| | | | Yulia Skripal makes her first public comment since being poisoned in Britain last month along with her ex-Russian spy father Sergei, as Russian state TV airs a recording of a phone call purportedly between Ms Skripal and her cousin. | | | | Priyanka Tamaychekar knows every detail of the dignity-stripping sequence of events that will take place in her first few hours as a newlywed. She will refuse the "test" and face the consequences. | | | | New links between politics and socio-economic status reveal some surprising results about who represents the most disadvantaged Australians. | | | | I'll never forget how the neurologist gasped when he placed Mum's MRI results up against the light. But that was just the start, writes Mariana Rudan. | | | | A truck carrying 20 tonnes of products including chicken nuggets and filet-o-fish crashes into an car and overturns on the Hume Freeway in Melbourne's north, with delays expected into morning peak. | | | | Two of the world's hungriest caterpillars have hybridised to create a militant mega-pest capable of stripping billions of dollars a year from the food and fibre industries, Australian scientists confirm. | | | | The Australian Government is helping develop a tourism industry on the Papua New Guinean island it detained asylum seekers on. | | | | Cool and impervious to pressure, Mack Horton put expectations to one side to get Australia off the mark in the Commonwealth Games' gold medal column, racing the way he wanted. | | | | A Canberra mum is on a mission make it easy for families to share their pre-loved baby goods with people who really need them. | | | | There are tree snakes, then there are tree-jumping snakes. A small snake has been caught on camera taking a "leap of faith" to get away from a groundskeeper trying to capture it outside a Queensland school. | | | | Cathy Freeman didn't just star at the Sydney Olympics. She created the expectation each subsequent home games would provide a single event that distilled the spirit of the occasion into a magical moment, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | For more than two decades Helen McMaugh kept dark memories of a sexual assault buried deep inside. But ahead of the sentencing of David Benedict Hogg, a former high school chaplain, Ms McMaugh waives her right to anonymity. | | | | Solar power is continuing to surge ahead as the world's emerging energy technology, according to a United Nations report that finds global spending on solar was higher than any other energy source in 2017. | | | | Pita Taufatofua captured the world's attention by going shirtless at two Olympic opening ceremonies but now says he wants to shine the spotlight on climate change and the effects of increasing sea levels and cyclones in Tonga. | | | | Robots that can cook dinner like a master chef catch the attention of Meat and Livestock Australia, who hope the technology will be able to serve up the perfect steak for consumers at home. | | | | If there is one thing that is clear from the banking royal commission, it is lending standards will rise and that could lead to a credit crunch and falling house prices. | | | | After arriving on the professional surfing circuit as a wiry teenager in 2001, Mick Fanning brought a new level of competitiveness to the sport and took the surfing world along for the ride, writes Cameron Best. | | | | Horton takes gold in the 400m freestyle before the track cyclists join the party, with the women's and men's pursuit teams winning gold — the men in world record time. | | | | Australia's biggest bank concedes to the banking royal commission it breached its obligations under the Corporations Act in selling some of its credit insurance products. | | | | A German court agrees to release former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont on bail, saying his extradition to Spain was possible on the basis of corruption charges there, but not on the more serious charge of rebellion. | | | | The Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud says he was "shocked and gutted" by footage of sheep dying on a live export ship bound for the Middle East. | | | | Researchers from more than 30 countries start a boycott of one of South Korea's top universities warning autonomous weapons would "permit war to be fought faster and at a scale great than ever before". | |  |
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