| | | | Legendary Australian guitarist and AC/DC co-founder Malcolm Young dies aged 64, less than a month after his brother, Easybeats member George Young, passed away. | | | | The partner of New South Wales farmer Mathew Dunbar, who was found dead on his property earlier this year, has been charged with his murder. | | | | There are jubilant scenes on the streets of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, with tens of thousands of protesters singing and dancing as they demand President Robert Mugabe resign, hours before the 93-year-old is due to meet military commanders and amid talk he'll be sacked. | | | | Greens candidate Lidia Thorpe will become the first Aboriginal woman in Victoria's Parliament after the party won the inner-city seat from Labor, which had held it for 90 years. | | | | While Australians take to home batteries in their droves, some say there are better ways to save the environment. | | | | More than 800,000 Rohingya refugees are stuck in camps in Bangladesh without dwindling supplies of clean drinking water. One Australian aid worker is trying to help stop the wells from running dry. | | | | Whipping winds and 6-metre waves in the South Atlantic hamper a frantic search for an Argentine submarine with 44 crew members on board, the navy says. | | | | Equestrian great and dual Olympic gold medallist Gillian Rolton, who famously rode to Atlanta Games glory despite breaking her collarbone, dies after a long battle with cancer. | | | | Geelong skipper Joel Selwood is facing a possible AFL suspension after being black-carded during Australia's 53-50 win over Ireland in Saturday night's International Rules clash in Perth. | | | | 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. | | | | Dozens of parasites, some as long as 27 centimetres, have been found in the ruptured intestines of a North Korean soldier who was severely wounded by gunfire as he escaped to the south, surgeons say. | | | | After 10 years of negotiations, members of the Gumatj clan in the community of Gunyangara in north-east Arnhem Land sign a 99-year lease that will give them control over development on their own land. | | | | A Los Angeles jury awards $6.6 million to Katy Perry and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, finding a restaurateur intentionally interfered with the singer's attempts to buy a hilltop property that was once a convent by seeking to purchase it directly from the convent's nuns who disapprove of the pop star. | | | | 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 Australian Medical Association calls for the Federal Government to allow independent doctors to help more than 400 asylum seekers languishing inside the recently-closed Manus Island detention centre. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | Batsman Shaun Marsh is determined to grasp what he admits is probably a final chance to establish himself as a regular member of the Australia Test side after earning an Ashes recall. | | | | Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri has arrived in France from Saudi Arabia, seeking to dismiss fears that he had been held against his will and forced to resign by Saudi authorities. | | | | Fiji pulls off the greatest upset in Rugby League World Cup history by eliminating New Zealand at the quarter-finals stage with a gritty 4-2 win. | |  |
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