| | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | The area of East Ghouta experiences its deadliest day in three years with almost 100 killed as UNICEF issues a blank statement saying it "no longer has words to describe" the suffering. | | | | Tony Abbott wants to take migration back to the Howard era. This is what that actually looks like. | | | | Townsville City Council has dismissed environmentalists' claims that the screening of a documentary on the Stop Adani protest movement was cancelled for political reasons, insisting public safety concerns were the real concern. | | | | Hundreds of trainee doctors around the country are left distressed and confused after a system glitch kicks them out of one of the toughest exams of their careers. | | | | One in five school principals are overwhelmed by workplace stress, a new survey has found, with an expert saying the results point to a "looming crisis". | | | | The East Timor Government is leading a fresh push to find the body of former prime minister Nicolau do Reis Lobato, who was shot dead in 1978 by Indonesian forces. | | | | The wife of a pilot killed in last year's Essendon plane crash praises the aviation community for its support on the anniversary of her husband's death, as an expert calls for a review of commercial development at airports following the tragedy which claimed five lives. | | | | Artist Juliet Darling, the partner of Nick Waterlow — who was stabbed to death in 2009 alongside his daughter Chloe Hewson — says viewing crime scene photos from his murder helped her understand his death. | | | | Botched major projects like the Perth Stadium, ignoring warnings from senior officials and poor management of the Royalties for Regions scheme combined to cripple Western Australia's finances under the former Barnett government, a new report finds. | | | | WA Nationals leader Mia Davies says Barnaby Joyce has lost the support of the party in Western Australia because his actions have become a "distraction at both the federal and state level", provoking a fiery response. | | | | In its defence filed in the Federal Court, the Daily Telegraph claims Rush inappropriately touched actor Eryn Jean Norvill, who was playing his daughter during a production of King Lear at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2015. | | | | A Thai court rules in favour of a wealthy Japanese businessman who fathered 13 surrogate children through Thai mothers, naming him their legal parent and sole guardian. | | | | The first notes of Ed Sheeran's Shape of You had just played when Gabriella Papadakis suddenly became aware that people were about to see a whole lot more of her shape than she had planned. | | | | Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky's second sample tests positive for the banned substance meldonium, with the Russian Olympic delegation at a loss to explain how the substance ended up in the athlete's body. | | | | Iran locates a passenger plane that crashed with 65 people on board, two days after it disappeared from radar over mountainous terrain, with authorities warning the hostile environment means families face a further wait until the bodies of their loved ones can be retrieved. | | | | Pressure mounts on Papua New Guinea's Government to reconsider its contracts with health clinics run by the Catholic Church, amid concerns some are deliberately failing to meet their obligations of providing a full family planning service. | | | | A set of "extremely rare" boxing gloves are uncovered during excavations at a fort used by soldiers protecting Roman Britain from the Picts nearly 2,000 years ago. | |  |
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