| | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | While Scott Morrison's use of a song which glorifies casual sex and contains a flurry of expletives earned him ridicule online, it also lands his office in hot water with the Parliament's enforcer — the Serjeant-at-Arms. | | | | 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. | | | | Hurricane Florence has crashed into the Carolinas on Friday, knocking down trees, swamping streets and causing four deaths before slowing to a pace that will lead to a days-long deluge for the region. | | | | Typhoon Mangkhut slams 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. | | | | There's a growing body of evidence that trees contribute to rainfall. So should we be helping forests grow back? | | | | The Liberal Party has refused to adopt quotas to boost the number of female MPs in its ranks, but the handing of two blue-ribbon seats to male candidates over women proves the current system isn't working to boost the gender balance, writes Jessica Strutt. | | | | Trampoline park businesses are being driven out of business by sky rocketing insurance costs. | | | | Queensland Health confirms punnets of Donnybrook strawberries have been found with needle contamination, and NSW police goes one step further to say the contamination is now believed to involve six strawberry brands. | | | | Every now and then a disaster worse than ever before comes out of the blue and catches us off guard. They're called 'black swan' events. | | | | 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 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. | | | | Women in science say bad behaviour by prominent professors is often hushed up. Now, there are calls for the agencies that fund Australian university scientists to help hit sexual harassers where it hurts — in their wallet and on their CVs. | | | | Malaysia's long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is out of jail and set to make a return to Parliament, but whether he gets a go at the top job depends on a few things. | | | | 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. | | | | Melbourne is back in the preliminary final for the first time since 2000, as the Demons put paid to Hawthorn's flag hopes with a solid win at the MCG. | | | | Penrith produces a big second-half comeback, but falls short to a late Chad Townsend field goal as Cronulla advances to meet the Melbourne Storm in next week's preliminary final. | | | | 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. | |  |
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