| | | | One year after the Bourke Street car attack, Melburnians who were caught in the carnage and chaos reflect on the day that shattered the city, and how it changed their lives. | | | | Former police commissioner Christine Nixon, who narrowly escaped being hit by a car that drove through pedestrians on Bourke Street last year, says officers couldn't have stopped the driver. | | | | Victoria's first female Aboriginal MP says her call for flags to be flown at half-mast on Australia Day were met with emails and notes containing death and gang rape threats. | | | | Nick Kyrgios moves on to the fourth round of the Australian Open, showing grit under pressure to win three tiebreakers in a four-set victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. | | | | If the US Senate fail to approve a bill on government funding, the government will be shut down with only "essential" staff to keep working. | | | | In many ways the past week in Washington DC has been the perfect summation of the first year of Donald Trump's presidency of the United States, writes John Barron. | | | | Despite a big annual increase in house prices, Melbourne's housing market softened in the last quarter of 2017. | | | | England's top order fires in unison to give them a four-wicket win in the second ODI against Australia, as Aaron Finch's second straight hundred for the hosts could not prevent them falling 2-0 behind in the series. | | | | Three investors who are sticking with the cryptocurrency despite the fluctuating value — which plummeted more than 20 per cent this week — explain why they still think bitcoin trading is the way to go. | | | | Public key cryptography keeps our online activities and bank transactions private. But how does it actually work? | | | | The 250 residents of Warrell Creek don't have a local watering hole, so one man has taken it upon himself to bring thirsty locals together. | | | | New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern will become a much-scrutinised prototype. Whether or not a woman in public office has a child, there's always someone ready to judge. | | | | The number of alcohol-related assaults in the Northern Territory has gone up despite the re-introduction of the Gunner Government's banned drinker register on September 1 last year, the latest crime statistics show. | | | | A Russian teenager has attacked a group of younger students with an axe — injuring five of them — before setting his school on fire, investigators say. | | | | When Michael Troy's family went snorkelling at Lord Howe Island, they stumbled upon a rare natural wonder that gives scientists hope for the future of coral reefs. | | | | A self-described peeping Tom is sentenced to nine months' jail for hiding a video camera in an altered rat trap and placing it in a staff toilet at the Perth childcare centre where he worked as a groundsman. | | | | The power supply in Victoria and South Australia is being put to the test as five of the states and territories face an extreme heatwave, after temperatures in some areas hit 40 degrees Celsius. | | | | Human bones found near the backpack of murdered woman Lyndsay Van Blanken in Sydney may have been "scavenged" by her ex-boyfriend, a coroner's court hears. | | | | Not all breads are created equal. Ideally look for heavy, dense breads with lots of grains and seeds. | | | | Police in Canada investigate an illegally parked car and discover a prank sculpture made out of snow instead. | |  |
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