| | | | Authorities say there is "no increased threat" to the public after an incident yesterday where a 32-year-old man with a history of drug use and mental illness allegedly crashed his car into pedestrians outside Melbourne's Flinders Street train station, leaving 19 people injured. | | | | More than 120 countries defy President Donald Trump and vote in favour of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. | | | | Test cricket purists have long resisted the bright lights of the Big Bash, writes Richard Hinds, but as the benefits begin to far outweigh the negatives it might be time to embrace the shortest form. | | | | Thousands of people are about to head off on summer holidays. If you're planning to stay at an Airbnb during your trip, here are some of the common problems to watch out for and how to avoid them. | | | | The inn, the shepherds, angels and animals: pretty much everything we think we know about the Christmas story is historically wrong, writes Robyn Whitaker. | | | | Prince Harry and his American actress fiancee Meghan Markle release a series of official engagement portraits taken by a New York-based fashion photographer with a professional connection to Princess Diana. | | | | Wanaaring, outback NSW, is looking for a new postie, meteorologist, grocer, tyre specialist and hotelier, amongst other things. But there is a catch – you have to do it all yourself. | | | | Clive Palmer's proposed new central Queensland coal mine poses a potentially toxic health risk to drivers on Australia's main highway north of Rockhampton, project opponents claim. | | | | Forget smashed avocados, there's a new question to ask at brunch, write Alison Branley and James Thomas. | | | | The Australian Federal Police are hopeful at least 1,000 missing people will come forward and write to their families with traceless postcards to let them know they are OK this Christmas. | | | | One of the youngest people ever convicted of manslaughter could be released early next year after he is sentenced over the Australia Day stabbing death of Patrick Slater in the Perth CBD. | | | | A fire in an eight-storey fitness centre in the scenic South Korean city of Jecheon kills at least 29 people, most of them as they were taking a sauna, officials say. | | | | A small carnivorous marsupial long thought extinct in New South Wales is discovered in the far north-west corner of the state. | | | | Apple now says it does tinker with old iPhone models. But only to make the ageing smartphones run smoother. | | | | Your eyes do not deceive you — Brisbane's famed "brown snake" has been lacking its muddy colours as of late, but its new look will only last as long as the rain holds out. | | | | A 41-year-old man drowns while trying to rescue his two children at a surf beach on Victoria's south-west coast. | | | | Voters in a deeply divided Catalonia are flocking to the polls with support for its separatist and unionist camps running neck-and-neck, leaving prospects of an end to Spain's worst political crisis in decades looking slim. | | | | After a fatal South Australian crash as a patient drove himself between country hospitals, another case surfaces in which a man faced a 610km outback drive after a stroke. | | | | An Australian man who was stabbed and found dying in the street in the Swedish city of Gothenburg managed to walk several hundred metres before collapsing, police say. | | | | It can be tempting to unfriend people who share material on Facebook that conflicts with our values. How can we can find ways to connect that make us better off? | | | | The first Allied and Royal Australian Navy submarine lost in World War I is finally found after a 103-year search off the coast of Papua New Guinea. | |  |
By Robyn J Whitaker, University of Divinity | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
By the National Reporting Team's Alison Branley and James Thomas | |  |
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