| | | | As voters set off for the polls, Facebook blocks more than 100 accounts for suspected "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" linked to foreign groups attempting to interfere in the midterm elections that will determine the balance of power in the US Congress and shape Donald Trump's presidency. | | | | The US midterms are here, and if you've been following Donald Trump's rise and presidency with fascination, you'll want to be paying attention. | | | | Health Minister Greg Hunt will today announce changes to the Government's My Health Record that will increase the penalty for misusing patient records from two years to five years in jail, while the maximum fine will more than double to $315,000. | | | | When the Federal Environment Department approved an Adani water project, it ignored the advice of the Government's own water experts, FOI documents show. | | | | Police, ambulance officers and firefighters respond to a disturbance at Darwin's Don Dale youth detention centre, where at least one building was engulfed in fire and detainees were earlier seen on the roof. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | More and more people are adopting plant-based diets, but also seemingly on the rise is resentment towards vegans and vegetarian, writes Tani Khara. | | | | North Queensland tourism operators say there are no obvious signs of a fall in visitors to the region in response to a spate of shark attacks, but behind the scenes many people are worried. | | | | Even Ms Guli admits it sounds crazy, and is beyond anything she's attempted before. But she's come too far to give up now. | | | | It is thought the graves hold the bodies of between 6,000 to 12,000 victims of Islamic State, with one sinkhole containing up to 4,000 corpses, a new UN report shows. | | | | In her new children's book the award-winning author takes a childhood incident and turns it into an empowering tale — and a teaching tool. | | | | One of the bloodiest battles of the Kokoda campaign in World War II, where 133 Australian soldiers were killed, is finally recognised after a Queensland farmer made it his mission to have a monument erected in honour of the fallen. | | | | In the cutthroat world of Chinese education, kids are not just expected to excel academically — they have to be the best at everything. | | | | Trams and trains drive the shift to public transport on the Gold Coast and the push might take off in other fast-growing regional cities. | | | | Ecologists found more than 60 medicines, including antidepressants and painkillers, in insects and spiders living at Melbourne creeks — even in the pristine Dandenong Ranges National Park. | | | | The New York trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman kicks off in a federal court in Brooklyn with the selection of potential jurors. | | | | Cycling safety advocate Cameron Frewer told the ABC in January he feared he would die on Sunshine Coast roads, and on Monday he was killed on his morning ride. | | | | There has been another incident involving an Indonesian passenger plane — this time after complaints about a two-tonne load of the pungent-smelling durian fruit. | | | | Rail safety investigators arrive in WA's Pilbara region as pictures reveal the mangled wreckage of a BHP iron ore train deliberately derailed south of Port Hedland, with the clean-up expected to take a week. | |  |
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