| | | | Ms Bishop's announcement comes after she was knocked out in the first round of the three-way Liberal leadership contest which installed Scott Morrison as PM on Friday. | | | | New PM Scott Morrison concedes Australians are "disgusted" by the leadership turmoil in Canberra, as leaked messages from a WhatsApp group reveal how damaging and personal the battle within the party became. | | | | John McCain, the maverick Republican senator who survived a Vietnam War prison camp and ran unsuccessfully for president, has died after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer. | | | | It may not have ended the drought that has crippled much of the nation, but some of our farmers are feeling something they haven't touched for a long time — rain. | | | | Anxiety, the most common mental health condition in Australia, can be a crippling disorder. But some people manage to harness the anxiety that threatens to upend them, and use its power productively. | | | | China's largest ride-hailing firm DiDi Chuxing is suspending its Hitch services nationwide, the company said in a statement, a day after police said a ride-sharing passenger in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou was raped and killed by a driver. | | | | A volcano on the north coast of Papua New Guinea erupts sending plumes of ash 15km into the air and forcing 2,000 villagers to flee from lava flows. | | | | It's the second time Sri Lanka-born Michelle de Kretser has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, this time for her novel The Life To Come. | | | | Sunshine Coast Lightning go back-to-back to claim the Super Netball title for the second time in a row with a 62-59 victory over the West Coast Fever. | | | | Online vigilantes call for people to "hunt" youth offenders of African descent, alarming migrant families in Melbourne's west who are trying to bring communities together. | | | | Dylan Napa faces four weeks on the sidelines after the match review committee charges him with grade three dangerous contact following a sickening, head-first tackle on Andrew McCullough in what was a carbon copy of his round 11 collision with Corbin Sims. | | | | A man is rescued after his boat hits a whale and sinks, leaving him floating alone in the water for more than two hours, off the western side of Queensland's Fraser Island. | | | | Many consider the aroma of durians so offensive that it is banned on many public transport systems in South-East Asia, but Chinese buyers are flocking to Malaysia just to get a taste of the love-it-or-hate-it fruit. | | | | Strong winds have died down but officials warn torrential rains remain a big threat in Hawaii, while bushfires have also left people homeless. | | | | The Dragons take on the Bulldogs at Kogarah after the Sharks are too strong for the Knights in the Shire. Follow all the live scores, stats and commentary. | | | | Melbourne take on the Giants at the MCG and later St Kilda hosts North Melbourne at Docklands, after the Eagles take care of the Lions. Follow all the live scores, stats and commentary. | | | | In the first papal visit to Ireland in 39 years, Pope Francis says the Catholic Church's failure to adequately address the clerical child abuse crimes there "remains a source of pain and shame for the Catholic community". | | | | In 1862, a gang of bushrangers pulled off an audacious robbery. They escaped with a "staggering amount" of gold and cash — but not before a gunfight that saw one officer shot in the testicles. | | | | They were very anti-authority, very punk and didn't take any nonsense from the humans. Now it's even more necessary to make that sort of children's television, says the show's puppeteer Tina Matthews. | | | | A ban on Chinese tourists to the tiny Pacific nation of Palau is leaving hotels empty, an airline in limbo and shown the power China has over its vacationing middle class. | |  |
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