olivia Munn — accuse prominent film director Brett Ratner of sexual assault or misconduct, while Dustin Hoffman is accused of sexually harassing a teenage intern in 1985. | | | | An explosion at an Indian coal-fired power plant kills 16 people and injures up to 100 others in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. | | | | A woman with a fixation on serial killers and torture methods, and a mother of three with an interest in BDSM, murdered 18-year-old Aaron Pajich by fatally stabbing him before burying him under a slab of cement, a court rules. | | | | A 51-year-old teacher is arrested and charged over alleged indecent assaults of young girls at a Sydney school, with shocked parents describing him as a "fantastic" educator. | | | | Scaling the iconic landmark and sacred site is set to be a thing of the past after the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park board decided unanimously to ban the activity, starting in 2019. | | | | We know it can be hard to keep up with what's happening in Australia's dual-citizenship scandal, so here's a quick rundown of who still has questions to answer. | | | | A newly married Pakistani woman has been arrested on murder charges after she allegedly poisons her husband's milk and it inadvertently kills 17 extended family members, local police say. | | | | When it came time for contestants at the Miss Peru contest to give their waist, hip and bust sizes, more than 20 women instead recited facts about trafficking, femicide and harassment. | | | | Three bikies are convicted for walking to a car on the side of a Brisbane road, under Queensland's VLAD laws that ban gang members congregating in public. The trio made sure to leave the court separately after sentencing. | | | | Greens leader Richard Di Natale accuses the Australian Government of stripping Manus Island asylum seekers of medication for mental health disorders as the Human Services Minister denies claims that alternative facilities are still being built. | | | | Victoria's Premier defends a Minister who encouraged people to avoid scammers by "automatically" telling anyone with an Irish accent to leave their property. | | | | A fresh internal investigation is launched into three West Australian police officers who were filmed punching and kicking two people they were arresting. | |  |
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