| | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | He was charged with threatening to use a biological toxin as a weapon by sending letters to President Donald Trump and other leaders containing ground castor beans, the substance from which the poison ricin is derived. | | | | Instagram has become a Rorschach test for the Australian fashion industry; some see a community of likeminded tastemakers, others a torture device of unattainably taut bodies in sun dresses. For emerging designers, it can be both — and lucratively so. | | | | France opens an investigation into the whereabouts of the chief of the international police cooperation agency, amid reports he has been "taken away" for questioning by authorities. | | | | A four-year-old Uighur boy who recently arrived in Australia with his father and three-year old sister from Xinjiang in China is just one of many coming to grips with members of their family being placed in re-education camps. | | | | 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. | | | | The 'Queen of Teen' on writing about addiction, transgender characters and the first female Doctor Who. | | | | Indonesia's disaster relief spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho has been working day and night since an earthquake and tsunami devastated Sulawesi, but behind the scenes the father of two has been facing a life-threatening battle of his own: stage four lung cancer. | | | | With the Tasmanian Government pushing for a "no worse off" guarantee amid changes to the GST, the issue could cause friction between state and federal Liberals as the Prime Minister makes his first visit to Hobart since becoming leader. | | | | An Aboriginal community in Western Australia's Kimberley region says attempts to make its cattle station profitable and create jobs are being stymied by state government red tape. | | | | Former foreign minister Julie Bishop describes the moment she confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin over the MH17 disaster on behalf of Tony Abbott, an event she says was "more of a diplomatic buttonholing" than a "shirtfronting". | | | | New data released in the Government's quarterly emissions update reveals land clearing in the Great Barrier Reef catchment was at its second highest in a decade during the year to June 2017. | | | | An informal cricket match at the Manly Life Saving Club ends in disaster, with the batsman ordered by a court to pay almost $700,000 in damages after hitting an aspiring Olympian in the eye with a "well-timed shot". | | | | The body of a person, believed to be one of four men missing since yesterday from a fishing trip off the coast of Perth, is discovered by searchers west of Garden Island, police say. | | | | The officer allegedly made an offensive phone call to the federal Greens senator in July and now faces a charge. | | | | Prime Minister Scott Morrison orders an investigation into why his Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert has been slugging taxpayers up to $2,800 a month for his internet bills at his home on Queensland's Gold Coast. | | | | Staff will be made redundant when Max Brenner closes more than half of its stores just a week after voluntary administrators were appointed to the struggling confectionary retailer. | | | | Young Saga Vanecek was swimming with her family in southern Sweden's Lake Vidosten when she stumbled upon the find of a lifetime — an Iron Age warrior's sword, dating back as much as 1,500 years. | |  |
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