| | | | Police beef-up security around central Melbourne but do not believe there is an ongoing threat, after a man stabbed three people on Bourke Street yesterday before being shot dead by police. | | | | As a truck blazes in the background, a man flails a knife at police officers, who backpedal desperately. Bystanders jump into the fray, one wielding a chair, another a shopping trolley, before the assailant is finally neutralised. | | | | There is really something more important going on at the moment in politics than the wisdom of Scott Morrison's bloke strategy and "Scomobile" bus, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | A New Yorker sets up shop just inside an open doorway in a back alley in Ho Chi Minh City, taking out a set of scales, zip ties, some scissors and ziplock bags. He's here for hair. | | | | Australia levels the three-match series with a much-needed seven-run win over South Africa at Adelaide Oval, with Marcus Stoinis standing up for his side with the ball. | | | | The world is outraged by the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but he isn't the first Saudi dissident to disappear beyond its borders, never to be seen again. | | | | Just 12 months after becoming head coach of Arsenal's women's team, Joe Montemurro has taken his side to the top of the league and is drawing favourable comparisons with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. | | | | Experts warn the platypus could become extinct, with no official population figures collated more than 200 years on from European settlement. | | | | Chinese university student Yuanyang Wu has never even heard of the social media giants being blocked from view by the Chinese Great Firewall — but in his eyes, he isn't missing out. | | | | Donald Trump is planning a US 'Space Force', but will it be any good? We asked the experts exactly how worried we should be about a space war. | | | | Luke Foley won't re-contest his seat at the state election, as the battle for the NSW Labor leadership becomes a fight between two: 39-year-old shadow water spokesman Chris Minns and deputy leader Michael Daley. | | | | Look at the Moran Prize and the Young Archies and you see two very different snapshots of Australian faces, writes Michaela Bolad. | | | | The White House press secretary — who is upfront in accusing media of sharing "fake news" — tweets a video which analysts claim contains extra frames to make it appear Jim Acosta struck a female intern. | | | | It's actually heartbreaking the extent to which women who've been sexually harassed, even though they tried to play by the rules, avoid a fuss and protect their professional reputations, now find themselves painfully centre stage in a media and legal circus, writes Annabel Crabb. | | | | A large medical team at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital takes about six hours to separate Nima and Dawa Pelden, who were joined at the chest and shared a liver. | | | | The Satanic Temple in the United States is suing Netflix and Warner Bros over claims its statue of the goat-headed deity Baphomet was ripped off for a new TV series. | | | | An elderly Perth man who killed his ex-wife's new partner with a tomahawk and attempted to kill her is convicted of murder by a WA Supreme Court jury. | | | | High-profile US elections in Florida remain unresolved and the prospect of legal challenges, recounts and ballot reviews are setting the stage for possible weeks of uncertainty. | | | | The late physicist and pop culture icon's possessions, medals and academic papers are sold to raise money for charity, generating huge interest online. | | | | Two lovebirds who carved their names into the rock atop of a culturally significant mountain in south-east Queensland are being scorned on social media, and face the possibility of massive fines or jail if caught. | | | | A second large earthquake in two months strikes Western Australia's Lake Muir area, waking residents and shaking buildings hundreds of kilometres away in Perth and across the state's south-west. | | | | A fast-moving wildfire quadruples in size after destroying a town in Northern California, while another blaze is now threatening the seaside city of Malibu. | |  |
By national arts, culture and entertainment reporter Michaela Boland | |  |
By Laura Tingle | |  |
By chief foreign correspondent Philip Williams | |  |
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