| | | | England fights bravely as Australia's pace attack ramps up the pace after lunch on day one at the WACA. Follow all the Ashes action in our live blog. | | | | Two of the three men arrested by armed police during a dramatic operation in Sydney's Centennial Park yesterday are former Parramatta Eels players. Police fired stun grenades into the men's van as they moved in on Wednesday morning. | | | | The Somerton Man cold case has captivated sleuths — both real and amateur — for decades. Now, an Adelaide professor believes he may have uncovered the identity of the man found on Somerton Beach all those years ago. | | | | A leaked document claims China has begun constructing refugee camps on the North Korean border capable of holding large numbers of asylum seekers fleeing potential disaster. | | | | Two men are jailed for at least 20 and 22 years for murdering a Melbourne mother, who was bashed, shot and dumped in a mineshaft as punishment for making a family violence complaint to police. | | | | The Commonwealth Bank faces serious new allegations over money laundering, with claims it gave a convicted terrorist who had tried to pay for attacks in Australia a heads-up it was about to close his account. | | | | China has strongly condemned Australia for questioning its political interference. The tension could affect free trade, Australian expats and foreign students, writes Ryan Manuel. | | | | In the #MeToo moment, a short story in The New Yorker about a young woman's dating experience hits the zeitgeist — and gets the internet talking. | | | | An argument over a cigarette lighter ended in Perth man Piri Phillips being stabbed through the chest and back with a hunting knife, an act described as a 'moment of insanity' as his killer is sentenced to life in prison. | | | | The crucial by-election in Bennelong is being dominated by rising tensions between Canberra and Beijing, with a mysterious letter urging the local Chinese community to abandon the Coalition and support Kristina Keneally. | | | | Westpac says it will pay a total of $11 million in compensation to customers who held one of 13,000 owner-occupier, interest-only home loans affected by a mortgage processing error. | | | | It is a day of reckoning for many victims of child sexual abuse, with a book of their accounts of suffering handed to the National Library of Australia on the final day of the royal commission. | | | | Jeff Horn could be forgiven for casting his thoughts forward to a potential fight with Terence Crawford in Las Vegas, but Brisbane's boxing champ says he is looking forward to a family Christmas first. | | | | James Sutherland says there is "no substance" to allegations players are involved in plans to rig parts of today's third Ashes Test in Perth. The Sun newspaper says it has spoken to two Indian bookies who claim to have a fixer dubbed 'The Silent Man' in the Australian camp. | | | | A Queensland coroner finds police acted "inappropriately and incompetently" when they failed to call an ambulance after finding an unconscious university student during the raid of a Gold Coast unit. | | | | In one of the most vivid accounts yet of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual harassment, Hollywood star Salma Hayek says the mogul became her nightmare with relentless advances and a death threat. | | | | A competition to name a new species of jumping spider is underway, but the researcher who discovered the "cuddly" arachnid is praying "to the spider goddess Arachne for it not to be named Spidey McSpiderface". | | | | Don't get too excited just yet over the National Broadband Network's price drop — some experts say it might not make much of a difference to your current internet speeds. | | | | The US President says some Republicans are happy Roy Moore lost his bid for the US Senate, but the ramifications for the party are significant, writes Washington correspondent Zoe Daniel. | | | | And no, it's not Donald Trump. But it is making headlines around the world. | |  |
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