| | | | The oil sanctions will come into effect on Monday and will target the Middle Eastern country's largest source of revenue in the most punishing action taken since the Trump administration withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement in May. | | | | A potential new defence witness emerges in the Geoffrey Rush defamation trial after settlement talks between the parties fails. | | | | Gary Nunn had long accepted he didn't like getting up early. But with neuro linguistic programming, he found he could change his life through repetition and the right words | | | | Virtually every politically relevant indicator points to the Democrats winning a majority of seats in the US House of Representatives next week, but the Republicans have a powerful card in their hand, writes Simon Jackman. | | | | Fights are breaking out over fish supplies as demand grows in developing countries and larger countries use military force to protect dwindling resources. | | | | Sister Patricia, who after decades seeking justice for some of the Philippines's most vulnerable people was accused of engaging in political interference, has lost her battle to stay in the country, with her visa confiscated on Wednesday. | | | | One in three Australian women experience anxiety. Among men, the rate is one in five. What is it about our gender that makes us more — or less — susceptible to persistent, excessive worry? | | | | For the first time ever, a one-day international in Australia won't be viewable on free-to-air television — and media experts are predicting a backlash when cricket fans try to tune in. | | | | Cats are often painted as lazy, disloyal, and unproductive creatures, but for a handful of towns in east Asia, cats are clawing in millions and rejuvenating struggling backwaters. | | | | Emergency services lower the alert level of a fire that continues to burn bushland in south-west Canberra despite a thunderstorm dumping little rain on the site. | | | | 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 Sydney gangster with links to the Ibrahim family has been killed in a shooting ambush as he was leaving his Athens home. | | | | Child abuse doesn't automatically stop once someone turns 18. Sarah is one of tens of thousands of Australian adults whose childhood abuse continued into their adult lives. Now, she's broken free and hopes others can follow her lead. | | | | Former students at an elite school in Sydney's eastern suburbs express outrage at its decision to fight for exemptions to sex discrimination laws that allow gay teachers to be sacked. | | | | Several lanes of traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge are closed as six fire trucks and 24 firefighters extinguish a blaze that broke out on a bus. | | | | 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". | | | | Australian telecommunications giant Telstra is scrambling to restore a national outage that has left some bank customers unable to use eftpos or ATMs. | | | | A US man smiles and says "let's rock" before becoming the first person executed in the electric chair in Tennessee in more than a decade. | | | | Police are looking for a group of up to 15 youths "perceived to be of African appearance" responsible for two "ugly" and "vicious" attacks on the busy St Kilda foreshore in Melbourne's south on Thursday night. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | Four more Young Nationals with alleged connections to an alt-right movement resign from the National Party, as senior leaders say they "will not rest" until all extremists are expelled. | | | | 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. | |  |
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