| | | | President Donald Trump designates North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, allowing the United States to impose additional sanctions but running the risk of inflaming tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missile programs. | | | | A high school student takes on a former politician and Christian broadcaster on Q&A, arguing that calls for religious protections in same-sex marriage legislation are "unjustified" because it is "legally and morally wrong" to discriminate against the LGBTIQ community. | | | | When Rachael Gauci first saw her newborn daughter Kyra, weighing less than half a kilogram, she burst into tears. How could someone so tiny, born so prematurely, possibly survive? | | | | On the streets of Calais, you can sense the fear. Locals resent the influx of migrants, drivers are scared of the hooded teens chasing their moving trucks, and children like Mahmoud are scared of everyone they've met on their lonely path to safety. | | | | It is often called the "best loan you'll ever get". So should graduates try and pay down their student loans as quickly as possible? | | | | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he is "actively working" to ease the burden on middle-income earners, saying higher taxes "penalise people who are trying to get ahead". | | | | Many of us wonder how we ever lived without Facebook — and how we might escape. If Facebook has become one network to rule them all, then the future looks like a splintered, fractured mess, writes Seamus Byrne | | | | What some planetary scientists thought were trickling salty streams on the Red Planet — potentially harbouring microbial life — could be nothing but avalanches of dry sand, researchers find. | | | | The Chancellor is facing her toughest political test yet as cross-party talks to form a majority government break down and Germans face a return to the polls, writes Europe correspondent James Glenday. | | | | If New Zealand's experience is anything to go by, same-sex marriage could be a boon for the Australian economy. | | | | An Argentinian military submarine reported an electrical problem and was headed back to base when it went missing last week in the South Atlantic, the country's Navy says. | | | | The fight for Australia's lucrative Offshore Patrol Vessel contract is getting ugly as defence firms adopt increasingly ruthless tactics amid claims of Chinese influence and accusations of faulty designs, writes Andrew Greene. | | | | Charles Manson, the notorious cult leader who directed his followers to commit a string of brutal murders, came to represent the worst excesses of a divided society spinning out of control, and a generation at war with its elders, writes Mark Bannerman. | | | | Melbourne is experiencing traffic problems during the morning peak period after a truck got hooked on overhead tram lines and pulled them down at a busy CBD intersection. | | | | Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF begins the process of impeaching President Robert Mugabe, saying he is a "source of instability" and has shown disrespect for the rule of law. | | | | The families of vulnerable patients who suffered abuse and neglect at the condemned Oakden nursing home will have the chance to hear from those who were responsible for the facility at a Senate inquiry in Adelaide today. | | | | Terry Crews, the Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor who accused a "high-level Hollywood executive" of sexual assault, slams a record producer for defending the alleged offender. | | | | Bob Reid was told he was wasting his time hunting for Bosnian war criminal Ratko Mladic. A cop who cut his teeth chasing criminals in NSW, he showed why he's regarded as one of the world's best detectives. | | | | Malcolm Turnbull's Monday started on a rock music station, where he couldn't name an AC/DC track. But helpful Twitter users have given the PM hundreds of suggestions. | | | | The Federal Government is hailing new figures which show a 13-per-cent decline in the number of teen parents on welfare as a sign its policies are working, but welfare groups say it has coincided with a significant fall in teenage pregnancies. | | | | Airbnb denies worsening housing affordability by soaking up residential properties for tourist accommodation, and its co-founder says governments need to accept "the genie is out of the bottle and it's not going back in". | | | | Czech tennis player and winner of 17 Grand Slam titles, Jana Novotna, dies peacefully surrounded by family after losing a long battle with cancer. | | | | A Tasmanian rural council has "counselled" a staff member over language used in a public Facebook post on the council's official page following the destruction of a Christmas tree. | |  |
By Seamus Byrne | |  |
By Europe correspondent James Glenday | |  |
By defence reporter Andrew Greene | |  |
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