| | Caught between their secular beliefs and Islam, a secret network of former Muslims across the country lead double lives because they fear disownment and abuse. | | | Not long after Bill Shorten rose in Parliament last week to give a rousing defence of the ABC, Mitch Fifield sent managing director Michelle Guthrie another complaint. I rang people on both sides of politics to find out why, writes Laura Tingle. | | | It will not look like much of a match — or a showdown for that matter — but when Australia's largest warship HMAS Adelaide arrives at the Fijian port of Suva today, it will have an interesting neighbour. | | | US President Donald Trump says Russia should be attending a Group of Seven nations summit, a controversial idea even Moscow seems to reject, as he heads for a chilly reception at the meeting in Canada, where other G7 leaders are set to clash with him over trade. | | | US Special Counsel Robert Mueller files new criminal charges against President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and also a longtime business associate of Mr Manafort's with alleged ties to Russian intelligence. | | | The mild-mannered Brisbane dad against America's undefeated champion Terence Crawford — it's little wonder this bout is so hyped. Who should your bets be on? We've got all your talking points covered. | | | The US celebrity chef and host of CNN's food and travel-focused Parts Unknown television series, has been found dead in a hotel room in France. | | | Researchers in the United States and Australia design systems that can extract water from dry desert air without using fuel. | | | A small plane crashes through power lines and erupts into a ball of fire as it crashes in a suburban street in Melbourne, close to Moorabbin Airport, killing the pilot onboard. | | | The union representing Bureau of Meteorology workers accuses the weather office of gagging employees who used social media posts to draw attention to a pay freeze. | | | Nine months after fleeing one tragedy, the Rohingya widows trying to eke a a living in refugee camps could be swept away by another, writes Claire Mallinson. | | | Kim Jong-un's trip to Singapore marks a rare occasion the North Korean leader is heading overseas. And to get there he'll likely be relying on his Soviet-era jet that's not used to trips that far. | | | An Australian Kim Jong-un lookalike says he was detained and questioned upon his arrival in Singapore — days before a summit between the North Korean leader and US President Donald Trump. | | | Canadian-Chinese actress Anastasia Lin urges Australia to intervene in alleged "transplant abuse" in China, saying Australians are among the transplant tourists who go to China for procedures. | | | A 36-year-old man is charged with the stabbing murder of his five-year-old son in an alleged domestic incident at their home in Carlingford in Sydney's north-west. | | | Austria's Government says it is closing seven mosques, and it plans to expel imams in a crackdown on "political Islam" and foreign financing of religious groups. | | | 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. | | | Australia may be rank outsiders to make the football World Cup final, but we are global finalists when it comes to household debt. | | | 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. | | | Israeli troops have shot dead four Palestinians and wounded at least 618 others on Friday with live fire or tear gas used against protesters at the Gaza Strip border, medics say. | | | By Laura Tingle | | | By Claire Mallinson | | | By Euan Graham | | | By Alex McClintock | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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