| | | | Sydney commuters furious over yesterday's Sydney train network meltdown will not get a refund, says the NSW Transport Minister, who has described the incident as an "act of God". | | | | Two men charged with drug trafficking, and who have links to outlaw motorcycle gangs, had been staying at a Port Melbourne home owned by former AFL coach Mark Thompson, the ABC understands. | | | | As actress Jessica Falkholt remains in hospital in a critical condition, three members of her family who died in a fiery crash on the NSW South Coast are farewelled at a funeral in Sydney. | | | | One of the women to accuse Craig McLachlan of indecent assault and sexual harassment says she has received social media messages from people saying "they hope I get raped", but that "the amount of love is drowning them out". | | | | Actress Catherine Deneuve and 99 other French women denounce a backlash against men following the Harvey Weinstein scandal, saying the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment amounts to "puritanism" and is fuelled by a "hatred of men". | | | | Cryptocurrency-mania has spread to Kodak, which hopes to recapture its "Kodak moment" by rolling out its own currency KODAKCoin. | | | | Australia's housing market is set to weaken further this year, with both prices and building activity to fall, according to global investment banking giant Morgan Stanley. | | | | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son is caught on tape speaking about taxpayer-funded strip club visits and boasting about his father pushing through a controversial gas deal. | | | | As a debate about pay equity between men and women rages, an English teacher is removed from a school board meeting, forcibly handcuffed and jailed after taking a stand against a planned pay rise for senior member of staff despite teacher salaries having not increased in more than a decade. | | | | Victoria Police will work with African-Australian leaders to tackle youth crime following "an increase in public disorder and misbehaviour" but the Chief Commissioner says claims Melburnians are too afraid to dine out are "utter garbage". | | | | Gareth Morgan, who died when his plane crashed into a river in Sydney's north on New Year's Eve, had flown in challenging conditions around the world and chose flying over competitive soccer, those gathered at his funeral hear. | | | | Before his death in 1938 aged nearly 100, Samuel Speed had faded memories of his former life as a convict before becoming a reputable citizen. | | | | "Very violent" tremors shake the Caribbean as a magnitude-7.6 earthquake hits off Honduras, but there have not been any reports of damage. | | | | Federal Government frontbencher Concetta Fierravanti-Wells fires a broadside at China, accusing Beijing of funding useless infrastructure projects in the Pacific. | | | | Apple shareholders want the tech giant to build in some safeguards to protect its youngest consumers, on the basis that it's the right thing to do — and could improve the company's bottom line. | | | | A South Sudanese-Australian man who's been accused of lying about his role as a youth mentor blames the growing scandal on a "tribal conflict", as senior members of the community continue to pour scorn on his claims. | | | | Once US President Donald Trump's campaign manager and chief strategist at the White House, Steve Bannon's downfall was his hubris that amplified an ego to the point that he thought he was more powerful than the king, writes Conor Duffy. | | | | With another summer festival season marred by incidents of sexual assault, here's how the music industry can step up its game. | | | | This year is a big one in US politics. The midterms will give some of the country's richest men and women the chance to make a difference. These are the names you should watch in 2018. | | | | Can you lay claim to have created white noise, or the sound of waves breaking? It's a question at the heart of a copyright claim involving a rather perplexed Australian musician. | | | | Alligators in North Carolina are trying to stay alive in a frozen pond by sticking their snouts through a sheet of ice and falling into hibernation during the brutal cold spell ravaging the United States. | |  |
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