| | | | Northern Territory Police are responding to a crocodile attack at the remote East Arnhem outstation of Gangan, 177 kilometres south-west of Nhulunbuy, where a female Aboriginal ranger has been taken. | | | | GRAPHIC WARNING: A mother suffers severe bruising after trying to shield her baby from large hail stones inside their car when they became trapped in a thunderstorm that wreaked havoc across Queensland's South Burnett region yesterday. | | | | The five planets visible to the naked eye since ancient times are putting on a dazzling display this month, in a night-sky dance along with the Moon, writes Tanya Hill. | | | | Jackie Kastrinelis, 24, was found dead when the cruise ship she worked on docked at Darwin in 2013, and her family are seeking to exhume her body for further testing, accusing Northern Territory authorities of losing evidence and not testing more thoroughly. | | | | The crash and destruction of one of America's most sophisticated and expensive combat warplanes — an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter — leads to the immediate grounding of Australia's entire fleet of the aircraft. | | | | Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert pays back $37,975 after an investigation into why he has been slugging taxpayers up to $2,800 a month for internet at his home on Queensland's Gold Coast. | | | | Declaring that his red "Make America Great Again" hat makes him "feel like Superman," rapper Kanye West makes a free-styling appearance in the Oval Office and hugs President Donald Trump. | | | | A new trade in elephant skin and related products is threatening the existence of Asian elephants, as poachers target the wild population in Myanmar. | | | | Having ignored the signs of a fault-line opening between equity and bond markets for several weeks, investors finally fled for the exits as President Trump declared his central bank had "gone loco", writes Stephen Letts. | | | | In an unnerving move bringing us one step closer to Black Mirror's dystopian world, engineering and robotics design firm Boston Dynamics introduces its Atlas robot to parkour. | | | | The Australian Wildlife Conservancy has removed all information about the night parrot from its website, as evidence of the rare bird's return to South Australia falls under a cloud — and an ecologist, who was key to the discovery, resigns. | | | | Health Minister Greg Hunt says the Federal Government will be taking the next steps for a national registry on silicosis with the support of the states after today's health COAG meeting. | | | | The son of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull issues a blunt assessment of the state of the Liberal Party, urging Wentworth-by election voters to steer clear, but PM Scott Morrison says his predecessor doesn't share the sentiment. | | | | A cockatoo left with a mangled crest and ruffled feathers after being caught up in Thursday's wild weather in Queensland is on the mend after being rescued by a dairy farmer. | | | | The Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed a tornado smashed through Queensland yesterday. Since when are tornadoes in Australia a thing? | | | | Few Australian songs are hitting number one these days, raising concern in the industry. Here's the picture over the past two decades. | | | | Two male gentoo penguins at a Sydney aquarium who began building a nest together are handed an egg to foster — and zoo staff say they've taken to parenting like absolute naturals. | | | | Former Australian international cricketer John Hastings wants to finish his career playing T20 cricket, but a mysterious illness is making him cough up blood when he bowls and is set to force him into early retirement. | | | | Final preparations are being made in the English town of Windsor for Britain's second Royal wedding this year, this time involving Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Princess Eugenie. | | | | Saudi Arabian agents are accused of killing and dismembering a dissident journalist, but Donald Trump says if the US scraps billions of dollars worth of arms deals with the Gulf kingdom, the money will just go to Russia or China instead. | | | | The Papua New Guinean government sparks anger by purchasing 40 custom-made Maserati cars — specially flown in from Italy — for leaders during APEC, at a time when PNG is seeing a resurgence of polio. | |  |
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