| | | | Donald Trump addresses fevered speculation Oprah Winfrey could make a tilt for the Oval Office, saying he knows her "very well" and doesn't "think she's going to run". | | | | Three women who allege they were indecently assaulted and sexually harassed by Craig McLachlan during the 2014 production of Rocky Horror Show say the production company's response has been "incredibly disappointing". | | | | A 54-year-old man is arrested following an investigation into alleged drug trafficking in Port Melbourne. | | | | North Korea has a history of playing bait-and-switch: entering negotiations, extracting concessions then walking away and upping the ante. | | | | Emergency crews work to restore power to thousands of households along the New South Wales east coast after a severe storm passes over. | | | | 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. | | | | The number of public servants who say they have witnessed corruption doubles in three years, reigniting calls for a national anti-corruption commission. | | | | The fate of any estate plans drawn up in the wake of same-sex marriages is a live debate among the country's leading inheritance lawyers. | | | | Iran has foiled attempts by its foreign enemies to turn legitimate protests into an insurgency to overthrow the Islamic Republic, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says. | | | | A Russian historian whose exposure of Soviet leader Josef Stalin's crimes angered state officials is due to begin enforced psychiatric testing this week amid fears he will be falsely declared insane. | | | | They arrive without shoelaces — confiscated by immigration authorities — in one of the capital's most dangerous neighbourhoods. For the El Salvadorans deported from the US, the struggle is just beginning. | | | | Telescopes allow us to peer back to the furthest reaches of the universe; there are lots on earth, quite a few in space, and there's even one mounted on a 747. Test your telescope knowledge. | | | | Frustrated Sydney commuters endure overcrowded platforms and carriages on top of incredibly lengthy journeys home, with most train lines not running to a timetable, as the network goes into meltdown. | | | | 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. | | | | An irukandji jellyfish is found off the coast of Fraser Island for the second time in two years, prompting calls from lifesavers for people to stay out of the water off the island's west coast. | | | | A Spanish prisoner wakes up in a mortuary after being certified dead by three doctors to find markings on his body in preparation for his autopsy. | | | | The usually sun-kissed sand dunes of the Sahara desert are blanketed in snow for the third time in almost 40 years. | | | | A man driving a stolen ute allegedly rammed a police car and attempted to push it off the edge of a hill during an early morning rampage in northern Tasmania, a court hears. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | |  |
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