| | | | Residents of Sydney's Opal Tower are told there is no risk of the building collapsing, but those living in 51 of the apartments are still not able to go home after a large crack was found on the 10th floor. | | | | The couple, who were held in custody for two nights and the subject of intense media speculation, say the way they were portrayed was "disgusting" but close family and friends never doubted their innocence. | | | | Police are trying to confirm the identity of a young woman suffering life-threatening injuries after a hit and run in Adelaide's suburbs on Christmas morning. | | | | Manning the phones in the NORAD Tracks Santa program, US President Donald Trump tells a 7-year-old boy that believing in Santa at that age is "marginal". | | | | A couple in their 70s have been killed when they were hit by a car as their horrified daughter looked on in a Christmas Eve accident in the north Queensland city of Townsville. | | | | As news breaks that Kevin Spacey is facing charges of indecent assault and battery, the former House of Cards actor breaks a more than year-long silence by posting a three-minute monologue in character as Frank Underwood. | | | | With some help from social media, Australians with a thirst for spirits are fuelling a rush on juniper berries, with one grocer seeing demand double in the past 12 months. | | | | As global markets decline for their eighth-straight day, US President Donald Trump intervenes with yet another attack on his country's independent economic managers. | | | | 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. | | | | Indonesians on the islands of Java and Sumatra continue to comb through the debris for survivors of a surprise tsunami, while others acknowledge there was little authorities could do to alert people. | | | | Peter Handscomb will not get the chance to play in front of his home fans in the Boxing Day Test at the MCG as selectors opt to recall all-rounder Mitch Marsh to face India. | | | | Lifesavers urge people to follow warnings and stay out of dangerous waters after a Melbourne woman could only watch on as her husband and son drowned off Phillip Island on Christmas Eve. | | | | As drones are unwrapped from under Christmas trees, safety authorities warn they come with stringent rules of use. | | | | Australian Michael Dickson unleashes another drop kick in the NFL in the United States, playing for the Seattle Seahawks against the Kansas City Chiefs. | | | | Police in Colorado are hoping to catch a pre-Christmas burglar red-nosed, after the thief was caught on camera breaking into a business while wearing a giant plush reindeer head. | | | | The order of the payment to the parents of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died shortly after returning from North Korea, is a symbolic victory and "significant step" in the family's journey for justice. | | | | Christmas traditions and celebrations are underway around the world, with pilgrims flocking to Bethlehem's largest event in years while Pope Francis urges Christians to forgo greed, gluttony and materialism. | | | | In the angry, irreverent biopic Vice, political horror is served up as absurdist comedy, led by Christian Bale who is packing on the awards-baiting pounds. | | | | Sneaking in an afternoon siesta on Christmas Day and throughout the holidays is the best way to recuperate from the busy year, experts say. | | | | Despite advice that in order to live your best life you should care less about trivial things, we really do give a f***. And this might just be a gift of Christianity to the Western soul, writes Justine Toh. | | | | A Christmas drive held by an op shop deep in the Northern Territory bush receives an unprecedented truckload of love from around the globe. | |  |
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