| | | | Sydney man Matthew Ridley, 26, dies in India after being struck by a bus while on a motorbike tour outside the capital New Delhi. | | | | US President Donald Trump signs the Republicans' massive $US1.5 trillion tax overhaul into law, cementing the biggest legislative victory of his first year in office, and also approves a short-term spending bill that averts a possible government shutdown. | | | | Officers have no persons of interest and say the "smallest little thing" could be a vital lead in the apparent murder of a Victorian man killed in the city of Gothenburg. | | | | What possesses grown men to dress up as Santa Claus in the heat of the Australian summer? | | | | Eight men are charged after a record 1.2 tonnes of methamphetamine — equivalent to the total amount of the drug consumed across Australia in two months — were brought in by boat to the port of Geraldton. | | | | For the second time in 18 months, Geraldton is at the centre of a record-breaking drug seizure — but what is it about the area of Western Australia that makes it such an attractive destination for drug runners? | | | | Exploding puddings, trees in flames and turkey-stealing dogs — we asked for your Chrimbo catastrophes and you didn't disappoint. | | | | The Torres Strait is home to the most stable and robust population of dugong on the planet, but there are concerns their numbers could decline because of illegal poaching. | | | | The idyllic Himalayas in India are facing a problem with garbage, but with vital tourism dollars on the line, some crafty wordplay could be a solution. | | | | British foreign minister Boris Johnson says there is "abundant evidence" of Moscow meddling in foreign elections, but any Russian efforts to interfere in last year's Brexit referendum had fallen flat. | | | | The 21-page Rebels bikie gang constitution has been made public by a Northern Territory justice, who said "it would be regarded as a joke by most reasonable people". | | | | The family of Rohit Kaul, who was struck by a car outside Flinders Street train station while on the phone to his young son, describes their desperate bid to find out his fate amid the chaos. | | | | One of two Wisconsin girls who tried to kill a classmate to win favour with a fictional horror character named Slender Man is sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital. | | | | Witnesses scrambling to rescue a group of people — including two babies aged four and six months — from a capsized pontoon describe hearing screams and cries as the vessel began taking on water. | | | | A man who claimed to be hunting paedophiles and posted online videos of himself making citizen's arrests is arrested and charged by South Australian police. | | | | The body of an 18-year-old Sydney man is found near a blowhole in southern Tasmania after police believe he died attempting a risky parkour jump. | | | | The family of Rory O'Donoghue — best known as the child-like, sunny antidote to the bullish Aunty Jack in the cult Australian comedy show — reveal the entertainer's struggle with personal demons at a memorial today in Sydney. | | | | One of Australia's top Catholics declares 2017 an "annus horribilis", meaning "horrible year" in Latin, saying Christian conceptions of life and love were challenged by same-sex marriage, euthanasia and the royal commission. | | | | An anonymous off-duty sergeant is lavished with praise after tackling the man whose car mowed down more than a dozen people outside Melbourne's Flinders Street station. | | | | A man alleged to have shot dead an "iconic" crocodile in Central Queensland's Fitzroy River is facing fines of up to $28,000. | |  |
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