| | | | Coach Darren Lehmann fears for the mental health of the players involved in the ball-tampering incident as Cricket Australia announces a 12-month ban for Steve Smith and David Warner and a nine-month suspension for Cameron Bancroft. | | | | Before this senseless, inexplicable act of self-harm, Steve Smith's career was building as potentially one of the greatest in the game. | | | | Indigenous artists from central Australia claim the latest works by Damien Hirst, one of the world's richest artists, strongly resemble their paintings, including those by the late grandmother of desert art Emily Kngwarreye. Hirst says his inspiration comes from elsewhere. | | | | It may not look like much, but this giant, fuzzy blob of a galaxy has astronomers perplexed. | | | | Antonio Rokov is posthumously honoured with the Star of Courage in the latest round of Australian Bravery Awards for his efforts to save the life of Elijah Arranz during a tandem skydiving accident in 2015. | | | | A newly married husband and wife are feared to have been killed, and two very young children injured, when an RAAF Super Hornet fired a GPS-guided bomb at a building in West Mosul last year. | | | | There is a crisis of sorts unfolding on a small island in the Coral Sea. Four weather observers, who have been living on tiny Willis Island off Cairns in Queensland's far north for almost six months, are about to run out of cheese. | | | | An accidental discovery reveals what could be the largest human organ — and the fluid-filled space inside human tissue is everywhere throughout the body. | | | | Australia sells more of its homes by auction than just about anywhere else in the world, and at every one of those auctions is an auctioneer trying to talk people into bidding again and again. Two of them reveal the tricks of their trade. | | | | The town of Ingham is cut off for the second time in a month as floodwaters continue to rise in north Queensland, with the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting rainfall of up to 1 metre over the Easter break. | | | | With all 32 World Cup teams involved in this week's round of international friendly matches we re-assess each side's chances when it comes to the big dance. | | | | The Prime Minister admits the Government does not yet have the numbers to pass company tax cuts, but the issue will not disappear and he says he is willing to make it a key issue at the next election. | | | | Private health insurance premiums will rise from April 1, leaving consumers wondering if they should give it up or downgrade to save money, write Sophie Lewis and Karen Willis. | | | | The lawyer acting for adult film star Stormy Daniels files a motion seeking to depose President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, dialling up pressure on the President over his alleged sexual encounter with her years ago. | | | | When he decided it was his turn to speak, Grigory Logvinov jousted with the press for an hour. It was a triumph of obfuscation, and you could almost hear stifled snorts of disbelief in the room, writes Stephen Dziedzic. | | | | Former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il hated flying and used this armoured train to travel abroad, hosting mobile parties with heavy drinking, karaoke and live lobsters. His son has now used it for his first trip outside North Korea since his father died in 2011. | | | | Victoria Police set up Operation Tethering to investigate Cardinal George Pell before they had even received a complaint about him, a committal hearing is told, as police are accused of "single-mindedly" pursuing Australia's most senior Catholic cleric. | | | | President Donald Trump says there's "a good chance" North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will "do what is right for his people and for humanity" and make moves toward peace. | | | | A scathing report into transvaginal mesh implants recommends the devices "should only be used as a last resort" and finds some women were not properly informed about potentially serious side effects. | | | | A dying man who is being asked to pay over $100,000 to get his own collection of antiques and family heirlooms back from collapsed auction house Mossgreen says he's frustrated his last months are being spent in a legal battle. | | | | A Utah Highway Patrol officer who survived being struck by a car on a snowy highway says he feels lucky to be alive after viewing the dramatic dashcam footage of the incident. | |  |
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