| | | | Lawyers for the Iranian boy claim he exhibits suicidal tendencies and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression and anxiety after being allegedly raped three times by an older detainee at Nauru's immigration detention centre in 2014. | | | | Mami Coco Nyiramuruta raised her family amid an African genocide — her husband was murdered, and she thought her son had been killed too. But 15 years later social media changed everything. | | | | As we lap up fictional versions of female incarceration on our television — the glamorous inmates in cult hit Orange is the New Black or the grittier Wentworth — an unprecedented number of women are steadily flowing into the blunt brick prisons dotting our nation. | | | | High-profile potential candidates and a field of women emerge as the National Party scrambles to find a replacement for the Member for Mallee following his political demise. | | | | The Trump administration will withdraw all American troops in Syria, according to a US official, as President Donald Trump declares victory over the Islamic State group in Syria. | | | | Serving sweet justice is a satisfying idea, but lengthy delays and sky-high bills are common in Australia's court system — this is the true emotional, and financial cost of having your case heard. | | | | BOM and CSIRO's biennial State of the Climate report has just been released and there is no let up in rising trends with fire danger, extreme heat days, ocean temperatures, ocean acidity and heavy rainfall all up. | | | | Nationals MP Andrew Broad is facing new claims about his longstanding use of dating apps to meet younger women, with a social media post sitting on his Facebook profile for at least 49 weeks. | | | | With the days of lax lending standards over and those of increased paperwork checks for borrowers in, experts say a HELP debt could become a bigger liability when it comes time to applying for a home loan. | | | | Each year, about 150,000 tourists flock to Bruny Island, south of Hobart, for the rugged sea cliffs and fresh oysters, but the picturesque holiday spot is also home to about 800 residents who are grappling with how to manage the tourism boom. | | | | For the past 15 years, Australia's average net overseas migration rate has been around nine migrants coming to the country per 1,000 people. In Japan, it is close to zero — for now. | | | | A spokesman for Mr Corbyn denies the claim and says he actually stated 'stupid people' while Mrs May has called on those in the House to use "appropriate language". | | | | The family of Naim Aziz Abbas says he is innocent and calls for the Australian Government to intervene after the 65-year-old is found guilty of passing on secrets to Qatar. | | | | Do you go crazy for kitties or do you prefer a pooch or two? Whatever you choose, owning a menagerie of animals while bringing up a baby seems to bestow lifelong benefits on the child. | | | | The 24/7 news cycle can deliver what feels like a constant stream of suffering direct to our phones. But the world also brought us plenty of good news this year, from medical breakthroughs to incredible reunions. | | | | Did you know that two slices of roast pork (with crackling) contains about 1,415kJ? That's equivalent to 54 minutes spent cleaning windows. Substitute the pork for 12 prawns at 260kJ, and you'd only need to wash those windows for 10 minutes, writes Clare Collins. | | | | The DPI expects more mass fish deaths with a blue-green algae bloom blamed for 10,000 dead fish in the Darling River. | | | | The entrepreneur launches his foray into public transit after complaining on Twitter in 2016 that LA's traffic was "driving me nuts," promising then to "build a boring machine and just start digging" — and it appears the billionaire has followed through. | | | | The internet has given us endless new ways to communicate, and endless new ways to make each other feel bad while doing it. | | | | Officials from EU member states and the European Parliament back recommendations to ban single-use straws, plates, cutlery and cotton swabs. | | | | A new exhibition opens at Sydney Living Museum, featuring images taken by the street photographers of the 1930s and the work that documented life in wartime Australia. | | | | Some of South Australia's most high-risk child sex offenders being electronically tracked in the community have record multiple breaches of their order since 2014, new statistics obtained by the ABC reveal. | | | | If you heard someone at a dinner party being sexist, would you speak up? Many of us would simply roll our eyes and look the other way — but a new campaign hopes to change that. | | | | The former first lady of Zimbabwe Grace Mugabe is accused of assaulting a model with an electric cable at a luxury hotel in Johannesburg's Sandton district. | | | | Jay Schwer's girlfriend told him to make a will before picking up his new motorcycle, so he recorded one. He crashed his bike the same day and later died. A Supreme Court battle has seen his will ruled valid. | |  |
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