| | | | Thirty years after Mark Haines died on a lonely stretch of train track, a witness reveals for the first time he was there watching from the shadows that night. | | | | Graham Stuart Dillon is sentenced to 41 years in jail, 36 years for the murder of his nine-year-old son Bradyn and additional time for the "brutal process of torture" inflicted upon him. | | | | Kim Jong-un replaces North Korea's top three military leaders in the lead-up to his historic meeting with US President Donald Trump, in a move which some analysts say will help the country engage internationally. | | | | John Lloyd, one of Australia's most senior public servants, quits his $678,000 job amid questions over his conduct and criticism of his links with the right-wing Institute of Public Affairs think tank. | | | | Online gamers are called out by the head of the National Broadband Network as a major cause of congestion on the fixed wireless network. | | | | Felix Sater says he lived a double life, building Trump Towers by day and hunting terrorists by night. Now he finds himself at the centre of the story of the century. | | | | The Commonwealth Bank agrees to pay a record $700 million fine for breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws that resulted in millions of dollars flowing through to drug importers. | | | | Some women with early stage breast cancer may no longer need to have chemotherapy to increase their chance of survival, a new trial shows. | | | | Serena Williams had a few things to say about Maria Sharapova's new book over the weekend and it's kicked their rivalry up a few notches just in time for their long-awaited rendezvous at the French Open. | | | | Barnaby Joyce's Nationals colleagues are urging him to deal privately with the people he claims urged his partner to have an abortion, rather than publicly labelling them "scum of the Earth". | | | | Independent senator Fraser Anning says 56 per cent of Australia's working-age Muslims are not in the labour force. The numbers say he is wrong. | | | | Queensland Maroons veteran Billy Slater is out of the opening State of Origin clash at the MCG after picking up a hamstring injury in training. | | | | It is the strangest of strange bedfellows — a CFMEU-backed super fund working in cahoots with the Catholics' super scheme to lobby for Macquarie. | | | | One of Central America's most active volcanos erupts in fiery explosions of ash and molten rock, killing at least 25 people and injuring nearly 300 while blanketing nearby villages in heavy ash. | | | | First home buyers are choosing to move into "high-risk" suburbs that went under water during Brisbane's 2011 floods, with growth rates in the areas among the best in the city. | | | | Former prime minister Kevin Rudd is grilled about his government's failed home insulation scheme, this time as a witness in a Victorian class action seeking more than $150 million in damages from the Commonwealth. | | | | Jeff Horn admits he feels like a "pawn" in a larger game being played by Top Rank promoter Bob Arum to take back the belt he won from Manny Pacquiao. | | | | A kangaroo is put down after being found with an arrow through its head in a South Australian national park, prompting warnings around injuring or killing native animals. | | | | Denmark's burka ban further stigmatises Muslim women, reinforces their disempowerment and deprives society of their talents, writes Sandeep Gopalan. | | | | It may not be something you've given much thought to, but the coat of arms on the High Court of Australia is actually incorrect — thanks to a pretty small detail. | | | | Online abuse is a social problem that just happens to be powered by technology. There are many ways we can make online spaces kinder, from simple design changes to a shift in online social norms, writes Renee Barnes. | | | | There are concerns debris could be washing up on New South Wales beaches for months after a cargo ship lost about 83 shipping containers in rough seas north of Newcastle. | | | | Cities are expanding upwards and downwards, as well as outwards. With urban density also increasing, moving people efficiently around the city using often-ageing infrastructure is quite a challenge, write Andrea Connor and Donald McNeill. | | | | A diner in a restaurant in China captures footage of a lobster clambering out of a pan of bubbling hot water and cutting off its own left claw to escape. | | | | When a high school principal asked Daniel Arzani what he wanted to do with his life, he said he wanted to wear the green and gold — but he also wanted to be a neurosurgeon. The principal's advice? Don't try to do both. | |  |
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