| | | | Jay Schwer's girlfriend told him to make a will before picking up his new motorcycle, so he recorded one. He crashed his bike the same day and later died. A Supreme Court battle has seen his will ruled valid. | | | | The high-profile breakfast television host will not return to the Today Show, Nine confirms, amid weeks of speculation about the anchor's future on the program. | | | | America's youngest elected member of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, says she needs some time off to relax before being sworn into Congress next year. But critics on social media say she's being lazy. | | | | Marwa was nine when she moved to Australia. She struggled to fit in at school, and when she spoke, the kids made fun of her. Now she has had the last laugh. | | | | Mark Rober spends six months designing a "bomb" that activates when the package containing it is stolen, firing glitter and fart-smelling spray on the thief. | | | | Not even Magna Carta can save the land of a WA man who owes $300,000 in rates after refusing to pay the council for more than a decade. | | | | The financial regulator will lift restrictions on interest-only residential lending, in an attempt to stabilise Australia's ailing property market. | | | | Shaun Falkiner, 28, is sentenced to life in prison with a 20-year non-parole period for murdering Alexander Watts, who yelled at Falkiner after a dispute with a woman in a shopping centre. | | | | Police say a motorist noticed the body on the River Road at Wantabadgery, about 40 kilometres east of Wagga Wagga, about 1:30am and pulled over to help. | | | | A newly discovered amphibian that is blind and buries its head in the sand is officially named after Donald Trump in recognition of the US President's stance on climate change. | | | | The Backpack Kid becomes the latest to sue Epic Games over a popular dance move ending up in Fortnite. | | | | One of the summer's most anticipated Australian productions will be released on January 17, as its lead actor Geoffrey Rush denies allegations of inappropriate behaviour. | | | | A Melbourne man avoids jail after defrauding a guide dogs charity of more than $200,000 so he could renovate his home and install a pool. | | | | National Australia Bank chairman Ken Henry admits the bank got it wrong on executive pay this year, with more than 88 per cent of shareholders opposing the remuneration report - the highest ever vote 'against' executive pay in corporate history. | | | | After another interesting and sometimes surprising year, 7.30 host Leigh Sales picks her favourite and most memorable interviews of 2018. | | | | Hospital food has a poor reputation, but the meals served at an Adelaide healthcare facility are being described as particularly inedible. It is the second facility to come under fire for its food quality this year. | | | | The Trump administration bans the high-power gun attachments of the type used in last year's Las Vegas shooting massacre of 58 people, giving the owners of "bump stocks" 90 days to turn in or destroy the devices and blocking owners from being able to register them. | | | | The same US baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds is facing charges of discrimination for refusing to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition. | | | | Between 1908 and 1919, more than 800 Aboriginal men, women and children were removed from their homelands and taken to 'lock hospitals' on Bernier and Dorre Islands, off Western Australia, under the guise of treatment for venereal diseases. Many never returned home. | | | | It looked perfect on the website: a sunny room with a king-size bed and a balcony overlooking the beach. But when you arrived and opened the curtains, you found a lovely view of a … carpark. Here's what you can do. | | | | Penny Marshall, who starred in Laverne & Shirley before becoming one of the top-grossing female directors in Hollywood, dies at age 75. | | | | It's difficult for the adult kids of world leaders to cut their own path. But for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the antics of his son are becoming a problem that some pundits say could affect his re-election. | | | | Cronulla Sharks coach Shane Flanagan and Wests Tigers boss Justin Pascoe have their registration cancelled by the NRL after two unrelated integrity unit investigations. | | | | Staff and patrons at Sydney's Eastwood Shopping Centre are reeling after a baby Jesus statue from the centre's Christmas nativity scene went missing on Monday. | |  |
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