| | | | Voting has wrapped up in the UK's Conservative Party ballot of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May, as counting gets underway. Follow live. | | | | British Prime Minister Theresa May's grip on the top job is looking tenuous, after Conservative MPs signed letters triggering a no-confidence vote against her. | | | | Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen is jailed for three years for his role in making illegal hush-money payments to women to help Mr Trump's 2016 election campaign, and for lying to Congress. | | | | A cave diver uncovers a globally significant collection of ancient bones from Australia' pre-historic period in the dark depths of South Australia's underwater caves. | | | | As the misuse of nitrous oxide — or "nangs" — by young people increases, youth advocates are calling for improved regulations to limit the sale of the drug, which can cause unconsciousness, and brain damage, and sudden death. | | | | What's different about your life, compared to someone who was your age in the 1980s? | | | | The most spoken language at home in 2006 — other than English — is now only the fifth-most widely spoken language in Australia, according to an analysis of census data. | | | | The public's insatiable use of technology has evolved into a critical crime-fighting tool, creating what one expert calls "a web of surveillance" in Australian cities, suburbs and on the country's road network. | | | | A group of retired naval officers warns Australia is spending an "excessive" amount of money on its new submarines as a $50 billion deal is clinched with France. | | | | From a comic book flick to gangster biopic and a loveable childhood bear, these were the films that delighted and horrified us in a year dominated by franchises, according to film critic Zak Hepburn. | | | | When the ANZ admitted it had tried to manipulate the Bank Bill Swap rate last year, it insisted only a "small number of traders" were involved — but new documents reveal senior management were aware of, and involved in, the scandal. | | | | What really goes on at couples' counselling, and is it as confronting as some of us might fear? Two psychologists give us the lowdown on what happens behind closed doors — and why a little anger can be a positive thing. | | | | A key pillar of Australia's industrial relations system for the past three decades is facing extinction in the private sector and it could result in even lower wage growth, The Centre for Future Work warns. | | | | A massive manhunt involving hundreds of police and soldiers is launched following a shooting spree that left two dead and 13 injured around one of Europe's most famous Christmas markets. | | | | Pensioners living overseas will soon be asked to go to an Australian embassy or consulate every two years to register that they are still alive and entitled to receive welfare payments. | | | | Heavy rain, destructive winds and hail are set to pummel much of the eastern seaboard in the coming days, with the Bureau of Meteorology issuing severe weather warnings in several states. | | | | Activist group Labor for Refugees will call for an end to "degrading" treatment of refugees and asylum seekers at this weekend's ALP National Conference, setting up a possible test for the party's hardline policy ahead of the next election. | | | | In a maximum security prison cell on a 33-degree day, a woman was forced to have her baby alone while pleading for help for over an hour to the guards watching through a gap in the cell door. | | | | The card was issued in 1986 when Mr Putin was a mid-ranking KGB spy stationed in Dresden in communist East Germany, then under Russian occupation. | | | | Olga Edwards, whose teenage children were killed by their father at a home in Sydney's north-west in July, is found dead five months after the domestic violence tragedy that left the community reeling. | | | | Donald Trump once vowed to hire only the best. Now he's having trouble hiring anyone at all, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | Researchers have used marsupial lion fossils discovered in Naracoorte and the Nullarbor to discover that the Thylacoleo was similar to a tree-climbing Tasmanian devil, ambushing its prey in forests.. | | | | Christy Shelper and DJ Garner knew nothing about avocados — or farming — when they landed on an orchard in the Byron hinterland in northern New South Wales. | |  |
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