| | | | A Melbourne woman and her young daughter are killed in a car crash near Victoria Falls during a family holiday, according to local media reports. | | | | The latest round of United Nations sanctions against North Korea are tantamount to a complete economic blockade, the country's foreign ministry says, threatening to punish those who supported the measure. | | | | Northern Territory Police believe a man who was accidentally run over by a truck at Mataranka may have been sheltering beneath the vehicle during heavy rain. | | | | The death toll in the Philippines rises to at least 180 people after tropical storm Tembin devastates areas in the south of the country, forcing more than 70,000 people to flee their homes and unleashing flash flooding and setting off landslides. | | | | The Very Reverend Richard Humphrey channels Donald Trump in a politically-themed Christmas message, telling Anglicans to "turn from fake news to the really good news of Christmas". | | | | Palestinian protesters, some festively dressed as Santa Claus, clash with Israeli security forces in Bethlehem, a day before the beginning of Christmas celebrations in the West Bank city revered as the birthplace of Jesus. | | | | Need to sound like an instant expert on Star Wars: The Last Jedi whether you've seen the film or not? Here's the little details and cool trivia you might have missed. | | | | Mitchell Starc's run of Boxing Day Test misery continues, with Australia's hobbled spearhead ruled out of yet another major MCG fixture. | | | | Mexico registers its highest murder total since modern records began, in a fresh blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto's pledge to get gang violence under control. | | | | Fire sweeps through a shopping mall in the Philippines, killing at least 37 people, most of them workers at a call centre. | | | | Sleep specialists are seeing a growing number of people sending text messages, emails and even making phone calls while sound asleep, as smartphone usage becomes so automatic it invades our subconscious. | | | | Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten release messages ahead of Christmas Day urges Australians to remember the homeless and lonely and those "fighting their own battles against poverty, addiction, abuse or mental illness". | | | | Many adults are disenchanted with Christmas. Can recalling the message of the original Christmas story help us to counter the anxiety and sadness? | | | | Twelve months on from controversial spinal cord surgery five-year-old Isabella Lombardo from Sydney hopes 2018 will be the year she walks without assistance. | | | | The bizarre discovery of a 25-gram truffle growing a short walk from the Eiffel Tower is exciting urban scientists and foodies and raising questions about how it could grow in Paris' frigid climate. | | | | Christmas is meant to bring people together, but come December 25, you might find yourself sitting across the table from someone with a very different outlook on life. So what happens if someone says something that you find offensive? | | | | Wayne Robinson suffered crippling depression while living on the streets, but a small gesture of generosity helped him blossom into an artist with a talent for creating hand-drawn cards. | | | | Miss America Organisation's leadership team resigns over an email scandal that targeted past pageant winners for abuse based on their appearance, intellect and sex lives. | | | | US ambassador to the Netherlands Pete Hoekstra apologises for claiming there were "no-go zones" in Muslim communities in the country and an interview in which he dismissed them as "fake news". | | | | Financial and cultural control of North Stradbroke Island's biggest tourism business is returned to its traditional owners, the Quandamooka people. | |  |
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