| | | | My Huong Le moved from Sydney to Vietnam after finding her birth mother. But 14 years later, a text message from a stranger revealed the truth: this woman wasn't who she said she was. | | | | Is it any wonder that the shock jock tactics of Alan Jones or Donald Trump work? We have reached the point where politicians seem very confused about how to debate, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | A storm is brewing in Sydney's fanciest suburbs, where some lifelong Liberal voters have told the ABC they are preparing to break ranks for the first time at the looming Wentworth by-election. | | | | The world got a stark warning on climate change this week, but if Australia is to act on it and hit the IPCC's coal-generated electricity reduction target, 12 power plants will need to close, according to a report from the Parliamentary Library. | | | | Meet Casey X. The year is 2040, and she is 22 years old. The town where she lives is in the middle of a heatwave — and she's been thinking more and more about leaving. | | | | A perinatal psychiatrist went into a Sydney jail to assess convicted baby killer Keli Lane. She disputes some of the theories about what Keli did to her newborn baby Tegan. | | | | When Alana Scheltzer asked Twitter which pollies are blocking voters, she got a surprise: often it's the biggest champions of free speech. | | | | The average age of menopause is 51, but for many women, symptoms of perimenopause can creep up much earlier. | | | | Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Princess Eugenie marries wine merchant Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle in front of celebrities and Britain's senior royals, including Prince Harry and wife Meghan who wed at the same venue in May. | | | | Why do so many privileged girls, whose fathers work to give them overseas holidays, ski trips and the latest smart phones, feel like they're missing out? The answer lies in the struggle of many dads to play a more meaningful role in their growing daughters' lives, writes Madonna King. | | | | Investigative journalist Oliver Bullough is working to unravel the intricate global web of wealth and power that he says helps the super-rich and corrupt rule the world. Welcome to "Moneyland". | | | | Northern Territory Police recover an Aboriginal ranger's body after she was taken by a crocodile while fishing with her family in a remote Arnhem Land community on Friday. | | | | Usain Bolt does his hopes of launching a professional football career no harm by scoring two goals in his first start for Central Coast Mariners in their preseason friendly against Macarthur South West United. | | | | 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. | | | | Robert Thompson's first race win of his record 4,373 victories to date came in the year Gough Whitlam was elected, his honest work ethic and talent a reminder of the true spirit of horse racing in a week when its image took some knocks. | | | | The Pope angers victims advocacy groups by saying he does not think Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington DC, was guilty of trying to conceal abuse. | | | | Graziers in New South Wales are calling for a bigger commercial kangaroo harvest to reduce the impact of drought and improve animal and farmer welfare, as high numbers of dead kangaroos are pulled out of dams. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | Photos taken from space by International Space Station commander Alexander Gerst show the moment a catastrophic rocket failure sent two astronauts plunging back to Earth from 50 kilometres up. | |  |
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