| | | | Passengers on board a Southwest Airlines jet described scenes of terror as an engine exploded mid-flight, blowing out a window and causing one passenger to be sucked out headfirst before being dragged back inside. | | | | The heroic pilot who calmly landed a Southwest Airlines flight after a mid-air explosion is a former US Navy pilot who was once denied an aviation career on account of being a woman. | | | | The Commonwealth Bank's wealth management arm is in the spotlight at the banking royal commission after further revelations that AMP may have breached financial advice laws through its fee practices. Follow our live blog to keep up with the action. | | | | A 24-year-old Canadian woman is sentenced to a minimum of four years and nine months behind bars for her role in importing $21.5 million worth of cocaine into Australia on a luxury cruise liner. | | | | Police used listening devices and phone intercepts before charging Borce Ristevski with the murder of his wife Karen, a Melbourne court has been told, as legal aid agrees to fund his defence. | | | | An outback council remains in a tense stand-off with one of its ratepayers, who continues to camp illegally in a caravan on land he owns. | | | | An Iranian asylum seeker who says he is a Christian convert loses his High Court fight against a decision to deny him a visa, which was made after evidence he did not attend church frequently. | | | | Gene Gibson, an Aboriginal man with cognitive impairment who was wrongfully convicted of the manslaughter of Joshua Warneke, is granted a $1.3 million ex-gratia payment by the WA Government. | | | | Researchers say a medieval-era skeleton unearthed in Italy shows evidence of man a who not only survived his right hand being chopped off without using antibiotics, he attached a large knife in its place with his teeth. | | | | Women apply for most Islamic divorces in Australia, but imams often refuse to grant them. Muslim leaders have condemned domestic violence, though some still teach that husbands can control their wives. | | | | A Perth man accused of sexually abusing his stepdaughter in an alleged child sex ring involving the mother and a friend of the couple pleads guilty to four of the dozens of charges against him. | | | | A scion of New York's Mellon and Drexel banking families, Matthew Mellon made his fortune in digital currencies and was a former husband of Jimmy Choo co-founder Tamara Mellon. | | | | A Coles supermarket in Western Australia is facing allegations of discrimination after a security guard denied entry to unaccompanied minors. | | | | United States President Donald Trump voices his support for Pastor Andrew Brunson — tweeting "I am more a spy than he is" — following allegations the US pastor is linked to a group accused of orchestrating a failed 2016 military coup in Turkey. | | | | If Barbara Pierce had been born after 1925, it's possible that instead of being the wife of one president and the mother of another, she could have been president herself, writes John Barron. | | | | In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient in a procedure so complex that he says he hopes to never do another one. | | | | From plastic bags to straws, the push to phase out single-use plastics is growing, but will the bans work? | | | | An Islamic State commander suspected of hatching a plan to blow up a flight from Sydney last year and an Australian IS fighter allegedly connected to the country's most notorious terror cell are captured in Iraq. | | | | When the going gets tough in the US capital, the President gets going to the greens of one of his private golf clubs — and, it turns out, phones an Australian friend to help keep spirits up. | | | | The inability to say "no" to needy co-workers and to stand up to bosses can cost you in terms of income and career success. But your agreeableness in the workplace can also be used to your advantage, writes Peter O'Connor. | | | | Welcome to Leinster, in WA's northern Goldfields, home to around 500 residents who have free access to housing, a gym and a swimming pool. | |  |
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