| | | | Imagery captured over a remote and highly volatile region of western China reveals a growing network of internment camps used to indoctrinate vast numbers of the region's population. | | | | Turkey's chief prosecutor's office says the journalist was suffocated in a premeditated killing as soon as he entered Saudi Arabia's consulate four weeks ago and his body was then dismembered and disposed of. | | | | The Home Affairs Minister citing the Howard government's record of getting people out of detention isn't helping a Government feeling the heat over children kept on Manus and Nauru, writes political editor Andrew Probyn. | | | | The men who feed the ice addition consuming this couple's grandson are so fearless, they run a home-delivery service. The Harrisons are on a growing list of victims of the drug crisis in the bush, which has faded from headlines, but not gone away. | | | | A Brisbane school goes "off grid", saying it is the first in Australia to rely entirely on renewables to continuously power a classroom. | | | | Adverse possession — more commonly known known as "squatting laws" — sound like something from the dark ages. But it is a law in operation across the country, as one Sydney family found out. | | | | You had a lot of questions about reporter Simon Elvery's project to spy on what his phone is doing behind his back. Here are some of the answers — and a way you can help with the investigation. | | | | Jobs and Industrial Relations Minister Kelly O'Dwyer says that wages have grown steadily at 30 per cent over the past decade, outstripping inflation at 20 per cent. But Fact Check finds that's not the full story. | | | | A new report predicts Australia's thermal coal exports to plummet faster than expected — the result of falling demand across Asia economists believe is permanent and irreversible. | | | | Tourism Australia is once again banking on the appeal of the Hemsworth brothers, turning to Luke for a new campaign aimed at turning around a decline in US tourist spending. | | | | Human bone fragments that could belong to a 15-year-old girl who went missing more than 30 years ago in the Vatican are found, leading the lawyer for the missing girl's family to urge prosecutors and the Vatican to release more details. | | | | Recently New York arthouse Christie's auctioned off an original painting generated by AI for more than 38 times its expected price. Is this a novelty or the dawn of a new art market? | | | | Xi Jinping's China has the world's most sophisticated online censorship operation, but Chinese entrepreneur Zou Chengfeng says he managed to train tens of thousands of people to get over the Great Firewall before fleeing to the United States. | | | | France's Health Minister launches an investigation and says environmental factors, like what mothers ate, drank or breathed in, could be behind a number of cases where babies were born without hands or arms. | | | | This weekend a new nation could be born in the Pacific, as the French territory of New Caledonia takes a long awaited vote on their independence from France. | | | | Pulses of electricity, delivered by a small implant, successfully restore movement and even appear to rewire lost connections in the spinal cord. | | | | Eggshells come in a dazzling range of colours and patterns, from the vivid blue of a robin's to the deep brown speckles on quail eggs. And it seems modern birds have their dinosaur ancestors to thank for this kaleidoscope of colour. | | | | China has been accused of using loans and aid projects to bolster influence in the region, but Wang Yi says those "pointing fingers" should put their efforts into contributing. | | | | At least 15 members of the NSW Young Nationals resign following an investigation by the ABC's Background Briefing program into an alt-right push inside the party. | | | | Saudi Arabia executes an Indonesian female migrant worker without first informing Indonesia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the Indonesian Government calls for a thorough probe into the death of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi. | | | | A woman's conviction for blasphemy — a charge prompted by two Muslim women refusing to drink water from a container used by the Christian — is overturned by Pakistan's Supreme Court, setting off protests by hard-line Islamists. | | | | Parts of NSW, Victoria and SA — including the capital cities — are set for scorching weather this week, with the BOM forecasting the mercury to soar high above average. | |  |
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