| | | | One of the world's largest cannabis companies has taken out Australian trademarks for a range of its products, amid fresh political debate about proposed reform. | | | | Mother-of-eight Malka Leifer looked like the perfect school principal until she was accused of being a sexual predator. This is the story of three sisters' battle to bring their alleged abuser to justice. | | | | If you have spent untold minutes, or even hours on hold to Centrelink, listening to classical music only to slam down the phone in frustration, it looks like change is on the way. | | | | Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce calls for an overhaul to the hiring regulations at Parliament House to allow politicians to work alongside their partners. | | | | Ask yourself this — when was the last time a major corporation or executive was hauled before the courts? If you're having trouble coming up with an answer, you're in good company, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | The picturesque Queensland coast and its islands are the envy of the world. But behind the palm trees and sunshine, trouble is brewing, with a growing number of resorts falling into disrepair, decay and financial strain. | | | | A gunman kills two people in the carpark and shoots another two inside the restaurant before a man hailed as a hero wrestles the gun from his grasp. | | | | Knee reconstructions for young Australians are on the rise, posing an expensive and painful public health problem in the future, a new study finds. | | | | Holly Mainsbridge was devastated by a tragic loss which affects one in four pregnancies, but a little box helped her to grieve. Now she wants other parents around Australia to have the same opportunity. | | | | Once you upload a photo to Facebook do you still own it? Can someone come along and claim it as their own and try make some money off it? This is what you need to know should someone pinch your pictures from social media and claim it as their own. | | | | 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. | | | | A 19-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl are charged with culpable driving and theft of a motor vehicle in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash involving an allegedly stolen vehicle in Melbourne's east early on Saturday. | | | | The United Arab Emirates says a commercial airliner had just seconds to manoeuvre after Qatari military fighter jets came dangerously close as it was trying to land in Bahrain. | | | | Seventeen people drown when two dragon boats practicing for a race capsize on a river in southern China. | | | | Veteran Boomers centre Andrew Bogut ends his 13-season NBA career and will return to Australia to play in the NBL with the Sydney Kings. | | | | Korean Air executive Cho Hyun-ah, who made global headlines in 2014 when she ordered a plane to return to its gate because she was angry over the way she had been served nuts, is leaving the airline along with her sister, their father and company chairman announces. | | | | French authorities have re-opened one of the country's most popular tourist sites, Mont Saint-Michel abbey, hours after a major evacuation and house-by-house search for a visitor who reportedly yelled "I'm going to kill a cop". | | | | Islamic State claims responsibility for an attack by a suicide bomber outside a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least 57 people and wounding 119 others as they waited to receive identity cards. | | | | Having had more than 160 descendants, great-great-great-grandmother Nabi Tajima dies in hospital, leaving another Japanese woman to become the world's oldest person. | | | | New Zealand's Trent Boult takes an incredible one-handed catch to dismiss Virat Kohli, stopping himself dead barely centimetres from the boundary rope. | | | | Thousands of fans gather in central Stockholm to honour Avicii with a moment of silence followed by a memorial dance party as DJ Kygo ends his Coachella set with a heartfelt tribute to his "biggest musical inspiration". | | | | Austin Powers co-star Mike Myers hails Verne Troyer as a "beacon of positivity" and the "consummate professional" after he dies aged 49. | | | | 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. | |  |
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