| | | | Toasty temperatures will sweep through parts of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales over the holiday period, with the mercury expected to be 12 degrees higher than normal. | | | | The Opal Tower apartment building at Sydney Olympic Park is evacuated and a nearby train station closed after reports of "cracking noises" from residents and passers-by. | | | | The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union says the burger restaurant is trying to bring in cheaper workers over the Christmas period under a Federal Government program that pays interns on unemployment benefits $200 extra per fortnight. | | | | A pair of Australian families have bought the world's second-biggest farm, at more than 16,500 square kilometres in size and home to 18,000 cattle. | | | | Indonesia is no stranger to the devastation of tsunami, but the most recent wave was triggered by an undersea landslide, giving seaside residents little warning or opportunity to flee for higher ground. | | | | The landslide was like "dropping a bag of sand in a tub filled with water" and there was no tsunami warning because no-one felt any shaking, experts say. | | | | Chris Dawson walks free from a western Sydney prison on bail, just weeks after being charged with the murder of his first wife, Lynette, who disappeared from the family home 37 years ago. | | | | US President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary calls top US bankers amid an ongoing rout on Wall Street and makes plans to convene a group of officials known as the "Plunge Protection Team". | | | | Australian Michael Dickson unleashes another drop kick in the NFL in the United States, playing for the Seattle Seahawks against the Kansas City Chiefs. | | | | A dopey dalmatian reappears in the town of Larrimah after surviving a crash that killed her owner and spending a week in the scorching outback. | | | | US President Donald Trump announces that Deputy Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan will take on the role on an acting basis from January 1, with a senior White House official claiming the move was sparked by Mr Trump's anger at General James Mattis's resignation letter. | | | | Archaeologists dig up the petrified remains of a harnessed horse and saddle, believed to belong to military officer during ancient Roman times, in the stable of an ancient villa in Pompeii. | | | | A Sydney father says he saw a group lined up waiting for his local Coles supermarket to open, before rushing through the doors and knocking over boxes of cherries to get to the infant formula. | | | | Australian coach Justin Langer hints that allrounder Mitchell Marsh could make his return to the Australian side for the crucial MCG clash against India, starting Wednesday. | | | | An asteroid's close approach to Earth this Christmas has revealed it to be similar in shape to a "hippopotamus wading in a river", NASA says. The 'hippo' will not come as close again for several decades. | | | | For decades there has been an annual Christmas battle waged in the Swedish city of Gavle, as authorities try to keep the world's largest straw goat from being destroyed. Their efforts have often been in vain. | | | | A lesbian love-and-power triangle causes havoc in the court of Great Britain's 18th century Queen in this latest caper from the director of The Lobster. | | | | Fractures, head injuries, internal bleeding — welcome to the "festive season" as viewed by those working in our hospital trauma wards at Christmas time, write Jennifer Jamieson and Simon Hendel. | | | | The death of independent suburban street retailers has been talked about for the past decade, but they're still here. And as we hit the end of Christmas and head into the sale season, these retailers reckon they know why. | |  |
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