| | | | Tens of thousands are gathering at various Anzac Day events across the country in honour of the 103rd anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli. | | | | Bree Till and Gwen Cherne say they received different levels of support because of how their soldier husbands died. One was killed by an IED in Afghanistan, the other took his own life on home soil. | | | | One of the last "direct descendants" of the Lone Pine tree, which has come to symbolise one of the fiercest hand-to-hand combat battles of World War I, is thriving in a quiet Melbourne park thanks to a canny soldier and watchful green thumb. | | | | A teenage girl is taken to hospital in a serious condition after being shot in the leg when someone opened fire on the western Sydney garage she was sitting in, with neighbours reporting hearing "five or six" bangs. | | | | Alek Minassian, 25, suspected of killing 10 people and injuring 15 others when he ploughed a rental van into pedestrians in Toronto, is charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder as officers continue to probe what motivated the attack. | | | | Kids' muscles resist fatigue and recover from heavy exercise in a similar way to those of elite endurance athletes, a new study suggests. | | | | Ayla Holdom was open with her military colleagues about being transgender. But when she was invited to Prince William's wedding, a friend betrayed her to the British tabloids. | | | | It's becoming a common sight in Melbourne's cafes — that little note next to the till, or at the bottom of the menu, advising customers of a public holiday surcharge. But some hospitality workers say this charge, which is supposed to fund penalty rates for staff, is often going straight into employers' pockets. | | | | US President Donald Trump's proposed ambassador to Australia will be pulled from the post, the ABC understands. | | | | High-profile financial planner Sam Henderson says he was not aware an employee from his firm had impersonated a client during calls to the client's superannuation fund, the banking royal commission hears. | | | | Seriously ill British toddler Alfie Evans is surviving after being taken off life support following a series of court rulings that backed doctors at Liverpool's Alder Hey Childen's Hospital who said further treatment was futile. | | | | A woman who suffered second-degree burns when a flight attendant spilt boiling water on her legs says staff did nothing to help her and the airline has since failed to pay her medical expenses. | | | | Just hours after the birth of her third child, the Duchess of Cambridge returned home to Kensington Palace. But royal expert Giselle Bastin says it's unlikely Catherine will be out of action for long. | | | | Melbourne boasts the fastest growing suburb in the country and the city's population is now just 200,000 below that of Sydney's, which itself saw a record an annual increase of more than 100,000 people. | | | | A patron produces a Crown Casino-branded plastic "pick", which she alleges was used to illegally jam poker machine buttons in place in the Melbourne casino. It follows allegations from former staff of pokie tampering. | | | | The big banks are leaving regional Australia in droves and rural communities are paying the price. | | | | A Queensland policeman punched his 10-week-old baby son in the stomach so hard it ruptured organs and caused fatal injuries because he was "intensely frustrated", a court hears. | | | | Scientists solve a "longstanding mystery", detecting hydrogen sulphide gas — which smells like rotten eggs — swirling in Uranus's cloud tops. | | | | The priceless 16th-century casket containing Anne of Brittany's embalmed heart was stolen earlier this month, fuelling fears it could be melted down. | | | | A Ni-Vanuatu boy who captured online attention after progressing into the final stages of a local surfing competition with an old, duct-taped surfboard is gifted a new board from a fellow surf enthusiast in New Zealand. | |  |
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