| | | | Australia's shell-shocked Test team wilted under Proteas pressure in a 322-run loss to South Africa — losing all 10 wickets in a single session — as the ball-tampering fiasco proved far too big a distraction. | | | | The ball-tampering scandal in Cape Town results in Steve Smith suspended for one Test by the ICC and Cameron Bancroft copping demerit points, while Smith and David Warner are stood down from leadership duties for the rest of the third Test. | | | | The growth of low-paid and insecure work has prompted industry experts to call for a dramatic overhaul of the superannuation system. | | | | There is more to the Cambridge Analytica revelations than a shadowy consultancy using Facebook to mine the users' data to influence elections, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | With members of his family dying from motor neurone disease, Justin Yerbury gave up his professional basketball career in order to research the condition. Now the world-renowned scientist is battling his own diagnosis while he continues to search for a cure. | | | | A new study finds properly treating asthma in children under five boosts their chances of overcoming the condition before adulthood. | | | | Earth's nights are getting brighter, creating an environmental nuisance that kills our wildlife, costs taxpayers and makes it increasingly difficult to see and study the stars. | | | | The Grattan Institute says over-investment in the poles and wires of the power grid has left consumers paying "too much for something they neither want nor need". | | | | Round one is over, and what do we know? Goals are down, GWS is scary and the Cats and Hawks' midfields are coming along nicely. | | | | The new Royal Adelaide Hospital has already cost taxpayers $2.3 billion, but South Australia's new government says rooms inside the emergency department are not big enough to treat critically ill and injured patients. | | | | They can stink like fish and rotten eggs, breed swarms of mosquitos and lack the glamour of coral reefs, but mangroves, with other coastal habitats, are vitally important to our climate — and they're under threat. | | | | The Australian Medical Association is urging people to wait until May before they get this year's flu vaccine, saying some pharmacies are offering the vaccinations too early. | | | | More than 30 celebrity ambassadors, led by journalist Tracey Spicer, launch a not-for-profit organisation to end industrial and systemic sexual harassment in the workplace. | | | | Former Catalan secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont is detained in Germany by police acting on an international arrest warrant issued by Spain. | | | | Space experts predict the Tiangong-1 space station or 'Heavenly Palace' will turn into a spectacular fireball as it enters Earth's atmosphere sometime during the Easter long weekend. Just where it will land is anyone's guess. | | | | An Australian kayaker plunges more than 20 metres in a daring, hold-your-breath drop down the Dangar Falls in New South Wales, in the first known paddle of the famous waterfall. | | | | The 23-year-old Texan blamed for a deadly Austin bombing spree describes himself as a psychopath and shows no remorse in a confession he taped before blowing himself up, according to a US congressman. | | | | Tens of thousands of people rally together behind survivors of last month's Florida school massacre to demand tighter gun laws, and students say current politicians aren't cutting it. | | | | North America correspondent Zoe Daniel visits her American cousin to learn how to shoot an AR-15 and gain a personal insight into US gun culture. | | | | Advance Dermocare dog food is voluntarily recalled by Mars Petcare Australia after an outbreak of megaoesophagus, which can prevent dogs from swallowing or absorbing food. | | | | Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologises for causing anxiety and loss of confidence in his Government amid accusations of alleged cronyism and cover-up of a land sale at the centre of a growing scandal. | | | | Heavy rain associated with ex-tropical Cyclone Nora causes flooding and landslides on Queensland's north tropical coast. | |  |
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