| | | | Police believe they have made a breakthrough in locating the family of missing Irish-born man Paddy Moriarty, as locals raise concerns his house is being damaged by scavengers. | | | | Ambulance crews take seven students to hospital in varying levels of consciousness after they took an unknown substance at a private northern Gold Coast school. | | | | If failure has a face it is the terrified children of East Ghouta. But if we stop caring, we too have fallen victim to this and other conflicts, writes chief foreign correspondent, Philip Williams. | | | | A 19-year-old who sexually assaulted his current girlfriend during a fight walks away with a good-behaviour order, while she cops a suspended prison sentence over the same incident. | | | | Around 60 per cent of people who apply for the Disability Support Pension are getting rejected, because of a crackdown that started under the Gillard government. | | | | A day after the WA Nationals caused a shock by throwing a large political grenade in the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, one significant question remains unanswered — why did they do it? | | | | Chinese authorities urge witnesses to call a special hotline to report people hiring strippers as funeral entertainment, a ploy some rural families use to increase the turnout at a loved one's final farewell. | | | | A woman who stabbed her husband while he beat her with an iron is acquitted of manslaughter, after a judge directs the jury to do so. | | | | The young son of murder victim Jody Meyers was indoors "looking for his mama" while his father was outside burying her body under fresh concrete, an Adelaide court hears. | | | | The parents of a toddler with a mystery degenerative brain condition say the High Court in London's decision to take their son Alfie Evans off life support is the same as "sentencing him to the death penalty" and vow to continue to fight to keep him alive. | | | | Australian sailor Lewis Bennett is charged by the FBI with the second-degree honeymoon murder of his wife, with US authorities alleging he intentionally sank a catamaran during a private cruise from Cuba to Florida a year after he stole $140,000 worth of gold and silver coins. | | | | A new study estimates sea levels could rise between 0.7 and 1.2 metres by 2300, but scientists warn delays in meeting Paris emissions targets could push them even higher. | | | | A Melbourne man accused of reducing his wife to slavery, including keeping her in the bedroom except to do chores, pleads not guilty and is committed to stand trial. | | | | The trial of a 17-year-old Palestinian teenager arrested for slapping an Israeli soldier is generating headlines around the world, with the UN, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch calling for her release. | | | | While doping in curling might seem like a joke, the pressurised nature of an Olympics and the demands it makes on athletes could, presumably, tempt someone to use drugs. | | | | Apple has been in the news recently after employees started walking into clear glass walls and doors at their new headquarters, but that is just an extension of the design philosophy the company has been running with for years, writes Daniel Miller. | | | | It's the crest of a digital wave flooding through banks, financial institutions, accounting and law firms, and if you're doing a white-collar job that deals with information, you're in for a bumpy ride. | | | | Two senior Turnbull Government ministers slap down Tony Abbott's proposal to cut Australia's migration intake by 80,000 places, warning it could cost the economy up to $5 billion over four years. | | | | A fleet of destroyers and at least one frigate, a 30,000 tonne amphibious transport dock and three support tankers entered the Indian Ocean, during a constitutional crisis and state of emergency in the Maldives. | | | | Indonesia could soon be exporting mangoes and dragon fruit to Australia after a trade deal between the two nations was advanced, and local growers are not happy. | | | | Serena Williams reveals she "almost died" while giving birth to her daughter Olympia last year, detailing the serious extent of the health problems she had to overcome. | |  |
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