| | | | The investigation into damaging leaks about Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's visa intervention in two au pair cases escalates, with AFP officers raiding Home Affairs Department offices in Canberra. | | | | A tornado warning is issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for the Sunshine Coast hinterland and three people are in hospital as dangerous storm cells hit the South Burnett. | | | | The overnight sell-off in global markets did not spare Australia, with the local share market shedding about $50 billion in value, while Asian shares fell even further. | | | | Japan's visiting Foreign Minister says his country would still be prepared to export its submarines to Australia if protracted contract negotiations between Defence and French company Naval Group eventually collapse. | | | | A professional snake catcher in far north Queensland says she is lucky to be alive after an enormous python attempted to strangle her during a job when it wrapped itself around her neck. | | | | At Trump rallies, you can't even go to the toilet on your own, as North America correspondent Conor Duffy found out when he was effectively caged in a media pen with volunteers guarding the only break in the fence. | | | | The Federal Health Minister calls on state workplace regulators to immediately investigate the risks to stonemasons, who are contracting the silicosis lung disease after being exposed to dust while cutting stone kitchen benchtops. | | | | Australia has a mammoth task ahead of itself if it is to avoid defeat against Pakistan on the final day of the first Test in Dubai. Follow all the action in our live ScoreCentre. | | | | A US meteorologist says she has been treated "not just as an employee, but as a mother" after she brought her one-year-old son with her to deliver a weather report. | | | | Japan now has the most powerful passport in the world in terms of travel freedom, according to the 2018 Henley Passport Index. The UK and US dropped down into the fifth spot, while Australia is level with Greece and Malta. | | | | AFL football operations manager Steve Hocking says rule changes announced today are designed to create more "free-flowing passages of play" and "one-on-one contests". | | | | More women are entering senior executive ranks, but few are given jobs which will see them run big companies in the future. | | | | The Commonwealth Bank and Westpac chief executives face a grilling from the House of Representatives standing committee on economics, their first parliamentary appearances since the start of the banking royal commission. | | | | A Tasmanian man says he didn't get the mental health help he needed at an overstretched Hobart hospital, so the next time he felt suicidal he cut off a finger in a desperate bid to get treatment. | | | | A decade since Great Keppel Island's resort closed, a potential foreign buyer is promising to restore the island to its former glory. But the deal is far from done and dusted. | | | | Médecins Sans Frontières, the group of doctors kicked off of Nauru, calls for the immediate evacuation of all asylum seekers and refugees from the island for the Australian Government to end its offshore detention policy. | | | | The resignation this week of Nikki Haley as US Ambassador to the UN comes at a crucial time ahead of the November mid-term elections, likely to indicate how America views its global leadership role, writes Charles Edel. | | | | Malaysia announces plans for new bill that could abolish the death penalty within weeks, a move that could save a Sydney grandmother currently facing execution for drug charges. | | | | Images surface in Turkish media of a 15-man "assassination squad" allegedly sent to target Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as sources say a bone saw was used to get rid of the body. | | | | Singer Shannon Noll says he wants to move on after he was placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond for cocaine possession. | | | | US First Lady Melania Trump says women who make accusations of sexual abuse "need to be heard" but need to show "really hard evidence". | | | | Only 34 of these brief, dazzling flashes have been seen before, but now astronomers have detected 20 in a single year using the ASKAP telescope in Western Australia. | |  |
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