| | | | The wreckage of a US aircraft carrier credited with helping save Australia from possible Japanese invasion during World War II has been found off the Queensland coast. | | | | A 50-year-old man is committed to stand trail over the 1998 murder of Sydney school girl Quanne Diec, who he killed because she was making too much noise, a court hears. | | | | Melissa Sheldon's melanoma spread to her lungs and her brain, and her doctors said it was probably because of her sunbed use. Now she has issued a warning to others thinking of using one of Australia's illegal solariums - "stop". | | | | With 45 million kangaroos in Australia, they are hardly facing extinction, but a controversial new film about our national emblem which is gaining traction overseas tells a very different story. | | | | A Perth family makes an extraordinary historical discovery — a message hidden in a 19th century gin bottle tossed overboard from a German merchant sailing barque almost 1000km away in 1886. | | | | Peta Butler's mother took her to a Toowoomba hotel under the guise of celebrating her birthday, but there she arranged for a man to rape her. With her mother now in jail, police need help to find the man responsible. | | | | Helen Levina is sentenced to at least 20 years in jail for murdering her elderly mother, whose remains were discovered in a Perth backyard after the family dog was found licking the woman's skull. | | | | A Canberra woman accused of running a dating scam allegedly claimed she was a sports doctor who had worked for the Australian cricket team, and that she had a baby with former captain Michael Clarke, court documents say. | | | | A 33-year-old Brazilian man, living in Sydney, is found not guilty of raping a woman he met on the mobile phone dating app Tinder. | | | | Scalp-cooling, increasingly being used in Australia, can drastically reduce hair loss in chemotherapy patients, improving their self-image and helping them avoid the stigma of having cancer. | | | | Sean Pollard once went for a surf but didn't come back in one piece. He is now set for his Paralympic snowboarding debut, and he's not letting the shark attack define him. | | | | Not long ago, fat was the evil dietary villain. Before that it was salt. Now the sugar-free diet has exploded onto the health and wellness scene, writes Tara Leong. | | | | An electric shock that has left an 11-year-old girl fighting for life as doctors try frantically to cool her organs was five times the level that can cause serious damage to the human body. | | | | Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg promises to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the Russia meddling investigation, throwing down a challenge to "arrest me". | | | | Two decades ago, the bet among China watchers was that with riches would come democracy, freedom and the rule of law. But Xi Jinping now touts tighter controls at home, a powerful military and expansive economic reach, raising fears of global conflict, writes Stan Grant. | | | | Police in hazmat suits launched a dramatic decontamination effort after a former Russian spy and his companion were found unconscious at an English shopping centre. | | | | Some Melbourne firefighters will be entitled to nearly 200 days leave every year under a workplace deal the Victorian Government has been warned will entrench inequality in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. | | | | Nick Xenophon denies he ever took former Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie on a date to KFC, claiming the only thing they exchanged that night were chicken nuggets. | | | | While film buffs awaited yesterday's Oscars ceremony, thousands of fashion fans were lapping up the red carpet commentary on an anonymous Australian Facebook page. | | | | South Africa identifies source of world's largest listeria outbreak after pre-school children fall ill from eating "polony" products traced to processed meat producers. | | | | Sun exposure, hot showers and dry soaps can dry out our skin. But does moisturiser really help? And are expensive options really any better than basic supermarket brands? | | | | Swimmers off the coast of Bali can find more plastic wrappers than fish as a diver films a huge "slick" of pollution that is threatening the manta ray population. | |  |
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