| | | | More than 300,000 Australians may have had their personal information exposed in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, Facebook reveals, admitting up to 87 million users around the world may have been affected. | | | | From an Indigenous smoking ceremony, a dance demonstrating the makeshift beach towel "change room", to speculation over what Malcolm Turnbull showed Prince Charles on his phone, there was no shortage of memorable moments at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. | | | | For nearly two decades Jessica Panetta has sought relief from chronic pain. Now, doctors and the Federal Government are rushing to address the disease they admit was long considered "just a woman's lot". | | | | Staff at a Queensland nursing home left residents without showers and unfed because of time constraints, a confidential memo obtained by 7.30 reveals. | | | | China issues a $US50 billion list of US goods including soybeans, their biggest export to china, and small aircraft for possible tariff hikes in an escalating and potentially damaging technology dispute with Washington. | | | | The Milky Way's central supermassive black hole is surrounded by an entourage of smaller black holes. For the first time, this cosmic posse has been detected. | | | | Fascination with personal genetics is fuelling an explosion of online DNA testing. Here's five things you need to know before spitting into a tube for an online DNA test, write Jane Tiller and Paul Lacaze. | | | | Patients across Australia are regularly forking out more than $10,000 from their own savings to pay for cancer treatment and chronic illnesses such as multiple sclerosis, a new national survey finds. | | | | Whale watchers off the coast of Western Australia's Bremer Bay are treated to the rare sight of not only the Cuvier's beaked whale, but also its slaughter by a pod of orcas. | | | | The National Wastewater Analysis Drug Monitoring Program shows the methamphetamine problem is biggest in Adelaide and regional parts of South Australia. | | | | Indonesia's state-owned oil company Pertamina finally admits it is responsible for a major oil spill on the coast of Borneo. | | | | Parliament must deliver "something clear" on constitutional change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, says Labor senator Patrick Dodson, following the disappointing rejection of the Uluru Statement last year. | | | | While importing ivory is banned, it is perfectly legal to buy and sell ivory items in Australia without documentation proving they are antiques — something that could be encouraging poachers, according to a senator who has pushed for a parliamentary inquiry set to investigate the matter. | | | | The case of a Hunter Valley girl who was tortured and murdered should be examined by the state's child death review team, NSW Labor says, to ensure such cases never happen again. | | | | Former Australian captain Steve Smith rules out appealing against his 12-month ban for his involvement in the ball-tampering incident, while Cameron Bancroft says the same of his nine-month ban. | | | | Electricity from new coal-fired power plants would cost twice as much as power from existing coal power stations, Treasurer Scott Morrison warns, but Tony Abbott says the claim is puzzling and issues his own warning about coal phobia being "politically contagious". | | | | The Commonwealth Bank says it is unable to say when the problem with online accounts will be fixed leaving some customers unable to make payments. | | | | An Australian Tax Office whistleblower has his home raided after speaking with reporters in a major joint Four Corners and Fairfax investigation into alleged abuse of power by the ATO. | | | | Rwanda's government is closing thousands of churches and dozens of mosques as it seeks to assert more control over a vibrant religious community whose sometimes makeshift operations have threatened the lives of followers. | | | | Thousands of noisy corellas in search of food are terrorising residents in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, damaging street lights, signs and trees. | | | | During an inaugural parcel delivery, a Russian-made drone crashes into a wall and crumbles to pieces, shocking local residents and regional officials at the scene. | | | | The removal of bibles from Chinese online bookstores sparks complaints from frustrated Christians on social media as China releases a white paper on protecting freedom of religious belief. | | | | They are nearing the end of their record-breaking voyage around Antarctica, but for one sailor on board the Polish-crewed yacht Katharsis II, the journey represents so much more. | |  |
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