| | | | Hundreds of residents of a newly constructed Sydney apartment building that was evacuated yesterday after reports of loud cracking noises are spending Christmas morning elsewhere, as they await the all-clear from authorities to return home. | | | | Toasty temperatures will sweep through parts of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales over the holiday period, with the mercury expected to be 12 degrees higher than normal. | | | | Indonesians on the islands of Java and Sumatra continue to comb through the debris for survivors of a surprise tsunami, while others acknowledge there was little authorities could do to alert people. | | | | As global markets decline for their eighth-straight day, US President Donald Trump intervenes with yet another attack on his country's independent economic managers. | | | | As drones are unwrapped from under Christmas trees, safety authorities warn they come with stringent rules of use. | | | | A Christmas drive held by an op shop deep in the Northern Territory bush receives an unprecedented truckload of love from around the globe. | | | | A pair of Australian families have bought the world's second-biggest farm, at more than 16,500 square kilometres in size and home to 18,000 cattle. | | | | Despite advice that in order to live you best life you should care less about trivial things, we really do give a f***. And this might just be a gift of Christianity to the Western soul, writes Justine Toh. | | | | In the angry, irreverent biopic Vice, political horror is served up as absurdist comedy, led by Christian Bale who is packing on the awards-baiting pounds. | | | | Australian Michael Dickson unleashes another drop kick in the NFL in the United States, playing for the Seattle Seahawks against the Kansas City Chiefs. | | | | It's been 10 years since Nada, Athir and their children left Iraq, and eight since they settled in Tasmania — they say that if there's one thing about Christmas that reminds them of home, it's the decorations. | | | | The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union says the burger restaurant is trying to bring in cheaper workers over the Christmas period under a Federal Government program that pays interns on unemployment benefits $200 extra per fortnight. | | | | The hidden Christmas carol called Parit Virgo filium, discovered in a 15th-century manuscript at Cambridge University Library, will be recreated and performed by the Newcastle Cathedral. | | | | Local officials at numerous cities and provinces order Christmas decorations banned as China tries to suppress the western holiday in favour of a focus on traditional culture. | | | | Fans in the stadium during an African Champions League match in Sudan chant "the people want to bring down the regime" in the latest scenes of unrest against President Omar Bashir. | | | | Sydney's Australian Reptile Park puts out a festive-period warning after reporting a record number of funnel-web spiders handed in to its keepers, some with leg spans of up to 10 centimetres. | | | | A dopey dalmatian reappears in the town of Larrimah after surviving a crash that killed her owner and spending a week in the scorching outback. | | | | Despite his pivotal role in the Apollo 8 mission — which was crucial in paving the way for the Moon landing seven months later — Bill Anders says the idea of sending human crews to Mars is "almost ridiculous". | | | | An asteroid's close approach to Earth this Christmas has revealed it to be similar in shape to a "hippopotamus wading in a river", NASA says. The 'hippo' will not come as close again for several decades. | | | | The landslide was like "dropping a bag of sand in a tub filled with water" and there was no tsunami warning because no-one felt any shaking, experts say. | |  |
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