| | | | Catherine Marriott, the woman who filed a sexual harassment complaint against outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, says she did it to speak up against inappropriate behaviour. | | | | The Prime Minister says he does not want to lecture America about gun control, after he is pressed on the politically fraught subject during a press conference with US President Donald Trump. | | | | The rogue nation is sending a man some in the South want "brought to his knees" to the Winter Olympics closing ceremony. And he'll be seated right behind Ivanka Trump. | | | | A global crash in insect populations finds its way to Australia, with entomologists across the country reporting lower than average numbers of wild insects. | | | | Like many young people, Ella Coulter started drinking when she was at school. But after hitting rock bottom last year, the 29-year-old is now sober for the first time in 15 years. | | | | The South Korean women's curling team with the fairytale story whose moniker reflects the locally-famed garlic grown in their hometown becomes a worldwide sensation for their fierce talent and funny personalities. | | | | Hundreds of competitors in the Rottnest Channel Swim are pulled from the water after a 3-to-4-metre great white shark is spotted in the area. | | | | One sailor is dead and a major search is underway for a second person after a yacht overturned during the Bunbury and Return Ocean Race off the WA coast overnight. | | | | For over a decade Kevin Gatti's life revolved around working out and counting calories — then he had an epiphany. | | | | Airbnb has always maintained it's about mums and dads renting out space in their homes for a modest profit, but a new analysis of the platform's public listings shows an explosion in entire homes and commercial properties on the platform. | | | | I knew living in India would be difficult — it has one of the world's highest road tolls, and Delhi is notorious for sexual violence against women — but I had no idea the most hostile thing I would encounter would be the air I breathe every day, writes Siobhan Heanue. | | | | People who squeeze avocados at supermarkets are bruising the fruit for other buyers: researchers warn | | | | Russia and some former Soviet states celebrate Defender of the Fatherland Day, featuring fireworks, celebratory gunfire, the shirtless 'real men' race and a 'battle-sleigh festival'. | | | | Mr Trump said the armed officer who didn't stop the gunman was either a "coward" or "didn't react properly under pressure". | | | | Victorian children between the age of six months and five years will be offered free influenza shots this year after a devastating 2017 flu season which put many young children like three-year-old Ivy in hospital. | | | | A few kilometres from the former gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau, residents are coming to terms with living near "the biggest cemetery in the world". | | | | The title of The Greatest Mullet of All will today be bestowed upon one of 154 registered entrants at Mulletfest, the newest and strangest regional event in New South Wales. | | | | An Indonesian bombing victim surprises judges and onlookers by hugging his alleged attacker in court — in an apparent reconciliatory gesture. | | | | Even an infant formula scandal wasn't enough to budge many French attitudes toward breastfeeding — namely that it is a degradation of women's rights, and a poor long-term use of Les Lolos, writes Anne Bagamery. | | | | After more than a day of heavy rain, the weather bureau cancels all severe weather warnings for south-east Queensland. Meanwhile, communities hit by cyclone-like conditions on Tuesday will receive government assistance. | | | | As residents of outback Queensland scramble for reliable telecommunications, illegal mobile phone coverage boosters have been blamed for a spate of service outages. | | | | British actor Stephen Fry says that his whole prostate was removed in an operation last month, and that the cancer did not seem to have spread. | | | | Victoria is expected to become the first state to allow mobile abattoirs, in a move that is hoped will improve animal welfare and reduce weight loss in animals during transit. | |  |
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