| | | | Search and rescue officials are conducting a search for survivors after a Lion Air passenger plane crashed into the ocean after take-off from Jakarta, carrying at least 188 people. | | | | Australian cricket's governing body does not live up to its values and players live in a "gilded bubble" disconnected from family, friends and the community, according to an independent review commissioned in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal. | | | | Is natural sequence farming the secret to restoring our water-starved continent? For more than a decade, two farmers have shown that parched landscapes can be revived. And finally Canberra's listening. | | | | Parts of South Australia and Victoria are expecting a sweltering start to November, with the upcoming heat an early test to the power grid ahead of summer. | | | | Party identities are the clearest they have been in modern American politics with Republicans and Democrats locked in a bitter war. Caught in the middle, American voters will front the ballot box on November 6 in a different way to usual, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | Japanese Princess Ayako marries commoner Kei Moriya in a ritual-filled ceremony at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine, and will also reportedly be provided a lump sum payment of $1.3 million from the state so that she can maintain her high standard of living after losing her royal status. | | | | Out of the ashes of the disastrous 90s, a new Royal brand has emerged that's highly influential, comes with star quality, and is media managed within an inch of its life. | | | | Police hunting witnesses who may be able to shed light on the killing of Toyah Cordingley release a CCTV image of her at a Cairns market just hours before her death, as well as her car parked at the beach where her body was found. | | | | A 26-year-old woman with spina bifida who was robbed as she withdrew part of her pension from an ATM — while she was accompanied by her blind friend — says she is now too scared to leave her house. | | | | Daniel Ricciardo suffers his eighth retirement of the season, blaming a "cursed" Red Bull car before questioning whether or not to even enter the final two races of the season. | | | | Several women contact the ABC's investigative true crime podcast Unravel recounting terrifying stories about attempted abductions and assaults in the 1970s on Sydney's Northern Beaches. | | | | State governments are often painted as inefficient and corrupt, with intermittent calls to remove them. But state government matters for democracy for several reasons, writes Frank Bongiorno. | | | | A father and son who couldn't swim drowned after wading into Airlie Beach's beachside lagoon yesterday afternoon. Police say despite the crowds of people and lifeguards on duty it was six minutes before they were spotted. | | | | James Gargasoulas will go on trial next week after a jury finds he is mentally fit to stand trial for the murder and attempted murder of pedestrians in Melbourne's CBD last year. | | | | The owner of an aviation company involved in a plane crash that killed one passenger and injured three others has raised questions about evidence used by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to investigate him, his company and the pilot flying the plane. | | | | The lower end of the property market is less volatile, but when it falls the consequences tend to be broader. | | | | As News Breakfast celebrates a decade on air, Michael Rowland and Virginia Trioli recall the stories that brought them to tears, their favourite interviews and the hilarious moment their floor manager hit the deck. | | | | Two Victorian police officers are attracting worldwide attention after wading into the ocean to rescue a drowning kangaroo on the Mornington Peninsula. | | | | The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority reveals its new chairman as Dr Ian Poiner — who has until now led a different organisation, which has been at the centre of a governance crisis engulfing the authority. | | | | Far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro — who once said he'd prefer a dead son to a gay son and told colleagues they weren't worthy of being raped by him — wins Brazil's presidential election, riding a wave of frustration over corruption and crime that brought a dramatic swing to the right in the world's fourth-largest democracy. | | | | In choosing to ignore cricket's conventions and walk from the crease during a grade cricket game for Randwick-Petersham, David Warner has only brought up more unwanted questions. | | | | Less than 12 hours after making what police called an "extremely serious" attempt on her own life, Chloe Lashay was told the hospital needed her bed and she would have to leave. | |  |
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