| | | | Wall Street Exchange, one of the largest money remitters in the Middle East, is identified by the AFP as a major hub for the movement of drug profits and terrorism finance as more is revealed about the activities of the elusive "money man" Altaf Khanani. | | | | When a Queensland man says he has been locked out of work for 208 days, Q&A panel members are left discussing strike action and its place in modern Australia. | | | | A man in his 40s is taken to hospital after crashing his car into a cemetery in Sydney's east early this morning, destroying a number of tombstones. | | | | A tiny arachnid discovered in 100-million-year-old amber fills a critical gap between today's spiders and spider-like arachnids that lived before dinosaurs. | | | | Thousands of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer will be tested to see if they are hidden carriers of BRCA gene mutations, which can cause the deadly disease. | | | | Melbourne is in need of a new lord mayor after Robert Doyle announced his resignation over the weekend. But it will be months before the city will be able to sort this out. | | | | A Brisbane high school that has been cracking down on uniform violations issues hundreds of students with detention notices, a parent says, in a move that has divided the school community. | | | | A multi-million-dollar tourism advertisement featuring Chris Hemsworth and an alternative Crocodile Dundee is being touted by the Federal Government as a huge success, just hours after it aired in the US during half-time in the Super Bowl. | | | | Why are Australian technology companies hiring workers from overseas, or else basing themselves offshore to attract talent? Quite simply because in many other countries, mathematics matters more, writes David van Gogh. | | | | Ten years after the court case that forced asbestos manufacturer James Hardie to face up to the consequences of its deadly product, the company is accused of again playing hardball with victims. | | | | Esmond Bradley-Martin, a leading American investigator into the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade, has been found stabbed to death in his home, Kenyan police and officials have said. | | | | A Japanese military helicopter crashes into a house in south-western Japan, killing one of its two crew members and ripping the top floor off the house and setting it on fire, officials say. | | | | Locals tried in vain to save their possessions as the king tide banged at their front door in a flood that has left 16 homeless and reignited calls for a new seawall to prevent future disasters. | | | | Former US Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar is sentenced to an additional 40 to 125 years in prison for molesting young female gymnasts, capping weeks of horrifying testimony from nearly 200 victims about his decades of abuse. | | | | Philadelphia is cleaning up after pockets of Super Bowl victory celebrations turned unruly overnight, with rowdy Eagles fans smashing department store windows, looting a gas station convenience store and toppling a number of the city's famously greased light poles. | | | | A Brisbane school is planning to hold an information night to "educate" parents and students about the cryptocurrency amid concerns about student investors who may not be fully aware of the risks. | | | | Shaming your child for bullying behaviour won't help stop it. Young people need parents to support them in making good choices about how they conduct themselves online, write Hannah Thomas and James Scott. | | | | Newly-elected Liberal senator and retired senior Army officer Jim Molan defends sharing anti-Muslim clips posted by far-right UK group Britain First on Facebook, saying 'I have no apologies'. | | | | A Sunshine Coast woman who contracted hookworm through her feet after a beach holiday in Vietnam says it was an "horrific" experience in which she could feel the parasites moving. | | | | A weekend-long snowstorm hits Moscow with 62 centimetres blanketing the Russian capital. One person has died and hundreds of flights have been cancelled as authorities called a "snow day". | |  |
By Hannah Thomas and James Scott, UQ | |  |
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