| | | | The US President signs the bill to reopen the Government until February 8, ending a three-day standoff between Democrats and Donald Trump's Republicans over immigration and border security. | | | | Police are hunting for a gunman after a man believed to be aged in his 60s was shot dead at a cafe in Sydney's west this afternoon. | | | | A missing five-year-old Queensland child was found trapped and banging on the doors of a school bus, almost five hours after she should have returned home from her first day back at school, her mother says. | | | | Fake emergencies, fake best friends, and finding the biggest guy in the room — women are sharing their advice on how to avoid unwanted male attention, and the random acts of kindness that have saved them from daunting situations. | | | | We asked you to tell us how long you've had to wait on the phone to speak to someone at Centrelink, and many of you told us you'd waited longer than the claimed average 15 minutes and 44 seconds. | | | | The former Auburn deputy mayor, his friend and a married couple are arrested for charges relating to a car crash that happened as Mr Mehajer was on his way to court last year. | | | | Authorities are urging victims of scams, facilitated via Western Union's payment systems, to claim compensation through the US Department of Justice. | | | | The Prime Minister praises security agencies after a 40-year-old federal public servant from western Sydney is charged for allegedly giving terrorist organisation Islamic State thousands of dollars in 2015. | | | | Australia as we know it was born on a New Year's Day. Our history is so much more than the foundation of Sydney, writes Aron Paul. | | | | When 21-year-old Hyeon Chung from South Korea defeated former world number one Novak Djokovic last night, millions of people were watching around Asia. | | | | New information about a possible burial site in the case of the missing Beaumont children is the "best lead that there ever has been", a former SA Police detective says, as police prepare to excavate a site at a North Plympton factory. | | | | Neil Diamond cancels his Australian concerts and is retiring from touring, saying he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. | | | | The retail giant agrees to refund nearly $20 million to customers tied up in leases they can't afford to pay, following a lengthy investigation by ASIC into the business's lending practices. | | | | A woman who stole about $30,000 of goods from deceased estates — including cars, cash and jewellery — while working at the Public Trustee office in Adelaide has been sentenced to five years' jail. | | | | Not many would have heard of the aptly named Tennys Sandgren before his incredible run to the Australian Open quarter-finals, but now a number of posts on his Twitter account have caught some unwanted attention. | | | | Australia unearths a star of the future with leg-spinner Lloyd Pope producing an eight-wicket haul to set up a miracle quarter-final win over England at the ICC Under 19 World Cup in New Zealand. | | | | US President Donald Trump's dramatic cuts to company tax in the United States are being credited with a forecast upswing in global economic growth. | | | | The 80-year-old entertainer performs in public for the first time since a sex abuse scandal in 2015, cracking jokes and playing in a jazz band as a retrial looms in his criminal sexual assault case. | | | | Clive Palmer retrospectively approved more than $170 million in payments from Queensland Nickel to himself, family and his corporate interests during meetings late last year, which he chaired himself, court documents reveal. | | | | The online retailer opens a store selling milk, potato chips and other typical convenience store items, but ditches checkouts for a smartphone app and computer vision that can figure out what people are buying. | | | | Damien Fleming declared it "the greatest outfield catch ever taken" as a sprinting Ben Laughlin and a diving Jake Weatherald combined to take a Big Bash ripper on the boundary rope. | |  |
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