| | | | A gunman fires through a glass door at a newspaper in the Maryland capital of Annapolis, spraying the newsroom with bullets and killing at least five people, authorities say. | | | | British company BAE Systems is chosen for Australia's largest peace-time warship building program, under a $35 billion contract to produce nine high-tech, anti-submarine frigates. | | | | The Walkley Award-winning journalist, who worked for the ABC from 1986 to 2013, struggled with Parkinson's disease in recent years. | | | | "Break rooms" are popping up around Australia, where people pay as little as $35 to suit up in protective gear and destroy bottles, plates and white goods with a baseball bat. But their customers aren't necessarily who you think. | | | | Plastic bag bans will take effect in Queensland and Western Australia, the new Child Care Subsidy will replace two existing payments, and Amazon will no longer ship to Australia. | | | | Colombia tops Group H thanks to a 1-0 win over Senegal, which becomes the first-ever team to be eliminated by the fair play rule. | | | | Thousands of people are stranded after Jetstar, AirAsia, Virgin Australia and Qantas cancel some flights to the Indonesian holiday hotspot, as Mount Agung erupts again. | | | | Three people die in a workshop accident involving a generator in far west New South Wales. | | | | Michael Welsh was taken from his family, stripped of his name and subjected to traumatic sexual abuse at Kinchela Boys Home in northern New South Wales. He is now seeking redress to make a better life, but is unsure he will even be eligible. | | | | The Senate was debating a motion on relaxing the importation restrictions on pepper spray to improve women's safety when David Leyonhjelm is alleged to have made the slur. | | | | Half a dozen deaths have occurred in the past decade on a small stretch of highway, 300 kilometres south-east of Darwin, and residents say they can all be linked to a policy aimed at reducing alcohol-related harm. | | | | SBS' acquisition of every single remaining game of the 2018 World Cup is a gift from heaven for football fans, the deal of the century for the public broadcaster and a complete disaster for Optus, writes Tracey Holmes. | | | | The issue of tax cuts is expected to dominate in the upcoming super Saturday by-elections in the seats of Longman and Braddon, with the Coalition calling the by-elections a referendum on corporate tax policy. | | | | South Asians will never escape the association with curry, whether we're being called "curry munchers" or pigeonholed as authorities on a dish largely invented by the British, writes Mridula Nath Chakraborty. | | | | The Queensland Law Reform Commission is about to hand down its report examining whether to decriminalise abortion, amid a strong push for change within the Labor State Government. | | | | As Sydney still reels from revelations that gay-hate killings have been happening for decades, a new play featuring an all-black cast examines the persecution of gays in Uganda — highlighting that the issue is in fact a universal one. | | | | Experts say a sure-fire way to clean up the baking and finance industry once and for all is for a big company to lose its license to operate — but so far ASIC has steered clear of the big four banks and AMP, despite their laundry list of wrongdoing. | | | | Australia wins a clear victory in a major trade dispute over its pioneering tobacco packaging law, with a panel of judges at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) rejecting arguments brought by Cuba, Indonesia, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. | | | | Lifting a ban on contingency fee deals, where a lawyer or law firm fronts the cost of legal action in return for a percentage of any money awarded to a client, risks propelling Australia towards a US-style litigation environment driven more by financial return than merit, writes Jason Betts. | | | | Solo yacht races don't always go to plan, but the Golden Globe Race took tragedy to a new level with madness, death and bad luck besetting the fleet. Now two Australians are trying their luck as the race is held again 50 years later. | | | | Iran star Sardar Azmoun retires from international football after copping online abuse over his lack of goals at the World Cup, saying social media trolls caused his mother to endure a flare-up of a serious illness. | | | | The meeting, held in Helsinki, will be the first official summit between the two leaders that will be closely watched by nervous US allies in Europe and critics of Russia in America. | | | | The Milky Way contains about 10 billion trillion trillion tonnes of greasy matter — or enough for 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter — according to research from a study by astronomers. | |  |
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