| | | | Megan Stapleton and Stephanie Dyball will tie the knot in Victoria in what looks likely to be Australia's first same-sex wedding, after successfully applying for a waiver from the one-month waiting period. | | | | Roy Moore, the conservative Republican judge who was backed by Donald Trump but dogged by claims he had behaved inappropriately towards schoolgirls, suffers a shock defeat in a Senate election in the southern state of Alabama. | | | | Roy Moore's defeat is a surprise pushback against deeply partisan US politics, writes Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel. Moderate Republicans found they couldn't stomach the thought of sending a man facing a litany of sexual assault allegations to Washington DC. | | | | Three people are arrested and witnesses claim police held their guns to a man's head at Centennial Park as part of a dramatic, planned operation in Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs. | | | | Turns out most Australians don't fancy spending a holiday giving birth to a baby, but they certainly seem to like spending the holidays making them, according to new figures from the ABS. | | | | This summer, there's a wealth of high-quality binge-watching opportunities on offer — and if there's one theme that reached peak saturation on television and streaming platforms in 2017, it's the hunt for the missing person. | | | | An inquest into the murder of brothel madam Shirley Finn is told a senior detective left a group of colleagues stunned when he allegedly confessed he was the one "who pulled the trigger". | | | | US rate hikes, the rebound in foreign economies and a weaker-than-expected jobs market are just some of the reasons why the Australian dollar will drop to 68 US cents, argues Westpac. | | | | The President tweeted that US senator Kirsten Gillibrand came to his office "begging for campaign contributions … and would do anything for them", after she called for his resignation over sexual harassment claims. | | | | Australia's team for the third Ashes Test won't be named until the toss tomorrow, but Steve Smith is likely to pick Mitchell Marsh over Peter Handscomb if the WACA wicket is not quick enough. | | | | The husband of Melbourne mother Karen Ristevski, whose body was found in bushland in February, indicates he will plead not guilty to her murder after being arrested this morning. | | | | She walked out of a bar into the cold night air and vanished. Mystery continues to shroud the fate of Australian woman Alison Raspa in the wild Canadian party town of Whistler. | | | | Star Wars actor Mark Hamill reflects on returning to Luke Skywalker, the role that made him a star — or possibly stalled his career — and what it was like losing Carrie Fisher. | | | | A "bang" believed to be a gunshot is heard in Deer Park in Melbourne's west, in an incident which left a 37-year-old man dead and 48-year-old man in police custody. | | | | Senator Sam Dastyari is yet to confirm when his resignation will take effect, but the Prime Minister says he is "still taking money from the taxpayers of the country that he put second". | | | | Doctors claim major complications from devices such as Implanon and Mirena affect fewer than one in 1,000 women, despite reports of severe side-effects like uterus perforations. | | | | Australians should be "saddened, angry and flabbergasted" that Indigenous patients are up to 10 times less likely to be added to the kidney donation waitlist than non-Indigenous patients, a leading renal specialist says. | | | | Electronic gaming machines will be removed from Tasmanian pubs and clubs under Labor's gambling policy announced today. | | | | Some of Facebook's former friends are starting to express some serious doubts about the social network they helped create, with one saying the company is "ripping apart the social fabric of how society works". | | | | The mother of a Chinese university student whose naked body was discovered floating facedown inside a Snapper Point blowhole begs a judge to sentence her killer to life in jail. | | | | The devastating facial injuries sustained by a Canberra man when armed attackers assaulted him and his partner in their apartment "could have easily killed him" — but police say they were not even the intended target. | | | | Their lives are very different — from the red desert to juvenile detention, bustling Beijing to jobless Kenya — but their dreams and anxieties share a common thread. As year 12 results are released, we ask seven students about their experiences of finishing high school. | |  |
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