| | | | Hurricane Florence crashes into the Carolinas, knocking down trees, swamping streets and causing five deaths before slowing to a pace that will lead to a days-long deluge for the region. | | | | A former mining engineer is speaking out about what could be the biggest occupational health disaster since asbestos — the diesel machinery exhaust fumes churned out by heavy machinery in many of Australia's underground mines. | | | | On the eve of her 10th anniversary as a host of ABC News Breakfast, Virginia Trioli reflects on harrasment in the workplace, the importance of finding an authentic work life and the reader's letter she still holds dear. | | | | Police confirm human remains discovered at Kangaroo Point cliffs near the Brisbane River belong to 37-year-old missing woman Constance Watcho, as they begin combing through the nearby apartment where she lived. | | | | It says much for the derelict state of our politics that the focus is on how a Prime Minister learns to lead his own party, rather than the country, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | The Victorian wheatbelt shire of Yarriambiack was facing a "tsunami" of chronic disease. A grassroots campaign is turning that around. | | | | 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. | | | | US President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian election meddling as part of a plea deal, prosecutors tell a federal court in Washington. | | | | Typhoon Mangkhut is heading for southern China after slamming into the Philippines' north-eastern coast, with witnesses saying the storm's ferocious wind and blinding rain ripped off tin roof sheets and knocked out power at the start of the onslaught. | | | | Champion mare Winx extends her winning streak after claiming her 27th consecutive victory in the George Main Stakes at Randwick. | | | | US hip hop artist Fatman Scoop reaches out to Prime Minister Scott Morrison after the musician's song was used in a controversial tweet that earned the ire of Parliament's Serjeant-at-Arms. | | | | The ABC's North America bureau chief Zoe Daniel surveys the damage in North Carolina as Hurricane Florence brings destructive winds and flooding. | | | | Japan is threatening to quit the International Whaling Commission after losing its bid to restructure the IWC and make the resumption of whaling easier. | | | | Victoria Police is pleading with the public to obey the road rules after Detective Senior Sergeant Victor Kostiuk was killed on a charity motorcycle ride which honours officers killed in the line of duty. | | | | Zoo keepers aren't sure why the two-week old infant died. The mother is still cradling the baby baboon, who up until his death, appeared to be fit and well. | | | | A $100,000 reward is being put up by the Queensland Government for information that leads to the arrest of the person responsible for contaminating strawberries with sewing needles. | | | | Singer Ariana Grande speaks publicly for the first time about the death of her former boyfriend, hip-hop star Mac Miller, writing on social media that he was "the kindest, sweetest soul with demons he never deserved". | | | | The AFL claims its trials of new rules have proven they enhance scoring. A closer examination shows that evidence simply doesn't exist yet to back that up. With a negative impact on scoring as likely. | | | | An aviation expert explains why airlines make you take out your jacket and wear it on the plane when your carry-on bag is too heavy. | | | | Trampoline park businesses are being driven out of business by sky rocketing insurance costs. | | | | Residents were forced to take shelter during an early morning shoot out with police on a Queanbeyan street, in south-east New South Wales, leaving the suspect injured as well of a pool of blood and a shot gun on the street. | | | | Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin has called for extra flights to be put on from Melbourne to Perth for the Demon's "extra man" ahead of next week's preliminary final at Perth Stadium. | | | | There's a growing body of evidence that trees contribute to rainfall. So should we be helping forests grow back? | |  |
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