| | | | James Ricketson, who was convicted of espionage three weeks ago had been sentenced to six years in prison, is set to land in Sydney tonight, but his lawyer says his pardon letter "doesn't bar him from re-entering Cambodia". | | | | Roya Hosini is furious after a guard at the French catacombs said that letting her into the landmark would be like "letting a blind person fly a plane". | | | | When was the last time you saw a tiger quoll? The long lost cousin of the thylacine could be on the return, if some innovative seeding pays off in an ancient Indigenous landscape. | | | | It took months after Georgina Fitz-Gibbon's husband Jeff died before she recognised she was fast slipping into a state of depression. She's one of many elderly Australians learning to deal with loneliness. | | | | Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford say she accepted the Senate Judiciary Committee's request to appear before them to be questioned on an alleged attack at a party in 1982. | | | | Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accuses US-backed Gulf Arab states of carrying out an attack that killed 25 people, including "a four-year-old girl and a wheelchair-bound war veteran". | | | | In the past 10 years, there's been a fair bit of online chatter about something called an "egg timer test". Plug the term into your search engine, and you'll read that it's a blood test that gives a good indication of your fertility. But does it? | | | | Ocean Cleanup believes it can halve the Pacific Garbage Patch in just five years, but experts warn it could be a distraction from the true causes and cures of plastic pollution. | | | | The AFL are working on a new vision statement for the women's game, but players and other stakeholders want to see action rather than words after a year of distractions and missteps, writes Mary Gearin. | | | | A Florida businessman's decision to trademark "Bula" as the title for his kava and coffee bar sparks outrage among people in Fiji and an online petition to fight for the word they hold close to their hearts. | | | | A wedge-tailed eagle that previously featured in a Birds of Prey show is trained to carry a camera, with trainers saying he is helping to inspire the public about eagles and the environment. | | | | As colourful coffins arrive at the scene and Tanzania's defence chief says the work will now focus on identifying bodies, emergency workers find a survivor who had reportedly shut himself in the boat's engine room. | | | | NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman says the sweeping reforms will give courts more flexibility to impose sentences that not only "fit the crime but fix the criminal". | | | | Three tiger sharks are shot and killed after being caught in drum lines in the Whitsunday Islands in north Queensland, where two tourists nearly bled to death after being mauled within 24 hours of each other. | | | | It's the Roosters versus the Storm for the grand final, after the Tricolours beat South Sydney — but Cooper Cronk's injured shoulder could put him in doubt for the decider. | | | | West Coast cruises into the club's seventh AFL grand final, with a thumping win over Melbourne at Perth Stadium to set up an Eagles v Magpies decider. | | | | A four-week-old meerkat is recovering after being found by WA Police at a house in the Wheatbelt town of Beverley, two days after it was taken from its enclosure at Perth Zoo on the eve of its public unveiling. | | | | It's a world away from the drama of Test cricket, but for former Australian skipper Steve Smith it was a familiar venue for his first innings on home soil since his ban — playing first grade for Sutherland at Glenn McGrath Oval. | | | | So many shopping trolleys have been dumped off a wharf in a regional South Australian city that the local council warns of a "significant risk of injury" from jumping off it and into the sea. | |  |
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