| | | | Fears of a military confrontation between Russia and the West are running high, but Donald Trump has cast doubt over the timing of his threatened strike on Syria after yesterday declaring missiles "will be coming, nice and new and smart!". | | | | New analysis of the immigration program reveals how a tiny tweak from Peter Dutton will slow the growth of Australia's immigration. | | | | Senators say President Donald Trump has asked his trade officials to explore the possibility of the United States re-joining negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, after he pulled out last year as part of his "America first" agenda. | | | | P&O cruise ship Pacific Dawn turns around to search for a woman who fell overboard 300 kilometres west of New Caledonia. | | | | What you read, watch and listen to reveals a surprising amount about your place in society. Take our quiz to see how you compare. | | | | Zharnel Hughes celebrated what he thought was a gold medal before he was informed he was disqualified for striking another runner with his left arm during the men's 200 metres. | | | | In a space less than half the size of a tennis court, six restaurants are operating without any tables, chairs or diners. They are all pumping out meals exclusively for the booming online delivery market. | | | | The wife of former governor-general Peter Hollingworth, Kathleen 'Ann' Hollingworth, has been found, police in Melbourne say. She was last seen outside her home on Thursday night. | | | | The Salvation Army loses its funding to care for vulnerable children in parts of Victoria because of concerns over the quality of care they are providing. | | | | Russia claims global chemical weapons watchdog tests that concluded a highly pure type of Novichok nerve agent was used to strike down a former Russian spy and his daughter last month is part of a British operation to discredit Moscow. | | | | Researchers have long understood that social class and income can impact on mental health. For Mark, living in poverty meant getting the right help when the dark cloud of depression hit was difficult. | | | | Only 10 per cent of Australia is arable and much of that land is being rapidly swallowed up by housing as governments respond to the growing demand for affordable housing. So what can be done to save precious farming land? | | | | Where property prices have been rising few people are behind on their mortgage repayments, but analysts warn some of those suburbs are set for pain as their real estate markets soften. | | | | Some of the African Commonwealth Games athletes who have gone missing could prove to have legitimate claims for asylum, and might also be attractive to authorities as potential Australian competitors, legal experts say. | | | | The widow of a Melbourne magistrate who took his own life last month believes a crippling caseload contributed to the death of her husband, who often heard up to 90 cases a day. | | | | Three Australian "cheats" were caught ahead of the Commonwealth Games, anti-doping authorities reveal, after drug testers conducted a huge operation to ensure the event was the cleanest ever. | | | | For the first time, lasers have been used to trap and manoeuvre individual atoms to produce a controlled chemical reaction that might one day help quantum computers. | | | | One of the rising stars of Australian athletics Kurtis Marschall wins the gold medal in pole vault after seeing off the challenge of Canadian Shawnacy Barber, while Dani Stevens is too good for the rest of the field. | | | | We see so many iconic animals in marketing and media that we may be forgetting their populations in the wild are actually dwindling, researchers say. | | | | Farmers have accused South African politicians of encouraging violence against them, but opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters say this an exaggeration. | | | | In the past two months, Syria's Eastern Ghouta has been shelled, bombed, attacked in ground assaults and it has now been allegedly hit by chemical weapons — what makes it such a constant target? | | | | Wendy Mitchell met her new neighbours when she mistook their home for hers. It was just one more reminder for her that living with dementia was going to need a different approach. | | | | The Waanyi writer's herculean act of collective remembrance traces the life of one of Indigenous activism's biggest personalities. | |  |
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