| | Perpetrators are arming themselves with a new generation of technology, using drones to stalk victims, smart TVs to spy on them and tracking devices to follow and restrict their movements. | | | It's a story all too familiar for many mums — the post-pregnancy body blues. After having three children, Taryn Brumfitt loathed her body and booked in for surgery. But after an epiphany, she learned to love the skin she's in and kickstarted a worldwide movement in the process. | | | Billy Slater is living proof that fairy tales do not always have happy endings, as he ends his NRL career with the Melbourne Storm's grand final loss to the Sydney Roosters. | | | Cooper Cronk plays the NRL grand final with a broken scapula, helping to inspire the Sydney Roosters to a 21-6 win over the Melbourne Storm to claim the premiership. | | | The toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia soars, as rescuers grapple to get aid to outlying communities cut off from communications and help. | | | Men fight men and women fight women, right? These wrestlers are breaking boundaries — and say intergender matches "should never be put in the same sentence" as domestic violence. | | | Bill Hayden was known for being a vocal and even hostile atheist, so imagine the surprise when he decided to be baptised last month at the age of 85. | | | The sense of disappointment following Collingwood's AFL grand final loss is all too familiar for Magpies fans used to feeling shattered in September, writes Richard Hinds. | | | An Australian woman facing the death penalty in the US over the death of her stepdaughter was let down by the health system, the woman's lawyer claims. | | | When an anonymous online business tried to steal artist Flossy P's beloved wombat designs she took matters into her own hands. | | | Michael Devitt moved to the Whitsundays to help a friend with his trucking business when he disappeared the day after Australia Day in 2010. Now his family are calling for a coronial inquest to help find some answers and hopefully lay him to rest. | | | Police are investigating the suspicious deaths of two men at a home near Ayr, south of Townsville in north Queensland, after emergency services were called to reports of a disturbance. | | | Proposed changes to private health coverage could lock many chronic pain sufferers out of timely treatment, putting more pressure on the public system and potentially forcing some to turn to opioid drug use, pain specialists say. | | | Powerchair football is one of the few team sports available for the severely disabled and sets new standards in terms of inclusivity, but still missed out on inclusion in the Paralympics. | | | A 24-year-old man from Pooraka has his car impounded after being caught doing a burnout on a section of Adelaide's new north-south motorway just minutes after it was officially opened to public traffic. | | | Bernard Tomic downs world number 13 Fabio Fognini to take the Chengdu Open and put a year of drama — including allegations of tanking and an ill-advised reality tv appearance — behind him. | | | Tears fill Dwi Haris's eyes as he recalls the moment a violent earthquake shook the hotel room he shared with his family — somehow, he was spared, but he has no idea what has become of his wife or daughter. | | | North Korea's Foreign Minister tells the United Nations there is no way the country would give up its nuclear weapons unilaterally while sanctions remain in place, while Donald Trump tells his supporters he "fell in love" with Kim Jong-un during their meeting. | | | Thousands of jubilant West Coast Eagles fans gather on the Perth foreshore to celebrate the team's victory in the 2018 grand final. | | | The letters were usually hand-written, some had rainbows, some had Winnie the Pooh. But inside were their most embarrassing questions. | | | By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | | | By Clint Thomas | | | By Melanie Tait | | | By business reporter Stephen Letts | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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