| | | | Heavy rain, destructive winds and hail are set to pummel much of the eastern seaboard in the coming days, with the Bureau of Meteorology issuing severe weather warnings in several states. | | | | In a maximum security prison cell on a 33-degree day, a woman was forced to have her baby alone while pleading for help for over an hour to the guards watching through a gap in the cell door. | | | | A former teacher at a prestigious high school in Adelaide who "manipulated" and groomed a student for sex will spend more than two years in jail. | | | | Adult film actress Stormy Daniels must reimburse US President Donald Trump for legal fees he spent defending himself over a tweet. | | | | Senior Victorian Liberal Party figures voiced urgent fears about having "zero" tax policies and a lack of female candidates, only to be rebuffed in the lead-up to the last month's disastrous state election loss. | | | | When mysterious paintings bearing the initials PRB began exhibiting in London in 1848, speculation over the signature's meaning was instant — but the movement behind the signature would influence some of the greatest artworks of the past 200 years. | | | | One person dies and five people are seriously injured after a truck veers into pedestrians waiting at a bus stop and causes a building to partially collapse in Alexandria. | | | | Sundar Pichai assures a US congressional panel that it's not some little man sitting behind the curtain pulling the strings, but that it's things like "relevance, freshness, popularity" that helps to rank results. | | | | A New South Wales high school investigates "highly inappropriate" online survey sent out by year 10 students. | | | | The tiny critters, which can be found in Australia, tropical Africa and South-East Asia, can snap their jaws 5,000 times faster than the blink of an eye, according to a study. | | | | The Federal Government is accused of unlawfully locking up an Aboriginal man in immigration detention and moving to banish him from Australia — the second such case in about four months. | | | | The RBA set out to track down where $76 billion of outstanding banknotes are, and found while most are used legitimately, around 8 per cent are in criminals' hands. | | | | The SA Premier's message to the Prime Minister on the new Australian Space Agency was "beam me up Scotty". What will the agency actually do to live long, and prosper? | | | | Researchers working to stop a flesh-eating bacteria say they are closer to understanding how it spreads as several cases emerge in far north Queensland. Warning: this is a condition you don't want to Google. | | | | British Prime Minister Theresa May's grip on the top job is looking tenuous, especially since the threshold for triggering a vote of no confidence is only 15 per cent of Conservative Party MPs. | | | | Westpac shareholders send an overwhelming message of dissatisfaction, with more than half voting against the bank's remuneration report. | | | | You need steady hands when you're hurtling around the Earth at 27,000 kilometres per hour in a pressurised spacesuit holding a knife and hacking through the heat shield of a Soyuz capsule in search of a hole. | | | | Tina Cahill, who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her fiancé David Walsh in Padstow last year, is handed an eight-year sentence by a Sydney judge who accepts she was abused and suffering a major depressive disorder at the time. | | | | In an email to musician and producer Brian Eno, the Australian singer reaffirms his desire to keep playing in Israel, saying "weaponising" music is not the way to further a peace process. | | | | Craig Campbell was hailed for saving two young men from an angry mob during the Cronulla riots — but it ended up costing him his career. | | | | In a remote pocket of Tasmanian wilderness, the giant tree known as Centurion can now rightfully claim to be 100 metres tall after laser technology confirmed it had grown an extra 80cm. | |  |
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