| | | | When John installed a CCTV system at his house he thought it was to capture robbers — not police. But that's what he got when officers dragged him into his front yard and pinned him to the ground. | | | | The fallout from this crisis presents everyone in Australian sport with a wonderful opportunity to forever banish the bullying and blokey behaviour, writes Paul Kennedy. | | | | The anti-apartheid campaigner and former wife of the late South African president Nelson Mandela dies at the age of 81. | | | | The person sustained only "minor injuries" when falling near the Reflection Pond on the final night of last year's Enlighten Festival, but ACT taxpayers coughed up $25,000 in insurance excess. | | | | Australia has seven wickets in hand after the penultimate day of its Test series against South Africa, with three sessions to survive for a draw. Look back at how day four of the fourth Test played out in our live blog. | | | | At least four fishermen die when a toxic oil slick off the coast of Borneo ignites. A nearby refinery and pipeline operator says it has nothing to do with it and has not been able to find any leaks. | | | | Tropical Cyclone Iris intensifies to a category two system as it continues to hover off the north Queensland coast, and is on track to become a category three by the early hours of Wednesday morning. | | | | Australia's declining performance in maths, reading and science will cost the nation $120 billion over the next 45 years, according to new analysis linking students' results and the impact on the economy. | | | | Thousands of police and ADF soldiers and their high-powered arsenal are ready for any conceivable threat to athletes or visitors at Commonwealth Games venues, event organisers say, despite the concerns of civil liberties groups. | | | | Australian wheelchair racing champion Kurt Fearnley has had the Commonwealth Games in his diary since organisers told him about their vision of an inclusive event, one where para-athletes would have equal billing. | | | | Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is re-elected with 97 per cent of the vote, official results show. It's the same margin the former military commander secured four years ago, but voter turnout is lower this time around. | | | | Iron ore has rapidly fallen into a bear market as worries about a trade war between the US and China add to concerns about expanding supply and cutbacks in China's steel industry. | | | | Police dismantle a homemade explosive device found in a car at a shopping centre west of Brisbane arresting a man and a woman at the scene after spotting them on CCTV footage. | | | | A pilot in her 50s walks away with only minor injuries after her plane falls 300 metres before crashing near an airport in Sydney's west. | | | | Victorian-based Tasmanian runner Jacob Despard wins the men's final of the Stawell Gift in Western Victoria, on his sixth attempt at the title. | | | | The Kookaburras captain will lead the Australian team into Wednesday night's opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. | | | | The family of a Perth food truck owner say he is showing "encouraging" signs in a Thai hospital after a moped crash on the resort island of Koh Samui left him fighting for his life. | | | | Police now think an SUV crash in California last week may have been intentional, after a vehicle carrying eight members of the same family — made famous after a photo of one of the children went viral in 2014 — accelerated straight off a cliff, leaving no signs of braking or skid marks. | | | | Fiji is reeling from the impact of tropical Cyclone Josie that has left at least four people dead and caused major flooding. | |  |
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