| | | | A nursing home resident died just two months after the facility's management promised to fix serious failures identified at a surprise government inspection. Now the family is speaking out. | | | | Police in the city of San Bruno said there was an active shooter but could not provide more information, while multiple 911 calls reported gunfire, according to the city manager. | | | | The Dutch son-in-law of one of Russia's richest men is sentenced to 30 days in prison and fined $20,000 for lying to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators, the first punishment to be handed down in Mr Mueller's investigation. | | | | A woman who says she was written out of her aunt's will after she was unable to assist the elderly woman to end her life will not receive any of the estate, which the 86-year-old estimated to be worth more than $1 million. | | | | Immigration Minister Peter Dutton escalates a diplomatic row with South Africa by suggesting its Foreign Minister may have deliberately misrepresented Australia's stance on white farmers in the nation. | | | | As a "caravan" of 1,200 migrants makes its way across Mexico, US President Donald Trump says he will use military forces to protect the border until a long-promised wall is complete. | | | | On the final day of a catastrophic tour, Australia crashed to the tune of 7 for 31. But out of the despair, there emerges the faint prospect of redemption. | | | | In the period before a property auction a prospective buyer makes an early offer in an effort to beat the competition. The trouble is so do others, and the agent reveals what each person is bidding. Welcome to a Dutch auction, real estate's ethical grey area. | | | | A feud between Annastacia Palaszczuk and Gold Coast Commonwealth Games chairman Peter Beattie over speaking duties at tonight's opening ceremony continues, with the Queensland Premier taking the extraordinary step of revealing what she would have said, had she been given the chance. | | | | Dramatic video has emerged of a Victorian police officer stomping on the back of a handcuffed African-Australian man who tried to hold up a Melbourne pharmacy armed with a pair of scissors. | | | | Queensland Police confirm they are investigating allegations of an indecent assault of an athlete from a team visiting the Commonwealth Games. | | | | Julia Gillard predicts it will take 200 years before men and women have equal work and opportunities unless the pace of change speeds up, saying she is frustrated and shakes her head in "wonderment" that the issue is still unresolved. | | | | According to the ads for some language learning apps, you can "have a conversation in a new language in three weeks". But the time it takes to learn a language depends on what you're using it for, writes Ingrid Piller. | | | | Like anyone at the end of their working life, when Matilda the Commonwealth Games mascot retired she had one thing in mind — travel. Curious Brisbane tracks her adventures these past 36 years, and reveals where she can be found today. | | | | Margot Pegum weighed 109 kilograms and had a BMI of 46 when she underwent a procedure to have a saline-filled balloon inserted into her stomach in an attempt to lose weight, but the 68-year-old died just three months later after complications from the surgery, an inquest into her death hears. | | | | Warned she could become a quadriplegic if a dive went wrong, Taneka Kovchenko is forced to retire from the sport, just days before the start of the Commonwealth Games. | | | | Rupert Murdoch ratchets up the pressure on Britain to approve his $US15 billion-plus bid for Sky by offering to sell or legally separate Sky News, aiming to head off objections the deal could give him too much political influence. | | | | Prince Philip checks into King Edward VII Hospital in London for previously scheduled hip surgery, according to the palace. | |  |
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