| | | | Botswana wants to know if it's a "s***hole country" and senior political figures around the world question Donald Trump's fitness for office after the President's reported remarks about Haiti, El Salvador and African nations. | | | | Newcastle Airport is closed as an emergency warning is issued for an out of control bushfire burning near Masonite Road, Tomago, just north of Newcastle. | | | | John Feeley, a career diplomat and former Marine, says he is "honour bound" to leave his post in Panama because he cannot serve under Donald Trump anymore. | | | | The 29-year-old's life support machines were turned off on Thursday night and the actress remains in a critical condition in Sydney's St George Hospital. | | | | Rescuers recover the bodies of two crew members on an Iranian oil tanker that has been burning since it collided with a freighter last week, leaving 29 still unaccounted for. | | | | The production company behind The Doctor Blake Mysteries launches an investigation amid fresh allegations the show's star Craig McLachlan sexually harassed staff and regularly behaved inappropriately on the set. | | | | Norway takes the mickey out of the Australian Government's travel advice warning about the dangers of the arctic nation's polar bears, assuring that the only polar bears in Norway are "stuffed". | | | | The seven-year-old's tragic death in Pakistan has left dozens of questions. But it's not the first time shocking sex crimes against children have rocked the region and experts have no confidence it will be the last. | | | | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will visit a military base near Tokyo next week to discusses the likelihood of Japanese troops conducting training exercises in Australia. | | | | From a factory worker tightening screws for a living to a professor — this is the incredible story of Shuang Liu, one of millions of people whose lives changed forever when China reinstated the national entrance exam in 1977. | | | | "Black pudding saved my life," Chris McCabe told British media, after a gust of wind trapped him in a freezer and attempts at kicking his way out proved fruitless. | | | | A man is being questioned over the fatal stabbing of a man whose bloodied body was found near Hurstville train station in Sydney's south this morning. | | | | Four passengers injured in a hot air balloon crash are stable, as a man says a different flight scheduled nearby was cancelled this morning because it was "too windy". | | | | Speaking for the first time about her coronation 65 years ago, Queen Elizabeth II reveals how uncomfortable she was riding in her golden carriage to the ceremony, and how wearing the Imperial State Crown risks "breaking your neck". | | | | Two Perth entrepreneurs, determined to reduce road deaths, develop a hi-tech device that calls triple-0 from your car automatically on point of impact. | | | | Exhausted emergency crews continue to plough through mud-coated roads in search of the missing after a huge mudslide killed 18 people in Southern California. | | | | With Alex de Minaur causing a massive stir in the build-up to the Australian Open, it's clear we need to choose an appropriate nickname for the young lad. | | | | Parents must get tough about social media use after the tragic death of 14-year-old Amy 'Dolly' Everett, a leading Australian child psychologist says. | | | | Snakes, bottles of alcohol and a Samsung tablet were smuggled into Queensland's prisons last financial year, with authorities seizing nearly 3,000 contraband items. | | | | Researchers use bees to monitor pollution for the first time in Australia and find significant lead levels in the insects depending on location — a reminder that whatever we pollute the world with will end up back in our systems. | |  |
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