| | | | When Akshay Venkatesh was 13 years old and had completed his high school studies, he told the ABC he was aiming to "maybe become a mathematician". Well, that came true — and he's now achieved his subject's highest honour. | | | | Melbourne suffers its first annual price drop in almost six years, becoming the nation's worst-performing housing market. On a national level, Australia's dwelling values are falling at their fastest rate since 2012. | | | | Sitting on a beach, bestselling author Jill Stark got friends to take a photo of her, which she Instagrammed with the hashtag 'blessed'. Really, she says, she was "dying inside". | | | | As Jarrod Lyle faces the final stages of his life, his biographer and friend Mark Hayes shares the Australian golfer's touching message to his many well-wishers. | | | | The South Australian city of Whyalla is set to welcome more tourists due to the popular annual display of giant cuttlefish spawning. | | | | We hear a lot about white South Africa farmers under attack, but another group of landholders is being killed in far greater numbers and we've barely heard a whimper, writes Michael Jensen. | | | | The fundamental flaws in My Health Record haven't been fixed. This ill-conceived platform is neither useful nor safe enough to proceed, write Katharine Kemp, Bruce Baer Arnold and David Vaile. | | | | Aggrieved regional bank customers are descending on Parliament House to "speed-date" crossbench senators, making short pitches on their plight to win support for a bill to extend the time the banking royal commission has devoted to exploring their issues. | | | | Providing thicker plastic bags for free is worse than pointless. It encourages the same wasteful habits, but with more damaging material, write Kim Borg and Edwin Ip. | | | | A man left to languish in a central Queensland jail over medical record delays has served more than two years too long, earning the sympathy of Queensland's Chief Justice, but is not expected to receive any compensation. | | | | When women stand up to bad behaviour, sometimes it gets them slapped, as French student Marie Laguerre found out. Perhaps a trial in the UK has another answer: make misogyny a hate crime, writes Nicola Heath. | | | | Syrian refugee Kassem Eid, who survived the Ghouta sarin gas attack in 2013, says there is no help coming from the US, EU or UN and that only a "miracle" can end Syria's conflict now in its eighth year. | | | | The cost of things like surgeries should be given to patients before they even have their first appointment, according to Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy. | | | | US President Donald Trump calls for his attorney-general to end special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russia's election intervention, a day after Mr Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort goes on trial on charges of tax evasion and bank fraud. | | | | Kristen Willoughby was so sick her husband had to shower and dress her. But after a lung transplant, she not only had her life back, but was able to run a marathon | | | | Australia's largest cosmetic surgery clinic is described by a whistleblower nurse as the "McDonald's of the industry" and used doctors with no experience or training in cosmetic surgery, a parliamentary inquiry is told. | | | | Brisbane today gets a statue to a long running mayor, but for years it's largely been sportspeople — not scientists, writers, or politicians who've been immortalised in bronze. | | | | The "Australian ingredients" in your packaged pork might just be smoke and water, local butchers have warned amid concerns new labelling laws are not clear enough. | | | | As beachgoers in Finland's north seek relief from sweltering temperatures with a dip in the ocean, they are joined by three reindeer doing exactly the same thing. | | | | Generation Y will shape the property market over the next 10 years as they balance affordability and space requirements, according to BIS Oxford Economics. | | | | The consumer watchdog hopes new figures on the recalled Takata airbags will put manufactures on notice to replace "ticking time bombs" as quickly as possible. | | | | Authorities in China's south-east are confiscating, destroying and even exhuming coffins in accordance with a widely panned "zero burial" policy. | |  |
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