| | | | A long-awaited announcement on who will build the Navy's next fleet of anti-submarine warships is delayed as cabinet debates whether to include a Western Australia-based company in the $35 billion project. | | | | An explosion rocks a stadium where Zimbabwe's President addressed a campaign rally, with state media calling it an assassination attempt but saying the president is not hurt. | | | | A surging US dollar helps propel the ASX ahead of the global pack in the first half of the year, but does it have the legs for the second half? | | | | An Indonesian village is shaking its infamous reputation for being home to an unusually high concentration of people living with a wide spectrum of mental disorders and re-establishing itself as a tourism destination for arts and crafts. | | | | Since last spring, several hundred thousand and possibly more than 1 million ethnic minorities — mostly Uighur — in Xinjiang have been interned in mass detention facilities. The ABC interviewed Uighur individuals in Australia who have family members or friends currently detained in China. | | | | Former co-stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie tie the knot with a church service and a celebration at a 900-year-old castle in Scotland owned by the bride's family. | | | | As women in Saudi Arabia celebrate their right to drive from today, some of the women who campaigned hardest to get them there will not be allowed to join them. | | | | One of Australia's largest salt lakes might hold the key to helping with a worldwide shortage of a high-grade fertiliser that can be extracted from the salty crust. | | | | She's a Netflix villain, one of the reluctant stars of its latest true crime series Evil Genius, but to me Marjorie Diehl Armstrong was a complex woman seeking understanding and an accomplice to help vindicate her, writes Kathyrn M. Whiteley. | | | | The Liberal Party wins the Darling Range by-election with a near double-digit swing, regaining the seat vacated by disgraced ex-Labor MP Barry Urban, with voters punishing the McGowan Government in its first electoral test. | | | | Unions and fruit and vegetable farmers can work together to end the exploitation of overseas workers, says an expert in labour supply and migration. | | | | Afshan Ashiq is a rising soccer star, but it was a rock thrown at a policeman that scored her viral fame and a Bollywood spin-off. Now, thousands of women are following her onto the field, as the region uses sport to deter young people from violent street protests. | | | | It is a recurring nightmare for New South Wales and its fans — a Queensland State of Origin comeback. But there is doubt the Maroons can claw their way back into this year's series. | | | | Significant progress has been made in relation to Indonesia's democratisation over the past 20 years since the resignation of authoritarian president Suharto. Nonetheless, a culture of impunity regarding historical human rights abuses persists, writes Olivia Nicole Tasevski. | | | | Turkish politicians campaign to massive crowds for the last remaining hours ahead of Sunday's critical presidential and parliamentary elections, widely viewed as the most crucial in Turkey for decades. | | | | The Vatican tribunal convicts a former Holy See diplomat and sentences him to five years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican. | | | | With Germany only seconds away from its World Cup hopes lying in tatters, Toni Kroos steps up and whips in an incredible free-kick to pinch a 2-1 win over Sweden and keep his team's hopes alive. | | | | 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. | | | | The chances of limiting climate change appear to be growing slimmer by the day — and this may have big implications for Australia's wildlife. | | | | 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!' | |  |
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