| | | | Investigators extend the search for victims and debris for three more days, as 69 hours of flight data is recovered from the crashed Lion Air jet's black box. | | | | There is every chance the next move in interest rates could be a cut — and our deflating housing market may well be the trigger, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | If you're African and you end up before the courts, rest assured your case will hit the news, warns Melbourne's Chief Judge. | | | | 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. | | | | When Donald Trump last week suggested he could and would end birthright citizenship by executive decree, the sensible reaction was to ignore his statement as the election stunt that it is. But, upon reflection, I kept returning to what I teach in my American legal history unit, writes Thomas J. Adams. | | | | 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 2800-kilometre length of the British coastline. | | | | Two families are killed in the same house in Sicily when the torrential rains and high winds lashing Italy cause a river to burst its banks, drowning the nine people inside. | | | | The child was being treated for a snake bite in an intensive care unit when she was allegedly raped by a hospital attendant and four others. | | | | As a teenager in 1983, Halee Cosar wanted to ask for an extra minute's silence to honour the Turkish soldiers at Gallipoli. Now she's a teacher, and she wants her students to stand for two minutes. | | | | Online gambling with bitcoins is banned because the anonymity could aid match-fixing — but overseas cryptocurrency websites are targeting Australian punters, who are betting on the Melbourne Cup. | | | | Dr Justin Yerbury is a world expert in motor neurone disease, a disease that is also slowly killing him. To continue his search for a cure, he chose radical life-prolonging surgery with a hefty after-care cost, prompting the question — what price a life? | | | | The youngest of the Australian rocker's four children knew his alleged attacker, police say, as they investigate whether alcohol or drugs were involved. | | | | A north Queensland mother becomes the latest person charged by AFP officers investigating a syndicate that has allegedly smuggled women and children around the country. | | | | Where are the familiar names in this year's Cup? There is no Might and Power, no Saintly and no Makybe Diva. No fabled horse whose reputation stirs your emotions and demands you plonk your $5 each way on its head, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Consumer concern over animal welfare is driving demand for 'pastured' eggs as an alternative to caged and free range production. | | | | Major Korean lenders join banks in Australia, China and the UK in refusing to fund Adani's contentious Carmichael coal project, just months after the miner was reportedly in talks with Seoul companies. | | | | Victoria's prison system is one of the world's most expensive, but experts say it is failing, with half of its inmates committing more crimes after release. | | | | 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. | | | | A report from environmentalists exposes the potential for taxpayers to be slugged hundreds of millions of dollars for the cost of rejuvenating coal mine sites that are not backfilled once they are closed. | | | | The "non" campaign won 56.4 per cent of the vote, but the unexpectedly tight result exposes social and ethnic fault lines, with two more referenda likely to come. | | | | South Australia becomes the first state to sign up to the new national agreement for schools funding, prompting hopes from federal Education Minister Dan Tehan other that states — which had complained not enough money would go towards public schools under the deal — will soon follow its lead. | | | | Three senior opposition leaders are jailed for life after a court finds them guilty of transferring confidential information and receiving financial support from Qatar. | | | | Australia's batting woes continue, with another top-order flop playing a key part in their six-wicket one day international loss to South Africa in Perth. | |  |
By Thomas J. Adams | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
By business editor Ian Verrender | |  |
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