| | | | Wild celebrations break out on the streets of Zimbabwe as Robert Mugabe resigns as president, ending 37 years of rule by a man who turned from independence hero to archetypal African strongman. | | | | Anti-domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty joins calls for the Immigration Minister to reconsider cancelling the visa of a woman who killed her abusive partner, saying she has already endured enough punishment. | | | | New census data shows young workers are increasingly concentrated in a handful of jobs as the divide between those with and without qualifications widens. | | | | Bali's Mt Agung volcano begins erupting with an ash cloud rising 800 metres above the summit, but authorities say the eruption is small so far and locals are being urged to remain calm. | | | | Like Monty Python's Mr Creosote, the Australian housing market is bloated. The cause? Rising debt. And the bank regulator is trying to stop lenders making the final, fatal loans that might see it burst, writes Michael Janda. | | | | New Zealand journalist Angela Cuming takes a local councillor to task after he sends her a "grossly inappropriate joke" and then attempts to apologise for what he describes as a "silly" photo sent to a mate. | | | | The Pentagon, telecommunication giants and even the ABC are just some of the high-profile organisations who have reportedly left confidential information available online for anyone (with a little technical know-how) to find. | | | | Contemplating getting married? Then prepare to pay out big time — or have a big creative rethink. You don't have to spend tens of thousands of dollars. | | | | An announcement is expected in coming weeks that Chinese state-owned enterprises, banks, and export credit agencies are backing the venture, meaning Australian taxpayers may be let off the hook, but at the cost of local jobs. | | | | Unemployment is shaping up as a key issue in the Queensland election campaign. The Liberal National Party says that Queensland is vying for last place when it comes to unemployment, and that 30,000 jobs were lost in the state last year — the largest on record. RMIT ABC Fact Check runs the numbers. | | | | Police in north-eastern Nigeria say at least 50 people are dead after a teenage bomber detonated his explosives as he mingled among worshippers at a mosque in Adamawa state. | | | | The largest database on Australian cancer has been launched online to provide patients, governments and health experts with every known statistic about the disease. | | | | The son of Maureen Boyce, who was found dead in her apartment with a knife lodged in her stomach, tells the Supreme Court his mother wanted lover, and now murder-accused, Thomas Lang to go back to New Zealand because he was lazy and drank too much. | | | | England have chased down a record women's Twenty20 international total of 178 to claim victory over Australia in the final match of the Ashes. | | | | As Robert Mugabe's reign over Zimbabwe draws to a close, attention has turned to the role his wife — known for her extravagant spending — has played in his plunging popularity. But she's not the only wife of a world leader living large while their countrymen live in poverty. | | | | Sixteen groups from across the political and social spectrum are urging state governments to sign onto the federal plan for a National Energy Guarantee to tackle "unsustainably high power prices and rising emissions". | | | | Myanmar's policies that restrict ethnic Rohingyas from travelling, visiting a hospital or going to school are slammed in a new report from Amnesty International, which describes it as a system designed to make the minority's "lives as hopeless and humiliating as possible". | | | | The mother of a two-year-old boy who drowned in a pool at a family day care centre in Perth describes her son as a "wonderful surprise" and says she does not hold anything against the owner of the business. | | | | A huntswoman and an anti-hunting activist are filmed in a vicious clash that sees the fox hunter whipping the saboteur with her riding crop. | | | | Amnesty International wants the Australian Government to disclose all defence deals it has done with Saudi Arabia, as the humanitarian crisis in Yemen worsens. | | | | A former police officer tells an inquest he was knocked off his motorbike and threatened by other officers after telling his superiors he had seen brothel madam Shirley Finn at the police canteen with the head of the vice squad on the weekend she was killed. | | | | A 137-year-old photo said to show Billy the Kid with his killer is probably real, experts say, and could be worth millions of dollars after being bought at a flea market for $US10 a few years ago. | |  |
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