| | | | Tathra residents will not be allowed to return home until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, amid concerns toxic asbestos dust could have settled in the New South Wales town where a bushfire destroyed at least 69 homes. | | | | Uber suspends all of its self-driving testing after what is believed to be the first fatal pedestrian crash involving the vehicles. | | | | Robert Mueller is a reminder of everything the real estate mogul-turned-president is not. Now there's no-one left to stop Donald Trump from picking a fight, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | Negotiators from the European Union and Britain hail major progress in the Brexit talks, but concede there has been no breakthrough on keeping open the Irish border. | | | | Authorities in Mississippi say a nine-year-old boy has shot his 13-year-old sister in the head and wounded her after an argument over a video game controller. | | | | A regularly repeated claim in public debate is that Indigenous Australians were covered by a flora and fauna act, which did not classify them as human beings, and that this only changed when the constitution was amended following the 1967 referendum. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates. | | | | Rick Thorburn cried as he helped carry Tiahleigh Palmer's coffin at her funeral in 2015. Yesterday his lawyers revealed he would plead guilty to murdering his foster daughter. | | | | One of Cardinal George Pell's alleged victims came forward after seeing allegations against him on a TV program, a court is told in the third week of a committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court. | | | | Investigators say the tripwire used in Austin's fourth bombing this month showed "a different level of skill" to the package bombs used in prior attacks. | | | | Facebook is facing growing pressure as European and US politicians call for investigations into reports that consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked on US President Donald Trump's campaign, gained access to data on 50 million users. | | | | The Chinese President's remaking of his country's political system is complete. Now people in China are bracing themselves for another round of repression, writes Matthew Carney. | | | | The country's first comprehensive dental health report card has found some pretty gross stats: 90 per cent of adults have some form of tooth decay, almost three-quarters of children eat too much sugar, and one-quarter of teens have not had a dental check-up in 12 months. | | | | Despite the results of the Russian election being pretty much known before the votes were counted, there's still one important reason why this seemingly "fake" election should be held, writes Europe correspondent James Glenday. | | | | Margot Robbie spent three years on Australian soap Neighbours from the age of 17, but she believes it was the best training ground she could have for working in Hollywood. | | | | The fate of SA's deal with Elon Musk's Tesla to supply free household battery units to 50,000 homes is unclear, with new premier Steven Marshall offering no firm view on whether his Government will continue with the scheme. | | | | A waitress who was stabbed five times in a violent robbery at Claisebrook train station on Saturday night says she saw blood "springing" out of her leg before passing out and waking surrounded by police. | | | | The royal commission grills Commonwealth Bank for aggressively selling credit card insurance to unemployed people, while ANZ is accused of breaking responsible lending laws. | | | | A former Melbourne school principal facing extradition to Australia on child sex abuse charges will remain in an Israeli jail after an appeal against releasing her to house arrest was successful. | | | | Hours after speaking with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi pulls out of her only public speaking arrangement in Australia, citing ill health. | | | | A giant yellow inflatable duck believed to have been missing at sea off Western Australia for almost a week was found by a fisherman shortly after being swept away, but has spent the past week at a house in Gosnells. | |  |
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