| | | | An Australian teenager jailed in Lebanon on accusations he was trying to join Islamic State has allegedly confessed he was encouraged to become a foreign fighter by the head of a Sydney-based charity. | | | | A couple living outside Melbourne, about 7 kilometres from the nearest fibre connection, are told they will have to pay up to $1.2 million to have the NBN's best service connected to their home. | | | | Life after the Big Three may have started ominously for Queensland, but coach Kevin Walters believes the Maroons have come back from a "much worse place" to lift the trophy after NSW's 22-12 State of Origin series opening win in Melbourne. | | | | A day after a well-deserved GDP party, leading economists fear this is as good as it's going to get and the economy is now vulnerable to an extremely sharp downturn, writes David Taylor. | | | | Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani says US President Donald Trump's tough line forced North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to soften his stance. | | | | Some people can't imagine the coast without them. Curious Sydney investigates how the city came to have the largest number of ocean pools in Australia, who created them and why there probably won't be any new ones built. | | | | Some Australian sex workers cannot afford to pay rent or buy food as US laws banning online advertising slash their business and drives down their wages. | | | | In what is viewed as one of the first electoral tests of the #MeToo movement's political clout, Californian voters oust the judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman to only a short jail sentence. | | | | They're unlikely bedfellows, but trading barbs is part of their trade. They're all trained to play the game, whether it's Question Time or on stage at Stonewall, writes Gary Nunn. | | | | US President Donald Trump commutes the life sentence of Alice Johnson, who had served more than 20 years in prison on a first-time drug offense, after Kim Kardashian West personally lobbied Mr Trump last week. | | | | For the first time in recorded history, less than half of all working Australians have a permanent full-time job with leave entitlements, new research reveals. | | | | US President Donald Trump attacks media reports questioning the First Lady's recent absence from public view, saying the press has been "so unfair, and vicious". | | | | Pyongyang's playbook has repeated for decades in cycles of provocation, crisis, engagement, negotiation, and breakdown. However, it has played out at a faster pace since Kim Jong-un took power, writes Euan Graham. | | | | Facebook Inc admits it has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies including Huawei, the world's third largest smartphone maker, which has come under scrutiny from US intelligence agencies on security concerns. | | | | The FIFA World Cup is finally here, and you know what that means: Prima donna footballers swanning around in the finest on-field fashion world sport has to offer. Which of the 32 kits is your favourite? | | | | Shane Snellman's family say their uncle "was always in trouble for something". His body was found wrapped in a carpet at a Sydney home last week. | | | | A UK medical tribunal rules a gynaecologist who was involved in a delivery which resulted in an unborn baby being decapitated during delivery can return to work. | | | | A saltwater crocodile has eaten a dog that made a mockery of it for years, to the horror of onlookers gathered to watch Pippa perform her favourite trick — running at Casey the crocodile to scare her back into the river. | | | | What price do you put on life? That's the question Rick Gerring is asking the WA Government two years after his brother was killed by a shark. | | | | Will the Queer Eye team work their makeover magic in a NSW town? Fans of the rebooted 2000s hit are buzzing as they spot their favourite presenters in Canberra and Yass. | | | | A helicopter pilot working on the Snowy 2.0 project heard a mechanical "screaming" noise shortly before crashing in the Kosciuszko National Park, safety investigators say. | |  |
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