| | | | There are calls for Labor's Sam Dastyari to leave the Parliament over new revelations about his dealings with China, but Labor says the senator has already been punished. | | | | The wartime commander of Bosnian Croat forces, Slobodan Praljak, dies after drinking a liquid he said was poison seconds after UN appeals judges upheld his 20-year sentence for war crimes against Bosnian Muslims. | | | | In a rare rebuke to Britain's closest ally, British Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman says US President Donald Trump was wrong to retweet videos posted by a leader of a British far-right group. | | | | Rainwater can often be home to gastro-causing bacteria and toxic metals. Here's how to protect yourself if you're one of the many Australians who rely on it for your drinking water. | | | | The crisis engulfing Australian football could see a doomsday scenario of the Socceroos and all Australian national football teams excluded from FIFA-sanctioned tournaments, including the 2018 World Cup. | | | | Victoria is set to be drenched with up to three times its monthly rainfall average mostly over two days with thunderstorms due to hit the state on Friday and Saturday which could lead to flash flooding. | | | | Ten staff members from the company contracted to provide case management and resettlement services are told to leave Manus Island for their own safety after a protest broke out at East Lorengau Refugee Transit Centre. | | | | A golden golf putter is returned to its owner following a chance discovery 12 years after it was stolen. | | | | NBC News fires one of the highest-paid figures in the TV news industry, Today show host Matt Lauer, after receiving a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behaviour. | | | | What is the most powerful thing early education systems can do to help children learn in the classroom? Experts say it's down to attracting good teachers to the profession and keeping them there. | | | | Bali's international airport reopens and airline staff try to clear a backlog of almost 90,000 passengers trying to leave before further eruptions from Mt Agung force the cancellation of more flights. | | | | Tired of traffic snarls and road closures, a far north Queensland man wants to be able to fly his replica World War II-era Spitfire to work each day — a trip he says will save him nearly 40 minutes on his morning commute. | | | | The infamous Pentridge Prison is currently being turned into a luxury "urban village" of cafes and apartments. But is this a necessary modernisation, or papering over our history in search of a dollar? | | | | Australia's biggest sporting codes are putting the boot into a New South Wales bill which proposes tough new restrictions on alcohol advertising, saying it will put the economics of professional sport at risk. | | | | If you know you're a victim of image-based abuse, that's one thing. But what about the victims who aren't sure if they're victims? | | | | Silicon Valley's treatment of women made headlines this year, and young women were watching. | | | | Labor's Senate leader Penny Wong praises "an act of acceptance" as the bill to legalise same-sex marriage passes the Upper House, but with a sitting week cancelled in the House of Representatives it will not move any further until Monday. | | | | Fairfax investigations editor Michael Bachelard and photographer Kate Geraghty take out the 2017 Gold Walkley Award for their news coverage of the war in Mosul. | | | | Channel Nine establishes a helpline where employees can access an independent counselling service and report instances of "past behaviour" within the organisation. | | | | An international research project identifying and tracking whale shark movements is being based on a NASA algorithm developed to recognise star patterns. | |  |
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