| | | | Polls close in the US midterm elections, with Democrats flipping enough seats to take control of the House, while the Republicans hold on to the Senate. | | | | The anticipated blue wave was no tsunami, but now that the Democrats have taken control of the House, it delivers them the power to thwart Donald Trump's agenda at every turn, writes Stephanie March. | | | | Democrats have ridden a wave of dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump to win control of the US House of Representatives, US networks are reporting. | | | | The woman at the centre of the Geoffrey Rush defamation case did not seek revenge or personal publicity when making a complaint against the actor, in fact she did not even want him to know, a court hears. | | | | In the recorded message of excerpts from his book, the late Stephen Hawking warns of cultural isolation and points to the UK's exit from the European Union and the leadership of Donald Trump as threats to education. | | | | For the second time in three weeks detainees had stolen the keys from Don Dale Youth Detention staff, igniting a riot that has the entire facility now marked as a crime scene. | | | | The city's spike in knife attacks is compared to a rapidly spreading virus by anti-violence campaigners, with Mayor Sadiq Khan saying it could take a generation to overcome. | | | | A Tasmanian man who shot 11-year-old girl Phoenix Newitt in the head when he fired at a parked car will spend at least 21 months in jail. | | | | The man accused of deliberately driving a car into pedestrians along Bourke Street in Melbourne's CBD has pleaded not guilty to six counts of murder as a jury is empanelled for his trial. | | | | Miriam Lancewood and her partner told their families they'd be gone for a year. But a decade later they're still living deep in the New Zealand wilderness, hunting animals to survive — no easy feat for a woman who was raised a vegetarian. | | | | Whatever your hand-drying method of choice, there are some you should avoid: wiping your hands on your jeans or letting them dry on their own. | | | | Melbourne doctor Daniel Christidis is hailed as a "fantastic doctor" and an "exceptional character" by colleagues grieving his death from a shark attack in north Queensland this week. | | | | If you are a woman in retirement who is renting in Sydney or Melbourne you likely won't have enough savings to live comfortably, according to a new report by the Grattan Institute, but everyone else will do just fine. | | | | Once upon a time, a group of disheartened scientists found their tearoom bereft of teaspoons. They dug into the mystery with a longitudinal study design. | | | | Parenthood to many feels like a slow progression from unequal home duties to a "flexibility stigma" at work and seemingly endless school holidays without adequate annual leave to keep the kids occupied. It's not good for parents or the country, writes Leah Ruppanner. | | | | In the Arnhem Land community of Ngukurr, the Yugul Mangi Development Aboriginal Corporation-owned store used to have a monopoly on food sales. That is, until an Australian-Chinese start-up moved in. | | | | Experts say the "cigar-shaped" intruder was moving "remarkably fast" and appeared to have come from somewhere else in the galaxy. | | | | The purge of senior administrators at Cricket Australia continues with executive general manager of team performance Pat Howard and broadcast and commercial lead Ben Amarfio leaving the organisation. | | | | Centenarian former race car driver Ron Easton, who was often seen driving around Devon in his blue sportscar, dies in hospital after suffering a suspected fall while attempting to fix his television aerial. | | | | Westpac's top brass joins the queue of big-bank executives lining up for very expensive haircuts on their pay following revelations of years of misconduct uncovered at the banking royal commission. | | | | A NSW deputy state coroner has found former standover man Marlon McDonald is dead, but rejected claims he was chopped up by an Asian crime gang member or killed by bikies. | | | | Researchers say they have finally photographed elusive celestial clouds, confirming the existence of two dusty satellites orbiting Earth. | |  |
By North America correspondent Stephanie March | |  |
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