| | | | The US says it will hold Syria's main ally Russia responsible for failing to stop the use of chemical weapons, but Moscow is blaming the UK for faking the attack. | | | | US President Donald Trump attacks former FBI director James Comey, calling him a "weak and untruthful slime ball" over news accounts Mr Comey's upcoming memoir is hugely critical of the President. | | | | Summer is going to feel a bit different. Cricket Australia has inked a new deal with Seven and Foxtel on its TV rights. Here's how the changes will impact you and what some of you thought about the change. | | | | Sally Pearson has always cut a dignified figure on the track but it is while coping with one of the biggest disappointments of her career that her class truly comes to the fore. | | | | Complaints to the broadcaster worry we've forgotten how to pronounce our country's name. The truth is, we've never been all that crash hot on it. | | | | The 11-year-old girl left brain damaged after receiving an electric shock at her state housing home is now blind, her family says, but they are hoping to bring her home from hospital soon as she defies medical expectations. | | | | The Breakfast Club, Last Tango in Paris, Clueless: if we threw marred movies to history's dustbin we wouldn't have much left. So how do we keep watching as attitudes change in the #metoo era, asks Rebecca Harkins-Cross. | | | | The iconic Indigenous singer's family and musical collaborators hope his final album will be a bridge between two worlds. | | | | Residents of the lower Darling rally together for a community cricket match to take their minds off the worsening drought and raise awareness of the state of the riverbed. | | | | A commanding win in the women's 800-metre final sees South African track star Caster Semenya take out a historic Commonwealth double on the Gold Coast. | | | | Male Australian marathon runners were better at running the 42.195 kilometre race when colour TV was still considered a new technology. | | | | Australian farmers are pioneering a new model of agriculture that allows customers to buy shares in farm produce, taking part in the risk and reward. | | | | When weird things started happening to Robert McKee no-one knew what was wrong, but a chance encounter sent his doctors on a global hunt for the answer. | | | | Right and left-wing groups face off outside the Foreign Minister's office in Perth during a protest over the treatment of white farmers in South Africa, with police forced to intervene to keep them apart. | | | | Telecommunications giant Optus launches an internal investigation after a job advertisement calling for "Anglo Saxon" candidates to fill a position at one of its Sydney stores is posted online. | | | | India is shaken after police officers, and former and current politicians are named in connection with two unrelated child rape cases, one involving the kidnapping, gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl. | | | | Generations of Australians have been raised on cricket seen through the prism of a Wide World of Sports brand seen by some as "too male, pale and stale". But just how different will Seven's coverage be? | | | | An increasing number of Australian men are worried about losing their jobs, a new report has found. | | | | New analysis of the immigration program reveals how a tiny tweak from Peter Dutton will slow the growth of Australia's immigration. | | | | The TPP resurfaced, a bipartisan group of congressmen put together a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller, and Capitol Hill grilled the founder of Facebook. So, it's been a quiet week, writes Zoe Daniel. | | | | 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. | | | | A woman complains to the Office of Fair Trading over a popular Sunshine Coast patisserie's decision not to sell any macarons, which the owner says are "going out of fashion" in France. | | | | The former Northern Territory youth detainee is being treated for injuries sustained while self-harming in a police van after he was arrested at an Indigenous protest on the Gold Coast. | | | | Record low interest rates, accelerating asset prices and a growing appetite for risk could catch investors by surprise and spark a sharp correction across financial markets, the Reserve Bank says. | | | | A dolphin is filmed giving birth to a calf in what is thought to be only the second time such an event has been recorded in the wild, delighting passengers aboard a dolphin watching cruise. | |  |
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