| | | | The Australian team's hearts have been broken again at the FIFA World Cup after a dispiriting 2-0 loss to already-eliminated Peru sees them finish bottom of Group C. | | | | The US Supreme Court hands Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries and rejecting the idea it represented unconstitutional religious discrimination. | | | | Bert van Marwijk built a team capable of limiting the damage against superior sides. But the plan lacked creativity when Australia's game needed to go to the next level, writes Dan Colasimone. | | | | An investigation by Australia's workplace watchdog into worker exploitation finds some foreign workers on Australian farms are "bonded like slaves" to dodgy labour hire contractors. | | | | There's a large gap in the community's understanding in two of the behaviours that can form part of an autism diagnosis, writes Andrew Cashin. | | | | Air pollution can lead to premature deaths and problems such as heart attacks and asthma, but the economic cost of this is not being pitted against the apparent benefits to the economy of burning fossil fuels, experts say. | | | | Fancy villas, high-rise apartment blocks, lakes, parks and sprawling road networks: Ghost cities in China have it all. Just one crucial element is missing — the people. | | | | The Socceroos took fans through the wringer as an offside call, rage over Tim Cahill, Denmark's bore draw with France and another fruitless campaign culminated in an emotionally-fraught World Cup exit, writes James Maasdorp. | | | | Australian actors Judy Davis and Richard Roxburgh form part of a 30-strong group of high profile artists, including writers and directors, to take the case against Netflix and other streaming giants to Canberra, calling on the Government to introduce quotas. | | | | NSW Police will consider issuing an apology after the release of findings on Sydney gay-hate killings and violence between 1976 and 2000, but admit it has "not been an easy job" determining whether bias was a motivating factor behind the deaths. | | | | A lacklustre Argentina was on course to finish on the bottom of its group, but an 86th-minute goal by defender Marcos Rojo helps the 2014 runners-up claim a great escape and knock Nigeria out of the tournament. | | | | A man inside a Hobart bar when shots were fired into the door says the shooter appeared to fire in a deliberate pattern — and that a bouncer moving towards the entrance at the time escaped because he stopped for a chat. | | | | Bar and club owners urge the Queensland Government to rethink compulsory ID scanning, arguing they are struggling to keep the doors open. | | | | Eureka Tower was completed 12 years ago but there's still one floor that's as empty as the day the last builder walked off site. We found out why it's still vacant and how you could get inside. | | | | President Bashar al-Assad is aiming to restore control over a strategically vital part of Syria at the borders with Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, building on his military's momentum elsewhere in the seven-year conflict. | | | | Papua New Guinea's Planning Minister defends the country's controversial national identification program amid allegations of corruption and mismanagement. | | | | Aside from the logistical challenges of managing elections across 17,000 islands, Indonesia's electoral commission is now dealing with a ghost scare. | | | | The UN is seeking a breakthrough in the three-year conflict that has killed more than 10,000 and caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with millions left facing starvation and disease. | | | | Following moves in Melbourne to ban bike-sharing after scores of illegal dumping, the global phenomenon looks like it is here to stay in Sydney — for the time being at least — as councils call for tougher regulation. | | | | The CSIRO has discovered more than 200 new species in the last twelve months, including many already in its own collection. | |  |
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