| | | | The disgraced long-time US Gymnastics team doctor is sentenced up to 175 years in prison for molesting young female gymnasts, following days of wrenching testimony from about 160 of his victims, including Olympic gold medallists. | | | | The feasibility of cloning humans is a step closer after Chinese scientists clone primates — two identical long-tailed macaques — from a non-embryonic cell for the first time. | | | | If every person killed on Australian roads since 1989 had instead lived to 75, the potential life lost would total roughly 1,761,443 years. | | | | Sydneysiders, get ready for four days of train mayhem just in time for your long weekend, with over 1,000 cancelled rail services inviting mass overcrowding and busy roads. | | | | It's been a year since Donald Trump took office, but he still hasn't stopped talking about "Crooked Hillary", writes Kate Harveston. | | | | Local police ruled Lainie Coldwell's death a freak accident, but for Sergeant Gerry Thornton, it didn't seem right. So he investigated the death on his own time. | | | | The man who co-led the search for the wreckage of Air France 447 says if MH370 is at or near the bottom of the sea, the wreckage and indeed bodies could be largely preserved, and still give investigators vital clues as to why the plane disappeared. | | | | Sir Elton John is retiring from the road after his upcoming three-year global tour, saying he's "had a good run" over almost 50 years but now wants to prioritise his family. | | | | Roger Federer is back in the Australian Open semi-finals — again — with an impressive win over Tomas Berdych on Rod Laver Arena. | | | | Ho Le Dinh was a man of prominence in the Vietnamese-Australian community. But he was also a man followed by controversy due to his outspokenness, which sometimes rubbed people the wrong way. | | | | Large parts of south-east Australia face severe heatwave conditions over the long weekend, with extreme conditions expected for northern Tasmania. | | | | Rafael Nadal's complaints about the injury impact of tour schedules is backed by figures showing top male players are playing more than ever — but it may not be the whole explanation. | | | | Gold Coast mother Maree Crabtree, accused of killing two of her children, allegedly forced prescription medications on them for years and even orchestrated her son's armed robbery of a pharmacy to feed his painkiller addiction, detectives say. | | | | A Brisbane man's cheeky letter to his wife about her bad bathroom habits raises questions about what's right and what's wrong when it comes to sharing space in the most "intimate room in the house". | | | | Teen adventurer Jade Hameister explains why she made a sub-zero sandwich for her detractors during a record-breaking trek to the South Pole. | | | | Actor Samuel Johnson, who has raised millions for cancer research, is among the eight finalists for the 2018 Australian of the Year, which also include rugby star Jonathan Thurston, a craniofacial surgeon and an Indigenous designer. | | | | Dozens of parliamentary questions about Indigenous affairs have been ignored by the Federal Government for months, prompting accusations it does not take the policy area seriously. | | | | Number crunching the Hottest 100 votes produces fascinating insights into shifting musical tastes and poses the question: why was 1997 such a great year for music? | | | | A former bookmaker says he may have inadvertently been a bagman in an alleged bribery plot that brought down the Tasmanian government in 1972. | | | | Every few years there's a furphy that our beloved "Strine" slang is doing a Harold Holt — but in fact Aussies are still slinging true-blue slang. | | | | Kevin Russell, whose great-grandfather helped to stage the historic Day of Mourning protest 80 years ago, will be a guest of honour at a special ceremony held by the City of Yarra, which last year voted to stop its Australia Day celebrations on January 26. | | | | Four gunmen storm an office of the Save the Children aid agency in the Afghan city of Jalalabad and battle security forces who surrounded the building, killing at least five people and injuring 24. | |  |
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