| | | | Victorians, get set for a wet weekend. The state is set to be hit by major thunderstorms over the next three days with warnings in place across the state for torrential rainfall which could lead to flash flooding. | | | | UK politicians accuse President Donald Trump of promoting "the hate-filled ideology of fascism" after his retweets of a British far-right group, while the Mayor of London adds his voice to mounting calls for his state visit to be cancelled. | | | | Australia and England embarrass themselves with the 'Ashes Phoney War' being played out alongside what is an enthralling contest, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Hundreds of young teaching graduates will have their HECs debt paid and receive special bonuses in a bid to try to lure more staff to rural schools. | | | | Households in NSW spend the most and WA households the least in Australia, but there are segments of WA who are feeling the bite more acutely in cost of living. | | | | The torture of a six-year-old girl whose mother was accused of practising sorcery will be investigated by a special police taskforce, the Papua New Guinea Government says. | | | | Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the latest US actions, joint US-South Korean military exercises planned for December, look designed to deliberately provoke Pyongyang into "taking new extreme action". | | | | Home visits from doctors are costing the health system millions. Will patients start losing access to them? | | | | The Chinese espionage group known as the Codoso team, or ATP-19, has been causing havoc internationally and is turning its attention to Australia and hacking law firms that hold sensitive commercial information. | | | | Today show host Matt Lauer apologises for what he calls his "troubling flaws" in a statement read out on the popular NBC morning show on Thursday, a day after the network fired him for inappropriate sexual behaviour. | | | | A Federal court judge slams Volkswagen for failing to explain why they fitted cars with emissions "defeat devices", and warn company executives may be forced to take the stand over the matter. | | | | Still enjoying one of the longest and most successful careers in music history, Sir Paul McCartney considers himself a lucky man because at the age of 75, he is still in hot demand. | | | | With temperatures across South Australia and Victoria hitting the mid 30s, and output from SA's wind farms low, the battery was called upon early to help meet Thursday afternoon's peak demand. | | | | The nation's most senior dermatologists calls for Australians at high risk of melanoma to have access to Medicare rebates for expensive mole-mapping photography, saying it will save lives. | | | | Up to several months of summer rain is expected to fall across parts of South Australia over just a day or two, with the weather bureau also warning of possibly destructive winds. | | | | Amnesty International says the Syrian government has used internationally banned cluster munitions in attacks on the besieged rebel-held suburb of Damascus, accusing it of committing war crimes on "an epic scale". | | | | French nuclear regulator ASN chief Pierre-Franck Chevet says traces of radioactive caesium have been found on mushrooms that would have come from Russia. | | | | Real estate has turned our banks into global money-making machines, so it is only natural banks don't want the royal commission to lift the blanket on property lending practices, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | A failure to convince interstate and international tourists to visit Western Australia has left the state facing an $800 million black hole by the end of the decade. | | | | Labor leader Bill Shorten says he has lost faith in Sam Dastyari after the latest China revelations and describes the senator as exhibiting very poor judgement and having deeply frustrated his ALP colleagues. | | | | A Katherine beekeeper says hundreds of thousands of his bees in 120 hives have died after being poisoned with the loss costing him up to $70,000. | |  |
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