| | | | In the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War, Britain says 23 Russian diplomats have one week to leave as punishment for the poisoning of former MI6 informant Sergei Skripal with a Russian-made nerve agent. | | | | New information from the Government provides a snapshot of Australian big business, including the most and least competitive sectors. | | | | A broken family speaks publicly for the first time about the death of their daughter Courtney Topic, who was shot and killed by police as she brandished a knife outside a fast-food outlet in Sydney's western suburbs. | | | | Since last month's massacre in Florida, US students are saying enough is enough and have formed a grassroots movement demanding gun reform. Today, students across the nation staged an unprecedented national walkout so their voices could be heard. | | | | Alleged terrorist Abu Zubaydah was kept in a coffin-sized box for hundreds of hours and waterboarded until he passed out, at a Thai interrogation site the CIA's Gina Haspel is widely reported to have overseen. | | | | Indigenous rangers and migrant families could be caught up in the Federal Government's laws aimed at foreign agents, according to documents provided by the Attorney-General's Department. | | | | Everything from transport cards to smartphone GPS data can inform how a city is built. But what are the risks? | | | | Federal senator Derryn Hinch says he had two glasses of wine but was not "pissed" when he fell from an Uber and banged his head. | | | | Northern New South Wales experiences an influx in homeless people heading across the border from Queensland, with the problem expected to worsen in the lead up to next month's Commonwealth Games. | | | | From his specialty — black holes — to Donald Trump, a British boy band and motor neurone disease, across the years one of the world's most brilliant minds weighed in on a range of topics. | | | | If you are someone who gets motion sick or just plain uncomfortable facing backwards on train journeys, then you may not like the new inter-city New South Wales trains being built. | | | | Quit smoking to gain employment. That's what it may take, according to experts, as more employers seek to only hire non-smoking workers. And the law says there's nothing wrong with that. | | | | "We had no training in these tasks," an insider says, claiming contractors dealing directly with NDIS applicants are untrained and not equipped to deal with complex and emotional cases. | | | | A father of five says his friend dragged him to safety by his shirt as a crocodile twice lunged at him at an east Kimberley waterway. | | | | The Philippines says it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court due to what President Rodrigo Duterte calls "unprecedented attacks" by UN officials and violations of due process. | | | | Irish influence on Australian English is much like the influence of the Irish on Australians themselves — less than you'd expect on the surface, but everywhere once you start looking. | | | | Waiting for a baby to arrive can be anxious business. But what happens when they arrive unexpectedly early — like when you're stuck in traffic? | | | | Three-time world champion Mick Fanning gives a young fan in search of an autograph more than he bargained for, handing him the surfboard he just used in his second-last event before retiring. | | | | The US energy giant says it will not have to pay Australian tax between 2013 and 2021 as heavy investment and low prices have conspired to erode its taxable income. | | | | The father of one of Cardinal Pell's alleged victims says he had no idea his son was allegedly sexually offended against until police came to take a statement from him a year after he died from a heroin overdose. | | | | Facebook bans Britain First from its platform for breaking rules against inciting hatred, blacklisting a far-right group brought to global attention when United States President Donald Trump retweeted its anti-Islamic posts. | | | | It is unusual that Australia's Foreign Minister took a call about the departure of a senior figure in the Trump administration before the man himself, but it is also evidence that Australia can still count on connections in high places in Washington DC, writes Greg Jennett. | | | | Ocean acidification will have a much more serious effect on the ability of coral reefs to rebuild themselves than previously thought, research suggests. | |  |
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