| | The man accused of the Claremont serial killings is committed to stand trial in WA's Supreme Court after formally pleading not guilty to the murders of Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon, and the sexual assault of two other women. | | | European correspondent James Glenday recounts his first-hand experience in the fire-ravaged Greek town of Mati, which is now home to an almost apocalyptic scene of destruction and misery. | | | Officers say the woman's body was found near a major highway in Sydney's Upper North Shore. Her flatmate has been charged with murder. | | | Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen can be heard talking about a potential payment for a Playboy model's story about an alleged affair in a recorded conversation — Mr Trump is heard discussing whether to "pay with cash". | | | The Northern Territory Coroner has released damning findings in relation to the suicide death of a 53-year-old worker at the Department of Children and Families. | | | A year on from 13 Reasons Why, Netflix has stirred controversy again after promoting a series some have accused of "fat-shaming", though its stars have implored critics to watch the series before casting judgement. | | | Joeys on the couch. A bird of prey at the kitchen table. Snakes in the back room. Welcome to the world of one of Australia's most experienced kangaroo rescuers. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT | | | New affordability tests for loans are making some borrowers "prisoners" to their current loans, unable to switch to cheaper alternatives, and any relief offered by less-regulated "shadow" banks may only be short-lived. | | | Revelations that more than $200,000 in public funds were used to prop up a lavish fundraiser prompt calls for NSW Arts Minister Don Harwin and the director of the Powerhouse Museum to step down. | | | New Zealand Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters takes another trans-Tasman swipe, saying Australia copied the Kiwi flag and should get a new one. | | | Morgan Taylor was 12 when she was first diagnosed with Crohn's disease, 18 when the disease returned and tore up her insides, 19 when she started juicing cannabis leaves to heal herself, and 20 when her dad was arrested on drug charges. | | | A defence lawyer tells the Supreme Court in Brisbane his client Lindy Williams admits to cutting up her partner George Gerbic's body with an electric saw, but that does not mean she is responsible for his murder. | | | The Federal Government is increasingly likely to have to abandon its claim that the NBN will achieve a commercial return on its massive investment, as competition from mobile internet heats up, according to credit ratings agency. | | | A blast near a polling station kills at least 24 people as Pakistanis vote in a knife-edge general election pitting cricket hero Imran Khan against the party of jailed ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. | | | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says that the Government is spending record amounts on health and hospitals. RMIT ABC Fact Check runs the numbers. | | | When Dee Banks discovered her baby had had a stroke while still in the womb, the diagnosis was made even harder by a lack of information. Around 300 children and babies are affected by stroke in Australia every year. | | | The founder of a famous Australian bakery says he is lucky to be alive as he continues to battle a dangerous flesh-eating bacteria. | | | A bedside court hearing for an 18-year-old woman charged over a stabbing at Renmark High School yesterday is postponed. Her 17-year-old classmate is now in a stable condition. | | | A female driver describes how two inmates who escaped from Greenough Regional Prison tried to car-jack her vehicle while fleeing authorities, as one prisoner remains at large following a mass breakout. | | | The re-education centres, which according to the US represent "the largest mass incarceration of a minority population in the world today", are linked to a return to core Communist ideology under President Xi Jinping and an obsession with "stability maintenance", writes Michael Clarke. | | | Bill Shorten partly explains the presence of a dog at Labor backbencher Emma Husar's office, saying it was her son's therapy dog. Channel Seven last night showed vision of one of Ms Husar's staff walking the dog and picking up after it. | | | A Melbourne woman has "zero faith" in the Federal Government's controversial My Health Record system after her attempts to correct her personal medical details — which wrongly said she had been prescribed the drug Valium — turned into a "bureaucratic nightmare". | | | Studying how a set of conjoined twins know what the other is seeing "validates" a ground-breaking approach to brain implants that could have come straight from the sci-fi TV series Black Mirror. | | | Technology was meant to be the panacea that cured all of sport's problems, but recent controversies in both rugby codes have shown that it is not the case. | | | By Michael Clarke | | | By Tony Walker | | | By Jarrod Haar | | | By chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici | | | | | 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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