| | | | US President Donald Trump draws blank stares, headshakes and laughter from world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly as he tells them he has accomplished more than almost any previous US president. | | | | Valentino Dixon — whose golf artworks drawn from his US prison cell made him famous — last week had his murder conviction overturned after 27 years in jail. But what most people don't know is that since 2002, he has been married to an Australian woman. | | | | The results are in — government scientists finally know why an orange, purchased from a fruit and veg shop in suburban Brisbane, turned purple hours after it was cut open. | | | | Comedian Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to 10 years in jail for drugging and sexually assaulting one-time friend Andrea Constand at his home in 2004, and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. | | | | Billy Slater is granted the chance of a fairy tale finish to his rugby league career, with the Melbourne Storm great cleared to play in Sunday's NRL grand final after avoiding suspension for a shoulder charge at a marathon judiciary hearing. | | | | The death of a little boy at an Airbnb in Queensland at the weekend raises questions about who's liable when things go wrong, and what consumers can do to protect themselves from legal traps. | | | | In the space of five years Liz Clifford has lost her husband to cancer, her office job and now her home. At the age of 60 she finds herself struggling to get by on Newstart unemployment benefits. | | | | She's sold more than 14 million books worldwide, but Liane Moriarty still can't help reading online articles that promise to transform her life. | | | | Leigh Chivers couldn't see any future when he lost his wife and son to brain cancer. But now he's preparing to take part in the gruelling Hawaiian Ironman triathlon, fulfilling a promise made to his dying partner. | | | | Listen to recordings of Keli Lane explaining what happened in the final moments with her baby daughter as she opens up about the years her life went off the rails. | | | | Despite the Queensland Government promising a jobs boom from the construction of dozens of solar projects across the state, an industry insider says companies are turning to backpackers over local workers. | | | | West Australian police are calling for public help to find one of two tortoises that disappeared from Perth Zoo seven years ago, after recovering the second animal from a Perth suburban home. | | | | A growing number of leading businesswomen are calling for board quotas amid a rising sense of frustration at the slow pace of change in corporate Australia. | | | | A Federal Liberal MP has suggested a Chinese and Hong Kong based consortium hoping to buy large swathes of the nation's gas pipelines could allay national security concerns by committing to invest in the sector, as security analysts urge the government to block the deal. | | | | ABC acting managing director David Anderson denies he was among a group of senior ABC executives who threatened to quit over Michelle Guthrie's performance. | | | | FOI documents obtained by the ABC show the NSW Arts Minister refused to sign off on funding for 11 arts organisations and artists, in defiance of departmental advice. He redirected the money to a special project instead. | | | | In Western society we fear dependency, invisibility and dying. Aged care is a silo of these fears. And until it affects us personally, we ignore it, write Bridget Laging, Amanda Kenny and Rhonda Nay. | | | | Golden Globe Race competitors Gregor McGuckin and Abhilash Tomy will undergo medical assessment before being picked up by a Royal Australian Navy frigate after they were both rescued in the Indian Ocean. | | | | A self-described "Danish hunter and adventurer" earns the ire of Top End authorities after he is filmed goading a saltwater crocodile with a wallaby, and proceeding to ride it. | | | | A speeding motorcyclist, who police say was carrying drugs and cash, crashes into a car and dies. A 27-year-old mother who stops to help him is also killed. | | | | Hundreds of paramilitary camps used by Aboriginal troopers who worked with white police to crush the Indigenous resistance have been discovered in Queensland. | | | | Belinda Bingham was fishing in a boat with her husband off the NT when she was knocked off her feet. As she clutched her throat, she realised something was seriously wrong. | | | | Social media goes into meltdown as a goal from Liverpool's Mohamed Salah beats world-class efforts from Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Australia's Riley McGree among others for FIFA goal of the year. | |  |
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