| | | | The Winter Olympics sparks to life in a vivid, colourful ceremony of fire and ice in South Korea, and the diplomacy is just as choreographed in the stadium where leaders from nations that are sworn enemies sat close together. | | | | US President Donald Trump names US Pacific Commander Admiral Harry Harris as his pick to serve as the country's ambassador to Australia. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | Stock markets around the world have taken a dive over the past week, prompted by the apparently sudden realisation that the "era of virtually free money" is drawing to a close. | | | | Former prime minister Kevin Rudd urges the Turnbull Government to reconsider its opposition to the Uluru Statement from the Heart. | | | | Tongan flag bearer Pita Taufatofua sets social media alight after repeating his famed Rio Olympic Games entrance by marching into the stadium in Pyeongchang shirtless, oiled up and wearing a traditional skirt — this time in sub-zero temperatures. | | | | Simon Turner says he is facing life on the street after a workplace accident at the largest coal mine in NSW left him disabled and destitute. | | | | Blessing wanted to study communications at uni, but when she fell pregnant to her high school boyfriend and decided to get an abortion, her life drastically changed course. | | | | Two Australian inventors are proving that you don't have to go offshore to turn ideas into a reality and are keeping their ideas in Australia, getting them made by local family businesses. | | | | Campaigns like #MeToo are helping women to better recognise sexist behaviour. But while becoming more conscious of the patriarchy is one thing, unlearning years of conditioning to accept it is another, writes Kellie Scott. | | | | Humans are now driving environmental change so quickly that we are witnessing what is called "rapid evolution" and water dragons found in city parklands — island-like, human-made ecosystems — are starting to move away from being water dragons, and evolving into something else. | | | | Roller disco was all the rage on the dancefloors of the glitzy '70s and '80s before it lost its mojo, but for some it never really went away. Nowadays they call it 'retro roller'. | | | | Youth mental health experts say parents need more help to deal with cyber bullying. | | | | Cardinal George Pell's lawyers make what they call a "responsible and considered" application to see the medical records of those who have made complaints against him. | | | | Jack Patterson is identified as the 16-year-old killed when the car he was driving slammed into a tree east of Perth after a high-speed police pursuit, with friends taking to social media to mourn his death. | | | | A prisoner is left handcuffed and shackled to a bed at an Adelaide hospital for more than 85 hours, the ABC is told, with a nurse voicing concern to authorities about the man's treatment. | | | | A Perth man walks free after a crash where his overweight trailer — being towed by a caravan that he was in turn towing with his ute — came free and ploughed into an oncoming truck, claiming the life of its driver. | | | | The US House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving a bill to end an overnight federal shutdown, sparing Republicans further embarrassment and averting serious interruption of the Government's business. | | | | Three people are arrested in Victoria, including wanted man Travis Kirchner, over the alleged murder of mother-of-three Sally Rothe at Murray Bridge in South Australia. | | | | The Australian athletics community is in mourning following the death of Olympic finalist and national javelin record holder Jarrod Banister. | | | | 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. | |  |
By Saul Eslake | |  |
By Kellie Scott | |  |
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