| | | | After tumbling 1.7 per cent on opening, the ASX spent the rest of the day recouping around half the $35 billion it shed in the first 30 minutes. | | | | The Wall Street wipe-out shows parallels with the 1987 crash, when a bloated Wall Street tanked and took global markets along with it, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | Shares in Myer plunge as much as 12 per cent following a profit warning, after its annual stocktake sale failed to attract shoppers. | | | | The Australian athletics community is in mourning following the death of Olympic finalist and national javelin record holder Jarrod Banister. | | | | A neighbour of stabbed Wagga Wagga teenager James Boonjune Cleghorn told police he heard a "distinctive sound of absolute distress" before the teen cried out "he's going to kill me", a court hears. | | | | The US President set his sights on a grand military parade, the stock market plummeted, and another White House staffer disappeared. Zoe Daniel wraps the week that was. | | | | The ABC's editorial board has fielded criticisms from members of the public during its first annual public meeting at the broadcaster's headquarters. | | | | An associate of the owner of 16 polo ponies that were found dead an hour after a trip across the Bass Strait says the truck carrying the horses was well ventilated. | | | | Investigators return to conduct searches and seize several items, after police described the scene of the man's death as "horrific" when they attended in November last year. | | | | A 16-year-old boy dies and two others — an 18-year-old woman and another 16-year-old boy — are seriously injured after their car slams into a tree during a high-speed police pursuit in Hovea, east of Perth. | | | | In its wide-ranging monetary policy statement, the Reserve Bank is feeling positive about the economy and unemployment — but no so much inflation or wages growth. | | | | A young girl from the Nauru detention centre must be brought to Australia for urgent psychiatric treatment, a court finds, warning she could take her own life without intervention. | | | | A man who allegedly pretended to be an employee to steal money from a business was identified through a childlike sketch drawn by a person who witnessed the theft. | | | | Australia's largest rail freight company says it will withdraw its application for a Federal Government loan to build a massive rail corridor in the Galilee Basin, raising more doubts about the prospects for Adani's Carmichael coal mine. | | | | The Prime Minister says relationships between consenting adults are "not normally something you would be justified in seeking to regulate", in response to a call for formal rules around sex between politicians and their staffers. | | | | A local doctor asks Curious Melbourne to investigate why there has been an increase in people sleeping rough on the streets. | | | | A man who fatally stabbed his father 16 times with a samurai sword for an insurance payout of $2.5m gets 37 years' jail. | | | | The HIV prevention drug PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is recommended for listing on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which could see the cost drop from $1,000 to $40. | | | | Aid workers say violence and murder related to accusations of witchcraft against men and women is increasingly dividing families and claiming innocent lives across Papua New Guinea. | | | | Rather than remove an urban nest, a Sydney council sprays it with poison, killing tens of thousands of bees and leaving residents and beekeeping authorities angry. | | | | Sarah Hill was barely making ends meet juggling full-time work and freelancing in Sydney when she thought there had to be a better way. Now she works from Bali, but locals have mixed feelings about the influx of digital nomads. | | | | Norway's Winter Olympics team chefs are left with egg on their faces after accidentally adding an extra zero to their produce order. | | | | A lawyer representing a man accused of a foiled terrorist attack on an express train bound for Paris speaks out against a film by Clint Eastwood depicting the incident. | | | | When a young boy in Florida got stuck in an arcade game, local fire and emergency services managed to save the day with a successful rescue. | |  |
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