| | | | A Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed unarmed Australian woman Justine Damond in July last year turns himself in on charges of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. | | | | The drug ice is playing a large factor in rising child-protection rates around the country, according to experts. But they warn there's no easy solution, especially when parents have their own traumas. | | | | The political research firm says Alexander Nix's recent comments secretly recorded by a British documentary crew do not represent the values or operations of the firm. | | | | Free wi-fi will be on offer at several Gold Coast locations for the duration of the Commonwealth Games, but the high-speed option requires people to sign in via Facebook and surrender their personal data to the Gold Coast City Council. | | | | The cost of HIV-prevention drug PrEP will be slashed, with the final hurdle now cleared for adding it to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. | | | | A family who endured the most anxious wait of their lives, believing their two dogs had perished in the Tathra bushfire, cry tears of joy upon finding their pets survived the blaze. | | | | The bushfire that raged through the NSW south coast town of Tathra may not have wiped out as many houses if the Rural Fire Service accepted offers of help, the Fire Brigade Union says. | | | | The Cambodian military will not investigate how an Australian was killed on a shooting range last week, after allegedly trying to "cover up" the nature of the incident. | | | | A student who shot and injured two fellow students at a Maryland high school dies after exchanging gunfire with a campus security officer. | | | | He has broken his nose, fractured ribs, snapped a bicep and suffered numerous neck and spinal injuries — and at 51 big-wave surfer Ross Clarke-Jones has no plans to stop. | | | | Human Services Minister Michael Keenan condemns a racist diatribe at a Centrelink office as "unacceptable", and announces a review of safety measures and penalties for aggressive behaviour. | | | | A package bomb believed to be linked to the recent bombings in Austin explodes inside a FedEx facility near San Antonio, while a second unexploded bomb was found at the same facility. | | | | The relevance of university entrance scores comes under scrutiny in a new report that finds just one in four undergraduate students are admitted based on their Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank. | | | | Writing a negative online review can be cathartic but can also have serious consequences, so you need to be careful about how, and what, you say, writes Michael Douglas. | | | | A human skull has surfaced at a beach in northern WA, a discovery police say is not unusual as the skeletons of Aboriginal people remain tucked in caves, sand dunes and trees from pre-colonial times. | | | | Calls for Australia to stop relying so heavily on Chinese international students and start looking to its neighbours for students will be discussed at an ASEAN education meeting in Malaysia today. | | | | Former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer is declared bankrupt by the Federal Circuit Court, after the liquidator over his failed development company launched legal action over an opulent staircase in his multi-million-dollar home. | | | | A passer-by finds the body of 25-year-old Perth woman Alison Raspa, who had been missing at a ski resort in Canada for almost four months, in a partially frozen lake near the town of Whistler. | | | | The future of Australia's largest Islamic school, Malek Fahd, hangs in the balance after a full bench of the Federal Court dismisses an appeal against its $19 million federal education funding cut. | | | | A lack of identity and personality is a spy's protection from foreign operatives, but a dig through a faceless Twitter account reveals some interesting insights into Australia's top dog in the shadowy world of intelligence. | | | | Residents of the Victorian town of Beechworth couldn't work out why their mail was disappearing, until they discovered their local post box had been forgotten. For one couple, it meant they didn't have a say in the same-sex marriage vote — a matter close to their hearts. | | | | The world's last male northern white rhino has died, the Kenyan conservancy taking care of him says, leaving only two female members of the subspecies alive in the world. | |  |
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