| | | | The former husband of missing Sydney woman Lynette Dawson is arrested on Queensland's Gold Coast and is expected to be charged with her murder. He is the focus of the popular Teacher's Pet podcast into the 37-year-old cold case. | | | | Three-metre waves could hit the coasts of New Caledonia and Vanuatu after a powerful earthquake strikes at a depth of about 10 kilometres. | | | | As a social scientist, Margaret Kerans has lived as a pioneer — but as her curious mind started to fade, her daughter found loan documents and a financial mess she blames on Australia's biggest bank. | | | | A former Australian Army officer who sexually assaulted a colleague with a beer bottle during "hijinks" at a work function will spend three months in jail, be demoted from his rank as captain, and kicked out of the Army. | | | | Donald Trump started December in much the same way that he has behaved during every other month: with a storm of tweets. But to the relief of many Americans, a change may be on the way, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | Nikki Atack is severely allergic to a range of fruits, vegetables and pollens — and she's not alone. Experts say there's a link between hay fever and food allergies, but the good news is there are steps you can take to ease your symptoms. | | | | Special counsel Robert Mueller's office is calling Michael Flynn's cooperation with its investigation "substantial" and is recommending no prison time for the former Trump administration national security adviser. | | | | Australia is in a property downturn that rivals 1989 — when interest rates were 17 per cent, unemployment was rising and the economy heading for recession. So why is the market so weak in the midst of economic good times? | | | | We use each other's bank cards all the time — especially when doing a coffee run at the office — but there's a lot of confusion about whether it's legal. | | | | A New South Wales woman who blogged about her sick child has sobbed while leaving a court hearing where it was alleged she used urine to poison her child. | | | | Serious discrepancies are emerging over the status of Australia's biggest ever defence project, with Defence Minister Christopher Pyne rejecting reports of extra costs and construction time. | | | | An opal buyer donates a jawbone fragment found in northern NSW to researchers, who spend two years identifying it as a 100-million-year-old fossil that belonged to a dinosaur now known as Weewarrasauras pobeni. | | | | The Australian Financial Complaints Authority only began at the start of November, but it has already been flooded with more than 6,500 complaints — that's an average of 310 every business day. | | | | Australia's economy appears to be slowing much more rapidly than expected, after a spurt of growth in the first half of the year, and households are bearing the brunt with lower savings and falling incomes. | | | | Peter Handscomb has been given the nod at Mitch Marsh's expense for tomorrow's first Test between Australia and India in Adelaide, while opener Marcus Harris is a confirmed debutant. | | | | The mother and her baby are happy and healthy and have visited the team who helped them achieve the amazing world-first birth, with doctors saying the successful procedure may help solve some lingering mysteries about pregnancies. | | | | A bee swarm in central Hobart creates a buzz and sees shutterbugs descending to capture the sight, which experts say is not that uncommon. | | | | Prime Minister Scott Morrison challenges the Federal Opposition to back the Government's bill to ban religious schools from discriminating against LGBTI students, drawing an angry response from Labor. | | | | New figures from the ATO reveal more than 37,000 scam attempts were reported last month alone, with one elderly person fleeced out of $236,000. | | | | The one-and-a-half-page missive, written in German in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind, is regarded as a key manuscript in the debate over science and religion and is Einstein's clearest statement of his views on the universal search for the meaning of life. | | | | Karen thought she had found the perfect pet for her hobby farm — tall, dark and handsome Harry — but beneath his furry exterior seethed a "totally demented" rage. | | | | Since my two sons were diagnosed with autism, the learning curve for our family has been steep. In a way, it reflects how much society has learned since the days of Rain Man and the 'refrigerator mother' theory. | | | | If Britain's Parliament rejects Prime Minister Theresa May's deal on December 11, the UK will have to pick from a handful of bad options to salvage Brexit. | |  |
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