| | | | Firefighters rush to extinguish flames engulfing the Boeing 737, which had just taken off from Havana's international airport. | | | | A gunman carrying a shotgun and a revolver opens fire at a Houston-area high school, killing 10 people, most of them students, before being arrested, authorities say. Explosive devices, including a molotov cocktail, were also found at the scene. | | | | When Rachelle Mainse was born 13 weeks early a world away from home, she was given a minimal chance of survival. Tomorrow, on her 30th birthday, she will meet the doctors who brought her into the world, and the woman who took in her family at their time of need. | | | | Prince Charles will walk Meghan Markle down the aisle when she marries his son Prince Harry on Saturday, Kensington Palace confirms, while Prince Philip will attend a month after undergoing hip replacement surgery. | | | | The Royal wedding is like every other wedding you've been bored stiff by — only longer, more expensive and with more obnoxious voiceover commentary. Comedian Ben Pobjie offers alternative options for your Saturday night. | | | | Former employees of celebrity chef Shannon Bennett say their share of tip money was regularly confiscated by managers — for breakages, being late to work, or getting answers wrong in a so-called "tip test". | | | | Snakes, dragons and tigers are common tattoo subjects, so why not your pet cat? Personalised pet tattoos is a niche that Jessica Holmes has made her own, and her work is enjoying a global surge in popularity. | | | | Quickly remedying the problems plaguing the National Disability Insurance Scheme would also ease the burden on people with disabilities and their families — those the scheme is there to support, writes Dan Conifer. | | | | The Turnbull Government's review into live sheep exports was never going to recommend a ban. But Liberal MP Sussan Ley will push for a ban in Parliament regardless, and with support from Labor and cross-benchers, she may well succeed, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | A giant Buddha carved from a single piece of jade takes pride of place at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in central Victoria. | | | | Platypus conservationists say fishing supplies retailers have stepped up by preventing the sale of 'opera house' nets that can kill the native animals, more than a year before a government ban on using them comes into effect. | | | | The director of a South Australian wildlife sanctuary says that native animals like kangaroos are struggling to find food in South Australia's dry conditions. | | | | NASA's Deep Space Communication Complex in Canberra is like the air traffic control centre for space and one of the area's best-kept secrets. | | | | Former double agent Sergei Skripal is discharged from hospital more than two months after he and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent. | | | | With the Queensland Government forking out almost $500 million it had baulked at paying, upgrades to problem-plagued sections of the M1 motorway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast are set to start sooner than expected. | | | | There are dramatic scenes in court as Talal Alameddine, who supplied the gun used to kill police accountant Curtis Cheng, refuses to stand for the judge as he is jailed for at least 13 years. | | | | It feels like the whole world has Royal fever, but we can hear a lot of you screaming, "Who the hell CARES!?" Here's what those people told us. | | | | Actor Craig McLachlan has "virtually no contact with friends, relatives or former entertainment colleagues" since the ABC and Fairfax published stories accusing him of misconduct, a court is told. | | | | Broadcaster Alan Jones denies having a "bitter hatred" for the Wagners, a prominent Queensland family he is accused of defaming on multiple occasions spanning several years. | | | | The death of a young tourist who fell down a 40-metre cliff face while trying to take a photo prompts a warning for people to take care when searching for that perfect holiday shot for social media. | |  |
By Laura Tingle | |  |
By Ben Pobjie | |  |
By political reporter Dan Conifer | |  |
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