| | | | Ministers will be banned from having sexual relationships with staffers under a rethink of the code of conduct announced by Malcolm Turnbull today, but the PM is resisting calls to ask Barnaby Joyce to resign. | | | | Former Comancheros chief Mahmoud 'Mick' Hawi, who rose to prominence for his role in a fatal 2009 brawl at Sydney Airport, is shot at least six times outside a gym in Rockdale. | | | | Jarryd Hughes wins Australia's third medal of the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang after claiming silver in the men's snowboard cross. | | | | Seventeen people are killed as a gas mask-wearing gunman opens fire at a Florida high school on Valentine's Day. The suspect, a former student who is now in custody, allegedly set off a fire alarm to flush his victims out of their classrooms. | | | | The Florida shooting suspect is known to police, former teachers and classmates as someone who talks about guns a lot and has a history of expulsion, threatening students and "very disturbing" behaviour online. | | | | A Perth teenager who turned on his abusive stepfather with a hunting knife after an attack on his his seven-year-old sister had been suffering in a situation likened to "battered wife syndrome," the Supreme Court is told. | | | | Team Great Britain's female skeleton riders produce dominant times in the Pyeongchang practice runs, but all it does is lead to questions from their competitors over their hi-tech suits. | | | | Charismatic, controversial, and allegedly corrupt. Jacob Zuma has come to represent both the hopes and failings of a democratic South Africa. | | | | Stormy Daniels believes Donald Trump's personal lawyer invalidated a non-disclosure agreement by speaking out about a $US130,000 payment made to her just before election day. | | | | A former military dog trainer says he "unintentionally" killed nine-year-old Maelys De Araujo during a wedding party in the French Alps and hid her body near his house before later dumping it in a remote ravine. | | | | Perched high in the air, fire spotters dotted throughout the bush can pinpoint a wisp of smoke with astonishing accuracy — down to 50 metres — keeping safe a population that doesn't even know they are there. | | | | Barrister Charles Waterstreet withdraws from the ABC's Q&A special on the #MeToo movement, after NSW Bar Association president Arthur Moses SC wrote to him telling him his appearance was not appropriate. | | | | If politicians think relationships with their staffers are allowed, they're more likely to proposition them, writes Elizabeth Tippett. The US House of representatives moved to ban such relationships, and also spare taxpayers the cost of settling sexual harassment complaints. | | | | More children than ever before are living in conflict areas and are at risk of death and violence, with Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia ranked as the worst countries for young people. | | | | So you want your child to have opportunities and learn new things, but they lose interest in any given activity. One psychologist says it's OK to let them quit. | | | | Lena Dunham writes an incredibly personal essay about coming to terms with permanent infertility, saying "the children who could have been mine do break my heart". | | | | An 18-year-old Italian student is being hailed a hero after his quick actions saved the life of a toddler who fell onto the tracks at one of Milan's busiest subway stations. | | | | Clive Palmer warns if his assets are frozen he will not reopen his north Queensland Nickel refinery and just "enjoy the fruits" of a recent $350 million legal victory. Meanwhile, many former refinery workers are yet to find other work. | | | | A group of North Korean cheerleaders are briefly wowed by the apparent, sudden arrival of their leader, Kim Jong-un, at a Winter Olympics ice hockey game. | | | | When a TV reality star is in the White House, it isn't difficult to see how Kim Jong-un and his smiling sister can make us forget the nuclear threat and the plight of those millions trapped in a brutal, secretive world, writes Stan Grant. | | | | Omega-3 is the good kind of fat. But it may be time to ditch your supplements for a diet rich in oily fish. | | | | The installation of signage with the words "I took the leap" at a historical site where an Aboriginal woman pursued by police jumped to her death causes concern. | |  |
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