| | | | When the first inmates arrived at Guantanamo Bay in the wake of 9/11, they were shackled and kept in kennel-like cages. But when Donald Trump announced last month he was keeping the notorious prison open, some watched the announcement live on TV in their cell blocks. | | | | Category one Cyclone Kelvin is expected to hit north Western Australia in the early hours of this morning, with authorities warning it poses a risk to lives and homes and will bring even more rain to the already drenched region. | | | | Dogs may be our best friends, even our surrogate children, but under law they have no more rights than a table and chairs. It's time we rethought the legal status of animals, writes Nick Pendergrast. | | | | When Joseph Cresp stole four kilograms of gold from the Sunrise Dam Mine, why did the mine's owners give him the chance to apologise? | | | | A court cleaner for China's national basketball league who shot to fame for his high-intensity approach to the job says even the NBA's Beijing office has shown interest in him. | | | | As a record number of Australian households benefit from putting solar on their roof, we look at some of the options for renters who have traditionally been locked out of doing this. | | | | The Chinese Government has launched a large-scale "people's war" on organised crime, but in a nation where whole villages specialise in illegal activity, and crime figures are already manipulated, its implications appear unclear. | | | | Warrnambool's famous Maremma penguin protectors have made international headlines and been the subject of a popular family movie, but what does it take to train them? A lot, actually. | | | | With the future of Australia's largest dairy company, Murray Goulburn, set to be sold overseas, local co-operatives are looking to make the best of it. | | | | A 24-year-old man pleads guilty to eight counts of abduction, rape and murder including that of 7-year-old Zainab Ansari — a case that sparked riots in Pakistan last month. | | | | It began as a Cold War-like attack, but soon morphed into modern "information warfare" using social media accounts, US servers and campaign volunteers themselves to boost Donald Trump and harm Hillary Clinton. This is what we learned from Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russian nationals. | | | | Thousands of people turn out in Melbourne to be thrilled by the spectacular White Night event. | | | | Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce meets with Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney and expresses concern about the forcefulness of the Prime Minister's statements on his private life, the ABC understands. | | | | Australian David Morris progresses to the finals of the men's aerials, claiming a top-12 spot at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. | | | | Haiti's leader says sexual misconduct by staff of British charity Oxfam is part of a much wider problem, and calls for investigations into Doctors Without Borders and other aid organisations that came to the country after its 2010 earthquake. | | | | The Bendigo Joss House Temple was built to protect Chinese miners, and almost 150 years later is still used as a place of worship. | | | | Passengers disembarking from the Carnival Legend cruise ship in Melbourne say they had to lock themselves in their cabins during a number of brawls aboard a 10-day South Pacific cruise. | | | | The 22-year-old Czech Ester Ledecka is ranked 43rd in the World Cup standings and was thought to have a better chance of gold in the snowboarding events she will also contest in Pyeongchang, an unprecedented doubling up. | | | | A 22-year-old man who is charged with using a mobile phone while driving after hitting two police officers setting up an RBT, resulting in one of them needing his foot amputated, has had his licence suspended four times in the past, a Sydney court hears. | | | | Can't commit to that perfect partner? A team of university researchers is finding out why. | | | | Living rent-free in the big city. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well it's not, if you're willing to swap your house or apartment for life in the back of a truck just like Chrissie Junge's doing. | |  |
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