| | | | A shattered Claire Tallent is disqualified while leading the women's 20-kilometre walk at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, handing the gold medal to fellow Australian Jemima Montag. | | | | NBN Co announces a new technology mix to speed up the internet connections of 1 million homes, but NBN customers experiencing problems with slow connections will not benefit. | | | | One person is dead and four firefighters are left with non-life-threatening injuries after a fire broke out on the 50th floor at Trump Tower in central Manhattan. | | | | The Samoan head coach wants her out while others back her right to compete, as controversy heats up over New Zealand transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard. | | | | Tran Van Giap was seven years old and likely to lose his eye when by "a miracle" he met the Australian doctor that would change his life forever. | | | | Together, Phil Harding and Margie Mickan have 153 years of life experience. The pair both worked at the same hospital in the 1950s and 60s, but their paths never crossed until they both got a call from the ABC. | | | | As China cracks down on the standard of waste it will import, many Australians are still confused about what can and can't be recycled. | | | | Communities along a remote 700 kilometre stretch of the only sealed road linking two Australian states are praying there won't be any major crashes in the area, because the closest ambulance is a very long way away. | | | | Parents of children with a disability say they have been let down by the NDIS process in Canberra, labelling it the "most stressful experience" of their lives. | | | | Global markets are starting to reassess their view that that the tit-for-tat tariff spat is just part of trade negotiations and are sensing something worse. | | | | The Prince of Wales continues his tour of Queensland, stopping in for a church service in Cairns ahead of planned visits to a Navy base and Mossman Gorge in the Daintree National Park. | | | | A man has driven a van into a group of people sitting outside a popular pub in the old city centre of Muenster in Germany, killing two of them and injuring 20 before taking his own life, police say. | | | | Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva, known as the nation's first working-class president, hands himself into police to begin serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption, after he took refuge in the steel workers union headquarters where his political career began four decades ago. | | | | A semi-trailer slams into a bus carrying a youth hockey team in western Canada, killing 15 people and injuring 14 in a catastrophic collision that leaves the vehicles obliterated in the snow. | | | | A Syrian rebel group accuses Government forces of launching a deadly chemical attack on civilians in a rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta, with a medical relief organisation saying 41 people were killed in the area. | | | | As Tony Abbott and other prominent Coalition MPs make the case that Australia should be building new coal-fired power stations, Conservatives in Britain are pushing a very different agenda. | | | | Newcastle coach Nathan Brown launches a tirade seemingly aimed at the personal life of Brisbane counterpart Wayne Bennett in the wake of the Knights' 15-10 win. | | | | The Bay of Fires on Tasmania's east coast is known for its beautiful beaches but locals are hopeful the area's next big tourist attraction will be under the sea, with the State Government pushing to be given the decommissioned HMAS Darwin to use as a dive wreck. | | | | A bookshop that's open 24-hours-a-day, with payment optional and no staff or security, becomes a booklovers' sanctuary in inner-city Brisbane. | | | | In the 1980s on Victoria's Phillip Island, a little-known state government decision was made to secure the future of the resident little penguin population. But the decision came with considerable heartache. | | | | Dane Bird-Smith says the fate of athletics teammate Sally Pearson gave him added motivation ahead of his gutsy victory in the men's 20-kilometre walk at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Jemima Montag made it an Australian double by winning the women's event. | | | | Researchers in central Australia have launched a space balloon into the atmosphere, in the hopes it will help unlock the secrets of the Milky Way and black holes. | |  |
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