| | | | A witness reports hearing "four or five gunshots" near the Maroubra Junction Hotel in Sydney's south-east, where a man was shot dead after stabbing a police officer who was taken to hospital in a critical condition. | | | | Australia Day is being celebrated around the nation, with around 13,000 people becoming citizens. But for some Indigenous Australians January 26 is a time of mourning, and protests are also taking place across the country. | | | | Australia Day feels angrier. It is as if this day must pit my ancestors, white and black, in some conflict without end, writes Stan Grant. | | | | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people mark today as Invasion Day, or Survival Day, with tens of thousands of people marching around the country, calling for equal rights and a change of date for Australia Day. | | | | At least 41 people are killed and more than 80 injured in a fire at a hospital in South Korea which mostly cares for elderly people. The death toll is expected to rise further. | | | | England shows some resistance after its disastrous start but Australia is in a commanding position in the fourth ODI at Adelaide Oval. Get live scores, stats and streams in our ScoreCentre. | | | | US President Donald Trump attempted to have special counsel Robert Mueller fired last June but held back after the White House counsel threatened to resign over the matter, the New York Times says. | | | | A woman who stopped her car on the driveway of a Perth house is run over after she lost control of it while trying to park the car in a garage. | | | | From an early age, Michelle Simmons liked to understand things. As she watched her father and brother play chess, she was inspired to do "things that people don't expect of me" — like understanding quantum physics. | | | | South Australia's Commissioner for Victims' Rights wants a federal redress scheme for sexual abuse open to all victims — including those who are also perpetrators. | | | | A new pay and conditions offer for Sydney Trains workers will be on the table on Thursday and is likely to be accepted, the Rail Tram and Bus Union's NSW secretary says. | | | | An early morning flight with most of Queensland's top police and emergency services leaders aboard makes an emergency return to Brisbane when the jet suddenly plunges from the sky, with reports of loud banging and the smell of smoke. | | | | Half a jawbone and stone tools found in Israel are dated around 180,000 years old, pushing modern human migration out of Africa back 60,000 years. | | | | Eucalypts dominate our landscapes from the bush to our backyards, paddocks, parks and pavements. They're so common its easy to look past them, but there's lots to learn about these extraordinary plants. | | | | Donald and Melania Trump wanted to borrow a Van Gogh painting from New York's Guggenheim Museum, but are instead offered a working solid-gold toilet made by an Italian artist. | | | | Two decades ago, Simon Hunt — better known as Pauline Pantsdown — penned the mash-up that got the ABC sued. It hasn't been broadcast since. | | | | A total of 895 Australians across a wide range of industries have been recognised in this year's Australia Day Honours List for 2018. Here's what some of the recipients had to say. | | | | Claudia Quinonez and Dulce Lopez just want to live like any other young American, but in a matter of weeks they could be threatened with deportation from the place they have called home for more than half their lives. | | | | The trend of getting Southern Cross tattoos is seemingly being replaced by requests for their cover up and removal. | | | | The benefits of naps are similar to those experienced after consuming caffeine but without the side effects of caffeine dependence and possibly disrupted sleep at night time. | | | | Frustrated by a lack of emojis relevant to the Aussie lifestyle, two mates from the regional NSW town of Mudgee create an Australian-themed emoji app. | | | | British cycling groups fight moves to make helmets compulsory, saying forcing people to wear head protection will further discourage people from riding. | | | | Many Australians have by now switched over from receiving their energy, phone or insurance bills in their inbox rather than by mail, but for some, receiving a hard copy is their only option. | | | | Scientists move the symbolic Doomsday Clock ahead by 30 seconds, saying the world is at its closest to annihilation since the height of the Cold War due to world leaders' poor response to threats of nuclear war. | |  |
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