| | | | The National Party is still split on whether Barnaby Joyce should step aside as leader and Deputy Prime Minister, with no clear way forward. Follow all the action in our live blog. | | | | Australia's Scotty James wins a bronze medal in men's halfpipe, but American superstar Shaun White makes history, winning his third Olympic title. | | | | Police issue a warning after a Queanbeyan mother said she let two strangers into her home to inspect her six-month-old twins and their bedroom after they produced fake identification claiming to be from Family and Community Services. | | | | Analysis by the ABC reveals some of the country's biggest companies haven't paid corporate tax in Australia for the past three years. | | | | The office of the Deputy Prime Minister corrects his years of military service, after the ABC pointed out discrepancies between his official biography and his Australian Defence Force record. | | | | Denmark's Prince Henrik, the husband of Queen Margrethe and father-in-law of Australian-born Crown Princess Mary, was angry he never became king and had refused to be buried next to his wife. | | | | Police have shot a man in his early 20s twice in the Ipswich suburb of Springfield after being called to a disturbance at a property. | | | | A picture of what appears to be just a "small, pale blue dot" between two needle tips about 2 millimetres apart sees a student win a national science photography competition in the UK. | | | | An intimate moment captured of a rescued gorilla in the arms of her caretaker is chosen as the winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award. | | | | George Pell's lawyers are denied access to the medical records of his complainants as they prepare the Cardinal's defence against historical sexual offence charges. | | | | There were gasps in the gallery as the judge ruling on Julian Assange's arrest warrant laid out her blistering assessment of his arguments, and at times it felt like a character assessment that went beyond what was needed, writes Lisa Millar. | | | | US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer says he paid $US130,000 out of his own pocket to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who allegedly had a sexual relationship with Mr Trump in 2006. | | | | Pat Seyrak is skipping Sydney property and smashed avocado for another financial goal: being done with work by 35. | | | | Concern is growing that the Nordic island nation won't have enough energy to keep up with demand for mining the cryptocurrency. | | | | In the future, we may be gods who invent our own "religions" in virtual worlds, or slaves to an army of Chinese robots. Either way, the race is on to become the world's first cyber superpower, and the Marxist mandarins in Beijing appear to be winning, writes Stan Grant. | | | | United Airlines Flight 1175 was en route from San Francisco to Honolulu when the cowling ripped off one of its engines. The plane eventually landed safely. | | | | Benjamin Netanyahu is standing firm after Israeli police recommended charges against him. Let's break down what the recommendations mean, who might succeed him and what exactly James Packer has to do with all this. | | | | A sex offender who walked out the front door of a maximum-security prison by drugging his twin brother and switching places with him during a visit is re-captured — and now faces being sent to a freezing, high-altitude South American supermax. | | | | A tiger snake's turn as a tightrope walker on a wire fence at a Tasmanian vineyard causes a stir on Facebook, with a reptile expert confirming the deadly creatures "are good climbers". | | | | A research helicopter crashes after an elk it was trying to capture jumps into its tail rotor in a remote part of the US state of Utah. | | | | As Lent begins, we take a look at the health benefits that can come with observing periods of restraint around food, whether you do it for religious reasons or not. | | | | Dentists are becoming increasingly frustrated with having to extract decaying teeth from young children, often under general anaesthetic. | | | | The shoreline of Bushells Lagoon in north-western Sydney is littered with rotting dead fish, eels, turtles and pelicans, prompting local authorities to review water management strategies. | |  |
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By Matter of Fact host Stan Grant | |  |
By Europe correspondent Lisa Millar | |  |
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