| | | | Video from inside the Thai cave emerges, revealing the perilous passageways the rescue workers had to traverse to free the 12 trapped boys and their football coach. | | | | Dr Richard Harris and his dive partner Craig Challen have thanked the 12 young footballers and their coach for "placing their trust in us" following the successful Thai cave rescue. | | | | The only anomaly mentioned in an independent audit is one trip where the former deputy PM's media adviser stayed an extra night in Sydney to recover from an illness. | | | | Sean David Black told a woman he is accused of raping that he knew "all the politicians" and police, and would "shoot her in the head", a court hears. | | | | Independent MP Andrew Wilkie is leading calls for the federal police to launch an investigation into the role Australian spies played in bugging East Timor's cabinet rooms. | | | | Icelandic whalers are shown clambering over the corpse of a gigantic whale harpooned in the North Atlantic, with Sea Shepherd claiming it's the first blue whale to be deliberately killed since 1978. | | | | A woman who attacked two people with an axe at a Sydney convenience store had to be sedated after grabbing a paramedic in the aftermath of the incident, a court hears. | | | | The provocative British comedian is leaving a trail of "fake interview" destruction ahead of his new TV show due to air next week, duping US politicians including Sarah Palin and former vice-president Dick Cheney in elaborate pranks. | | | | As Australians start to receive their group certificates this week, new figures show hidden income, fudged expenses, undeclared rental income and simple errors cost the country billions in lost revenue in just 12 months. | | | | Indra Bhandari raped his 23-year-old co-worker in her own home. She had let him sleep on her couch after a night out, during which they kissed in a park and a pub. | | | | Japan wants to start commercial whaling again, and it's hoping a sweeping restructure of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will help it do just that. | | | | England's run to the World Cup semi-finals was exciting, fun and unexpected, but ultimately it was outclassed by the first team of real quality it faced in the knock-out rounds, writes Dan Colasimone. | | | | The RSPCA finds a mass grave on the western Sydney property of a licensed dog trainer and seizes a dozen greyhounds suffering emaciation. | | | | A young dad who posted a video on social media calling on Australian men to change rape culture, starting with their language, receives an outpouring of support. | | | | People living on Victoria's south-west coastline are reporting dead or dying barn owls at record rates. They want to know what is killing their native birds. | | | | A helicopter crashes near a regional Victorian airport, causing major damage to the chopper, but both the pilot and passenger avoid serious injury. | | | | A traumatised grazier makes an emotional appeal for people to lock up their dogs, warning she will shoot to kill what she believes are a pair of pets attacking and killing cattle on her property. | | | | Kevin Mason has been gathering seafood for his family for decades, but the practice recently landed the 71-year-old in trouble with the law. It's deeply angered Indigenous elders who want better legal protection for their community. | | | | Central Queensland is not famed for its great surf, but that could change with the creation of a wave pool at a man-made, inland lake that could produce world-first 2.4 metre waves. | | | | A man whose friend is a paraplegic after being struck by a driver distracted by her phone petitions Apple and Google to make phones automatically disable when they are in a vehicle. | | | | India's obsession with selfies and social media reaches a new low, with three road accident victims dying as onlookers take selfies and film videos on their phones instead of rendering aid. | | | | It's no secret more Australians are obese than in generations past, and with our expanding waistlines has come an increase in interventions to try and control that weight. But these interventions are not being taken up equally between men and women. | | | | Pilots Ross Kelly and Douglas Haywood — both from Sydney — are in hospital in Johannesburg after a 64-year-old plane crashed into a factory in South Africa on Tuesday. | | | | Researchers have found that introduced black rats are reducing the number of fish on coral reefs. | |  |
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