| | | | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull confirms Australia will be exempt from US President Donald Trump's new steel and aluminium tariffs, but denies the two leaders are working towards a new "security agreement". | | | | The discovery brought an end to an eight-hour stand-off which began when the gunman, reportedly wearing body armour and carrying an automatic weapon, entered a veterans home in California's Napa Valley. | | | | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull defends his state colleagues on the issue of foreign donations, despite the fact the Federal Government is trying ban them. | | | | Nepal has been rocked by a string of deaths connected to the ancient Hindu Chhaupadi ritual, where menstruating women and girls are banished to freezing huts, fearing attack by animals or rapists. But a small piece of plastic could change everything. | | | | Martin Shkreli, who became "the most hated man in America" for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, cried as he was sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding investors in two failed hedge funds. | | | | The burger-flipping robot that's supposed to revolutionise the fast-food industry is taken offline after working just one day at a restaurant in California. | | | | Speaking to the BBC from his hospital bed, Mhlengi Gwala said two men held him down while another, wielding a chainsaw, tried to cut his legs off. | | | | Ready for some Saturday NRL action? We've got you covered as the Wests Tigers play the Roosters, the Rabbitohs take on the Warriors and the Bulldogs face off against the Melbourne Storm. Follow it all in our live NRL ScoreCentre. | | | | The story of an elderly man who died alone, except for the company of his two pet dogs, is tragic. But there has been a happy ending for the loyal pooches Indigo and Blue. | | | | Shlomo Blitz worked inside Israel's binary options industry where he helped to scam victims, including Australians, out of their money. Now, he talks us through how he did it. | | | | The track queen of the Pacific, Toea Wisil, has been disciplined for unsporting action, and will be absent from the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Australia. | | | | Australians interested in buying retirement homes in the Pacific are being warned they need to be very careful to avoid losing their money, with experts warning rogue contractors are costing investors thousands. | | | | Imagine coming across a washed-up shipping container chock-full of goodies on the beach. You begin to grab everything but stop to yourself the question — is this legally mine now? Enter the law of salvage. | | | | He was a real life Crocodile Dundee before Crocodile Dundee was a twinkle in a film producer's eye. Take a look back over the life of renaissance bushman Jack Absalom. | | | | Alan Gent didn't know his purpose in life until he retired and bought his granddaughter a horse named Rebel. That sparked a passion to save these loving creatures from the knackery, and restore the "soft and bright" look to their eyes. | | | | Major flood levels slowly ease across the north Queensland town of Ingham, where more than 200 homes are inundated, but the heavy rain is travelling up the state to the far north. | | | | The NSW Health Minister says time-poor parents could be contributing to lower than average immunisation rates in a health district that takes in some of Sydney's most affluent suburbs, including Mosman, Manly, Killara and Palm Beach. | | | | The skirmish over US steel and aluminium imports could well be just a precursor to a far bigger battle with China which poses much greater risks to Australia's export markets. | | | | Predictions that Gold Coast hotels could be booked out during the Commonwealth Games appear to be wrong, with Airbnb listings soaring as tourists search for cheaper deals. | | | | Anxiety is not depression, or bipolar, or OCD, or schizophrenia: it is its own unique, terrible beast. At its worst can leave sufferers like me frozen, with pain and terror coursing through every cell in their body, writes Ben Pobjie. | | | | Before health buzzwords and supermarket chains, our grandparents were the masters of reducing food waste not because it was fashionable, but because it was necessary. | | | | Packed with retro stools and 1950s machines, Akinori and Miki Egawa's smart ball parlour harks back to a simpler time in the now ultra-modern Japanese capital. But it's a dying tradition they're trying to save. | |  |
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