| | | | Thai authorities say they have a "limited amount of time" to get 12 boys and their soccer coach out of a flooded cave in the country's north, as they race against worsening weather and lowered oxygen levels in the underground complex. | | | | Five years after Australia's combat operations officially ended in Afghanistan, an elite Australian soldier remains on the front line in the war-torn country, fighting Islamic State militants. | | | | "What if" scenarios aren't usually really considered in politics. Politicians fend off questions about them as hypotheticals, but the GST deal is an interesting one to consider, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | She's an Aboriginal elder of the stolen generation; he's a middle aged white male with Celtic roots. Aunty Lillian and Sean may fight like cats and dogs, but together they drive their town's NAIDOC celebrations, and in their words, "personify reconciliation". | | | | British police scour sections of Salisbury and Amesbury in southwest England, searching for a small vial feared to be contaminated with traces of the deadly nerve agent Novichok. | | | | A global chemical weapons watchdog says "various chlorinated organic chemicals" were found at the site in Syria where a chemical attack is suspected of being carried out in April. | | | | Belgium has four players on absolute fire who are helping the Red Devils live up to their billing — at long last — in reaching a World Cup semi-final, making a statement by sinking tournament favourite Brazil. | | | | More than a dozen drivers say they have been stung by an elaborate scam, alleging they have been blamed for damage they didn't incur and are either sued or threatened with defamation action when they try to hit back. | | | | Thai rescuers deploy helicopters to search for 23 people missing after a boat carrying Chinese tourists sank, with one official saying he fears there is "no chance" of any more survivors. | | | | When turmoil or tragedy unfold at one end of the phone, it's the job of triple zero operator to remain calm. And whether the call involves a murder, a drug overdose or a woman in labour, they have to think fast. | | | | Hackers based in China have infiltrated one of Australia's most prestigious universities, the Australian National University in Canberra, and the threat is yet to be shut down. | | | | Millions and billions of dollars? The royal commission has heard about that, but this week it heard how deductions and fees costing just a few dollars are taking food out of the mouths of some of Australia's most vulnerable people, Daniel Ziffer writes. | | | | With a squad valued at over a billion dollars, France always looked like World Cup contenders on paper, but now it is proving it has the game to go all the way, writes Dan Colasimone. | | | | The weather impacts home sales in all sorts of ways. But if you are holding out for that perfect sunny spring day to stage your home open, a look at the sales data may lead you to reconsider. | | | | The 68-year-old man found dead at his home the morning after fatally shooting his two teenage children is identified by police. | | | | For some, retirement is all golf and grandkids, but for others the transition to life after work can be harder. Here's what you told us about life as a retiree. | | | | Queensland LNP members call time on the 28-year political career of Ian Macdonald and fellow senator Barry O'Sullivan, dumping them from the top spots on the party's Senate ticket. | | | | Police lay attempted murder charges against Queensland man Zlatko Sikorsky, with investigators alleging he attacked a 32-year-old woman on two occasions in June. | | | | A possum's sweet tooth has come back to bite it, after the marsupial got its head stuck in an empty jar of Nutella outside a home south of Brisbane. | |  |
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