| | | | As a Sunshine Coast siege goes past the 24-hour mark, a resident says he let Zlatko Sikorsky into his apartment because he didn't realise he was at the centre of a Queensland police hunt after the discovery of a woman's body in a barrel. | | | | AFL great Barry Hall apologises for vulgar comments he made on live radio, saying it was "a silly thing to say and not a reflection of who I am". | | | | A podcaster says he spoke on the phone to US President Donald Trump on Air Force One for almost four minutes by pretending to be a Democratic senator — and the President did not realise. | | | | Former Australian cricketer Cameron Bancroft says he has felt both sad and angry in the three months since his suspension for ball tampering, but never considered giving the game away. | | | | Thousands of dead sharks were found in the freezers when a fleet of Chinese fishing boats were boarded last September. Now those involved have been let off the hook, raising questions about China's pervasive influence in East Timor. | | | | The Labor Caucus believes an election is imminent — what does this mean for Bill Shorten in the wake of his captain-call blunder on company tax, asks Laura Tingle. | | | | As the banking royal commission hears from graziers who have hit a roadblock with banks, ANZ chief Shayne Elliott weighs in on the "ethical lapses" in the industry. | | | | The decision by a WA bureaucrat to redact the word "Aboriginal" from official documents creates an outcry among archivists, genealogists and historians, who are pushing for the registrar's power to be restricted. | | | | There is a troubling pattern that emerges in the "Fab Five's" interaction with their makeover subjects: their proximity to the poverty line. A low minimum wage and an absence of affordable healthcare are just two reasons that these men choose to buy polos from Walmart instead of button-ups from Oxford, writes Eden Faithfull. | | | | Velma Ninjipa was shot in the face at close range when a simple safety routine for driving around town failed. Her story is all too common in a city about to hit the world stage. | | | | New changes around country of origin labelling will not extend to the hospitality sector, leaving restaurants free to import foods without revealing where they come from. That has the seafood industry concerned. | | | | The Kuraby man faces 14 charges, with the Australian Federal Police claiming he encouraged and recruited other people to join him to engage in "hostile activities" in Syria. | | | | Fourth-generation avocado farmer Katrina Myers was pulled from her boarding school classroom at 15 and told her father had died by suicide on the family property. Now after her own mental health challenges, she's on a mission for change — starting with her local farmers markets. | | | | A Maryland man charged with rampaging through a newsroom in Annapolis with a pump-action shotgun and killing five people is denied bail after one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in US history. | | | | A senior cyber security chief of the Chinese tech giant says the company will work with Australia to set up a world-leading internet security centre if it is allowed to build the next 5G wireless network. | | | | There are big changes coming this week to childcare payments for hundreds of thousands of Australian families — but changes are also coming to childcare providers, and some operators say that could lead to fee increases. | | | | A Melbourne-based property developer has come up with a unique solution to the city's public housing crisis, offering subsidised apartments to public housing tenants to encourage them to buy their own home and free up stock. | | | | A law firm turns its attention to regional Western Australia in a bid to reveal the full extent of prolific paedophile priest Denis McAlinden's abuse of young children. | | | | It's known as "the Long Paddock" — an iconic network of travelling stock routes made famous by Australia's bush poets. But cattle drovers say these livestock highways are falling into disrepair. | | | | About hundred people are missing in the Mediterranean Sea as European Union leaders announce plans to screen people in North Africa for eligibility to enter Europe. | | | | As Mexico goes to the polls tomorrow, one candidate has a commanding lead. He goes by the acronym AMLO, wants to offer amnesty to narcos and turn the presidential palace into a park. | | | | The next festival you attend you may be watched, recorded and analysed in real-time ... by drones! It sounds like a scene from Black Mirror, but this surveillance system is all about stopping violent behaviour before it happens. | |  |
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