| | | | Congratulations, you made it through another year — and this one was a big one! But before you pat yourself on the back, we've got one more challenge for you: the final ABC News quiz of 2017. | | | | Comanche wins line honours in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race after Wild Oats XI is penalised by an hour for breaking race rules. | | | | Grieving partners are charged hundreds of dollars to get household accounts transferred from their loved ones' names into their own, with some companies even imposing both disconnection and re-connection fees on accounts. | | | | Siri's co-creator wants your virtual assistant to know almost everything about you. But is that a threat to your privacy? | | | | It takes a dire situation for an Australian cricket team to write itself off, but coach Darren Lehmann admits Australia's best hope at the MCG is a draw | | | | Democrat Doug Jones is certified as the winner of Alabama's US Senate election race despite a legal challenge by Republican candidate Roy Moore. | | | | A man is accused of beating to death "spinning legend" and champion of the Byron Bay dance music scene Chris Bradley in an attack on Christmas Day. | | | | The trillions of dollars spent by the likes of Elon Musk to commercialise space travel and set up colonies on other planets would be better used defending the lives of more than 7 billion humans on Earth, writes Andrew Glikson. | | | | An Armidale man is charged over a death threat, complete with a bullet, posted to Barnaby Joyce office during his by-election campaign. The threat prompted the Deputy PM to say: "This is the sort of garbage we have to put up with." | | | | The Federal Government insists a free trade agreement with Indonesia is imminent, despite missing a self-imposed, end-of-year deadline. | | | | Tennis legend Roger Federer says a change in mindset and a more relaxed attitude to his game helped him produce one of the great sporting comebacks, as he lands Down Under ahead of the Hopman Cup and Australian Open. | | | | Australia and Timor-Leste have been given until March to finalise a draft treaty signed earlier this year, but a legal advisor to the nation says that might not happen. | | | | No need to work your way through those exhaustive 2018 sports calendars — Richard Hinds has found the best bits for you. | | | | The US embassy in Turkey announces the resumption of normal visa services for Turkish citizens, saying Turkish authorities fulfilled assurances no local staff will be detained or arrested for performing their duties. | | | | Will history look back on 2017 as the year the world finally overcame the great recession of 2008 thanks to an unlikely saviour, US President Donald Trump? | | | | A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen kills 109 civilians in air strikes in 10 days, including 54 at a crowded market and 14 members of one family in a farm, the top UN official in the country says. | | | | Women, children and journalists are among the dead after a series of explosions targeting a Shiite Muslim cultural centre in Afghanistan's capital. | | | | Prosecutors in Japan charge former sumo wrestling grand champion Harumafuji with assault after he fractured the skull of a lower-ranking rival in a bar brawl. | | | | A spate of inebriated commuters slipping, tripping, and falling at train stations prompts a silly season safety warning from Queensland Rail, which has released CCTV footage of some of its drunk passengers. | | | | The director of a film whose lead actress was critically injured on Boxing Day in a fiery triple-fatal crash on the New South Wales south coast says she was on her way to stardom. | | | | Under the watchful eye of the Communist Party, and amid a backlash against the rampant consumerism of the past several decades, people in China are turning to religion to find deeper meaning. | |  |
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