| | | | Restaurateurs are complaining that their contracts with Uber Eats are "unfair" and potentially breach Australian consumer law. The ABC reveals what's inside Uber's contracts. | | | | It's been hailed as the next frontier for treating disease, but it has also spawned a multibillion-dollar supplement, food and health industry that is not supported by science, write Nicholas West, Amanda Cox and Allan Cripps. | | | | Verne Troyer, who was best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers films, dies at 49, an official social media post says. | | | | Engineers improve the design of road signs to reduce the risk of signs piercing car windscreens upon impact, with Queensland to make the upgrades in high-risk areas. | | | | The United States uses the State Department's global human rights report to claim there are attacks on freedom on a daily basis in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. However, Uzbekistan, Liberia and Mexico have improved rights, the report suggests. | | | | A very large number of people have come to feel that they are just cogs in a machine — counting for nothing more than their capacity to work and vote. They are angry. They are disappointed. They are vengeful, writes Simon Longstaff. | | | | A central Queensland cattle breeder was unable to walk or use the right side of his body after he fell off his horse while mustering. Almost two decades later, he is walking again. | | | | An isolated village in western Java has possibly one of the highest rates of albinism in Indonesia — and nobody seems to know why. | | | | The global chemical weapons watchdog says a team of inspectors has visited the Syrian town of Douma to collect samples for an investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack that sparked US-led missile strikes on Syria. | | | | India's cabinet approves the death penalty for rapists of girls below the age of 12, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds an emergency meeting in response to nationwide outrage in the wake of a series of cases. | | | | Gaza's ruling Hamas militant group says a man who was gunned down in Malaysia by two men on a motorbike was an important member of the organisation. Malaysian police are investigating involvement of "foreign agents" in the killing. | | | | Two former Thai-Burma Railway prisoners of war, aged 101 and 96, have left for Thailand to commemorate Anzac Day and keep the stories alive of the sacrifices made by young Australians. | | | | Two teenagers are arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run at in Melbourne's east that resulted in the deaths of a couple, who were driving home. | | | | North Korea's move to suspend nuclear and missile tests effective immediately is being welcomed by global leaders as a step in the right direction, but Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the rogue nation has made promises in the past and then "failed to honour them". | | | | Swedish producer and DJ Avicii's dance music garnered a mass appeal by bringing out the physicality of his audience and drawing different kinds of music fans together, writes Paul Donoughue. | | | | A three-year-old girl is found safe and well with the help of Max — the family's deaf and partially blind 17-year-old blue heeler — after spending the night lost on their rural property in cold, wet conditions. | | | | Donald Trump appears to have seen off the worst of the dangers presented by James Comey, but the cloud he has governed beneath will hang heavy over the White House until his legal woes are dealt with, writes Greg Jennett. | | | | Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's final album Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow), released posthumously last week, becomes the first in an Australian Indigenous language to top the Australian music charts. | | | | A man who died in an explosion in his backyard shed, north of Brisbane, had been speaking to a neighbour and her children minutes before the fatal accident occurred. | | | | Actress Allison Mack, best known for her role as Clark Kent's confidant Chloe in the television series Smallville, pleads not guilty to charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit forced labour in relation to an upstate New York sex cult. | |  |
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By Nicholas West, Amanda Cox and Allan Cripps | |  |
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