| | | | A passenger train derails on a bridge over a major highway in Washington state, sending part of the train crashing down onto highway and killing several passengers, authorities say. | | | | Steve Smith reveals he broke down in tears after helping guide his side to an innings victory over England that reclaimed the Ashes urn for Australia in the third Test at the WACA. | | | | Many women who experience domestic violence will, if lucky, escape to begin a new, safer life. For others, including these women in Australian Hindu and Sikh communities, their suffering has ended only with death. These are their stories. | | | | Mosquito coils can help beat the bite of mosquitoes, but is all that smoke doing more harm than good? | | | | There were no obvious red flags apparent to the staff at four-year-old Tyrell Cobb's preschool that he was being neglected, and his case was not one with a lengthy history of physical violence. So what happened to Tyrell before he died? | | | | To understand the marvel of marinades and the benefits of browning, brining, slow cooking and 'relaxing', you first need to get a handle on the structure of meat. | | | | A Lebanese Uber driver confesses to killing British embassy staffer Rebecca Dykes, after her body was found on the side of the road in Beirut on Saturday. | | | | Imagine going to the doctor and being taken on a virtual reality trip inside your own body. New Australian technology means cancer patients will be able to see a virtual version of themselves, and track where drug treatments are ending up. | | | | The Deputy Prime Minister is expected to take on the infrastructure portfolio when Malcolm Turnbull announces his Cabinet reshuffle as early as today. | | | | What can a kindergarten teach a court? A young Aboriginal man finds out as he tries to save a generation of Indigenous kids from institutional care. | | | | After two years in the system across three jurisdictions, one grandmother is calling for more to be done to protect her family, which is currently in hiding from an abusive father. | | | | Twenty-seven-year-old Kim Jong-hyun was found unconscious at a rented apartment studio and died later in hospital. | | | | Nobody gains weight overnight — it happens gradually, over years. But the rate spikes sharply during the Christmas and New Year holiday period and we can't shake it, writes Joe Leech. | | | | Capping funding for university places, lowering the threshold on HECS repayments and forcing new migrants to wait longer to get welfare payments are some of the measures unveiled by Treasurer Scott Morrison in his mid-year update. | | | | The MYEFO update sees the Government place lifetime limits on the amount students can borrow for university and a freeze on funding for the sector, something Universities Australia says will make getting into study much harder. | | | | Ten Greens MPs are redirecting a large proportion of their entitlements to a service that promises to "spark a genuine conversation that's on target". | | | | Police make a dramatic rescue in one of NSW's most remote areas, saying a 26-year-old woman who spent two days trapped down an eight-metre mine shaft is lucky to be alive. | | | | Patients will no longer be able to book a GP home visit in advance and accessing after-hours care at home from a junior doctor will become harder, as the Federal Government tightens regulation. | | | | The United Nations's top human rights official says he cannot rule out the possibility of military and government leaders facing charges of genocide. | | | | A Queensland mycologist says fungi could hold the key to eradicating much of the world's waste by both replacing and decomposing plastics. | |  |
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