| | | | At least one house is damaged by fire at Carrum Downs, in Melbourne's south-east, with the out-of-control blaze burning dangerously close to others. | | | | Shaun and Mitch Marsh are batting together as Australia dominates England on day three of the final Ashes Test at the SCG. Follow all the action in our live blog. | | | | The head of Australia's peak medical body warns the dangerous white powder behind a mass overdose in Perth would have been unwittingly consumed by hundreds, mixed into illicit powdered and pill-based drugs. | | | | The high temperatures across Australia's southern states are putting services and infrastructure under pressure. This is how heat can affect our transport systems. | | | | Weapons, drugs, forged $100 bills and smuggling gold into China — how North Korea makes its money, according to a defector who is speaking out about his time in an organisation which began as a royal slush fund. | | | | ABC reporter Clare Sibthorpe explores the streets of Summernats to determine whether sexual harassment remains rife, or if attempts to stamp out misogyny at the notorious festival have been successful. | | | | Winter storms have swept across western Europe, with the blizzard conditions turning chairlifts into swings and leaving thousands of people stranded in ski resorts. | | | | A register of childcare centres caught rorting the system, including those that boost attendance records by enrolling too many students and provide fake documents, is launched by the Government. | | | | As wildlife organisations warn residents to watch out for cold-stunned animals caught up in the US big freeze, videos posted on social media show some pets and animals enjoying the cold conditions. | | | | British MPs propose putting a levy on the sale of all disposable coffee cups if they are not made recyclable, saying a disincentive is the only way to curb the number being thrown away by coffee drinkers each year. | | | | Australia's peak social services body says the Federal Government's Indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme is flawed, sees participants "listed as failures" and must be abandoned. | | | | The fairy tale run of Alex De Minaur at the Brisbane International comes to an end, as the Australian teenager shows fight before missing the chance to make his first ATP World Tour final. | | | | The author of a deeply critical book about Donald Trump's first year in office says he spoke with the President while working on it, contradicting Mr Trump's assertion that he had never talked to the writer for the book and had authorised "zero access" to the White House. | | | | A man has been arrested over the stabbing murder of Australian Kai Foley in Gothenburg, Sweden in the lead-up to Christmas, local media reports say. | | | | When it comes to wine varieties and drinking temperature, we're not getting the most out of our drop. | | | | There's a problem with the over-representation of young Sudanese men in Victoria's justice system, but tackling the issue would be easier without hyped-up political rhetoric from senior federal MPs, writes state political reporter Richard Willingham. | | | | Ballet prodigy Audrey Freeman has performed in Paris and New York, now she's bound for London to dance at the prestigious Royal Ballet School with her 50,000 Instagram followers in tow. | | | | Residents of a Queensland town at the centre of a toxic groundwater scandal have been warned not to drink the contaminated water, but on Australia Day people of all ages will race homemade rafts in it. | | | | One person is killed and at least 12 others injured after a hot air balloon carrying tourists over Egypt's ancient city of Luxor crashes. DFAT confirms it is providing consular assistance to several Australians involved. | | | | Paddy Screech and Jon Privett opened their floating bookstore on London's Regent's Canal eight years ago. After a few hiccups, the store now occupies a berth near King's Cross station, attracting hundreds of tourists and locals every day. | |  |
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