| | | | US President Donald Trump takes credit for the hopeful meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, but acknowledges the deal could still fail to deliver peace to the peninsula. | | | | It was a day of historic moments with Kim Jong-un stepping over the border into South Korea to talk peace and denuclearisation. Here's how it all happened. | | | | Australian and Canadian military aircraft will soon head to a US base in Japan to monitor "illicit" ship-to-ship transfers involving North Korean vessels. | | | | Researchers find 140 victims of human sacrifice in Peru, and evidence suggests whoever was performing the ceremony may have been trying to extract the children's hearts. | | | | Laura Starr won't leave the house without her razor, but excess hair is just one symptom she manages daily thanks to polycystic ovary syndrome, a debilitating condition that could affect as many as one in five Australian women. | | | | Scientists working to save the Tasmanian devil from extinction say they've found 14 of the animals free from the deadly Devil Facial Tumour Disease, after setting traps in the state's remote south-west. | | | | Marcio Cabral's creative use of a stuffed anteater to win a photography award is by no means the first time a hoaxer has managed to garner worldwide attention for a cleverly constructed fake. | | | | On Friday, for the fifth week in row, Israeli soldiers and Palestinian protesters once again clashed. Three died. But it's Portman's refusal to attend an award ceremony that locals are talking about. | | | | You may not know where you'll go on holiday in 2030 but a global battle is being waged over which plane will take you there — and Airbus and Boeing might soon have a new arch-rival. | | | | Salt. The source of minerals and flavour is mined and harvested in mass quantities across Australia, but at Pink Lake the salt harvest happens by hand. | | | | More examples of the insidious and sometimes illegal practices plaguing the financial industry were exposed at this week's hearings, writes Daniel Ziffer. | | | | A Russian opposition politician who has twice survived being poisoned calls on Australia's parliament to pass a Magnitsky Act to punish corrupt oligarchs propping up the regime of Vladimir Putin. | | | | Depending who you believe, 11-year-old Hassan Diab is either the victim of a chemical gas attack or an unwitting pawn in a fabrication by rebel forces. Either way, he's become the face of a broader story about war propaganda, writes Anne Barker. | | | | US authorities arrest the son of a former president of the West African country of Guinea and his wife for allegedly enslaving a countrywoman, requiring her to work at their Texas home for 16 years without pay. | | | | With the ladder still incredibly congested, there is plenty on the line as some flag fancies meet on a big day of AFL action. Get live scores, stats and streams in our ScoreCentre. | | | | His silver medal in Mexico City was overshadowed by his support for the civil rights protest by American athletes Tommy Smith and John Carlos — now, 11 years after his death, Australian Olympian Peter Norman is honoured posthumously by the AOC. | | | | At first glance Pyongyang did seem like the socialist fairyland the Kim dynasty always dreamed it to be, but it very quickly became a lot more complicated than that. | | | | Critics of new rules banning female runners with naturally high testosterone from races longer than 400m say the move is sexist, racist, unethical, and based on bad science. | | | | As part of a crackdown on drug smuggling, inmates in jails across New South Wales are to be banned from receiving underwear and socks in the mail. | | | | Radheya Jegatheva's short film iRony, a hand-drawn narrative about the intrusion of technology and social media in people's lives, has won 74 awards and been picked for 168 film festivals around the globe — and his next stop could be the Academy Awards. | | | | An ox ditches its owner and takes its cart for a high-speed city tour in China's Yunnan Province, leaving pedestrians and motorists utterly bewildered. | |  |
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