| | | | Russia expels 59 diplomats from 23 countries, including officials from Australia, in a worsening standoff with the West over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain. | | | | Beijing is making an ambitious attempt to create a social credit system, in a move designed to value and engineer better individual behaviour | | | | WA Police have launched a major investigation into the suspected sexual abuse of at least five young children — most aged under 10 years old at the time — during organised sex activities with groups of adults. | | | | Two wickets late on day one from Aussie debutant Chadd Sayers gives Australia hope on a day of stellar South African batting. Look back at how the first day of the final Test unfolded in our live blog. | | | | Actor and former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger undergoes heart surgery to replace a valve that was originally replaced 20 years ago, waking up with the words "I'm back" in a twist on his catchphrase. | | | | Setting goals and overcoming adversity is an everyday achievement for world champion BMX rider Sam Willoughby who is battling to walk again after a training crash that left him a tetraplegic. | | | | At least 15 Palestinians are dead and hundreds injured in clashes on the Israel-Gaza border as tensions rise during the "Great March of Return" protests. | | | | Australian rugby sevens skipper James Stannard has been ruled out of playing at the Commonwealth Games after he suffered a fractured skull in an alleged one-punch attack in Sydney's eastern suburbs early this morning. | | | | A three-year pilot project will focus on helping children in residential care who have come from broken homes, have missed out on sex education or have never experienced normal, loving relationships. | | | | The Belgian parliament cuts the endowment of the ever-controversial Prince Laurent after he showed up at a Chinese diplomatic function in military uniform without the consent of the government. | | | | Indonesia's national skateboarding team suffers a training crisis in the leadup to the Asian Games: an uncomfortable rash caused by a caterpillar infestation at the training venue. | | | | Authorities say ambulances were not called when a hot air balloon hit a tree and crashed in the Hunter Valley, with its occupants — some with suspected spinal injuries — instead taken to hospital in private transport. | | | | Archaeology is providing insights into the importance of children in our earliest communities and the role they may have played in our social, cultural and physical development, writes Michelle C. Langley. | | | | A Los Angeles judge rules that Starbucks Corporation and other coffee companies must put a cancer warning label on coffee products sold in California because of a chemical produced in the roasting process. | | | | American surveillance equipment near the Russian embassy in Washington has given "a lot of people … cancer caused by radiation", Moscow's ambassador to Australia says, but the US is not buying it, saying the nation "should not be acting like a victim". | | | | Fish is filleted and oysters shucked at the Sydney Fish Market and Victorians rattle tins for the Good Friday Appeal while thousands of Filipino Roman Catholic devotees witness a re-enactment of Jesus Christ's sufferings. | | | | Cronulla knocks off last year's premiers Melbourne in a penalty-ruined game that ends in a melee, after the Rabbitohs come from the clouds to beat the Bulldogs in the traditional Good Friday fixture. | | | | RSPCA animal cruelty investigators say they have tracked down a man believed to be responsible for throwing a cat over a fence and into a wall, after a video of the act was widely shared on social media this week. | | | | A hot pie and a cold soft drink was all it took to dupe the bookies at Australia's richest foot race in 1988. | | | | Now that the month-long committal for Cardinal George Pell is over, we know more about the allegations against him, where they occurred and how the police probe was conducted. | | | | The Victorian Government's bill to restructure the state's fire services is voted down after a controversial move in Parliament by the Opposition. | | | | In the early 1500s, a fisherman found a statue of the Mother Mary on a beach in Indonesia. It became the stuff of legend, and these days thousands of pilgrims flock to the region every year for spectacular Easter rituals. | |  |
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