| | | | Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte takes aim at a 71-year-old Australian nun who he ordered an investigation into, telling her to focus on Australia's handling of "hungry and dying refugees", not his country's issues. | | | | The investigation into a deadly engine failure on a Southwest jet is focusing on what caused a fan blade to snap off, triggering a catastrophic chain of events that killed a passenger and broke a run of eight years without a fatal accident involving a US airliner. | | | | The Work for the Dole program is a "sham", putting young job seekers in unsafe and potentially deadly situations, say unions, lawyers and the family of a teenager who was killed on a Queensland worksite two years ago. | | | | Councils across Australia will follow the city of Ipswich in scrapping their recycling programs because ratepayers won't cop higher rates as the cost continues to rise, the Local Government Association of Queensland warns. | | | | An underwater heatwave that bleached massive sections of the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 was so severe it immediately "cooked" some corals in the northern region, scientists say following the results of a major long-term study. | | | | The effect of light exposure on mental and physical health is highlighted by new Australian research that suggests anti-depressants could be less effective for night owls than for early risers. | | | | Two female pimps and a policeman are sentenced to jail terms of up to 320 years for offering teenage girls as "dessert" for visiting officials in Thailand. | | | | A man suspected of masterminding the theft of about 600 computers used to mine bitcoins and other virtual currencies has likely fled to Sweden after breaking out of a prison in Iceland and catching the same flight Iceland's prime minister was on. | | | | Robotic arms and grippers, equipped with 3D cameras and pressure sensors, put together the frame of a chair in 20 minutes. | | | | A polymer created from cooking oil and sulphur may be used to mop up oil floating on the ocean. | | | | Are we on track for a future where media literacy is harder than calculus? Experts are increasingly worried that technology is distorting our view of what's real and what's fake. | | | | A UN security team comes under fire in Syria while doing reconnaissance for inspectors to visit sites of a suspected chemical weapons attack, the OPCW chief says, further delaying the gathering of any evidence. | | | | Fannie Bay Gaol held some of the Top End's most notorious criminals. Now, they've been brought back to life through animations. | | | | The head of the banking royal commission loses patience with a Commonwealth Bank executive after she fails at least three times to answer questions about the bank's practice of charging customers fees but not providing financial advice. | | | | An outback council remains in a tense stand-off with one of its ratepayers, who continues to camp illegally in a caravan on land he owns. | | | | If it wasn't for his young son, Michael Noakes would possibly still be in the grips of an ice addiction. Now he's devoting himself to helping regional towns break free from the drug. | | | | A 24-year-old Canadian woman is sentenced to a minimum of four years and nine months behind bars for her role in importing $21.5 million worth of cocaine into Australia on a luxury cruise liner. | | | | CIA director Mike Pompeo made a secret visit to North Korea and met with its leader Kim Jong-un last week, US President Donald Trump confirms, saying "a good relationship was formed". | | | | Saudi Arabia's 35-year ban on movies is coming to an end, with the premiere of Marvel's superhero film Black Panther. | | | | Researchers say a medieval-era skeleton unearthed in Italy shows evidence of man a who not only survived his right hand being chopped off without using antibiotics, he attached a large knife in its place with his teeth. | |  |
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