| | | | All 189 people on board an Indonesian passenger plane, which nosedived into the sea after taking off from Jakarta, are believed to have died in the disaster. Belongings and body parts have been recovered from the ocean but recovery teams are still hunting for the aircraft's fuselage. | | | | The ABC's investigative true crime podcast series Unravel unearths a long-lost film that reveals the carefree life of Trudie Adams, who disappeared on Sydney's Northern Beaches 40 years ago. | | | | Australians owe more debt than ever to the tax man, with the Australian Taxation Office's annual report revealing collectible debt rose to almost $24 billion last financial year. | | | | The head of Australia's most secretive electronic spy agency reveals Australia's "entire" emerging 5G mobile communications network could have been threatened. | | | | For a certain kind of language critic, highlighting errors of punctuation is a sport unto itself. But signs outside cafes and expert grammarians agree: we'd probably be better off without the apostrophe. | | | | For women like Olivia Humphreys, who lost her mother as a teenager, becoming a parent is a complicated — and at times tortured — process. But it's also surrounded by a firm sense of hope. | | | | Tasmanian sporting shooters say they are confident a gun law inquiry will deliver the Liberals' promise of access to semi-automatic .22 calibre rifles for competition events — firearms banned after the Port Arthur massacre. | | | | An investigation is underway after large amounts of raw sewage spilled into the Parramatta River in western Sydney, just days after the announcement of a plan to open three new swimming spots along the river. | | | | Virtually out of nowhere, Jair Bolsonaro has become Brazil's first right-wing president since the end of military dictatorship in the 1980s, with little legislative achievement, no service in a position higher than MP and a trail of verbal menace that has many fearful of what comes next. | | | | Gone are the long waits at immigration control at Heathrow, with the UK Government making a surprise announcement that Australians will be among those allowed to enter the country through e-gates from 2019. | | | | Prescription drugs are now involved in a significant number of fatal overdoses and there are fears that, once they're unavailable, addicts will turn to harder drugs for relief. | | | | Traces of cacao found in pottery unearthed from an ancient ceremonial site in Ecuador suggest our love of chocolate started at least 1,500 years earlier — and much further south — than we thought. | | | | At 194 centimetres, Knickers the steer, believed to be one of the tallest in the world, has been saved from the abattoir by his size. | | | | Indonesian President Joko Widodo's running mate Ma'ruf Amin plans to impose mandatory certification on all halal products next year, a move many see as a campaign strategy to tap into the archipelago's rising conservative tide. | | | | An Australian company is awarded the world's first-ever commercial contract to deliver life-saving vaccines to vulnerable children in remote areas by drone. | | | | Fat donations from liposuction patients will become "beautiful" soap as part of a production at next year's Adelaide Festival — and people will be able to buy and use it. | | | | Alpacas are being used as therapy pets in a hospital in south-east Queensland to help bring the joy of animal companionship to patients, with nurses saying the health benefits are immediate. | | | | German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will step down at the end of her fourth term, heralding the end of an era in which she has dominated European politics. | | | | Our four-legged friends can sniff out a whole host of human diseases including cancer and malaria. Scientists are tapping into their skills to develop early diagnosis technology. | | | | Actor Eryn Norvill told a colleague she was frightened, felt alone and was being "ferociously hounded" by the media as stories about her King Lear season with Geoffrey Rush appeared in a newspaper, a Sydney court hears. | | | | Police hunting witnesses who may be able to shed light on the killing of Toyah Cordingley released CCTV 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. | | | | 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. | |  |
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