| | | | Paul Manafort orchestrated a multi-million-dollar conspiracy to evade US tax and banking laws, and paid cash for purchases including a $28,000 watch, a $20,000 jacket and $8 million worth of real estate, prosecutors say as the trial against the former Trump campaign chairman begins. | | | | If you're in your 40s, you may have noticed a slump in your happiness. You're not alone — you could be sitting in the trough of the happiness curve. But it's not all bad news. | | | | The families of the 239 people who went missing when Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared will have more questions than answers from the latest report into the incident. | | | | The iconic "fake Uluru" roadhouse on the Pacific Highway north of Newcastle is destroyed in a fierce blaze and police are urging anyone with information to come forward. | | | | Former White House press boss Sean Spicer has put pen to paper to reveal life inside the Trump White House — and settle a few scores along the way. | | | | The UK has a new plan to protect its citizens from heat, flood and fire from climate change. Australia has no such plan, nor any leadership when it comes to mitigating threats to our shared life-support systems — stable climate, water, biodiversity and productive land, writes David Shearman. | | | | The conviction of a Bandidos bikie for gun trafficking shows the serious crime the gang is capable of as they muscle their way into controlling the drug trade in north-west Tasmania, police say. | | | | Today the Bureau of Meteorology will confirm it was the hottest July ever in south-east Queensland — and one expert says with climate change and El Nino, the mercury is set to keep rising. | | | | Airservices Australia's internal briefing documents show the government agency knew it had contaminated airports across the country yet chose to publicly downplay its responsibility, the ABC can reveal. | | | | As he planned a terrorist attack on Australian soil, Agim Kruezi had no idea his most trusted friend was actually an undercover AFP officer who spent months building a case against the young radicalised Muslim. | | | | Senior Iranian officials say "the United States is not trustworthy" and rejects President Donald Trump's offer of talks without preconditions, saying the US withdrawal from a landmark nuclear deal was "illegal". | | | | A US court settlement allowing 3D-printable gun plans to be posted online fuels calls for a national adoption of the NSW approach to outlawing blueprints. | | | | The American actor, who is best known for playing Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in MASH, says he is making his condition public to reassure those with the illness that it is possible to stay active. | | | | This year has been the fourth-driest April to June on record. So why do we get droughts? Are all droughts the same? And how do they affect other parts of the world? | | | | The Turnbull Government believes the National Energy Guarantee can solve the vexing issues that have troubled Australian politics for more than a decade, but the territory with the smallest jurisdiction has the biggest concerns. ACT Climate Change Minister Shane Rattenbury explains why. | | | | A mock refugee camp in Sydney's west is recreating some of the traumatic conditions and scenarios thousands of people face every day around the world. | | | | Facebook identifies a coordinated political influence campaign through dozens of inauthentic accounts on its platform ahead of November's US midterm election. | | | | The devastation of the drought has captured the nation's attention, and thousands of people want to know the best way to help. | | | | A New South Wales restaurant owner is accused of underpaying a chef who worked months of 12-hour days, six days a week and was only paid for 38 hours a week. | | | | An eight-year-old Adelaide girl who couldn't get to Katy Perry's concert because she just had brain surgery is surprised when the American superstar drops by her house to sing a few of her hit songs. | | | | The Federal Government will change the law to reassure Australians their privacy will be protected in the My Health Record system, by requiring a court order to access information and by deleting data if patients opt out. | | | | Nurses have been punched in the face and kicked in the head by a patient at Canberra's secure mental health unit, the ACT nursing union alleges. | |  |
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