| | | | Dozens of homes are destroyed and entire neighbourhoods evacuated after a series of sudden gas explosions set off house fires north of Boston, in the US state of Massachusetts. | | | | In a week when possibly the biggest storm in a generation was set to hit the east coast, the US President was wreaking havoc in Washington, writes Zoe Daniel. | | | | The royal commission hears how some, mainly young and low-income, workers are missing out on insurance through their super fund due to poorly advertised exclusions, and how common surveillance of claimants has been in the insurance sector. | | | | In a quiet triumph of risk and innovation, this orchardist has done what few can claim: he's created something original. Reinventing the apple has been a 40-year obsession, a project kept so secret that not even the neighbours know what he's done. | | | | Finance reporter Madeleine Morris has a dirty secret: she has four superannuation accounts. About a third of Australians do and that's costing us $2.6 billion annually in fees. Here's how to fix that. | | | | Another three cases of strawberries contaminated with sewing needles have been found in punnets in Tweed Heads, Redbank Plains and Everton Park, Queensland Health reveals. | | | | Virginia Trioli shares the story behind her infamous on-air blunder and the personal toll it took in the days that followed as she went through the "abysmal lows and the ecstatic highs that make up the IVF rollercoaster". | | | | The NSW police car that hit a Sydney grandmother's car was travelling at 124kph in a 70kph zone and did not have its lights flashing or sirens on at the time of the crash. | | | | Two men who conducted illegal land clearing on a property in Sydney's north are being pursued for contempt of court after they allegedly continue to build on the land, with allegations emerging in court that they detained a man when he served them with legal documents. | | | | What we've learned from the financial services royal commission is that there are some big predators waiting to pounce, and we need to protect ourselves because nobody else appears to be. | | | | Volkswagen says it will stop producing its Beetle compact car in 2019, ending a model that looked backward to the 1960s counterculture as the carmaker prepares for a leap toward a future of mass-market electric cars. | | | | Your neighbour has just put an old leather lounge out on the kerb for council clean-up. It would go perfectly in your living room, and you've seen people pick up furniture from the street before — but are you legally allowed to take it? | | | | Returning to Australia after nine years reporting overseas, correspondent Lisa Millar tells of screw-ups, a Twitter frenzy over her jacket and meeting people at their worst moments. | | | | The US singer says she was "horrified" by the turn of events, which saw fans forcibly removed from the concert by security guards. | | | | The Liberal preselectors of Wentworth have selected Dave Sharma, even though Prime Minister Scott Morrison wanted a female candidate, writes Michelle Grattan. | | | | The Prime Minister is forced to remove a video, tweeted from his personal profile, dubbing some of his antics to a song by US R&B star Fatman Scoop. | | | | A self-professed international trade executive and entrepreneur with extensive business interests in Nauru is charged with conspiring to bribe officials in the island nation's government, 7.30 can reveal. | | | | South Sydney coach Anthony Seibold admits being blindsided by the club's investigation into accusations two stars exposed their private parts without consent in a FaceTime chat in May. | | | | Two Russians appear on state television saying they were wrongly accused by Britain of trying to murder a former Russian spy and his daughter, and had been visiting Salisbury to see "its famous cathedral". | | | | Constantly running late? Can't get the kids to tidy up? Always telling them the same things over and over? Psychologists delve into three of the biggest issues parents have with their children's behaviour. | |  |
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