| | | | Russians vote in a presidential election expected to give Vladimir Putin an easy victory, but his opponents allege officials are compelling people to come to the polls so that a low turnout does not tarnish the win. | | | | The incoming chief of the Commonwealth Bank is expecting such an uncomfortable and confronting week at the royal commission he has written an email warning 14,000 of his retail staff to prepare. | | | | Jakarta has been rabies free since 2004 and while the weekly battle against feral cats to keep it that way is confronting, it's also necessary. | | | | Fires are still burning in Victoria's west, but crews are making good progress thanks to favourable overnight conditions, the state's emergency management commissioner says. | | | | Weather conditions ease overnight, helping firefighters as they try to contain a big bushfire that has destroyed properties in and around the town of Tathra, on the New South Wales south coast. | | | | A new study suggests that Facebook's ad explanations are "often incomplete and sometimes misleading". | | | | As our population grows and climate change bites, urban water experts say cities will have to start using treated sewage for drinking water. | | | | Eddie Woo was just an ordinary maths teacher, albeit a much-loved one, until one day he started filming his lessons. Now he's gone from suburban teacher to global sensation and one of the top 10 best teachers in the world. | | | | Australian scientists use stem cells to create human eye lens cells, and then grow them into eye lenses, giving hope to children with cataracts. | | | | Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the plight of Myanmar's persecuted Muslim Rohingya head-on during private talks at the ASEAN summit, Malcolm Turnbull reveals, and requested humanitarian support. | | | | Victims of a massive bushfire in western Victoria say the blaze arrived suddenly and without warning, with flames more than seven metres high. | | | | The Friday firings, the damning texts, the sheer speed and chaos that swirls every day around Donald Trump is now part and parcel of covering politics in the United States, writes Philip Williams. | | | | A meeting between officials just hours before a pedestrian bridge collapsed killing six people concluded a crack in the structure was not a safety concern. | | | | For the Greens to go backwards in Batman is damaging for leader Richard Di Natale, and there will be many questions about their strategy and in-fighting, writes Richard Willingham. | | | | Despite 400,000 jobs being added last year, unemployment and underemployment are still elevated and are keeping a lid on wages. | | | | Personal memos kept by sacked former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe detailing his interactions with President Donald Trump are provided to special counsel Robert Mueller's office, it has been revealed. | | | | He was the last Aboriginal tracker officially used by police. Now Barry Port is famous in his hometown of Coen in far north Queensland — even the town's public bar is named in his honour. | | | | People lighting up a cigarette in a dimly-lit restaurant is a scene almost unimaginable in Australia these days, but it's one that plays out in many restaurants in Japan because there are no national laws to prevent smoking indoors. | | | | "You definitely do need to have two accounts," says Meika Woolard, a 13-year-old with 335,000 Instagram followers. She is one of Australia's most prominent teen Insta-influencers, and part of a growing trend of users harnessing the power of multiple accounts. | | | | Penrith investigate after allegations someone in the crowd racially abused South Sydney's Greg Inglis during a match at Panthers Stadium last night. | | | | Staff at the Hobart Showgrounds say they can no longer cope with the increasing homelessness the site is managing. Families are camping at the showgrounds as Hobart's housing shortage worsens. | | | | With the threat of a second tropical low forming north of the Territory, residents in Darwin continue to clean up, with more than one-third of the region's properties without power. | |  |
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