| | | | The White House says US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have reached a 90-day ceasefire agreement on new economic tariffs to allow for continuing trade negotiations. | | | | When the British divers sent to find the young members of a soccer team trapped in a Thai cave surfaced in a flooded cavern, they were astonished to find several men waiting there, themselves stranded by the rising waters. | | | | John Allen Chau was on the ultimate Christian mission — first contact with a lost people, but it was doomed from the beginning. | | | | Wayne Bennett's time as Brisbane coach has come to an end, with the Broncos terminating his contract a year early to allow Anthony Seibold to take charge in 2019. | | | | The ABC understands the Opposition Leader told Ms Husar that recontesting the seat would not be in the best interests of the party — a message which may see Ms Husar run as an independent. | | | | Rania Youssef stuns the Cairo Film Festival by wearing a black beaded dress that is opaque at the top and sheer on the bottom half, exposing what some commentators describe as a swimsuit beneath it. | | | | Peter Gouldstone, 98, was severely beaten by thieves who stole the TV from his London home. The crime shocked police and left his son "lost for words at man's inhumanity to man". | | | | It was the big idea that could have been a huge success or an expensive disaster, but more than 20 years later this little community is still reaping the benefits of a bold decision. | | | | The unstoppable rise of Chinese tourists around the world is reshaping the way we pay for things and how travel packages are marketed and executed, but the billion-dollar industry has some observers concerned. | | | | Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a wheelie bin at Yeronga on Brisbane's southside. | | | | Almost a year since the Royal Commission into Responses to Institutional Child Sexual Abuse delivered its final report, survivors say they are being further traumatised trying to gain redress — and some are falling through the cracks altogether. | | | | New York's Police Department is on the hunt for a man who dropped an engagement ring down a drain just moments after proposing. | | | | Despite being a qualified leadership trainer, and with 40 years of experience across various industries, Corinne Brown couldn't get an interview, let alone a job. It's an indication of just how pervasive age discrimination remains in the modern workplace. | | | | A man who sold roughly 70 Nazi artefacts, including a Third Reich book with "magnificent photos", says calls to donate the items to the war memorial is ridiculous. But he says he will "probably" review the language used in his next catalogues. | | | | Marc Russell used to travel the world seeking out adventures. Now he spends much of his time bedridden and needs a cane to get around. The 42-year-old is one of a growing number of men who have come forward with complications from mesh used in hernia surgeries. | | | | Flying a light plane to pick up bread from the local bakery is not something most Australians can relate to, but it is the unique reality for some who call Central Australia home. | | | | Residents in bushfire-affected areas of Queensland are being reminded to stay alert, with temperatures in parts of the state set to soar into the mid-40s today, as smoke from the fires reaches Brisbane city. | | | | Women in India are more than 2.1 times more likely to die by suicide than the global average — and young, married women are most at risk. | | | | National accounts data out this week are expected to show the economy slowed in the three months to September. So have things peaked, or is there still another leg up? | | | | A picture-perfect village in a remote, mountainous pocket of China's south isn't the ancient town it appears to be but part of efforts to end poverty in China once and for all within two years. | |  |
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