| | | | When the British divers sent to find the young members of a soccer team trapped in a Thai cave surfaced in a flooded cavern, they were astonished to find several men waiting there, themselves stranded by the rising waters. | | | | John Allen Chau was on the ultimate Christian mission — first contact with a lost people, but it was doomed from the beginning. | | | | Women in India are more than 2.1 times more likely to die by suicide than the global average — and young, married women are most at risk. | | | | The unstoppable rise of Chinese tourists around the world is reshaping the way we pay for things and how travel packages are marketed and executed, but the billion-dollar industry has some observers concerned. | | | | A picture-perfect village in a remote, mountainous pocket of China's south isn't the ancient town it appears to be but part of efforts to end poverty in China once and for all within two years. | | | | Marc Russell used to travel the world seeking out adventures. Now he spends much of his time bedridden and needs a cane to get around. The 42-year-old is one of a growing number of men who have come forward with complications from mesh used in hernia surgeries. | | | | I have been working in Yemen for more than a year and have seen first-hand the devastation facing millions of people — many of them children. Here are some of their stories, writes Jason Lee. | | | | George HW Bush may have been the most underrated US president since Harry Truman, and like the haberdasher from Missouri, probably deserves to be elevated in the judgement of history, writes John Barron. | | | | George W Bush says his father was "a man of the highest character", as fellow family members and former leaders mourn the loss of the 41st president of the United States. | | | | Authorities say Sunday will be a day of vigilance for fire-ravaged parts of Queensland, amid the threat of blazes caused by lightning and the possibility of a tropical cyclone brewing in the northern Coral Sea. | | | | On the sidelines of the G20 Summit, French President Emmanuel Macron tells Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Europe will insist on international experts being part of the investigation into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. | | | | More than 100 people are arrested after protesters angry about rising taxes clashed with French police, building barricades in the middle of streets in central Paris, lighting fires and throwing rocks at officers. | | | | Jeff Horn is now the undisputed main attraction of Australian boxing after comprehensively ending the era of Anthony Mundine — but who's next for the Hornet? | | | | Meeting with Australia's leader at the G20 Summit in Argentina, the US President gets a personal explanation of events that led to him meeting Scott Morrison as Prime Minister — not the man he has been used to meeting at the White House, in New York and at world summits for the last two years. | | | | The Victorian Greens claim victory in the inner-Melbourne seat of Brunswick after last weekend's state election, stealing the seat from Labor for the first time in the electorate's history. | | | | It's been 70 years to the day since the body of an unknown man was discovered along the shoreline of a South Australian beach. Are we any closer to digging up the answers to his identity? | | | | As Knickers lit up the internet this week, a Canadian farm broke out the measuring tape for their own large steer. And Dozer could be an even beefier boy than Australia's bovine. | | | | The former US police officer is facing an upgraded charge of murder over the September shooting of her unarmed neighbour, whose family is also suing her for using excessive force. | | | | Prosecutors in the case of a former Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an Australian woman are seeking to charge him with a more serious murder count, alleging he intended to cause her death. | | | | Back-to-back earthquakes measuring magnitude-7 and 5.8 rock buildings and shatter roads in Alaska, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for residents to flee to higher ground. | |  |
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