| | | | The Government will soon announce a wide-ranging investigation into our roads. Find out why, and just how reliant your neighbourhood is on the car. | | | | Donald Trump's inauguration as US president a year ago reinvigorated many right-wing groups, including white supremacists. Now the militant left is fighting back with some shock tactics of its own. | | | | A stricken Iranian oil tanker that had been burning for almost a week after it crashed with another vessel in the East China Sea finally sinks after an explosion causes a huge fire, with flames up to 1 kilometre high. | | | | Passengers were shouting and screaming as a Boeing 737-800 skidded off the runway at a Turkish airport and ended up halfway down a steep slope facing into the Black Sea. | | | | As he guides Alex de Minaur into a professional career and steers Nick Kyrgios back on track, Lleyton Hewitt could be Australia's modern day Harry Hopman, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | The Macquarie Dictionary Committee has picked a lactose-loving mallard as emblematic of the year that was. They couldn't have chosen better. | | | | In the 38 minutes it took to correct an alert about a false ballistic missile threat to Hawaii, cars were reportedly abandoned on highways and panicked residents gathered family members and desperately sought shelter as they waited for the world to end. | | | | Foggy, absentminded and forgetful. Many women have long insisted that pregnancy-induced "baby brain" is not just a myth, and now Australian researchers have confirmed it is a scientific reality. | | | | A strong earthquake strikes the coast of southern Peru, causing damage to homes, collapsing roads and killing one person. | | | | Bernard Tomic bows out of the Australian Open ahead of the start of the tournament proper, before opening fire at the media in a bizarre post-match interview. | | | | After a somewhat forgettable Ashes series, England's sensational victory over Australia in the first ODI offered a glimpse into an alternate universe in which this summer could have been genuinely captivating. | | | | Emergency warnings for a bushfire which has blanketed Perth in smoke are downgraded, but authorities are treating the blaze as suspicious. | | | | The pilot of an ultralight plane who died in a crash near Emerald in central Queensland was on a solo training flight and close to obtaining his recreational pilots licence. | | | | Papua New Guinea authorities order the evacuation of some 5,000 people from three islands amid fears of a volcanic eruption, as the country's Prime Minister directs national resources to assist in the disaster response. | | | | The US actor agrees to donate the $US1.5 million he earned for All the Money in the World reshoots to the Time's Up initiative, after reports co-star Michelle Williams made less than $US1,000 for the retakes. | | | | An emergency warning for a fire burning near the Newcastle Airport is downgraded to advice, as crews finally get the upper hand. | | | | The former US military whistleblower, who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is running for the US Senate in Maryland. | | | | A Women's Tour Down Under rider who crashed out of stage one of the race, sustaining a mild concussion, tweets images of the injuries she sustained. | |  |
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