| | | | It's the world's premier music poll, and we've got all the news and info here, as it happens. Join in the fun. | | | | Police say people searching for their friend Kirsty Cini when she failed to surface in a rural dam in far north Queensland unexpectedly found the body of teenager Zack Jenkins, who they did not know was missing. | | | | Some were left frustrated and confused when Hyeon Chung retired from his Australian Open semi-final with Roger Federer, citing blisters on his foot. His gruesome Instagram post ended that confusion. | | | | Detective Sergeant John Breda, who was stabbed by an alleged sex offender during a violent confrontation in Sydney's east, is a "dedicated" officer who is passionate about helping abused children, colleagues say. | | | | Emergency crews conduct flood rescues in the Northern Territory as motorists attempt to cross causeways flooded by heavy rains, with monsoonal conditions to continue across the weekend. | | | | An 18-year-old man is critically ill after nine partygoers were taken to hospital following a mass drug overdose at a Melbourne dance party, prompting health warnings and renewed calls for pill testing at events. | | | | A ferry with an estimated 50 people on board has been missing for more than a week off the coast of the Pacific nation of Kiribati, rescue authorities say, with New Zealand's Air Force joining the search effort. | | | | This Sunday, Roger Federer will ride the wave of adulation from sports lovers and even erstwhile sports ignorers who will be fully entitled to believe they are watching the most accomplished player in tennis history, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | The entire board of the US Gymnastics authority is set to resign in the wake of the scandal involving the sexual abuse of more than 150 female athletes by former team doctor Larry Nassar. | | | | South Africa and India's Test series is hit by controversy as match officials abandon play on the third day at Wanderers due to a dangerous pitch, after Dean Elgar is struck in the helmet. | | | | These six Australians have a second country they also call home. Here's what the ups and downs have taught them about identity, belonging and starting over. | | | | Zalman and Samar Khan made an ill-informed decision to seek asylum by boat that has cost them almost five years of their lives. They're now stuck in legal limbo in Port Moresby, bored, frustrated and without hope. | | | | Pilots from around Australia gathered for a fly-in in Tasmania's north, observe a minute's silence for Sandra Southwell who died in a plane crash on Monday. | | | | The risks from fracking are mostly low and "can be mitigated", a report from the NT's fracking inquiry finds, something scientists and stakeholders are labelling as too "optimistic". | | | | A whistleblower from Domino's claims he and others were encouraged not to vote for new contracts by management. | | | | Four people are injured —one seriously — by a malfunctioning firework in Western Australia at an official Australia Day celebration in the south-west town of Bunbury, the second time in a month the same firm has had a firework misfire and injure someone. | | | | Nicolai Tankin was wrongfully convicted of being a spy at the height of China's chaotic Cultural Revolution. Now his daughter, who lives in Australia, is facing an uphill battle to clear his name. | | | | From the revival of baking, pickling and beards to the fetishisation of former public housing and terraces, austerity nostalgia has taken prominence in our cultural landscape. But one expert believes it's also obscuring our political reality. | | | | Heightened partisanship and polarisation in Congress have already had a measurable impact on the US military, and there are serious implications for Australia's strategic outlook, write Dougal Robinson and Brendan Thomas-Noone. | | | | Former prime minister Julia Gillard says female world leaders use impromptu meetings in bathrooms on the sidelines of major summits to share their frustrations about the shallow way in which they are treated. | | | | As Indonesia prepares for provincial elections, a moderate Muslim mayor is refusing to bow to hard-line Islamist clerics who insist he has taken his town down a sinful path. | |  |
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