| | | | A partial shutdown of the US Government begins after an eleventh-hour effort to secure a funding deal failed, in a chaotic close to Donald Trump's first year as President. | | | | Two out-of-control blazes are burning through the Royal National Park in Sydney's south, with thick plumes of smoke being seen across the city. | | | | The wife and daughter of legendary American rocker Tom Petty reveal he died from an accidental drug overdose after he was prescribed seven different medications to help him deal with health issues while touring. | | | | US Defence Secretary James Mattis says countering China's rapidly expanding military and an increasingly aggressive Russia are now the main focus of America's national security, outpacing the threat of terrorism. | | | | Victoria's first female Aboriginal MP says her call for flags to be flown at half-mast on Australia Day were met with emails and notes containing death and gang rape threats. | | | | One year after the Bourke Street car attack, Melburnians who were caught in the carnage and chaos reflect on the day that shattered the city, and how it changed their lives. | | | | It's been billed as the most modern, state-of-the-art ground in Australia, so ahead of its opening this weekend we run the ruler over Perth Stadium to see how it compares to the rest. | | | | The fashionable yucca plant, a species introduced from the Americas, is to blame for a spike in gardening-related ear injuries, a new study finds. | | | | In a match that will go down as an Australian Open classic, world number one Simona Halep defeats Lauren Davis 15-13 in the third and deciding set of an almost four-hour encounter. | | | | Over the past few weeks, Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced a series of changes to the social media site that will impact user's News Feeds. | | | | Aly Raisman has confronted her former doctor, Larry Nassar, who has pleaded guilty to multiple sexual assaults, warning him that the testimonies from his survivors will haunt him behind bars. | | | | For years Esperance on Western Australia's south coast has laid claim to being the home of the world's best beaches. Now it is struggling under the weight of tourists drawn by photo-sharing platform Instagram. | | | | Nick Kyrgios withdraws from the Australian Open men's doubles to save himself for an all-out singles assault at Melbourne Park, which has been gripped by oppressive heat. | | | | Pope Francis has suffered what millions of ordinary people have to deal with — a flat tyre. Watch the massive security operation that unfolded after his vehicle came to a halt in Peru. | | | | Public key cryptography keeps our online activities and bank transactions private. But how does it actually work? | | | | The 250 residents of Warrell Creek don't have a local watering hole, so one man has taken it upon himself to bring thirsty locals together. | | | | A woman who was one of the few Italian children to survive deportation to a Nazi death camp is made a senator-for-life in Italy, 80 years after the country introduced Fascist-era racist laws targeting Jews. | | | | Three investors who are sticking with the cryptocurrency despite the fluctuating value — which plummeted more than 20 per cent this week — explain why they still think bitcoin trading is the way to go. | | | | Mackay marks the centenary of a destructive, unnamed cyclone, which all but flattened the young town in north Queensland. | |  |
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