| | | | A Chinese-Australian real estate developer "co-conspired to bribe" a senior United Nations official, according to claims made in Federal Parliament. | | | | US President Donald Trump raises doubts that the Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will take place as planned on June 12 amid concerns that Mr Kim is not committed to denuclearisation. | | | | A Queensland woman calls for the state's consent laws to be changed, speaking publicly for the first time about a sexual encounter that turned violent, leaving her at risk of dying from severe bleeding. | | | | The Duke and Duchess of Sussex appear at their first official engagement as a married couple when they attended an event in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. | | | | Walter V. Robinson's reporting on Catholic Church child abuse cover-ups inspired the film Spotlight. Today, the veteran newspaper man hopes a landmark guilty verdict against Archbishop Philip Wilson sparks sweeping change. | | | | The insistence by many Christians that churches are safer places because a religion of love and selfless kindness should be anathema to abuse still blinds many to what was, and is, occurring in their midst, writes Julia Baird. | | | | They say in space no-one can hear you scream. But even in a galaxy far, far away Star Wars fans will let you know if a new instalment doesn't stand up to the original trilogy. | | | | Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg admits to European Union politicians the world's biggest social media network hasn't done enough to prevent the tools they've built from being used for harm. | | | | Ministers and heads of department will be grilled about the minutiae of their spending at this week's budget estimates hearings, but intelligence agencies will by and large be spared. | | | | The IMF has looked at a number of different scenarios on workers with the rise of the machines and all of them lead to falling wages for workers and rising inequality. | | | | Short-term share price moves reveal little, but AMP's long-term decline could become terminal unless the company reshapes its business for the post-royal commission era. | | | | The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority pays $12,870 for a smartphone-hacking technology license, prompting the question: "Would we accept the search of a private home, just like we accept the search of a digital device?" | | | | Two staff from the Australian High Commission in Pretoria are sacked after allegedly issuing illegal visas to high-risk Nigerian students. | | | | Enjoy your honeymoon, Duchess, for as a woman ascends, accomplishes, succeeds, so too must she be held and measured against her sisters. Sorry, but those are the rules, writes Matilda Dixon-Smith. | | | | Prison authorities in two states and the Northern Territory lost track of criminals when recent Telstra outages caused their electronic monitoring devices to fail, the ABC has learned. | | | | China's Foreign Minister tells Julie Bishop that Australia needs to remove its "tinted glasses" and "translate its words into concrete actions" to improve ties after tensions over Beijing's anger with recent political moves by Canberra. | | | | A woman who stabbed her cousin to death in Sydney's south and then told a triple-0 operator she was checking for a pulse when she was actually cleaning the knives is sentenced to more than six years in jail. | | | | Molten lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island is heading towards a geothermal power plant site, as workers rush to shut down the facility to prevent the uncontrollable release of toxic gases. | | | | This year's longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award features three previous winners — Peter Carey, Michelle de Kretser and Kim Scott — alongside eight other established writers. | | | | Garry Robinson walks free after pleading guilty to falsifying Commonwealth documents that allowed 22,000 sheep to be imported into Pakistan, where they were brutally killed in vision that shocked Australia. | | | | Former Queensland premier Campbell Newman is standing by a series of tweets he made about police "creating total and utter chaos" around the Brisbane CBD when responding to a pedestrian hit and killed by a bus on Tuesday morning. | | | | Most Australians are blissfully unaware of rising US bond yields, but the building "bondcano" has the potential to burn Australian households. | | | | A police officer in New Jersey saves a baby deer, delivering it via caesarean section after its mother was hit by a car. | |  |
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