| | | | A man charged over the death of Angry Anderson's youngest son, Liam, is "traumatised and in a state of complete shock", according to a family friend. | | | | The values I learnt at my Sydney Anglican school are very different to those on display in the "right to discriminate" letter from school principals, writes Matilda Dixon-Smith. | | | | Arona Peniamina pleads guilty to manslaughter for beating his wife with a bollard on their driveway north of Brisbane, but the crown rejects the plea to push ahead with a trial for murder. | | | | There are no roads, no sewerage, no bridge, and no water but the Queensland Government overrules a local council giving the green light to a plan to build 700 homes and hundreds more units on a remote island. | | | | The US midterms can be pretty complicated, and ABC readers have had a lot of questions about them. So let's answer some of the more left-field ones before Americans vote on November 6. | | | | Former Australian captain Mark Taylor opts to step away from the Cricket Australia board, saying he hopes another former player will add "some fresh ideas" to the organisation. | | | | For five months Ross Edgley braved three-metre waves, jellyfish stings and extreme physical punishment, but having finally come ashore, he is now the first person to have swum the 2,800-kilometre length of the British coastline. | | | | Virgin Australia will review a pledge to give war veterans priority boarding and acknowledge them for their service during in-flight announcements, after the plan is described as "embarrassing" and "tokenistic". | | | | Henry Keogh, whose conviction for the 1994 murder of his then-fiancee Anna-Jane Cheney was set aside in 2014, tells a parliamentary committee $2.57 million isn't enough to make up for the 20 years he spent in prison. | | | | High global prices and a weak Australian dollar are being blamed for a 20 per cent surge in petrol prices over the past year. | | | | The stage is set for the 158th running of the Melbourne Cup. Explore our interactive guide to the horses chasing Australian racing's greatest prize. | | | | A taxi driver who "simply failed to pay attention for 15 seconds" is jailed for six years over a crash that killed three Shepparton nursing home residents. | | | | China's influence on Australian cities defies both dystopian claims of a "takeover" and utopian visions of a harmonious urban multiculturalism, write Dallas Rogers and Ilan Wiesel. | | | | A small community in the US state of Wisconsin is in mourning after the Girl Scouts died when a ute veered into a ditch and ploughed into them before speeding off — all while another troop of girls and their chaperone watched from across the road. | | | | The angler was walking along a beach in Eyemouth, Scotland when he came across the seals, which may have attacked him to defend their young. | | | | The rare geyser eruption of Ear Spring in Yellowstone National Park saw decades-old garbage rain down from the sky, prompting park rangers to urge tourists not to dispose of their trash in the hot springs. | | | | A neuroscientist who tried in vain to claw back part of her mother's dying gift of $1.4 million to an unproven spiritual healer says she has been vindicated by a jury verdict. | | | | Thousands of people — some of whom travelled from across Australia and overseas — have lined the streets of Melbourne's CBD for the city's Cup parade, as race organisers address concern from trainers over "ridiculously firm" track. | | | | When we read the news, our reactions often come from the gut rather than the brain. Rather than behaving like scientists, we behave like lawyers — starting with a belief and arranging the evidence to fit. The good news is there are things you can do to limit this thought process. | | | | A hospital attendant and four others allegedly rape a child being treated in an intensive care unit in the country's north. The incident is the latest in a series of sexual assaults, including the gang-rape and murder of a student on a moving New Delhi bus in 2012. | | | | Rudi Browning, 15, beats 127 competitors of all ages from across the world to clinch the individual title and help Australia to the team title at the Shenzhen Universiade Centre Stadium. | | | | The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted after spending eight years on death row on charges of blasphemy appeals to US President Donald Trump for refuge, citing danger to family members' lives. | |  |
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