| | A gas leak sparks an evacuation at a petrol station and two people are rescued from boats as destructive winds cause outages across the city, bringing down trees and blocking roads. | | | Two days before a catastrophic bridge failure in Miami, an engineer called authorities to say some cracking had been found at one end of the concrete span. But by the time it was heard, it was too late. | | | US Attorney General Jeff Sessions sacks senior FBI official Andrew McCabe just two days before his 50th birthday making him ineligible to retire with his full pension. | | | The editor of a local newspaper is labelled a "bigot" after removing a reference to a man's husband in his mother's obituary because it did not align with his religious values. | | | The horrifying malfunction of a ski lift in Georgia sees holidaymakers flung into the air and others forced to jump for their lives. | | | A woman who says she was raped by two strangers while drunk now faces the prospect of giving evidence again after an appeal court quashed the conviction of the two alleged attackers, on the grounds they were "racially stereotyped" by the prosecution. | | | Black Panther struggles to resonate with audiences in China, the world's second-largest cinema market, with some movie-goers deriding its "American values". | | | Sound engineers have managed to construct the speech former US president John F Kennedy was about to make before he was assassinated in 1963. | | | Sources close to the Trump administration say more changes are coming on the back of the firing of US secretary of state Rex Tillerson. | | | Demonstrators from Australia's Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laos, Burmese and Filippino communities gather to condemn human rights abuses and to give a voice to their communities back home, as leaders meet nearby on the first day of the ASEAN summit. | | | A couple who detectives wrongly accused of faking a Hollywood-style kidnapping reach a multi-million-dollar settlement with Californian authorities. | | | A one-page job application form filled out by Steve Jobs in 1973 fetches more than three times its presale estimate, despite not specifying what position or company the application was intended for. | | | The Panthers and Rabbitohs prepare to battle it out in scorching Penrith temperatures as Saturday's NRL action continues. Get scores, stats and streams in our live ScoreCentre. | | | Kirsty McDonald thought it would be OK to bring her four-month-old breastfeeding son to one of Ed Sheeran's upcoming concerts. But she's been told by Ticketek "there is no free on the knee" for the sold-out event. | | | The veteran of more than 100 films announced on Twitter he is suffering from a rare neuroendocrine tumour. | | | Rafael Nadal's uncle describes the tennis star's constant battle against pain and reliance on painkillers since he picked up a serious foot injury at the age of 19. | | | Revelations about a tailor pushing $122m in home loans, gym owners assessing peoples' finances, and paper envelopes filled with cash bribes — it has been an astonishing first week of public hearings, Daniel Ziffer writes. | | | After what has seemed like an almost endless campaign, the South Australia election is finally here. And it's somewhat of a D-Day for all of the political leaders — Jay Weatherill, Steven Marshall and Nick Xenophon. | | | A defiant Wayne Bennett has a message for critics after Brisbane pulls off a stirring 24-20 NRL round two win over North Queensland at a packed Lang Park. | | | The Home Affairs Minister saying white South African farmers need help from a "civilised country like ours" serves as an insult that harks back to the political thinking behind apartheid, according to several commentators. | | | For the second time in less than six months, tens of thousands of voters in inner Melbourne will head to the polls for today's by-election. And once again they will be making a choice between Labor and the Greens. | | | Australia will have to get creative if it's going to deal with the waste of 40 million people, but it could start by following the lead of Sweden, which has created a system that is reliant on waste as a fuel source. | | | By Simon Royal | | | By Jessica Strutt | | | By Nicholas Harmsen | | | By The Business reporter Daniel Ziffer | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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