| | | | Passengers are becoming used to flights being cancelled due to weather, or even volcanoes, but now a new trend is beginning to upset travel plans across the country. Airlines are cancelling flights, even entire routes, because there is nobody to fly the plane. | | | | Police say a 19-year-old woman is fatally assaulted in a short-stay apartment in Melbourne's CBD after a dispute between two groups of young people at a party. | | | | Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt orders his department to stop paying social media influencers, after it was revealed taxpayer funds were being paid to Instagram celebrities. | | | | A man launches a personal war on waste targeting foil used by hairdressers, and collects one tonne of metal from six hairdressers after just seven months. | | | | George Telek has been chewing 'buai' — a highly addictive mixture of betel nut, slaked lime powder and mustard — for most of his life. But when doctors were forced to remove a cancerous mouth tumour earlier this year, he now says he's too "scared to chew". | | | | For most businesses, being located in a mobile blackspot would be unworkable. But for Karen and Stephen Maxwell, it's a feature they — and their customers — are learning to embrace. | | | | The US President's tweet comes as the New York Times reports his former lawyer Michael Cohen secretly recorded a conversation with him before the 2016 presidential election in which they discussed a potential payment to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr Trump. | | | | All kinds of people chase adventure in the Northern Territory — none more so than in the medical field, where tropical diseases, conditions long since eradicated in other developed nations and unique predators makes for a fascinating array of patients. | | | | Remember when you could watch sport without seeing a gambling ad? The thing is, kids don't. A large majority — 75 per cent — of kids aged 8–16 years believe that betting on sport is normal, writes Louise Glanville. | | | | India removes a controversial tax on sanitary pads, in a move hailed by campaigners who say it will help more girls to go to school during their periods and boost their job prospects. | | | | Geelong edges the Melbourne Demons in an enthralling contest thanks to a winning goal after the siren, following the Sydney Swans' seismic shock loss to the lowly Gold Coast Suns. | | | | Far from cocooning their students in a sanitary environment, a growing number of public schools are allowing children to race around on bikes, fly off ramps in crates and slide down trees — and they say it's paying great dividends. | | | | ANZ CEO Shayne Elliot apologises on behalf of the bank after a former employee was forced to recount details of a past rape as part of the bank's defence in a sexual harassment case in New York. | | | | The NRL's senior referees manager says the league's officiating needs to improve following the latest high-profile refereeing blunder during the Canberra Raiders' 28-24 loss to the Cronulla Sharks. | | | | James Gunn apologised for the tweets and denies ever engaging in the behaviour, but Disney says the statements are "indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values". | | | | After ordering the closure of the Canidrome race track, authorities find on the company's property 533 greyhounds, including a dozen suffering from skin disease and other conditions, and are now making arrangements for their care. | | | | Children's height and weight would be measured every two years unless parents opt-out as part of an ambitious proposal to tackle Australia's obesity epidemic. | | | | According to The Wall Street Journal, the firm has a Russian non-profit client with ties to the Kremlin. But Facebook says Crimson Hexagon is cooperating and so far its investigation has not found evidence the firm obtained Facebook or Instagram information inappropriately. | | | | If the world held up a mirror to the US President that reflected weakness rather than strength, it might give him cause to change his behaviour. But his erratic behaviour seems to have left leaders — including Malcolm Turnbull — paralysed, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | How a broken-down rental car helped Jurgen Otto rediscover a tiny dancing spider first spotted 23 years ago. | |  |
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