| | | | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg begins a two-day congressional inquisition with a public apology as he is grilled on issues from his company's handling of alleged Russian attempts at election interference to consumer privacy and hate speech. | | | | Kurt Fearnley makes a statement both on and off the track at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, winning silver and then calling for Australia to embrace inclusion of people with disabilities. | | | | The US President says the FBI raid on his personal attorney's office is a distraction, but what could be more serious than the prospect of a criminal investigation into a $130k payment that arguably influenced the presidential election result, writes Anne Barker. | | | | CCTV footage obtained by 7.30 shows rugby league Test stars snorting lines of cocaine just hours after playing for their country. | | | | After more than 20 years of perfecting her action, Australia's Dani Stevens is one of the world's best discus throwers. Ahead of her Commonwealth Games appearance, we captured a slow-motion video of her throw to find out all the small things that make her action so special. | | | | 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. | | | | Buying an apartment is proving more expensive in China's main cities than Sydney or Melbourne, which is bad news for young Chinese people who are expected to own property before they marry. | | | | US President Donald Trump cancels a trip to a summit in Peru so that he can focus on the crisis, as chemical weapons experts prepare to travel to the Syrian town of Douma to investigate. | | | | Dean Rundell knows many people think he and his duck hunting mates are just "bogans with guns" who celebrate animal cruelty. But what really motivates a man to shoot birds out of the sky? | | | | 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. | | | | Residents in Melbourne's north are left irritated, tired and frustrated after a home security alarm rings non-stop for a week, with earplugs and multiple calls to authorities bringing them no relief. | | | | Families allege the charity, established to help wounded veterans and the families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, has not been using donations for counselling and rehabilitation services. | | | | Bronte Campbell follows up Monday's epic 100m freestyle win by anchoring a nail-biting medley relay tussle with Canada, as Australia picks up eight golds on the last day of Commonwealth Games swimming. | | | | Don and Joy Baron's landline has been dropping in and out ever since they reluctantly agreed to have the NBN installed in their suburban home last year, and the couple in their 80s are worried they won't be able to contact someone if they need help. | | | | Lawyers prepare for a class action against construction companies who have installed combustible cladding on Melbourne buildings, saying residents have been "thrown under the bus" by builders who won't remove the danger. | | | | Yulia Skripal is discharged from a British hospital, just over a month after being poisoned with a nerve agent along with her father Sergei in an incident she describes as "somewhat disorientating". | | | | Power in the housing market is shifting towards buyers and that means sellers can expect prices to fall, especially for apartments, according to an economic analysis of listings and sales data. | | | | Malawi just cannot get enough of stealing the spotlight at the Commonwealth Games, holding off Scotland in another netball nail-biter. | | | | A Melbourne woman who faked having terminal cancer and scammed $42,000 from her parents' friends and neighbours so she could maintain her partying lifestyle, is jailed for three months. | | | | Police investigate allegations a couple spent hundreds of dollars on food and drink at a Perth restaurant before skipping out on the tab, after the venue posted CCTV vision of the pair on social media. | | | | Vision shows a giant cargo ship crashing into a historic mansion on Istanbul's Bosporus strait. | |  |
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