| | | | The United States has "consistently increased the pressure" on Kim Jong-un and North Korea's invitation for talks is evidence President Donald Trump's strategy to isolate the regime is working, US Vice-President Mike Pence says. | | | | Nepal has been rocked by a string of deaths connected to the ancient Hindu Chhaupadi ritual, where menstruating women and girls are banished to freezing huts, fearing attack by animals or rapists. But a small piece of plastic could change everything. | | | | He was a real life Crocodile Dundee before Crocodile Dundee was a twinkle in a film producer's eye. Take a look back over the life of renaissance bushman Jack Absalom. | | | | The skirmish over US steel and aluminium imports could well be just a precursor to a far bigger battle with China which poses much greater risks to Australia's export markets. | | | | Led by Kagiso Rabada, South Africa rolls through Australia's batsmen on day one of the second Test in Port Elizabeth to close in a strong position. Relive all the action as it happened in our second Test live blog. | | | | Before health buzzwords and supermarket chains, our grandparents were the masters of reducing food waste not because it was fashionable, but because it was necessary. | | | | Anxiety is not depression, or bipolar, or OCD, or schizophrenia: it is its own unique, terrible beast. At its worst can leave sufferers like me frozen, with pain and terror coursing through every cell in their body, writes Ben Pobjie. | | | | Participants in a troubled Indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme are being fined more than every other jobseeker in Australia. | | | | With more and more people consuming music via Spotify or Apple Music playlists, the jury is out on what will become of the album, the decades old, much-loved music format. | | | | About 180 British troops, including some with chemical expertise, are sent to the English city where ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent to remove ambulances and other possibly contaminated vehicles and objects. | | | | The violent backdrop to Michael Mohammed Ahmad's youth hasn't just informed his novels, it has shaped his life and the narrative of so many young Lebanese-Australians like him. | | | | Parents and students at an elite eastern suburbs Melbourne boys' school are angered by the sacking of the deputy principal for cutting a student's hair on school photo day. | | | | The family of Denishar Woods, the 11-year-old Perth girl who received an electric shock from a garden tap, says she has suffered a major brain injury and doctors do not think she will survive when taken off life support. | | | | Fly-in fly-out workers feel so-called golden handcuffs are keeping them trapped in high-paying jobs, despite the lifestyle causing feelings of disconnectedness with partners and families. | | | | Sydney Tower's observation deck will reopen but its Skywalk will remain shut while police investigate the circumstances that led a woman to jump from the tourist attraction. | | | | There are concerns people with motor neurone disease are being denied assistance under the National Disability Insurance Scheme because of their poor life expectancy. | | | | Hollywood actress Rebel Wilson vents her frustration after Australian media outlets apply to join a magazine publisher in appealing against her record $4.5 million defamation payout. | | | | Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's slurs against UN human rights activists are "unacceptable" and suggest he needs a mental evaluation, UN human rights chief says. | | | | A council in WA is proposing banning cyclists from a road because of rules that require motorists to give riders a 1-metre buffer when overtaking, saying the road is not wide enough to allow that to happen. | | | | The Darwin man was bitten by a sea snake at the beginning of what promised to be an excellent fishing trip, so rather than seek help he just continued fishing. | |  |
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