| | | | Kitchen appliance giant Thermomix's Australian distributor is fined $4.6 million over its failure to report numerous cases of serious burns caused by its top-end blender. | | | | The Syrian war is bringing Israel into direct conflict with Iran, upping the stakes as the world wonders what US President Donald Trump will do next, writes Middle East correspondent Matt Brown. | | | | Senior Cabinet Minister Peter Dutton says the Government is "alive" to concerns about congestion and house prices in the debate over Australia's migration program. | | | | Esther Qin and Georgia Sheehan claim gold with their final dive in the women's synchronised 3m springboard at the Commonwealth Games, after fellow Australians Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith stumble late. | | | | CCTV footage obtained by 7.30 shows rugby league Test stars snorting lines of cocaine just hours after playing for their country. But cocaine use is not a new issue for the NRL. | | | | The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet suspends an employee after they are arrested for alleged indecent acts against minors. | | | | Forget the quarter-acre block — a new property push is on to find buyers willing to live on land that's smaller than three shipping containers side by side. But banks are sounding a warning to small home owners. | | | | While only 53 Australians directly shared their data with the app linked to the Cambridge Analytica data breach, many more of their friends were inadvertently affected and they told us how they felt about it. | | | | For a few extra dollars, you can offset your share of emissions produced by your air travel. But these 'carbon offsets' aren't what they seem. | | | | South African runner Caster Semenya has made headlines throughout her career. Now she looks set for a pair of middle-distance wins on the Gold Coast, but could mooted IAAF rule changes stop the champion in her tracks? | | | | A man accused of the manslaughter and sexual assault of a five-month-old baby in Alice Springs in 2012 has been granted bail. | | | | Witnesses rush to help girls trapped on the second floor of a burning building in the United States. | | | | A 69-year-old woman who set off for a self-described "adventure before dementia" says she didn't expect it to become so literal after spending the night lost in the desert. | | | | Salim Mehajer is convicted of multiple counts of electoral fraud, with a Sydney magistrate finding he acted in a "joint criminal enterprise" with his sister. Afterwards he took to social media to announce he would appeal against the conviction. | | | | Seven Myanmar soldiers are sentenced to "10 years in prison with hard labour in a remote area" for participating in a massacre of 10 Rohingya Muslim men, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg vows to work harder to block hate speech in the country. | | | | A sunbaking seal is possibly the last thing you'd expect to see on a stroll through the lush British countryside — but that's exactly what ramblers found on a walk through the Yorkshire Dales National Park. | | | | Depending on who you ask, class is a major barrier to social mobility — or it scarcely exists. Spend a day driving around Melbourne and you'll find those conflicting views coming to the fore. | | | | In the fight against obesity, Singapore is using fat camps to single out young children who are overweight, telling them what to eat and placing them on a strict exercise routine — but experts doubt the approach would work in Australia. | | | | On the surface it might just look like brute force, but Australian Dani Stevens' discus throw is as much about precision as it is power. | | | | Three weightlifters and five boxers from Cameroon go missing from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games athletes' village, with some failing to turn up to their competition events this week. | | | | Keenan Mundine was separated from his brothers after he lost his parents and was placed in out-of-home care. Like too many Aboriginal kids, this was the start of his path to the justice system. | | | | With the Federal Government looking to drop the uni loan repayment threshold, graduating students might likely be asking whether their degrees were actually worth it. | | | | In an unusually informal interview with filmmaker Sir David Attenborough, the Queen mentions the US president when she is interrupted by a circling aircraft. | | | | Sometimes, when they're not busy meeting world leaders or wrangling backbenchers, prime ministers are called upon to belt out a classic Aussie tune. Last night, Malcolm Turnbull was suspiciously quiet. | |  |
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