| | | | Actress Christie Whelan Browne denies suggestions by her former Rocky Horror Show co-star Craig McLachlan that she made complaints about him for money and notoriety, as two more people contact police about his alleged behaviour. | | | | North Korea, during rare talks with the South, says it will send athletes, a cheer squad and a delegation of high-ranking officials to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics next month. | | | | Steve Bannon's fawning apology for suggesting Donald Trump Jr is "treasonous" masks a wider concern in Washington about the President's mental fitness for office, writes Sara James. | | | | Sydney commuters are hot, frustrated and packed onto overcrowded train platforms, with most lines not running to a timetable anymore — leaving people wondering when they will ever get home. | | | | The group that founded Sydney's Mardi Gras in 1978 break ranks with the organisers of this year's celebrations, saying "they don't appreciate the pain and damage" their activists experienced. | | | | The Rocky Horror Show's Adelaide season will not refund tickets despite its main star, Craig McLachlan, being replaced by understudy Adam Rennie in the wake of indecent assault and sexual harassment allegations. | | | | All the hype about Oprah Winfrey just delays further the task that Democrats must face: finding a seasoned, respected politician who can fire up American voters enough to dislodge Donald Trump from the White House, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | The cold snap that has ravaged parts of the United States is also providing some opportunities for fun, with stunned onlookers in two states capturing footage of people ice-skating and walking on the sea. | | | | Support for a memorial site in Perth for the victims of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has all but collapsed among the relatives of the 239 passengers and crew. | | | | A magistrate has refused bail for a woman charged with murdering a 20-month-old boy in her care in 2015. | | | | GoPro announces extreme cost-cutting measures, which will see it axe at least 255 jobs worldwide, cut the pay of its CEO to US$1 and stop manufacturing drones. | | | | Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen voices support of a Muslim family who suffered a barrage of abuse on social media following the birth of their child on New Year's Day. | | | | Health advocates raise concern about the growing number number of Australians accessing their superannuation early to pay for medical procedures, such as IVF or surgery to lose weight. | | | | For people without coeliac disease, there's no evidence to support claims a strict gluten-free diet is beneficial. In fact, the opposite may be true. | | | | Australia's only openly gay Imam says he is dealing with an "avalanche of misery" among LGBTI Muslims, and wants to create a safe house and counselling centre for them. | | | | The Australian residential building boom continues to defy expectations of a downturn, led by a surge in approvals for apartments. | | | | A Darwin man is sentenced to six years in prison with a non-parole period of three years for a brutal head stomp assault on a stranger outside a pub on Darwin's nightclub strip. | | | | Images of people holding decapitated snakes is common on social media pages during Darwin's hotter months, but could those photos be incriminating? | | | | The University of Canberra cancels annual petting zoos on campus after PETA argued the stress-less event was "terrifying" for the animals. | | | | Despite a shift to apartment living in Australia, developers are failing to consider children in their design and marketing, leading to tension between (often sleep-deprived) parents and neighbours, writes Sophie-May Kerr. | | | | Lightning and rain have lashed parts of Sydney early this morning but the reprieve is expected to be short-lived, with high temperatures expected to return to the western suburbs. | |  |
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