| | | | Australian companies are affected in a suspected Russian cyber attack targeting "millions of machines" worldwide, authorities say. | | | | Despite having North Korean missiles fly over its territory, Japan will not have a seat at the table when Donald Trump negotiates with Kim Jong-un. That's a problem not only for embattled Japanese PM Shinzo Abe but Australia, too, writes Jake Sturmer. | | | | Kirsty Browne was just 26 when, following a routine Pap smear, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer and had her cervix removed. But four months ago, she had a little boy. Her doctors believe she's one of only a handful of Australian women to deliver a baby after the surgery. | | | | The technician switched on Darren Haymes' new NBN service, walked out the door and suddenly his family couldn't get onto the internet for six months. While the problem was being fixed he was put back onto his old Telstra cable internet. | | | | A new interactive map that allows women and girls to report incidences of harassment is being rolled out across Sydney today in the hope of improving safety across the city. | | | | Russia denies interfering with evidence at the site of a suspected poison gas attack in Syria, as inspectors are granted access to inspect the site in Douma. | | | | Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, reverses a short-lived ban on LGBT-related content following an outcry from the country's internet users. | | | | Channel Seven was given a detailed briefing ahead of the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony despite the broadcaster later saying it was shocked that athletes were not shown walking into the stadium. | | | | Beyond obstruction of justice and the boasts of pussy-grabbing, James Comey simply believes Donald Trump's essential nature makes him unsuitable to be commander in chief, writes John Barron. | | | | Women who take sexy selfies are often mischaracterised and the benefits of their actions are overlooked, a Sydney academic argues. | | | | The head of Cameroon's Commonwealth Games team says he flies home today but has still not heard from eight athletes who went missing last week. | | | | Almost three months on from the death of 16 prized polo ponies in the back of a truck travelling across Bass Strait, pressure is building for the cause of death to be released. | | | | Queensland Ballet and university researchers team up for an Australian-first study into the benefits of ballet for seniors, led by one of the best in the business. | | | | Cooks in some of Australia's most remote kitchens are left reeling after a common outback staple — Devondale long-life cream — disappears from supermarket shelves. | | | | The "meme-fication" of politics has been fertile ground for researchers, who say there are subtle differences in the kinds of jokes Democrats and Republicans tell online. | | | | Greens leader Richard Di Natale announces a plan to legalise cannabis for Australians over the age of 18, in a bid to take the drug out of the hands of criminal dealers. | | | | A second person is attacked by a shark near Gracetown in WA's South West, just hours after a man's legs were savaged in an incident which forced the Margaret River Pro surfing competition to be delayed. | | | | Universities are reporting alarming drops in first-preference applications for teacher preparation courses, with poor pay, standardised testing and a lack of autonomy just some of the factors putting young people off the profession, write Nan Bahr and Jo-Anne Ferreira. | | | | The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao crossing won't just be the world's longest sea bridge when it opens this year, it will also directly connect three Chinese cities with different legal systems and political cultures. | | | | Woolworths checkouts disabled by a nationwide technical glitch are back online, the supermarket says, after an earlier outage forced customers to abandon their shopping in the aisles and some stores to close their doors. | | | | Imagine being in your backyard and a neighbour takes a photo of you and your children playing together. Creepy, yes, but in situations like this there's nothing you can really do. Here's what the law says about your privacy when it comes to photography. | | | | A community is left powerless after a routine Anglo American mining blast leaves a 90-metre-deep crack in the road, now deemed unfixable. | |  |
By North Asia correspondent Jake Sturmer in Tokyo | |  |
By business reporter Andrew Robertson | |  |
By John Barron | |  |
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