| | | | More than 1 million preliminary NAPLAN test results will not be released today as planned, as state and territory education bosses dispute their validity in a revolt against the national testing body. | | | | CSIRO researchers in Queensland have developed a game-changing technology that produces hydrogen from ammonia, allowing the fuel to be shipped safely around the world. | | | | Kadiga and Youssif know how some people feel when they walk past their teenage children. It's all over their TV screens and social media feeds. | | | | Disgraced former governor-general Peter Hollingworth has been named in several complaints to the Anglican diocese of Melbourne over his continuing status as a bishop in the church. | | | | The 23-time grand slam winner says she pulled out of this week's Rogers Cup in Montreal due to personal issues and mostly feeling like she "was not a good mum". | | | | Many of us choose to buy "eco-friendly" household products to minimise our environmental footprint. But are brands labelled "green" or "eco-friendly" really more sustainable than others? | | | | Anabel Pandiella lives in a "a two-and-a-half bedder" with her husband and two kids, but she wouldn't change it even though all their friends live in houses. | | | | A major score-rigging scandal engulfs one of Tokyo's medical schools, with an investigation revealing the university deliberately marked down all female applicants to limit the number of women studying at the school. | | | | In a series of Twitter posts and a letter to employees, Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk says he wants to take the company private, sending shares soaring. | | | | In the 1970s, Taronga Zoo ran an experimental breeding program for white ibis, but over subsequent decades the much-maligned bird has gone through an enormous perception change. | | | | Demand for hay and grain on Australian farms is headed for "uncharted waters" as Australian struggle to find feed for their livestock. | | | | Relatives of an Australian man who has been detained in the United Arab Emirates for more than nine months are pleading to have him moved out of a notorious prison that houses "dangerous terrorists". | | | | There was once a place in regional NSW deemed so unsightly its townspeople tried to hide it from travellers, and worse, from history. | | | | US President Donald Trump says companies operating in Iran will be barred from the US, as "the most biting sanctions ever imposed" on Tehran take effect despite pleas from Washington's allies. | | | | A quantity of homemade napalm was allegedly among the items confiscated from the Hobart home of a man arrested and released without charge, the ABC can reveal. | | | | The lives of all helicopter operators in northern Australia are at risk because a key engine component is wearing out much faster than it should — possibly because of a change to aviation gas composition — and it may cause a mid-air failure. | | | | Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says the demolition of 3,200 illegal buildings will begin immediately in response to the deaths of dozens of people who were unable to escape a maze of poorly planned streets in the country's worst wildfire disaster. | | | | The AFL tribunal ends Andrew Gaff's season and Brownlow Medal hopes, imposing the equal-longest suspension this century in response to him punching his 18-year-old opponent in the head. | | | | Up to 100 people were inside the West Pemenang mosque for a Koran recital when the Lombok earthquake struck. Most managed to escape, but not everyone could get out. | | | | Chautauqua, a horse loved and known by punters for thrilling, last-to-first wins and with over $8 million of prize money in the bank, can no longer be coaxed to race — and it's left Racing NSW with many questions to ponder. | |  |
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