| | | | My Health Record is scrambling to put tough new restrictions on mobile phone apps that use its sensitive patient data, including an option to cancel if the companies damage the system's reputation. | | | | US President's national security adviser John Bolton repeats Mr Trump's combative warning to Iran against deploying any more threatening language toward the US. | | | | When the Piedimonte family began selling Italian food 60 years ago, they never imagined they'd create a cult following. Let alone one where some among that following don't want things to change. | | | | It sounds counterintuitive, but there are different "colours" of fat — white, brown and beige — and some of them can actually burn fat. How much you have of each shade can shape your risk of obesity and weight-related disorders like diabetes. | | | | Brock Pierce wants to harness the technology than made him very rich to turn storm-ravaged Puerto Rico into a hub of innovation, but while some locals see blockchain as a way to turn around their island's fortunes, others are not so sure. | | | | Australia has a big, bad debt problem. And we're bombarded with emotive ads selling debt through dreams of home ownership, new cars, tropical holidays and financial freedom that don't help, writes Michael Janda. | | | | Toronto police are still seeking a motive after a two people were killed and 13 others injured by a gunman on a busy restaurant-filled street. | | | | The host of The Daily Show faces boycotts and protests during his Australian tour next month after a stand-up routine from 2013 about Aboriginal women emerged on social media. | | | | Adelaide anaesthetist Dr Richard Harris and retired Perth vet Craig Challen are among the divers to be honoured today at a special ceremony at Government House in Canberra for their role in rescuing 12 boys and their coach from a cave in Thailand. | | | | A teenager is charged over the death of a woman at a short-stay apartment complex in Melbourne's CBD on Saturday morning. | | | | Australia should focus on "responsible innovation" in the face of technologies that threaten to worsen inequality, human rights commissioner Edward Santow says. | | | | While Labor floats the idea of an international student cap, Australian National University declares it will no longer increase student enrolments, citing a threat to quality posed by further expansion. | | | | A growing group of electric vehicle enthusiasts bypass manufacturers and convert their petrol-fuelled cars to run on electricity, but an engineer warns it should be attempted only by those with appropriate expertise. | | | | NAB bends to the pressure brought by the royal commission and will stop charging drought-affected farmers penalty interest rates for missed repayments, despite telling the inquiry just a few weeks ago that the practice met community expectations. | | | | China's regulator orders a vaccine manufacturer to recall all its products after finding it violated standards in the production of a rabies vaccine, in a breach that has angered authorities and the public. | | | | Britain's Interior Minister indicates London will not object to Washington seeking the death penalty against two British Islamic State militants if they are extradited to the United States. | | | | The term was once derogatory of Hobart's northern suburbs, the area "north of Creek Road" in Lenah Valley, and a poke at bogans. | | | | Fletcher Cox, an eight-year-old on the autism spectrum, struggles to cope at school, but with a little help from his pop idols, his mum has been able to take over his education. | | | | Australia's residential construction sector is likely to shift from boom to bust over the next two years, with the biggest drop in new work since the financial crisis a decade ago. | | | | A father who escaped jail time for juicing cannabis to treat his two daughters who suffer Crohn's disease is now considering sending one of them overseas for treatment. | | | | The world's biggest comic convention wraps up for another year, and we've got a bevy of new trailers and announcements to dig through. Here's some of the best. | |  |
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