| | | | Using a smoke bomb and a handgun, a hooded Marine combat veteran opened fire during college night at a country music bar in Southern California, killing 12 people and sending hundreds fleeing in terror before apparently taking his own life, authorities say. | | | | The former prime minister tells Q&A the nine key figures who brought about his political undoing need to "be adults and be accountable", while offering a defence of his legacy. | | | | At the core of Malcolm Turnbull's inability to explain the leadership implosion is incredulity at the conduct of colleagues, writes Greg Jennett. | | | | Former children's entertainer Wendy Dent alleges Don Burke defamed her in an interview with Channel 9's A Current Affair last year by implying she was part of a "witch hunt" against him. | | | | Melbourne is the only major Australian capital city where hot air balloons can fly over the CBD. This is what it's like up there. | | | | Andy Factor survived the "night of broken glass" in Germany in 1938 and can still recall the shattering noise. But exactly 80 years later, it's the rising sound of white nationalism that has him scared. | | | | When Hiroko discovered she may have failed her medical university entrance process in Japan just because she was a woman, her disappointment turned into anger. Since then, the scandal in the country has snowballed. | | | | Nearly 100 years after it was created, the minute's silence is still used to mark tragedies. But few know it was the idea of an Australian journalist and soldier named Edward Honey. | | | | The last thing the Labor Party needs is a high-profile defamation case hanging over its head with the state election looming in March. | | | | One small error left a Brisbane couple in financial limbo for almost two years after a public servant mistakenly listed them as debtors instead of creditors. | | | | Donald Trump has said he'll deploy soldiers at the border to meet them, but for Hilda and the 5000-strong caravan of migrants from Central America, there's no turning back. | | | | Sydney's Anglican archbishop Glenn Davies apologises "to the community" but refuses to back down from a letter to the Prime Minister calling for exemptions to enable religious schools to discriminate against LGBTQI students. | | | | The Australian Institute of Sport is today launching a talent program to find Australia's next cohort of female sport executives and high-performance coaches, with the hope of changing what its chief executive describes as a "gross underrepresentation". | | | | Going back to school while juggling adult life can be difficult, but more of us will have to do it as career changes increase. Here's how to deal with some of the challenges. | | | | A Chinese university is enlisting kids straight from high school to work on a new experimental program aimed at developing artificial intelligence (AI) based weapons. | | | | Improving the performance of the Australian men's team requires a focus on the junior and club levels rather than just shifting the deckchairs in Cricket Australia's front office, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | This cockatoo is no bird brain: it can cut strips of cardboard to reach food in a cage. | | | | Spying on bumblebees in laboratory nests has revealed behavioural changes in insects exposed to tiny quantities of a widely used neonicotinoid pesticide. | | | | Demand is threatening to outweigh the supply of water in the Murray-Darling region, with prices set to double. | | | | On Tuesday, voters who once elected Barack Obama as President woke up from their 24-month nightmare, and found many other Americans also want a return to civility, inclusiveness and the wise use of taxpayers' money, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | The body of a child is located after a young family — including a three-year-old boy — were found dead in the same area in Central Australia yesterday. | | | | CNN's Jim Acosta has his press pass revoked after clashing with Donald Trump in a fiery exchange which saw him accused of "placing his hands" on a young female aide — an accusation Acosta says is a "lie". | |  |
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