| | | | At 17, Farida was kidnapped, raped and sold as a sex slave to Islamic State terrorists. This is the story of her extraordinary escape. | | | | The poisoning of an ex-Russian spy at a British shopping centre has drawn immediate parallels with other Kremlin opponents who've had a mysterious demise during Russian President Vladimir Putin's rule. | | | | Australia's vice-captain David Warner faces suspension from the second cricket Test against South Africa after being charged with breaching the International Cricket Council's code of conduct. | | | | Senior Constable Paul Delaney's only had to deal with one burglary in a year — but as the only police officer in a town of 900, he's everything from traffic warden to marriage counsellor. | | | | Is the US really about to drag the world into a mutually assured economic war of destruction with its planned steel and aluminium tariffs? Probably not, argues David Taylor. | | | | Controversial research suggests lower income investors in the bottom 50 per cent of incomes should continue to receive a 100 per cent rental deduction while "sophisticated investors" in the top 25 per cent should receive zero rental deductions. | | | | Thousands of people in a controversial work for the dole scheme have been threatened with having their Centrelink payments cut off for eight weeks, leading to Opposition claims of some "having to basically forage for existence". | | | | A Russian plane crashes moments before landing at an air base in Syria, killing all 33 passengers and six crew members, the Russian Defence Ministry said. | | | | Government backbencher Craig Kelly says that a petrol Corolla emits less over its lifetime than an electric Tesla. RMIT ABC Fact Check checks his comparison. | | | | The mother of 11-year-old Denishar Woods, who received an electric shock from a garden tap at her Perth home, says doctors have confirmed her daughter has suffered brain damage but the extent is unknown. | | | | Dallas Webster is one of many people for whom drag is not just life-changing but life-saving — a fact highlighted in new documentary following six Indigenous queens as they work to claim the inaugural Miss First Nations title. | | | | Early tests have shown it's possible to tweak the genes of a tobacco plant so it grows with 25 per cent less water. | | | | The film Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story criticises Australia's roo industry, and has been dismissed as a beat-up. But documentarian Michael McIntyre insists the film is starting an important discussion. | | | | Sri Lanka declares a state of emergency for 10 days to rein in the spread of communal violence — a day after Buddhists and Muslims clashed in the Indian Ocean island's central district of Kandy. | | | | A Perth family makes an extraordinary historical discovery — a message hidden in a 19th century gin bottle tossed overboard from a German merchant sailing barque almost 1000km away in 1886. | | | | Human trials are about to start to test a compound which looks like chocolate but acts like poison to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. | | | | Favoured by drug dealers and criminal syndicates, there is growing momentum to dump the $100 note from circulation — and some people want the pineapple gone too. | | | | A man being fined by his local council for living on a caravan on his own land receives another blow with a court imposing a fine after finding him "clearly in breach of the law". | | | | Quanne Diec, who disappeared on her way to school in Sydney two decades ago, was allegedly lured into a white van, sexually assaulted and then killed. | | | | A senior South Korean official reveals Kim Jong-un has agreed to a landmark summit meeting between the two Koreas in April and a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests if his country holds talks with the US. | | | | Sun exposure, hot showers and dry soaps can dry out our skin. But does moisturiser really help? And are expensive options really any better than basic supermarket brands? | | | | The wreckage of a US aircraft carrier credited with helping save Australia from possible Japanese invasion during World War II has been found off the Queensland coast. | |  |
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