| | | | Robert Mugabe refuses to stand down as President of Zimbabwe amid a tense standoff with the nation's military and after being sacked by his own party yesterday. | | | | For the first time in 30 years, a key player in one of the biggest legal and political scandals in Australian history has spoken out. | | | | Unarmed, wearing her pyjamas and just trying to help, Justine Damond Ruszczyk was shot dead by a police officer outside her home in Minneapolis. Four months on, her loved ones open up for the first time to Australian Story about their determination to seek justice for Justine. | | | | With the mining boom spent, the big infrastructure spend on the gas industry gone, and the east coast housing boom in its final phase, it seems there's little ammo in the locker left to help fire up a wages lift any time soon — but there's a silver lining, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | Salim Mehajer, the former deputy mayor of Sydney's Auburn Council, is being questioned by NSW police after a car crash in Sydney's south. | | | | Our politics have never been more divisive, but as summer comes we shall briefly be united in our resentment of an old enemy. It is about so much more than cricket, writes Catherine McGregor. | | | | Life in America's top domestic intelligence service is not quite like the movies — just ask Special Agent George Bockelberg, who had never fired a gun before he signed up looking for an adventure. | | | | Amid mounting evidence Myanmar's military used mass rape in its apparent ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, survivors of this trauma recount gang-rape and cruel violence by soldiers. | | | | Both major party leaders are focusing their campaigns on potential One Nation voters in the last week of the campaign, as the minor party leader grabs attention with a baby announcement. | | | | A late night, a sense of completion, a feeling that the job was done — that can make you dusty. Most of those in green and gold played the second Twenty20 in Canberra as though still under the weather, writes Geoff Lemon. | | | | City of Sydney councillors lash a decision to promote an event featuring a prominent anti-vaccination academic on the city's official website as "harmful and irresponsible". | | | | Malcolm Young, the guitarist whose powerhouse riffs and rhythm guitar propelled AC/DC to stardom, dies less than a month after his brother, Easybeats member George Young. | | | | Victoria Police is criticised over its handling of an investigation into a Ballarat sergeant, who admitted to punching his neighbour who says she was knocking on his door for help after a dispute with her partner had escalated. | | | | Former NSW premier Kristina Keneally makes her pitch to become the next MP for the federal seat of Bennelong in Sydney's north, saying the Turnbull Government and its one-seat majority is "under threat". | | | | Argentina's defence ministry says seven failed "satellite calls" that it believes came from a missing naval submarine were detected three days after it went missing in a likely sign the crew of 44 was trying to re-establish contact. | | | | A split is widening within the Turnbull Government about whether religious amendments to same-sex marriage legislation should be debated this year or in 2018. | | | | WA's football commission says it is disappointed by the crowd's behaviour following the final sporting fixture at Subiaco Oval on Saturday night, when fans ran onto the ground and ripped up pieces of turf as souvenirs. | | | | While Australians take to home batteries in their droves, some say there are better ways to save the environment. | | | | The top United States nuclear commander says he will resist President Donald Trump if he orders an "illegal" launch of nuclear weapons. | | | | Aboriginal elder Robert Dutchie, who trekked 60 kilometres in sweltering heat in WA's remote Kimberley to seek help for his stranded family, says he thought he was going to die in the attempt. | |  |
By business editor Ian Verrender | |  |
By Geoff Lemon in Canberra | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
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