| | | | With an estimated worldwide audience of 1 billion people, the Sydney fireworks display wows the crowds at a packed New Year's Eve celebration as Australia brings in the new year. | | | | Australians might elect a president of the wrong "calibre", the Keating Government was warned during the republic debate, according to newly released Cabinet documents from 1994 and 1995. | | | | NSW Police confirm the bodies of six people have been recovered and brought back to land after a seaplane crashed into Jerusalem Bay near the town of Cowan, north of Sydney on Sunday afternoon | | | | Two men are injured and thousands forced to evacuate after a barge catches fire during a New Year's Eve fireworks display at Terrigal Beach, on the New South Wales central coast. | | | | Australia and New Zealand become the first countries to usher in 2018 as New York City's Times Square braces for what could be the coldest New Year's Eve ball drop on record. | | | | A night of heavy drinking between a Donald Trump aide and Alexander Downer in a London wine bar is reported to have set off the chain of events which led to the FBI launching an investigation into allegations Russia interfered in the presidential election. | | | | Thanasi Kokkinakis and Daria Gavrilova win their singles matches to guide Australia to victory over Canada at the Hopman Cup. | | | | Sixty-seven-year-old Michael Neu helped swindle gullible victims out of thousands of dollars as part of a notorious internet scam, police in Louisiana say. | | | | Iran blocks access to Instagram and a popular messaging app warning of a crackdown against demonstrators who pose one of the biggest challenges to both the government and clerical leadership in power since the 1979 revolution. | | | | It depends on who you ask, but Ichi Ban navigator Will Oxley certainly thinks so if teams enjoy absolutely perfect weather conditions for the race. Even this year's record-shattering run was not enough. | | | | She suffered a heart attack and had spent the week leading up to her death in a US hospital. Her father died after being choked out by an police officer, and his final words — "I can't breathe" — became a slogan for activists. | | | | Deadly mass shootings, destructive hurricanes, displaced populations, elections, inaugurations and same-sex marriage. These are the stories that defined 2017. | | | | A young woman tells police she was sexually assaulted in the camping area at the music festival a day after another woman said she was assaulted in a mosh pit. | | | | Police in Los Angeles arrest a man they suspect made a hoax emergency call that resulted in a police officer shooting 28-year-old Andrew Finch dead in Wichita, Kansas. | | | | Police release footage of a P-plate driver allegedly travelling more than 100 kilometres over the speed limit near Townsville, in what has been described as one of the worst speeding incidents in Queensland so far this Christmas holiday period. | | | | "A good snake is a dead snake" is a popular adage, especially during hot Aussie summers when the reptiles are on the move, but a WA snake handler is pleading with people to relocate them to the bush before they reach for the sharp end of a shovel. | | | | The remains of civilians and troops killed by Islamic State are discovered in mass graves near the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, once the de facto capital of IS. | | | | New rules mean all of the country's peaks are now off limit to many would-be climbers — among them a Gurkha veteran who lost both his legs in an explosion in Afghanistan. | |  |
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