| | | | Fairfax and Nine announce a $4 billion merger to create an integrated media giant and erase the Fairfax name. The news sent Fairfax shares soaring, while Nine shares plunged. | | | | Media diversity has been sacrificed for survival in the new digital media landscape where Google and Facebook dominate, but there's more at stake than advertising revenue, writes Stephen Long. | | | | An emotional Dick Smith announces he is closing his food business to avoid bankruptcy, saying the organisation's aim to be "as Australian as you can get" cannot compete with the likes of Aldi. | | | | The well-known newsreader for SBS World News announces that she will be leaving the broadcaster. | | | | Host of The Daily Show in the US, Trevor Noah, says he understands the offence caused and has stopped telling the joke, but says comedians will always offend some people. | | | | A suspected "firework device" exploded outside the US Embassy in Beijing on Thursday wounding the 26-year-old male suspect and no one else, according to police, but the embassy — in a separate statement — described the device as a bomb. | | | | Former political adviser Sean Black is sentenced to five years' jail for raping his former wife more than a decade ago, pushing her down stairs and crushing her hand in a door. | | | | The director of Sydney's Powerhouse Museum, Dolla Merrillees, will not continue in the role after revelations more than $200,000 in public money was used to plug holes in the budget of a luxurious fundraiser. | | | | Feral cats may pose a bigger threat to critically endangered Leadbeater's possums than ecologists previously thought, after a cat is caught hunting possums inside an artificial nesting box. | | | | A 17-year-old who admitted stabbing a man in the neck is released on bail by a judge in the NT who says Don Dale Youth Detention Centre is "not fit for purpose" and the boy is better off at home. | | | | Sydney's falling apartment prices look set to continue into the next decade, with leading economists and real estate analysts predicting ongoing construction and the rise of so-called zombie blocks will pull prices lower. | | | | Annie Greenberg has had to dramatically adjust her lifestyle since getting divorced nearly 10 years ago — she is one of many older women experts say are missing out financially from marriage bust-ups. | | | | Scientists have found tantalising hints there might be microbial critters lurking somewhere on the Red Planet but still haven't found definitive proof of life, either alive today or long dead. | | | | The grieving family of Perth father John Rigden, who was killed by his psychotic son William, call for an overhaul of WA's mental health system to try to prevent a similar tragedy from happening. | | | | Chris Froome is yanked off his bike by police after a difficult 17th stage which sees him fall further behind teammate Geraint Thomas. | | | | This Asian tourist poses for a photo outside Windsor Castle when a guardsman barges into her. | | | | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull steps in to try to stop the exodus from the My Health Record scheme by promising to address privacy concerns. | | | | Opposition education spokesman Jarrod Bleijie appears to invoke Kevin Spacey's psychopathic character — US president Frank Underwood — wearing cufflinks with the character's initials to budget estimates, and prompting accusations of intimidation from the Attorney-General. | | | | Concerns are raised about the impact the Fairfax-Nine merger will have on regional newspapers and the diversity of news coverage across Australia. | | | | Sentences are handed down to a group of almost 100 men in Papua New Guinea for their involvement in the brutal killing of seven people, including two children, who they thought were conducting sorcery. | | | | Jason Fragos is still numb, days after 26 people burned to death in the coastal villa his family owns during the most devastating fires in Greece's recent history. | |  |
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