| | | | One of the men involved in the murder of the Sydney police accountant says he is "happy" with his actions and an earlier declaration of remorse is "bulls**t". | | | | A 4-metre tiger shark circles a "frantic" kayaker after knocking him off his board and into the air at Moffat Beach on Queensland's Sunshine Coast this morning. | | | | The French President responds to a series of swipes from the United States, saying France is not subservient to the US and suggesting Twitter is not the place for diplomacy. | | | | Chinese nuclear scientists reach an important milestone in the global quest to harness energy from nuclear fusion, heating plasma in a tokomak device to a temperature more than six times hotter than the core of the sun. | | | | Former Olympic diver and gold medallist Chantelle Newbery pleads guilty to a string of charges, including stealing, in what her lawyer describes as a "meteoric fall from grace". | | | | Irish women share photos of their G-strings on social media to protest "routine victim blaming" in the country's courts, after reports jurors were encouraged to consider a teenager's choice of underwear during a rape trial. | | | | Families in a small desert community have grown tired of living in homes where sewage might spill out of their kitchen sink, and are fighting for a better public housing. | | | | The death toll from the most destructive and deadly in California's history rises to at least 58, after eight more victims' bodies were found. | | | | A young woman who had been an ASIO officer "for about five minutes" who noticed a group of young men acting unusually in a chemist late at night helped foil a Christmas bomb plot in Melbourne's CBD, the country's spy boss reveals. | | | | A new study finds one type of concentrated fish oil supplement reduces the risk of heart attacks and stroke among people with heart disease. But these findings apply to a certain group of people, writes Garry Jennings. | | | | Iran has executed the so-called "Sultan of Coins" and his accomplice for hoarding gold coins and other hard currency, signalling zero tolerance as it tries to shore up its currency in the face of an economic crisis. | | | | A woman who allegedly kidnapped a 97-year-old from a Melbourne nursing home this year was under the belief it was her own mother, whose death she believed had been faked, a court has heard. | | | | Formerly conjoined twins Nima and Dawa do not like to be far from one another and "bum shuffle" back together when separated, nurses at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital reveal. | | | | Little-known Adam Stephens, ranked 1,939 in the world, goes from being an Uber driver to challenging for the Australian Open title at The Lakes in Sydney. | | | | There is some good news for New South Wales farmers struggling with drought, and bad news for Sydneysiders hoping for a beach trip, as the Bureau of Meteorology predicts a wet start to the summer. | | | | A clip reportedly showing competitor Fabiano Caruana's preparations might have been an honest mistake but it has raised suspicions it might have been a strategic bluff. | | | | A crater bigger than Paris is discovered under a glacier in Greenland, with scientists saying it is one of the youngest impact craters found on earth. | | | | A child at the centre of a custody dispute that may have set off a gruesome Ohio massacre is in state custody, her great-grandfather says. It comes as the first of the four suspects in the killings appears in court. | | | | According to her psychologist, Kate Cotis's battle with WestConnex over the ongoing noise and pollution from the construction — and her concern over what effect the four-lane toll road's proximity to her home will have — has led to a mental health condition. | | | | An Adelaide doctor who attacked a pharmacist with a knife after being reported for overprescribing medication will spend at least a decade behind bars. | | | | The suggestion of playing the AFL grand final across a three-match series is met by heated opposition from legendary Geelong premiership player and Brownlow medallist Jimmy Bartel. | | | | Police said it took 11 hours for a truck accident south of Brisbane to be reported but a woman who lives nearby said she saw the wreckage and called triple zero hours earlier and will be making an official complaint. | |  |
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