| | | | The family of Denishar Woods, the 11-year-old Perth girl who received an electric shock from a garden tap, says she has suffered a major brain injury and doctors fear she will not survive when taken off life support. | | | | The US President will meet with Kim Jong-un by May, South Korea's top security adviser announces at the White House, saying the North Korean leader has also committed to stopping his nation's nuclear and missile testing. | | | | Maybe it will take Donald Trump's unconventional style to finally bring peace to the Korean Peninsula, but history stands between the President and a glorious moment as peacemaker, writes Philip Williams. | | | | Jason Garrels was electrocuted after carrying a switchboard in heavy rains at a construction site for townhouses. His boss will now go to prison after a court finds he did not install safety switches and then tried to cover it up. | | | | It is the sordid Sydney soap opera that spanned more than a decade — a young man disappears, his boyfriend lies to police and leads them to the body but never goes to jail. | | | | The police presence has diminished and the international media has dissolved as the first week of an expected four-week committal hearing for Cardinal George Pell draws to a close. | | | | The bloody history behind the name of a creek crossing tells a story of colonial conflict, echoing similar struggles around the country. | | | | A man who attacked a supermarket cashier with a baseball bat during a "bender" in Wollongong, knocking her unconscious, is sentenced to 11 years in prison. | | | | When Carolinda Witt's mother died, she had no idea that a simple online search would unearth a large family separated by her grandfather's double life. | | | | Nursing is second only to sales assistants in a list of Australia's most popular occupations, but there are far more former lawyers and lobbyists walking the corridors of power in Canberra. So does your MP's past job really matter? | | | | Matildas superstar Sam Kerr has been left off the FIFPro World XI list. But the reason for her omission may have less to do with her quality or standing in the game and more with where she plays. | | | | More than 70 primary school students who are stranded at a school camp north of Townsville are safe despite floodwaters continuing to rise in north Queensland with homes and businesses in Ingham becoming inundated. | | | | Only their measurements now remain, but bones found on a Pacific Island ocean more than 70 years ago likely belonged to famed aviator Amelia Eahart who went missing during a 1937 flight, a new analysis concludes. | | | | Jessica Mauboy reveals the song she will perform at this year's Eurovision contest, whipping fans of the pop star and the flamboyant competition into a frenzy. | | | | The CFMEU says the latest death related to the $47 billion Inpex Ichthys gas project is the 14th since work began, and a former worker says inadequate efforts are being made to alleviate mental health issues for isolated FIFO workers. | | | | British health officials say a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in England presents little risk to the public, but police say about 21 people have sought medical treatment following the incident. | | | | Medical experts believe cervical cancer rates are dropping so fast in Australia it will soon be eliminated, Dolly Parton's efforts to lift literacy levels hit a massive milestone and we watched as a little girl looked up to a big role model. | | | | Imposing duties on Australian steel exported to the US will impact less on the Aussie economy than a tariff on, say, beef or alcohol would have, and besides a former president tried this once already — unsuccessfully, writes Tony Makin. | | | | Aid is slow to reach people in remote parts of the Papua New Guinea highlands where the "ground is still shaking" following a deadly earthquake which has collapsed the slopes of an extinct volcano, burying villages and sending residents fleeing to a nearby ridge. | | | | Victorians and travellers are warned to check for measles symptoms after a backpacker visited Melbourne's CBD and popular state tourist locations while infected with the disease. | | | | Throughout history, Mary Magdalene has served as the archetypal "repentant whore". But a new film gets closer to the truth, writes Dorothy Ann Lee. | | | | The Danish inventor accused of torturing and killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall has "psychopathic tendencies", the jury at his murder trial hears, but he asserts the woman's death was an accident. | | | | Women around the overtly masculine nation down tools — closing schools and universities, reducing public transport to holiday schedules and cutting essential services to a minimum — as they demand fair treatment. | |  |
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