| | The Bourke Street attacker had his bail extended only weeks before the deadly rampage, despite a long history of failing to appear in court. He had also racked up a string of driving-related charges. | | | The feel-good tale of a homeless man using his last $20 to help a stranded New Jersey woman buy petrol was actually a complete lie, manufactured to get strangers to donate more than $550,000, US prosecutors say. | | | A judge declares Daniel Chapman, who stabbed his father because he turned the internet off, has good prospects of rehabilitation, and is having a hard time in jail due to his Asperger's syndrome. | | | On the fringes of Australia's biggest cities, people work, live, and play next to some of the nation's biggest polluters. And while you might not notice it, researchers say it's taking a toll. | | | A remorseful Miriam Grace Paton, 86, dies in hospital after refusing treatment months after reversing her car into six-year-old Indie and her family at a Sunshine Coast shopping centre. | | | The US President is reportedly "p***ed at damn near everyone" this week. And the ABC's Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel says there are plenty of reasons why. | | | Actor Craig McLachlan refuses to participate in an interview with Victoria Police, who are investigating allegations of indecent assault and assault against him which date to 2014. | | | A judge sentences a man to 13 years in jail for strangling Melbourne woman Karen Rae to death during sex, before repeatedly lying about his involvement in her death. | | | Authorities release a list of 630 people who are still unaccounted after the deadliest wildfires in California's history, which have destroyed nearly 9,000 homes and almost completely incinerated the town of Paradise. | | | The only surviving senior Khmer Rouge leaders are found guilty of genocide in a landmark judgement by Cambodia's long-running war crimes tribunal. | | | Hidden camera footage emerges showing cleaners at more than a dozen five-star hotels in China using dirty towels to clean toilets, cups and showers, sparking outrage on Chinese social media. | | | Police believe Samuel Little may be responsible for as many as 90 unsolved murders across the US, and if his confession proves to be true, his tally would surpass that of serial killers Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. | | | Thunderstorms and lightning 'striking all over the place' roll through the Wheatbelt, sparking fires that tore through grain crops — and locals say it could have been even worse. | | | A man is under police guard in a Sydney hospital, after he allegedly sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl in the toilet of a dance studio and stabbed a man who tried to intervene. | | | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says that two-thirds of people who use negative gearing have a taxable income of under $80,000 a year. But Fact Check found that claim to be misleading. | | | Experts from around the world are meeting today to vote on retiring Big K — the piece of metal locked in a vault in France that defines the kilogram — and replacing it with unadulterated physics. | | | China is splashing out billions of dollars in concessional loans to developing countries, but what happens when these debt-laden nations can't pay Beijing back? | | | If you're a teacher in Australia and are feeling just a little underappreciated or underpaid, then here is where you will (and won't) find fame and fortune plying your trade abroad. | | | The Jerusalem question, a religious freedom report, and an inquiry into free speech at universities: Scott Morrison's political predicaments echo those of Billy McMahon, writes Michelle Grattan. | | | Hollywood actress Rebel Wilson fails in her bid for her appeal case to be heard in the High Court of Australia, after she was ordered to pay back millions of dollars she was awarded in a defamation case against Bauer Media. | | | Theresa May's leadership is in turmoil. She's been wounded, although not fatally — yet. But if she was to fall, who is most likely to become Britain's next prime minister? | | | When reporter Simon Elvery turned the spotlight on his spying devices, he was surprised at how often they were sending out info on him — even when he was sleeping. | | | By George Rennie | | | By Europe bureau chief Samantha Hawley | | | By Michelle Grattan | | | By Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel and Emily Olson | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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