| | | | Rick Thorburn is sentenced to life in jail for murdering his 12-year-old foster daughter, Tiahleigh Palmer, to protect his son who feared he had gotten her pregnant and was later convicted of incest. | | | | The Supreme Court has frozen Clive Palmer's assets at the behest of PPB Advisory, the Federal Government-appointed liquidator of Queensland Nickel, which collapsed in 2016 leaving 800 people out of work. | | | | World affairs have been upended since Donald Trump came to office but the historic face-to-face meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would have been one out of the box — even in 2018, writes Zoe Daniel. | | | | At least two properties and livestock are lost as firefighters tackle more than 30 active fires in southern WA, with two of the blazes remaining at emergency level threatening lives and homes near the city of Albany, home to 35,000 people. | | | | Jason Bateman said he was "incredibly embarrassed" for his widely criticised comments surrounding abuse allegations against the actor Jeffrey Tambor. | | | | Two men have been found guilty over a midnight chase which left a teenage cyclist badly injured and a car on fire. | | | | Labor's candidate for the seat of Darling Range resigns after questions were raised about her LinkedIn profile and education history. | | | | Fifteen people were taken to hospital, three of them with critical injuries, after the attack on an Indian restaurant in Canada's sixth largest city. | | | | The company rolling out the National Broadband Network axes the idea of providing maximum-speed plans to over 300,000 potential customers, announcing it is dumping plans to provide 100 megabit per second speeds on its fixed wireless network. | | | | Voters are deciding whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Irish constitution, which prevents abortion except in cases where the mother's life is at risk. | | | | Authorities investigate a suspected hydrogen sulphide gas leak at an Albury paper mill, after two workers die while a third fights for life in hospital. | | | | Mother-of-three Kirralee Paepaerei had already chosen the name for her unborn child before her partner, ice addict Joshua Homann, stabbed her to death in their bedroom in what a judge describes as a "frenzy of violence". | | | | Donald Trump's cancellation of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un risks a return to crisis mode — but both sides may be wary of letting the situation escalate again into fears of war. | | | | Victims of paedophile priests and brothers will now be able to sue the Catholic Church with more confidence, after the Victorian Government abolished a legal loophole that experts say was saving the church millions of dollars. | | | | The fact that the AFLW now doesn't have a single female head coach in its ranks suggests pathways for aspiring women coaches in all codes remain limited. | | | | Investors buying into ATMs for the fees they generate have been left out of pocket after discovering the machines don't actually exist, NT Police say. | | | | Poorer children in Australia are less likely to receive their share of Medicare funding, particularly in the first years of life, Kim Dalziel, Harriet Hiscock and Philip Clarke. | | | | A fight between Qantas and Canberra airport escalates dramatically, with the airline releasing an email suggesting a plane had been held to "ransom", and chief executive Alan Joyce comparing the airport's behaviour to that of Somali pirates. | | | | Australia's homelessness figures are going in the wrong direction, and housing experts warn we're about to recommit to a failing policy. In Sydney, there has been an increase of almost 50 per cent, while Darwin and Brisbane both saw increases of around 30 per cent. | | | | Amazon says an "unlikely string of events" caused the device to record what the family were saying and sent it to a contact who lived 282 kilometres away without them knowing. | | | | The asteroid smash that finished off the dinosaurs also cranked up Earth's thermostat, according to shards of fish fossils found in Tunisia. And the sudden global warming that followed is relevant to what's happening today. | | | | A NASA photographer's camera melts at a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch — but its photos survived, capturing its own demise. | |  |
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