| | | | Mark Zuckerberg breaks his silence on Cambridge Analytica and admits there's been "a breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it". | | | | The Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering Australian woman Justine Damond appears in court and is granted bail at $US400,000. | | | | This young man doesn't want you to go through what he went through after being forced into a new car loan and chased by debt collectors. | | | | A children's charity is going to sell tiny houses to the general public for as little as $120,000 in an effort to raise funds for homeless kids. | | | | Human placenta extract, counterfeit anti-wrinkle injectables and Chinese iodine have all been seized in a series of recent raids targeting dodgy beauty salons and back-alley clinics. | | | | A suspected serial bomber behind a series of blasts that killed two people and seriously injured four others in Texas is killed after detonating a bomb while being chased by police. | | | | One of the people believed to be targeted in police raids on businesses linked to alleged money-laundering by the Comanchero outlaw motorcycle gang is a self-described 'forensic accountant' who was leaked information by a corrupt VicRoads employee. | | | | Economists warn it is time for an uncomfortable reality check, with Australia's standard of living not likely to get better anytime soon. | | | | Ahed Tamimi, who at 16 was dubbed the "Rosa Parks of Palestine" and changed the face of Palestinian resistance in the West Bank after being filmed slapping an Israeli solider, accepts a plea deal which will see her serve eight months in prison. | | | | From white to blue, yellow to green and even striped: here's the science behind iceberg colours. | | | | Business and jobs seem to be weathering the new economy extremely well. It is equality that is really being disrupted, and the way we are going it will get worse and worse, writes Carl Rhodes. | | | | Two people die and one person is seriously injured in a helicopter crash near a pontoon at Hardy Reef in a remote section of the Great Barrier Reef in the Whitsundays. | | | | Queensland's Liberal National Party accepted a $5,000 donation from a company that owns a property development firm, despite the Palaszczuk Government announcing the introduction of a retrospective ban on developer donations. | | | | Federal MP Andrew Broad warns there could be a humanitarian crisis like a food shortage in South Africa if white farmers are allowed to migrate en-masse to Australia following reports of increased violence towards them. | | | | Disturbing new footage emerges of a driver being tasered by WA Police after being pulled over for a random breath test, with the state's corruption watchdog finding the actions of the officer involved were "unreasonable and oppressive". | | | | Details of rape allegations against Queensland man Rick Thorburn can now be revealed, with prosecutors arguing he raped a girl under the age of 12 and committed several other acts of child sexual abuse between 2015 and 2016. | | | | Well, it's complex. Child-protection experts, politicians, and young people who have grown up in Australia's out-of-home-care system are divided on the question. But all agree the wellbeing of children is paramount. | | | | Less than a decade ago Gladstone was on property investors' wish lists, but today 80 per cent of homes are selling at a loss. For Phillip and Aleisha it means struggling with a home they can't afford to sell or rent. | | | | It's the new battle in the bush. On one side is Australia's $800-million-a-year bottled water industry and its suppliers, on the other, rural residents who fear their most precious resource is being squandered. | | | | An Australian who has been outspoken about Chinese Communist Party influence says he was denied entry to China and immediately placed on an 11-hour return flight to Sydney. | | | | Graeme Evans is jailed for nine years for the manslaughter of his former partner Leeann Lapham in far north Queensland, after punching her in the head repeatedly and dumping her naked body in bushland in 2010. | | | | This is the registered Australian head office of the shady big data company that claims to be so powerful it got Donald Trump elected. It's a house in Maroubra which belongs to a former used-car salesman who smelled a business opportunity. | | | | Islamist militants free scores of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, but some of the released students say five of their friends have died in captivity and another is still being held. | | | | Space junk is a real problem, and Australian scientists want to use powerful ground-based lasers to shoot it all away. | | | | Westpac tells the banking royal commission a car loan granted to a carer in 2012 that she could not afford to pay back would not have been approved today. | |  |
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