| | | | Police say a "horrendous" level of violence was used when a young boy was stabbed, and later died, following a domestic dispute at Carlingford in Sydney's north-west. A 36-year-old man related to the child has been arrested. | | | | A Virgin Australia flight from Melbourne to Perth that was already delayed by bad weather was forced to land in Adelaide overnight after a woman allegedly began threatening to kill people and had to be escorted off by police. | | | | A Korean backpacker's disappearance raises questions about how a 25-year-old woman with friends and co-workers in Tully could go missing for four days without anyone noticing. | | | | Australia may be rank outsiders to make the football World Cup final, but we are global finalists when it comes to household debt. | | | | A buckling floor outside a Coles supermarket in the inner-Brisbane suburb of West End prompts the evacuation of a shopping centre, as engineers tried to work out the cause of the structural problem. | | | | A dozen dead little penguins are found dumped in a garbage bin near a popular Tasmanian coastal reserve, with authorities calling for public help to work out how they died. | | | | Paying to use the bathroom is pretty common overseas, so when McDonald's customers in south-east Queensland learned via social media they could only use the bathroom after they ordered, it was met with a mixed response. | | | | A Tasmanian illustrator and writer is inundated with messages and emails from the United States after receiving a Hollywood shout-out on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. | | | | Authorities say approximately 600 homes have been destroyed by lava flows on Hawaii's Big Island since the current eruption of the Kilaeua volcano began early last month. | | | | A controversial new police approach in the use of sniffer dogs at concerts will go ahead in Sydney this weekend after a push to have it deemed unlawful was thrown out of court. | | | | A woman from the outback town of Larrimah, where Paddy Moriarty went missing, tells an inquest she told a companion "don't do anything stupid" after an argument with Mr Moriarty days before his disappearance. | | | | A poem taped to the chalkboard in a US classroom and sung to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star teaches kindergarten kids what to do during a school shooting. | | | | A new fleet of inter-city trains that the NSW Government ordered from South Korea will not fit the tracks in the Blue Mountains, prompting concerns of a major cost blowout to fix the problem. | | | | Steve Armour bought a lifejacket on a whim while picking up bait for a fishing expedition in WA's south. Just 24-hours later, lying bleeding and battered but alive in a shallow rock crevice, he realised it had saved his life. | | | | A man who ran a Perth hostel for wards of the state is sentenced to 20 years' jail for what a judge described as the sadistic and perverse sexual abuse of eight children for whom he was supposed to be caring. | | | | You'd think that American sports fans would love Jeff Horn. His story is the stuff of Hollywood: a bullied teen walks into a boxing gym, goes to the Olympics and beats a living legend to become a world champion. Yet US fight fans can't stand Horn — Alex McClintock explains why. | | | | A neighbourhood in the city of Eindhoven will welcome what is claimed to be a world-first habitable 3D-printed housing development, with the first residents due to move in next year. | | | | A leaked report has exposed claims of systemic cultural problems in the Australian defence forces, including drug and alcohol abuse. | | | | A decline in youth crime in New South Wales could be down to the popularity of social media and video streaming services, according to research from the Australian National University. | | | | A third of children taking part in the Victorian scheme have abandoned it, prompting the Opposition to criticise its cost to taxpayers — but the father of one girl who pulled out defends the scheme as an important option for parents. | | | | The Kennedy limousine is one of the most famous vehicles in history, but many people don't know what happened to it in the years that followed the assassination of its high-profile passenger. | | | | As many as 14 million users may have inadvertently posted private Facebook posts publicly last month. Here's how it happened. | | | | A black kookaburra is spotted in Western Australia in what is believed to be the first sighting in decades. | |  |
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