| | | | Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara have a job on their hands with Australia's bowling attack on top in Perth on day two of the second Test. Follow the action as it happens in our live blog. | | | | Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces the decision to recognise West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but will not immediately move the embassy from Tel Aviv. | | | | As Australian soldiers returned from World War I, they were confronted with one of the most deadly infectious diseases the world has ever known. Now a memorial has been established to remember those who fell during an entirely different battle. | | | | Theresa May appears to have a run-in on camera with the President of the European Commission after she mistakenly thought he had called her "nebulous", but later dismisses the confrontation as a "robust discussion". | | | | Johnson & Johnson's shares go into a tailspin as the company forcefully denies a media report that it knew for decades about the existence of trace amounts of asbestos in its baby powder. | | | | A certain frustration has been foaming on the surface of the nation's capital for some time, and the bubble everyone's been talking about lately has brought this pot of rage to boiling point. | | | | WA's coastline is a treasure trove of shipwrecks, but encroaching development on remote beaches is threatening some of its most spectacular maritime heritage. | | | | Tasmania Police Inspector Darren Hopkins says he found a cattle trough to sit in to ease his burns after flames engulfed the cockpit of his light aircraft, forcing him into an emergency landing in a paddock in October. | | | | Authorities say Victoria's SES received more than 1,400 calls for help during 48 hours of wild weather that damaged buildings, flooded streets and saw a helicopter rescue motorists stranded on the Hume Freeway. | | | | Education is key to cleaning up one of the worst environmental disasters washing up on the beaches of two nations, says a highly ranked Indonesian diplomat. | | | | US President Donald Trump picks budget director Mick Mulvaney to be his acting chief of staff, ending a chaotic search in which several top contenders took themselves out of the running for the job. | | | | New York artist Spencer Tunick reveals his four chosen images taken during his "Return of the Nude" photo shoot in wintry conditions in Melbourne this year. | | | | Scott Morrison has been announcing things this week, sometimes several things in one day. But it looks like is a Prime Minister with a list of things to tick off, but not necessarily in a way that sorts anything out, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | Two Canadians detained on December 10 face a tense period of interrogation, a former ambassador to the country says, with experts claiming they have been taken "hostage" by Beijing in retaliation to the arrest of a key Huawei executive. | | | | Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a woman in her 50s in a shooting in the Perth suburb of Bateman overnight, while a man aged in his 60's is under police guard in hospital. | | | | A weekend of Australian 'classics' highlighting the importance of language and the transmission of cultural knowledge. | | | | NSW will have an independent Ageing and Disability Commissioner with powers to issue search warrants and trigger investigations to help "stamp out" abuse. | | | | The island nation has been embroiled in a political fiasco since October after Sri Lanka's President unilaterally installed Mr Rajapaksa, triggering a parliamentary deadlock. | | | | More than 12 hours after crossing the Queensland coast as a category three system, ex-Tropical Cyclone Owen continues moving east toward the Coral Sea, bringing steady rain to the state's north-east. | | | | The social media company faces another breach of security and privacy, with a bug allowing 1,500 apps to access the private photos of users for 12 days during September. | | | | A secret phone app developed in Adelaide provides support to victims of domestic violence. The "unique security" technology provides legal services to victims who need it. | | | | What can an art critic, a Russian playwright and the film 500 Days of Summer teach us about the dangers of oversharing on social media? | | | | The baby business is booming in Ukraine and the number of Australian children born through the country's surrogates tripled in the past year — so how does the industry handle the ethics, the demand and the politicians wanting to shut it all down? | |  |
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