| | | | George HW Bush, a former congressman, CIA director and Ronald Reagan's vice-president, is perhaps best remembered as the commander-in-chief who sanctioned the Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Storm. | | | | Meeting with Australia's leader at the G20 Summit in Argentina, the US President gets a personal explanation of events that led to him meeting Scott Morrison as Prime Minister — not the man he has been used to meeting at the White House, in New York and at world summits for the last two years. | | | | On the sidelines of the G20 Summit, French President Emmanuel Macron tells Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Europe will insist on international experts being part of the investigation into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. | | | | Jeff Horn is now the undisputed main attraction of Australian boxing after comprehensively ending the era of Anthony Mundine — but who's next for the Hornet? | | | | The Victorian Greens claim victory in the inner-Melbourne seat of Brunswick after last weekend's state election, stealing the seat from Labor for the first time in the electorate's history. | | | | It's been 70 years to the day since the body of an unknown man was discovered along the shoreline of a South Australian beach. Are we any closer to digging up the answers to his identity? | | | | It's as if government MPs have given up and gone home. Except we, the taxpayers, are still paying for them to run the country, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | As Knickers lit up the internet this week, a Canadian farm broke out the measuring tape for their own large steer. And Dozer could be an even beefier boy than Australia's bovine. | | | | The former US police officer is facing an upgraded charge of murder over the September shooting of her unarmed neighbour, whose family is also suing her for using excessive force. | | | | Prosecutors in the case of a former Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an Australian woman are seeking to charge him with a more serious murder count, alleging he intended to cause her death. | | | | Isaac Heagney spent his HSC year developing an invention that sends a text message if rock fishers end up in the water. | | | | Back-to-back earthquakes measuring magnitude-7 and 5.8 rock buildings and shatter roads in Alaska, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for residents to flee to higher ground. | | | | The 21-year-old was attempting to cut a tree with a chainsaw when it fell and trapped him in an accident the Premier says shows the dangers of bushfires. It comes as more than 100 fires continue to burn across the state. | | | | Liberal candidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma will have a second showdown with his independent rival Kerryn Phelps at the next federal election. | | | | A NSW woman has started an anti-discrimination campaign demanding changes to the way people in wheelchairs can buy tickets to major events and access good seating. | | | | Jayde Lowe borrowed $175 from the Queensland-based short-term credit agent Cigno to buy food and a birthday gift for her daughter. Less than three months later, she owed the company $935.50. | | | | A group of residents in Louisiana are trying to form a new city in a move widely seen by opponents as a racially motivated attempt to bring back school segregation. | | | | In eight minutes we would see the flash, in 10 minutes particle radiation could bombard our planes and satellites, and in half a day power grids could be at risk — the Sun has never felt so close. | | | | Christmas lights aren't everyone's cup of tea. Here are some of the most common reasons why people complain, and what local councils, police and experts in neighbourhood disputes say you can do to keep everyone onside. | | | | The royal commission tried to cut through the apologies and the corporate jargon to get to the heart of what went wrong at Australia's biggest banks. Here are the major lowlights of the inquiry, simplified. | | | | The proper way to eat fruit. Toasting without clinking glasses. Enunciation. Perfect poise. You'll cover all this at a modern Australian finishing school — but there's deeper life lessons on offer as well. | | | | The idea of a baby resting in a sling suspended from a car's roof might seem odd today but it was among a wide variety of child restraint options in 1970 — and most people had no idea just how dangerous they really were. | |  |
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