| | | | China announces retaliatory tariffs on $US60 billion worth of American goods, ranging from liquefied natural gas to some aircraft, and warns of further measures. | | | | When Zita Stark moved to Australia in 2012, she didn't settle in a major city — but she found the life that she'd hoped for. | | | | Osama bin Laden's mother speaks publicly about her son for the first time, saying she warned him to stay away from religious radicals and that he never admitted to her what he was doing. | | | | As Julian Assange's six-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London is drawing to a close, the ABC's daily news podcast The Signal has been investigating what will happen when his time in the embassy runs out. | | | | Fancy a cut-price case of the Barossa Valley's famous "Benfords" wine? China's third largest online shopping platform Pinduoduo might have just the right deal for you. | | | | The Carteret Islands were the first place in the world to require population relocations due to climate change, with predictions they would be submerged by 2015. Photographer Darren James visited the string of coral atolls and discovered how they have coped with these challenges. | | | | Australian Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo says his decision to quit Red Bull at the end of the season was one of the most difficult of his career. | | | | Aboriginal people have been dealt a "cold slap in the face" due to policy failures and the rejection of a referendum push, former federal Aboriginal affairs minister Fred Chaney says. | | | | A bizarre situation has long perplexed steak lovers in the self-proclaimed "beef capital of Australia". Now central Queensland graziers are trying to bring back local beef. | | | | The Port of Echuca and its fleet of historic paddle-steamers are known across Australia, but a downturn in the tourism precinct's fortunes is proving disturbing for locals. | | | | On the 200th anniversary of Emily Brontë's birth, myths about the Wuthering Heights author abound. But was she really an antisocial recluse who punched her own dog? | | | | Naming major infrastructure after notable — and sometimes notorious — people has many pitfalls, not least that one day we may forget why the person was notable in the first place, writes Gary Nunn. | | | | Antarctica is home to expeditioners all year round, but how do they deal with all the waste that's created on the icy continent? | | | | Bring out your sawfish trophies, for they could give scientists vital information about one of the most threatened marine species in the world. | | | | Less than two months after a landmark US-North Korea summit in Singapore, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says North Korea's continued work on weapons programs is inconsistent with its leader's commitment to denuclearise. | | | | A subscription service to watch "a new movie every day" run by the co-founder of Netflix is proving popular in the US, but cinema operators in Australia are unlikely to support giving away such deep discounts, an analyst says. | | | | Making a film isn't cheap or easy, but these three filmmakers managed to make feature-length films largely on their own — and score a spot at the Melbourne International Film Festival. | | | | Dolphins, manatees and even a whale shark wash up dead in Florida because of what locals say is a "red tide" caused by an algal bloom in the Gulf of Mexico. | | | | The PM says a donation of nearly half-a-billion dollars to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, which has links to big resources companies, has been done transparently, despite the body itself not asking for the money. | | | | Islamic State militants killed her family and friends, sold her children in slave markets and raped her up to 10 times day. But Yazidi woman Berivan Halo counts herself as one of the lucky ones. | | | | Family members of former residents at the Garrawarra Centre for Aged Care say they are disturbed by a major privacy breach by NSW Health. | | | | International doctors are being deemed incompetent and stripped of their registration after years of work despite a shortage of medical professionals in rural areas. | | | | A memory card containing hundreds of photos of a German family's dream holiday is found by the beach on Queensland's North Stradbroke Island. Now the search is on to reunite the visitors with their precious memories. | |  |
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