| | | | A Queensland man is sentenced to 10 years in prison for encouraging and helping his wife to kill herself, so he could access her life insurance and build a religious commune with bunkers as a haven from the biblical rapture. | | | | Emergency services are doorknocking hundreds of homes in south Canberra to urge them to prepare their bushfire survival plan, as an erratic blaze that has displayed "unprecedented" behaviour continues to head towards suburbs. | | | | Sky News sacks host Ross Cameron over racist comments he made on the Outsiders program about Asian people, which the station's chief executive Paul Whittaker described as "totally unacceptable". | | | | A van painted with a slogan that Ad Standards condemned for its sexually explicit language is spotted in Cairns, with one tourist describing it as "vile". | | | | The widespread feeling that the Morrison Government is doomed will only be reinforced by this week's outbreak of hostilities between the former and current prime ministers, writes Michelle Grattan. | | | | The truth behind the notorious mafia shooting murder of aspiring Liberal politician Don Mackay in the 1970s appears to have been taken to the grave, after the man who likely pulled the trigger died this week. | | | | The Mint is releasing 3 million $1 coins specially marked with the letters A, U or S — and will give eight people who collect a complete set the chance to strike their own coin made from 1 kilogram of pure silver. | | | | B-15T is drifting into warmer waters after it and its parent iceberg B-15 spent almost two decades floating around Antarctica being shaped by collisions with other icebergs and the Ross Ice Shelf. | | | | A Sydney man who murdered his wife by setting her bedroom on fire and pushing her back into the flames as she tried to escape is jailed for at least 27 years. | | | | Event sponsors in China are called out for paying an African student to pretend to be a professional boxer and lose to a monk in order to demonstrate the superiority of Kung Fu. | | | | Locals believe the pair, estimated to weigh about 360 kilograms each, fell into the water while fighting and drowned together because they were unable to stand up. | | | | A decade after his infamous racial abuse incident at the SCG with India's Harbhajan Singh, Andrew Symonds says the fallout and hearing process left him "heartbroken" and led to his heavy drinking. | | | | An airport official says after the request, the pilot updated the control tower to say the plane was flying normally and would push on with its journey. The same plane plunged into the sea hours later, killing all 189 people on board. | | | | For decades, photographer Warren Kirk has been working to preserve something he says is dying: old-fashioned Australian suburbia, with its relics like the outdoor tyre swan. | | | | Shocking footage has emerged of the moments before a bus plunged 60 metres off a bridge in China on Sunday, showing a passenger fighting with the driver. | | | | Usain Bolt leaves the Central Coast Mariners after a trial, with the A-League club and Olympic sprint legend unable to come to a deal that would have extended the sporting experiment. | | | | For Mexicans in Australia, Day of the Dead isn't a dress-up dance party, but a time to bring loved ones back from the dead and reconnect with their ancestral homeland. | | | | A month after a Melbourne bar was fined more than $200,000 for failing to pay the correct fees, music licensing bodies have dismissed a call from restaurant and cafes owners to lower the fees for using copyrighted music in their establishments. | | | | Casting aside the trappings of palace life in order to marry a commoner definitely sounds romantic — but in reality, Japan's princesses don't have any other options. | | | | Dozens of archaeologists are working around the clock to exhume the skeletons of 45,000 people — including the man who gave Australia its name — to make way for a $101 billion rail project in the United Kingdom. | | | | A video showing the menacing smile of an immigrant who murdered two US police officers is taking central stage in Donald Trump's closing midterm election argument about immigration — a move critics immediately denounced as a racist campaign tactic. | | | | Embattled North Shore MP Felicity Wilson is at risk of losing the Liberal preselection in just over a week's time, with key party branches indicating they have withdrawn their support. | |  |
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