| | | | The US President signs a presidential memorandum that could impose tariffs on up to $77 billion of imports from China, although his action is far removed from the threats that could have ignited a global trade war. | | | | The Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains up to 16 times the amount of waste than previously thought and is growing exponentially, according to a new study. | | | | Secretive online forums are sharing "revenge porn" images of Australian women with their names and locations attached — and there's not a lot the authorities can do about it. | | | | Dean Elgar reaches an 11th Test century but Pat Cummins strikes four times to keep Australia in the game at Newlands. See how all the day one action unfolded in our blog. | | | | John Dowd steps down after reportedly concluding Mr Trump was increasingly ignoring his advice. | | | | Almost 19 years after the notorious Columbine High School shooting in the US, survivors reflect on the lessons learned while being divided on gun control and student activism in the wake of recent massacres. | | | | From pyromaniac clouds to space storms, we've boiled down the five weirdest weather phenomena from Nate Byrne's deep dive into the data. | | | | The news of the first pedestrian killed by a self-driving Uber brings the slow dawning the test environment for the development of this technology has expanded and includes many of our roads. | | | | Delete Facebook but the internet already knows a lot about you because you either told it personal information or didn't know you were giving away. | | | | Australian Professor Terry Speed has been a champion for women in the science, so it's shaken the field to the core to find out that he's been accused of harassing a junior colleague whom he mentored. | | | | Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says that the move to make over-the-counter codeine products prescription-only could save up to 100 lives a year. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates. | | | | The footage, released by the NSW Coroner's Court at an inquest, was recorded by a taser held by one of three officers who confronted Courtney Topic in February 2015. | | | | A very public war between the old and new guard at Melbourne's prestigious Trinity Grammar School reaches new heights with truck mounted billboards calling for the headmaster and school council to resign. | | | | A former choir member at Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral says "knowing the layout and how things worked" at the church, he does not believe Cardinal George Pell could have sexually offended against singers in the choir. | | | | The AFL's relentless course to national sporting pre-eminence has come at a cost, writes Richard Hinds. But fans still have hope thanks to a couple of fairytale flag wins. | | | | David Harris was struggling to pay off his debt and told the Commonwealth Bank he had a gambling problem but they still increased his credit card limit to $35,100. | | | | Shem Garlett briefly left his teenage son Jaylen trying on clothes for his school ball in Myer. Then he heard a call on the store intercom for security and when he returned his son was surrounded by 10 Myer staff. | | | | Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis, the husband and wife founders of the collapsed firm — which left more than 3,000 clients destitute — are facing fines of $70,000 each under a Federal Court ruling. | | | | Two police officers are accused of murdering a man who was "in the wrong place at the wrong time" in the yard of the house he was living, after they mistook a mobile phone he was holding for a gun. | | | | Do you buy stuff from overseas online? You could soon be charged an extra $7 per parcel under a proposal being considered by Home Affairs bureaucrats in Canberra. Predictably, eBay isn't happy. | | | | With humanoid ears, dangerous spikes, a rattle like a rattlesnake and enormous teeth with roots that extend 10 centimetres back into its skull, Perth Zoo's new resident is without a doubt one of its strangest animals. | |  |
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