| | | | An Islamic State commander suspected of hatching a plan to blow up a flight from Sydney last year and an Australian IS fighter allegedly connected to the country's most notorious terror cell are captured in Iraq. | | | | Women apply for most Islamic divorces in Australia, but imams often refuse to grant them. Muslim leaders have condemned domestic violence, though some still teach that husbands can control their wives. | | | | Jo Munro ran a thriving cattle stud. But post-natal depression took her to places in her mind she never thought she'd go. | | | | A Southwest Airlines jet apparently blows an engine at 30,000 feet and gets hit by shrapnel that smashes a window and damages the fuselage, according to authorities, who say one person is dead and seven injured. | | | | The Renewable Energy Target the Abbott government scrapped as impossible is now in sight, but Australia still faces a 118 million-tonne shortfall in its commitment to cut CO2 emissions, according to new research. | | | | The Defence Department delivers a comprehensive and stern rebuttal to allegations levelled at its second in command over his relationship with a fellow naval officer, who is now his wife. | | | | The Queensland Police Commissioner backs away from a public offer to meet a domestic violence complainant upset that a police officer was not charged for leaking her address to her former husband in text messages where he said "Lol. She will flip". | | | | From plastic bags to straws, the push to phase out single-use plastics is growing, but will the bans work? | | | | Welcome to Leinster, in WA's northern goldfields, home to around 500 residents who have free access to housing, a gym and a swimming pool. | | | | The Matildas need a 91st-minute equaliser from Alanna Kennedy and three penalty saves by goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold to squeeze past Thailand in the Asian Cup semi-final. | | | | After a plane crash in Indonesia left her with shocking injuries and killed 21 others, Australian journalist Cynthia Banham says it took her years to confront the tragedy in order to write her book and rebuild her life. | | | | The number of international students in Australia increases 12 per cent in 2018 as enrolment numbers sky rocket making the value of the international student market now worth $32.2 billion a year. | | | | The idea of old Holdens fetching as much as new Ferraris might be jaw-dropping to some, but an auctioneer says there's a "frenzy" surrounding some rare models. | | | | A series of violent incidents reported in Northern Territory youth detention centres, including the alleged rape of one detainee by another, are revealed in documents obtained by the ABC. | | | | The live export industry is considering a major retreat on animal welfare policy, by canvassing an idea put forward by Labor for an independent inspector to oversee the treatment of livestock. | | | | International inspectors enter the Syrian town where an alleged chemical attack was carried out this month, after they had waited for days in the capital for permission from Syrian and Russian authorities. | | | | Starbucks is to close 8,000 company-owned US cafes for one afternoon next month to train nearly 175,000 workers on how to prevent racial discrimination after the "reprehensible" arrests of two black men in one of its stores last week. | | | | In a move that is ramping up tensions between China and Taiwan, the Chinese navy will start large scale live-fire military drills in the straits off Taiwan. | | | | The man, who was wanted for "economic crimes", was arrested in his seat at the pop concert after being recognised by one of China's 176-million-strong army of CCTV cameras. | | | | The nerve agent used on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia was delivered in liquid form, British officials say, revealing it will take months to clean up the toxic trail the poison left around the city of Salisbury. | |  |
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