| | | | Polling booths will be closing soon to allow counting to begin in five by-elections being held across four states today. Follow live. | | | | It's only natural to want to keep a loved one alive for as long as possible. But some intensive care specialists say sometimes, it's better to let go. | | | | Talking to voters it feels like election campaign promises — which have collectively added up to several hundred million dollars — barely rate a mention. People aren't even angry, just contemptuous of politics in general, whoever it is they are talking about, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | Early risers in Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe and South America are rewarded with a spectacular sight as they watch the Sun, Earth and Moon line up perfectly in the heavens. | | | | US Defence Secretary James Mattis describes reports America is preparing to strike Iran as "fiction", after senior figures in the Turnbull Government tell the ABC they believe the US is prepared to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. | | | | Family and fellow athletes pay tribute to snowboarder Ellie Soutter, who claimed Great Britain's only medal at last year's European Youth Olympic Winter Festival. | | | | When Loren's brother disappeared, finding her younger "sidekick" became her priority. Seven years on, she's helping other families to search for their own missing relatives. | | | | Australia produces millions of tonnes of construction and demolition waste each year and much of it now creates an environmentally friendly material to build roads, despite some early hurdles. | | | | Carrie Fisher's unexpected death from heart problems after the filming of The Last Jedi raised questions about how the character of Princess Leia would be treated in the next film, but we now have some answers. | | | | Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno says has been in contact with the British Government about ending Julian Assange's stay at the London embassy, where he has been since seeking asylum there in 2012. | | | | Nick Kyrgios exits the Atlanta Open amidst a chorus of boos after withdrawing from his quarter final mid-match with a hip injury. | | | | A fast-growing northern California wildfire kills a second firefighter as high winds drive it into the city of Redding, prompting mass evacuations and destroying scores of homes. | | | | The Rabbitohs face the Eels before the Storm look to stay top of the ladder against the Raiders, as the Panthers fight back to edge out the Sea Eagles. Follow all the live NRL scores, stats and commentary. | | | | The Giants take on the Saints, ahead of the Suns and Blues meeting at Carrara, and the Crows and Demons facing off, while the Tigers celebrate their win over the Magpies and the Cats get past the Lions. Follow all the live AFL scores, stats and commentary. | | | | Australia joins the United States and European nations in staying away from the polls to avoid legitimising an election which is almost guaranteed to continue Prime Minister Hun Sen's 33-year reign. | | | | When Eli Madigan is out with his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter and she needs to go to the bathroom, he doesn't know if he's in the right when he takes her into the women's toilet so she can avoid the men's room. But a child psychologist says that may not be the best idea. | | | | Los Angeles prosecutors say British actor Ed Westwick will not be prosecuted over three separate sexual assault allegations made against him last year during the #MeToo movement. | | | | A bad week for social media giants on the US stock market gets worse, with Twitter's share price falling 20.5 per cent one day after Facebook lost 19 per cent of its value. | | | | Daniel Mabil has an engineering degree from the University of Adelaide but has struggled to find a relevant job in Australia until he was recruited via a pilot program with one of the country's biggest engineering contractors. | | | | A pregnant woman stabbed multiple times in the stomach and chest at her Sydney home on Thursday is in a stable condition in hospital, with her family calling the attack "senseless, terrible and random". | | | | Australian researchers studying glaucoma identify new genetic markers that increase the risk of developing the damaging eye disease almost sixfold, giving hope for better prediction. | | | | She may have just started her aviation career, but that has not stopped this young pilot from flying thousands of kilometres across the Top End and Gulf of Carpentaria | |  |
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