| | | | The deaths of a man and a woman found washed up on a remote section of beach on Bribie Island, north of Brisbane, are being treated as suspicious by detectives on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. | | | | A man and two children are dead after a house fire in Kingaroy, in Queensland's South Burnett, police say. | | | | Champion mare Winx sets a world record for Group One flat wins and posts a staggering 24th-straight victory after taking out the George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill. | | | | A 13-year-old girl from Canberra drowns after a boat carrying six passengers who were not wearing life jackets capsized in waters just off Moruya, on the New South Wales south coast. | | | | The Western Bulldogs ignore the controversy of Katie Brennan's suspension to claim the AFLW premiership with a one-goal victory over Brisbane in the grand final at Princes Park in Melbourne. | | | | A US water park operator and an executive are charged with involuntary manslaughter over the 2016 death of a 10-year-old boy, who was decapitated on a water slide hyped as the world's highest. | | | | Authorities now believe Severe Tropical Cyclone Nora will cross the Queensland coast early on Sunday afternoon as a category three system. | | | | Verified Facebook pages of Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX and electric carmaker Tesla disappear, minutes after the billionaire promises on Twitter to take down the pages when challenged by users. | | | | A policeman who was shot after swapping himself for a hostage held by a gunman during a deadly siege of a supermarket has died, the French Interior Minister confirms. | | | | Authorities spend the day racing to remove the decaying carcasses of the more than 100 short-finned pilot whales which beached themselves along a usually-pristine stretch of Western Australia's coastline. | | | | A yet-to-be published review of the tax office by one of its directors warns financial penalties for tax evaders are so low that some people could be better off taking the risk of being caught. | | | | Tougher lending regulations could dry up credit, drive down house prices and force up unemployment, UBS investment bank analysts warn. | | | | A US teenager's attempt to secure her driver's licence ends quickly as she crashes through the testing station before even leaving the carpark. | | | | The experts give their best advice on how to tackle one of the longest hauls in commercial aviation — Perth to London direct on the new Qantas 787, which starts today — and not feel like a dehydrated pickle by the time you land. | | | | Australia is fuming after David Warner is verbally abused by a spectator in Cape Town, with a formal complaint lodged as a hostile Test series continues. | | | | Parents and students in rural Pennsylvania have supported a move to provide buckets of rocks to schools to protect them from armed intruders. | | | | US President Donald Trump signs a memorandum that limits transgender individuals from serving in the military, but gives the armed forces some latitude in implementing policies. | | | | We've heard two weeks of stories of loss and hardship at the banking royal commission. But not everyone has the empathy they should for those in financial trouble, writes Cristina Neesham. | | | | An electrical failure creates a nightmarish spectacle at a US theme park, with a giant animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex becoming engulfed by fire. | | | | Transgender women in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province are losing their jobs and incomes in the wake of police raids that saw several beauty salons shut down. | | | | Farmers who live near one of Queensland's biggest abandoned mines believe they have just lost their last chance for a toxic environmental legacy to be reversed. | | | | Former United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon says the looming high-stakes meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un's will "shake the whole political security dynamics of North-East Asia". | | | | Most people would have given up, but not powerlifter Odell Manuel. Despite suffering a horrific quadricep injury, he has made an extraordinary comeback. | |  |
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