| | | | Virat Kohli is motoring along while Cheteshwar Pujara plays the anchor role with Australia's bowlers continuing to graft on day one of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG. Follow all the action in our live blog. | | | | The NSW Government orders a "comprehensive investigation" into the structural integrity of Sydney's Opal Tower after a severe crack in the 34-storey building forced a mass evacuation on Christmas Eve. | | | | Efforts to battle a Christmas Day bushfire which forced the evacuation of 150 people in southern Tasmania were halted by a drone flying in the airspace used by waterbombing aircraft. | | | | Cameron Bancroft says he felt pressured to "fit in" and help his team when David Warner asked him to tamper with the ball in the infamous sandpaper incident in Cape Town. | | | | A 20-year-old man is charged with attempted murder after shooting his stepmother in the head several times with a nail gun during a Christmas celebration. | | | | Frustrated with the deadlock between pro- and anti-whaling nations at the International Whaling Commission, the Japanese Government confirms it will exit the organisation and restart commercial whaling in July. | | | | A high pressure system off the east coast is trapping in the heat, pushing up temperatures across the southern parts of the country, with Victoria's north-west preparing for a record-breaking run for the most consecutive days over 40 degrees. | | | | Someone who knows Jim McLean, the 76-year-old bushwalker missing for weeks in Tasmania's rugged south-west, says he is a "tough old bugger" — he will need to be if he is to survive where so many others have not. | | | | Black Jack leads the fleet out of the Heads for the second year running, but defending line honours champion Comanche is flying as the leaders head down the coast in the 74th running of the Sydney to Hobart. Follow day one of the blue water classic in our live blog. | | | | Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal family meet with cheering crowds while attending a Christmas church service in Sandringham. | | | | One of the three daughters of Cairns couple Malcolm and Esme Beck expresses her "shock and grief" at the deaths of her parents, who were hit by a car after leaving church in Townsville on Christmas Eve. | | | | Up to six people are rescued after their boat is engulfed in flames in waters off Rottnest Island, near Perth. | | | | The major wars that shaped the US are honoured with memorials in the national mall in Washington DC but millions more dollars are needed to fund one for those who fought in World War I. | | | | The US President says the Government will stay closed until Democrats meet his demands to fund his long-promised wall at the US-Mexico border. | | | | As many of us head to the shops in search of bargains, what we're not thinking about are those extra fees that we may incur by using our debit or credit cards at the checkout. | | | | An eight-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in US Government custody early on Christmas Day, according to US immigration authorities, marking the second death of an immigrant child in detention this month. | | | | About 16 people on board a hot air balloon walk away after it catches fire in the air over the Yarra Valley, east of Melbourne, and comes down in a paddock. | | | | Blake McKenzie has autism and used to bolt without warning when in open areas — but thanks to Poppy, his safety is now much more assured. | | | | Following the deaths of a father and son on Christmas Eve at Victoria's Phillip Island, a man drowns while diving at Cape Schanck on the Mornington Peninsula. | | | | Despite the heat and humidity, Broome storm chaser James Taylor would not want to be anywhere else but in the Kimberley at this time of the year. | |  |
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