| | | | A young boy's body was found in a waterhole weighed down with rocks stuffed down his shorts. Police theorised he accidentally drowned. Ten years later, the police mistakes of the Raggett case are repeated. | | | | One person with disabilities is killed by their carer almost every three months in Australia, but these acts of domestic violence are often excused by the media and judiciary. The focus is too often on the killer. Here, we recognise the victims. | | | | The NRL claps back at fans angry at a photo of State of Origin opponents Karina Brown and Vanessa Foliaki kissing after last night's game in Sydney, telling them 'welcome to 2018 … can't wait for you to join us!' | | | | Having a wallet, a pile of the folding stuff, a pineapple in our pockets has been our habit for generations. But after thousands of years, we've gone cash-free. This be one of the swiftest and most pain-free social transformations we've experienced, James Valentine writes. | | | | A police report reveals the woman inside the self-driving Uber that crashed and killed a pedestrian in Arizona earlier this year was watching The Voice on her phone at the time and could have stopped the car if she had not been distracted. Here's what that means for the case. | | | | Technicians sent to investigate why a teller machine was not working found rupee notes shredded to pieces inside — as well as a dead rat. | | | | This weekend is a great opportunity to spot the International Space Station in the night sky as it makes its way over Australia's capital cities. | | | | Labor is playing down any suggestions of internal division, after frontbencher Anthony Albanese called for the party to improve its relationship with the business sector. | | | | A crying girl depicted in a widely-seen photograph that helped galvanise public opinion against Donald Trump's immigration policies was not actually separated from her mother, according to her father and US government officials. | | | | Australian Border Force officials are being called "underhanded" for issuing a Friday-night deportation notice to a Tamil family from central Queensland, even though they still have three weeks to appeal against the move. | | | | The Brisbane Lions host the Giants at the Gabba - can they get back in the winners' column at home? Later the Bulldogs take on North Melbourne at Docklands. after the Hawks took care of the Suns at Launceston. Follow all the live scores, stats and commentary. | | | | After recapturing East Ghouta, the Syrian regime has its sights set on the last southern rebel enclave of Daraa. Will victory there be the final act of the Syrian war? | | | | The chances of limiting climate change appear to be growing slimmer by the day — and this may have big implications for Australia's wildlife. | | | | Transplant Australia is defending Queensland's organ and tissue donation process, after a major clinical breach saw three babies receive tissue from a donor with brain cancer. | | | | Small retailers say a combination of high rents, low customer spending and competition from big business is forcing them out of local high streets. | | | | During World War II thousands of homing pigeons were parachuted into Nazi territory. Their mission was to bring back intelligence from occupied areas — but they led one defiant priest to a gruesome death. | | | | Government security forces in Venezuela accused in some 500 questionable killings appear to be evading any charges, as the rule of law in the country quickly vanishes, the United Nations says. | | | | Chinese media says Lai Mingmin, who is accused of corruption and bribery, went home voluntarily. But other corruption targets have been subject to covert threats and coercion by Chinese security officials to ensure their return. | | | | Albania's national flag was at the centre of Switzerland's 2-1 victory over Serbia at the World Cup, with Switzerland's Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri celebrated their goals by making a nationalist symbol of their ethnic Albanian heritage. | | | | Video-streaming service Netflix sacks its director of communications, Jonathan Friedland, over his repeated use of an offensive racial epithet in company meetings. | | | | Brazil gets its first win of the World Cup with two goals in injury time to beat Costa Rica 2-0, after having Neymar's shouts for a penalty at first awarded and then taken away by the VAR. | | | | Bidding is at $60,000 for this very special bottle of wine with a unique provenance. | | | | This year marks 200 years since the first Chinese migrant arrived in Australia back in 1818, yet the historical connections between Chinese and Indigenous people have largely gone unrecorded. | |  |
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