| | | | An emotional Darren Lehmann announces he will step down as Australian cricket coach at the end of the fourth Test match against South Africa, saying his family has faced backlash over the ball-tampering scandal. | | | | Suspended captain Steve Smith breaks down in tears after arriving back in Sydney, as he apologises for his role in the ball-tampering scandal that has rocked Australian cricket. | | | | Russia orders 60 US diplomats to leave by April 5, in a retaliatory move against Washington which expelled a similar number of Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy spy in England. | | | | Welcome to the future, the first Test of the 2019 Ashes series, where the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa still looms large and Australia faces a new reality, one in which they are shamed, scorned and silenced. | | | | South Melbourne firm Stanton Grant Legal is seized from its partners and placed in the hands of a manager chosen by the legal regulator after being raided by the Victoria Police anti-bikie taskforce. | | | | The daughter of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, who with her father was poisoned with a nerve agent at his home in England earlier this month, is no longer in a critical condition and is improving rapidly, according to the hospital treating her. | | | | The Anglican Diocese of Newcastle is using money raised from selling churches to compensate victims of child sexual abuse, but one coastal community is fighting back. | | | | If the Kremlin can comfortably control the outcome of a supposedly democratic presidential election, then surely it has a solid chance of pulling off the World Cup without too many major problems. | | | | It's emotionally draining work, but by visiting Jakarta's terminally ill children in their home Australian-trained palliative care nurse Ana Oktariana is helping to ease what is an awful time for her little patients and their families. | | | | A local newspaper obtains copies of letters, including one from a woman who calls accused killer Nikolas Cruz "beautiful" and others with suggestive photos, as the public defender reveals — "I've never seen this many letters to a defendant". | | | | Religion might make you a nicer person and improve the lives of those around you, but faith in and of itself is not a good thing — and the Christian faith offers itself for scrutiny, especially over its historical claims, writes Dr Michael Jensen. | | | | Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is ordered to stand trial for influence peddling over accusations he offered to help a prosecutor get promoted in return for leaked information about a separate criminal inquiry. | | | | A man is charged with people smuggling after nine Indian nationals are detained by Border Force at Brisbane Airport, accused of fraudulently claiming to be journalists arriving for the Commonwealth Games. | | | | Their trumpets were used during the London Olympics and the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, now Richard Smith and Richard Wright are responsible for handcrafting the trumpets to herald the marriage of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. | | | | Frogs are showing signs of resistance to a deadly pandemic caused by a highly contagious fungus that has wiped out around 200 species. | | | | An Indigenous baby boom in parts of Australia prompts some schools to tackle cultural awareness in a different way, including embracing a morning "yarning circle", a practice used in Aboriginal cultures for generations. | | | | The suspected final member of a gang that stole millions of dollars in jewellery from a London safe-deposit storehouse is charged, almost three years after the audacious heist. | | | | Charges of second-degree murder are laid against a US water park company co-owner and the co-designer of the water slide hyped as the world's tallest after a 10-year-old boy was decapitated on the ride in 2016. | | | | Victorian Labor MP Hong Lim apologises after raising the middle finger during Question Time, but dismissed a later altercation in a lift with a Liberal MP as a "robust" discussion. | | | | Former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer, who is accused of faking a car crash to avoid fronting court, is granted bail by a NSW Supreme Court judge. | | | | There are calls to regulate the placenta encapsulation industry in Australia after a newborn baby in the United States contracted a deadly blood infection linked to its mother taking the pills last year. | | | | Animal cruelty inspectors are trying to track down a man caught allegedly throwing a cat against the side of a house and then laughing about the act. | |  |
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