| | | | One Nation leader Pauline Hanson fights tears on television after revealing her colleague Brian Burston has tried to defect to the Shooters and Fishers Party, hitting out at "self-serving" members and apologising to voters. | | | | It turns out delivering broadband to the bush is going to more expensive than previously thought, as take-up rates exceed predictions by several times, and towers fixed wireless towers become congested. | | | | The Trump administration's announcement it will impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from Europe, Mexico and Canada draws swift vows of retaliation from key allies, inflames trade tensions and sends stock markets sinking. | | | | Every World Cup gives a host nation the opportunity to get creative with its stadium architecture, leading to some brilliant results and some disasters — Russia 2018 is no exception. | | | | Hipsters in trendy Sydney suburbs are willingly paying big dollars to display branches of cotton around their living rooms. | | | | Dog owners are paying more than $50 a day to give their "fur babies" the best of care, but standards vary widely and there are signs regulators have not kept up with one of the fastest-growing trends in the pet world. | | | | Almost one year since tolls were re-introduced on the M4 motorway, drivers are avoiding the stretch of road between Parramatta and Homebush because they don't want to pay the charge. | | | | Australia's top-ranked player seemed on course for a famous victory after taking the first set and breaking the 23-time grand slam winner early in the second, before succumbing to the former World No.1. | | | | American neuroscientist and popular author Sam Harris discusses how Donald Trump rewrites reality, the illusion of free will and how social media is driving us all insane | | | | While State of Origin remains an intimidating physical challenge, there is a nagging sense the concept has reached a crossroads as time diminishes some of the fundamentals that made it such a success, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | After ending his playing career by headbutting an opponent in the 2006 World Cup final, Zidane is closing out his stint with Real Madrid with the fresh image of him lifting the Champions League trophy. | | | | Danish-Italian actress and model Brigitte Nielsen, 54, announces she is pregnant with fifth child, on social media. | | | | Two weeks out from the start of the football World Cup in Russia, the former head of the country's anti-doping laboratory reveals that at least one of Russia's squad members is a drug cheat. | | | | Denmark bans the wearing of face veils in public, joining France and other European countries in outlawing the burka and the niqab worn by some Muslim women to uphold what some politicians say are secular and democratic values. | | | | New research says there's a way to drastically reduce our environmental footprint — and it's bad news for carnivores. | | | | Police are investigating whether the former occupant of a house in Sydney's lower North Shore, where a mummified body was found rolled up in a carpet, may have had something to do with the death. | | | | Rising to the top of her class in competitive powerlifting while raising two young boys, NSW mum Loureene Kelly hopes her sons will also learn a thing or two about challenging expectations of females. | | | | There has been a steady stream of Me Too headlines from the US, but the pace in Australia is more relaxed. Why? The answer may lie in our defamation laws. | | | | Customers were thought to be the winners when Amazon Australia launched. But from July 1, all access to international Amazon stores will be blocked by the retail giant. Here's why they are doing it, and how you can still get those international bargains. | | | | The Russian journalist who worked with Ukrainian authorities to fake his own death says the elaborately staged murder included wearing a T-shirt with bullet holes in it, getting smeared in pig's blood and taken to the morgue. | | | | For a minor planet, Pluto throws up some pretty big surprises. Icy methane dunes are the latest in a swag of new discoveries, uncovered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. | | | | Once a pristine Thai paradise, the secluded bay made famous by the Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Beach has been exhausted by mass tourism. | | | | A hotel employee lives to tell the tale after his attempt to valet park a soft-top Porsche Carrera went horribly wrong near Sydney's Darling Harbour this morning, ending up under an SUV. | |  |
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