| | | | A British court rules to uphold the UK arrest warrant against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, rejecting calls from his lawyers for the warrant to be withdrawn as it "lost its purpose and function". | | | | A magnitude-6.4 earthquake strikes near the coastal city of Hualien in Taiwan, the US Geological Survey says, leaving two people dead, more than 100 injured and causing buildings including a hotel to collapse. | | | | US stocks are swinging between positive and negative territory, a day after the Dow and S&P 500 indexes saw their biggest one-day declines in more than six years. | | | | After the Dow Jones suffered its biggest points drop in a single day, the selling tsunami accelerated across the Pacific with Australian shares plunging 3.2 per cent. | | | | Wild conspiracy theories about Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 have now spread to the search ship tasked with finding it, with some speculating the vessel stopped at a shipwreck to retrieve a chest known to be on the sea floor. | | | | Knee-high grass, graffiti — don't forget the wall of clocks. A peek inside the performing arts school in regional NSW linked to 127 child abuse allegations reveals a building stuck in time, in more ways than one. | | | | A North Korean ferry arrives in South Korea carrying a 140-strong orchestra to perform during the Winter Olympics, taking advantage of a rare sanctions exemption from Seoul 16 years after its previous visit, but was greeted by angry protests. | | | | Your smartphone photos can share your location and device model and the camera even has its own "fingerprint", which can be useful for law enforcement. | | | | Almost 200 elite private schools across the nation are reaping a taxpayer-funded windfall of $747 million dollars between them, the Victorian Catholic education commission has estimated in new research. | | | | Radical financial stimulus including emergency interest rates in the United States and elsewhere created stock market overvaluations, setting the stage for a long-overdue correction, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | When Malcolm Turnbull sits down in the White House later this month for his first substantive discussion with Donald Trump on American soil, Afghanistan will almost certainly be part of the conversation. | | | | Days out from the Financial Services Royal Commission, the Productivity Commission releases a report warning the "four pillars" policy is outdated in today's digital world and risks allowing poor management practices to emerge and continue undetected. | | | | A heavily pregnant woman dies after a suspected snake bite in the Mid West WA town of Meekatharra, 775 kilometres north-east of Perth. She was rushed to hospital but doctors were unable to save her or her baby. | | | | A US woman identified in court documents as Jane Doe fears she will be targeted if, as required by local laws, her name is made public. | | | | A leading economist is warning that Australia's housing market could be heading for a US-style meltdown as a crackdown on interest-only mortgages forces more homebuyers to start paying off the principal on their loans. | | | | Andrew Hastie joins Cory Bernardi in arguing female soldiers should not be allowed to fight on the frontline, saying the "fighting DNA of a close combat unit is best preserved when it's exclusively male". | | | | A deadly feline disease is spreading between cats after hiding in nature for nearly 40 years. | | | | The song Bamboo, by Melbourne's Harvey Sutherland, was used without permission under a video on the retailer's Instagram page. It's not the first time the chain store's social media activities have been criticised. | | | | Landowners from part of the Kokoda Track say they will stop tourists from undertaking the famous walk unless the Papua New Guinea Government meets their demands. | | | | The gas that helps protect us from harmful UV radiation isn't where it should be, according to satellite measurements. | |  |
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