| | | | With almost 1.8 million Australian homes and businesses relying on power from rooftop solar panels, a fight is brewing over the impact of solar energy on the national electricity grid. | | | | Australia completes what once seemed an impossible task in securing a draw with Pakistan on the fifth day in Dubai, with Usman Khawaja and Tim Paine leading the way with the bat. | | | | The small town of Tansey, west of Gympie, is cleaning up after it was hit by a tornado as thunderstorm cells moved across south-east Queensland. Elsewhere there were reports of hail the size of tennis balls, and three people were taken to hospital when large hail smashed through their car windscreen. | | | | A fear of rejection and the misguided belief that managers randomly offer pay rises for good performance can hold women back when it comes to negotiating more money from their employer, writes Sophia Symeou. | | | | Those new to the world of childcare might feel like their children are picking up every bug under the sun, but will it actually help them in the long run? | | | | Unwritten rules have been a part of sport for over a century, but in the modern era it might be time to discard them, writes Simon Smale. | | | | 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. | | | | Manhattan's district attorney drops part of the sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein, after evidence emerges that a police detective coached a witness to stay silent about evidence casting doubt on the account one of his three accusers. | | | | Police were led to the suspected Golden State Killer through a website that helps people build their family tree. New calculations show 60 per cent of people in the US with European descent can be identified the same way. | | | | After refusing to weigh into the issue, Prime Minister Scott Morrison expresses a clear view that no school should be allowed to turn away a student because they are gay. | | | | For those in need of a kidney transplant in Indonesia, medical experts say Facebook is proving more effective than official organ registries when it comes to finding donors. | | | | 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. | | | | Scientists, storytellers and Christians have all tried explaining why donkeys around the world have a peculiar marking resembling a cross. | | | | WA's whale watchers are wondering if they are witnessing a spike in southern right populations or a change in behaviour. | | | | Two astronauts from the US and Russia are safe after an emergency landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan, following the failure of a Russian booster rocket carrying them to the International Space Station. | | | | Former NSW director of public prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery QC resigns as chair of the White Ribbon board after comments he made about convicted baby killer Keli Lane's sex life were aired on ABC documentary Exposed. | | | | Salmon farmers are shooting thousands of beanbag bullets at seals to deter them from raiding pens in a practice animal rights activists say is "unacceptable". | | | | After 38 years at the ABC, and a quarter of a century as the face of ABC News Victoria, Ian Henderson's farewell to the audience was cut short by a technical fault — but the veteran newsreader will be back. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
By Simon Smale | |  |
By Sophia Symeou | |  |
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