| | | | A fire in the car park at Chadstone Shopping Centre, in Melbourne's south-east, damages several vehicles and prompts the shutdown of part of the parking lot on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. | | | | If this Government were a Bond movie (and that's not a stretch, thanks to Andrew Broad) it would presently be Goldfinger, in the scene where the protagonist is trussed up to a bench with a deadly laser beam tracking towards his crown jewels, writes Annabel Crabb. | | | | A friend reveals how she decided not to join a fatal car trip that ended with a teenage driver, who had only got her licence hours before, dead and two friends airlifted to hospital. | | | | Air crash investigators use the corroded memory card from a camera to retrieve photographs from the cockpit of a seaplane that crashed into a creek north of Sydney on New Year's Eve, killing six people. | | | | A young Taiwanese deliveryman is facing a $547,000 repair bill after he dozed off and crashed into four parked Ferraris worth a combined $2.8 million. | | | | Australia's consumer watchdog tells motorists to delay filling up their tanks until closer to Christmas to take advantage of falling petrol prices. | | | | A sex worker who identifies as a woman could walk free from jail in April after Western Australia's highest court reduces the prison term imposed for infecting a client with HIV. | | | | "We have defeated ISIS in Syria," Donald Trump tweeted overnight — but according to many analysts, Islamic State is far from going away, no matter what the US President says, writes Michael Vincent. | | | | Terrain in the area where a 76-year-old man is missing in Tasmania's south-west wilderness is "unforgiving" an experienced bushwalker says. Authorities hold grave fears for Tasmanian man James McLean. | | | | An a cappella group of four New Zealand police officers charm social media users with a double shot of Christmas cheer, with a video of them beautifully singing two classic Christmas carols. | | | | A third umpire howler in the opening match of the Big Bash League in Brisbane sees the Adelaide Strikers withdraw a run-out appeal against James Pattinson. | | | | The New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions will not appeal a decision to overturn the conviction of the former Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson on charges of concealing historical child sex abuse in the Hunter Valley. | | | | As we lap up fictional versions of female incarceration on our television — the glamorous inmates in cult hit Orange is the New Black or the grittier Wentworth — an unprecedented number of women are steadily flowing into the blunt brick prisons dotting our nation. | | | | For the past 15 years, Australia's average net overseas migration rate has been around nine migrants coming to the country per 1,000 people. In Japan, it is close to zero — for now. | | | | Testing for toxins is underway after a large number of galahs and other birds are found "literally face down on the ground" in South Australia's Lower Lakes region. | | | | Upper House MP Jeremy Buckingham quits the Greens and will run as an independent in next year's New South Wales election after allegations of sexual harassment were made against him in Parliament last month. | | | | Japan is set to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission in 2019 in a bid to resume commercial whaling, Japan's Kyodo news agency says. | | | | The US Senate is set to vote on whether Ireland will be added to a visa program currently only open to Australians, which lets up to 10,500 recipients live and work in the US and is much easier and less expensive to obtain than work visas. | | | | A staple of summer get-togethers, the pavlova is well-loved in Australia. But it was probably invented elsewhere. | | | | A charity reveals former US president George HW Bush secretly sponsored a young boy in the Philippines for years under a different name, once asking him in a letter: "Have you ever heard of the White House?" | | | | The AFLW is expanding to 14 teams in 2020 but it is cautioned it cannot rely simply on "passion" if it is to enjoy sustained success following its promising start. | | | | The devastated family of a couple killed by an unlicensed driver in a stolen car are angry he will one day "be able to have Christmas with his family", as he is sentenced to 13 years behind bars. | | | | An award-winning journalist who worked for one of Germany's leading news outlets Der Spiegel has been sacked by the weekly magazine after evidence emerged that he committed journalistic fraud "on a grand scale" over a number of years. | | | | The 24/7 news cycle can deliver what feels like a constant stream of suffering direct to our phones. But the world also brought us plenty of good news this year, from medical breakthroughs to incredible reunions. | |  |
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