| | | | Police footage of the 2014 incident shows 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was carrying a knife, crumpling to the ground in a hail of 16 bullets as he walked away from officers. | | | | A 10-night cruise for you and three mates with $5,000 spending money? It seems too good to be true, and that's because it is. Scammers have tricked thousands of Australians into sharing a fake competition on Facebook, along with their personal details. | | | | A former Newcastle and Sydney school teacher spends his first night in jail after being found guilty of 21 child sexual abuse offences. | | | | Former attorney-general George Brandis was asked to approve the controversial prosecution of an Australian spy and his lawyer more than two years before consent was finally granted, a document obtained by the ABC reveals. | | | | Champion mare Winx gives the Flemington crowd what they came to see, winning the Group One Turnbull Stakes for her 28th consecutive race victory — but it was in doubt until the final 50m. | | | | The bitterly divided United States Senate votes 51 to 49 for the Supreme Court nominee in a procedural vote — but a handful of senators could still derail his confirmation. | | | | A woman dies and debris is strewn across a highway in Melbourne's south-east when a car crashes into a pole. | | | | International researchers discover peptides from the venom gland of an Australian funnel-web spider could be used to kill melanomas. | | | | Police release an image of Bhanu Kirkman, 29, saying they want to speak with him over the death of mother Kristie Powell, whose body was found in a home north of Wollongong yesterday. | | | | A man is convicted of attempted murder for shoving the 91-year-old former chairman of cross-Channel tunnel operator Eurotunnel onto London subway tracks. | | | | Cameron Bancroft, the young player at the centre of the ball tampering scandal in South Africa, makes his return as skipper for his home team Willetton in Perth club cricket. | | | | Three teenagers are questioned after a 20-year-old man was fatally stabbed in a Parramatta street, with police investigating a link between the death and a confrontation in a park half an hour earlier. | | | | Doctors thank a "very intelligent, well-researched guess" for a whopping 83 per cent drop in reported flu cases in Australia — but they warn against complacency. | | | | Watchmaker Glen Nutting calls daylight saving his "silly season" because believe it or not, many people still need help working out how to adjust their clocks. | | | | Scott Morrison used his first trip to WA as Prime Minister to boost his claim as an ordinary bloke, in stark contrast to his predecessor, but time will tell if the voters forgive his party for its knifing of Malcolm Turnbull writes Jessica Strutt. | | | | When a Google DeepMind computer taught itself to beat a master at the world's most complex board game, Beijing was shocked into action on artificial intelligence. Now Xi Jinping wants China to be the world's unrivalled AI superpower. | | | | The Sicilian mafia is one of the world's most infamous criminal organisations, but it didn't always have a bad reputation. In fact, it may have started out as a protector of lemon trees. | | | | Another body is found by search crews after four family members who set out on an overnight fishing trip to Rottnest Island on Wednesday failed to return home. | | | | Sports scientists investigating horseracing are turning their attention away from the track towards jockeys, in the hope of developing a winning formula. | | | | Deer populations in south-east Australia are soaring with an estimated 1 million in Victoria alone, and the introduced animals are wreaking havoc on farms and the environment. | |  |
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