| | | | The worst of Victoria's rain deluge is expected to hit today, with the Bureau of Meteorology warning the state's north-east is "roughly halfway through" the heaviest rain period. Follow updates in our live blog. | | | | Victoria's SES receives more than 1,500 calls for help as heavy rain continues to fall across much of the state and authorities prepare for possible evacuations in the north-east. | | | | A contestant on the first season of reality television show The Block says the gardening guru made jokes about bestiality and sexual comments about teen girls on a ferry when they met for a 2003 interview. | | | | The Socceroos will start their 2018 World Cup campaign against former champions and tournament fancies France, with group matches to follow against Denmark and Peru. | | | | The former US national security adviser pleads guilty to lying to the FBI in the federal probe into Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. | | | | The Prime Minister's Department loses a two-year fight to conceal a minister's bid for thousands of dollars in extra pollie-perks, including charter flights and boat rides. | | | | Pull your finger out, Australia — we let ourselves relax and an American nicked off with Our Harry. Now young Aussie singletons must redouble efforts to achieve something worthwhile in life and snag a Royal. | | | | Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce is one step closer to knowing whether voters want him back, as voters go to the polls in the New South Wales seat of New England. | | | | Australia is at growing risk of a home price crash because of the high number of mum and dad investors, inflated prices, record household debt and an economy that appears to be losing momentum, a new report says. | | | | The pop superstar's decision to withhold her album Reputation from streaming services — with whom she has a complicated relationship — until yesterday appears to have paid off. | | | | One of the youngest people ever to be charged with murder in Australia is found guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter after an Australia Day brawl in Perth that ended with the stabbing death of Patrick Slater. | | | | Kim Jong-nam, the murdered half-brother of North Korea's leader, had a dozen vials of antidote for lethal nerve agent VX in his bag on the day he was poisoned, a Malaysian court has been told. | | | | Those shiny, colourful specks of goodness people use in lieu of clothing at music festivals are a plastic pollutant doing far more harm than good. | | | | The United Nations' Yugoslav war crimes tribunal orders an independent review into its "internal operations" around the dramatic death of a Croat ex-general who swallowed what he said was poison in the tribunal's courtroom and later died. | | | | It has been 75 years since HMAS Armidale was lost to Japanese aircraft in WWII, but the battle for recognition goes on for Teddy Sheean, who strapped himself to his gun and fired at the enemy as the ship went down. | | | | Pope Francis has used the term "Rohingya" for the first time during his trip to Asia and asked for forgiveness from Myanmar refugees. | | | | A psychiatrist says she is "astounded" a pharmacy sold $500 worth of laxatives a week to woman who claimed they were treatment for a cancer she did not have. | | | | Living a meaningful life — one that involves a sense of belonging, purpose, context and transcendence — may be more rewarding in the long run than simply pursuing happiness, writes Sophie Scott. | | | | NSW Deputy Premier and senior Coalition MP John Barilaro says Malcolm Turnbull is "out of touch" and the Prime Minister should resign before Christmas because his Government is in "disarray". | | | | The world's biggest lithium ion battery is officially launched in South Australia, with the Premier declaring it an example of SA "leading the world", even as, in an ironic twist, some 250,000 lightning strikes leave nearby residents without electricity. | | | | Eileen Kramer learnt the twist from Louis Armstrong in Paris, and moved back to Australia at 99 because she dreamed of hearing kookaburras again — and she is still dancing at 103 years old. | |  |
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