| | | | After being overtaken by Wild Oats XI overnight, Comanche regains its lead for line honours on day two of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. | | | | Donald Trump flies to Iraq for an unannounced visit while preparations are underway to withdraw troops from neighbouring Syria. | | | | More than 100 years worth of data about when, where and why people have died in bushfires can tell us a lot about how to save lives this summer. | | | | The clock is ticking on Kenneth Hayne's final report — so what is it likely to recommend and what could it mean for you? | | | | If you thought a lot happened in Melbourne this year, brace yourself for more. Big changes are on the way in 2019, affecting our roads, our trains, our shopping habits and even the city's sacred sport, AFL football. | | | | In the films The Favourite and Mary, Queen of Scots, same-sex intimacy is portrayed as normal, which is shaking our idea of the notoriously prudish Britain of yore. Have we got history wrong? | | | | A man dies after falling into a rock pool at MacKenzie Falls in Victoria's Grampians National Park, marking the fourth drowning in the state in three days. | | | | Yes, the Canberra circus stole the show, with the Turnbull-Dutton-Morrison saga topping ABC Online's list of most-read stories. But the Thai cave rescue, a couple of shocking mass murders and the longest lunar eclipse showed how diverse your interests and concerns are. | | | | As US President Donald Trump makes a number of attacks on the independent Federal Reserve, a White House adviser steps in to allay fears and quell global market instability in response to the attacks. | | | | Here we revisit the 10 key policy moves, diplomatic clashes and deals that have shaped an interesting year in the complex Australia-China relationship. | | | | Every year it's the same story: You get a bunch of gift cards that you have every intention of using, only to remember them months later when you can't figure out where you've put them. | | | | Six people including a five-year-old child are rescued after their boat is engulfed in flames in waters off Rottnest Island, near Perth. None of them were wearing life jackets when they jumped into the ocean to escape the flames. | | | | A highly anticipated start to the Boxing Day Test quickly turns to frustration as a dead MCG pitch produces a sleepy, hungover day of cricket. | | | | One of the three daughters of Cairns couple Malcolm and Esme Beck expresses her "shock and grief" at the deaths of her parents, who were hit by a car after leaving church in Townsville on Christmas Eve. | | | | The NSW Government orders a "comprehensive investigation" into the structural integrity of Sydney's Opal Tower after a severe crack in the 34-storey building forced a mass evacuation on Christmas Eve. | | | | Cameron Bancroft says he felt pressured to "fit in" and help his team when David Warner asked him to tamper with the ball in the infamous sandpaper incident in Cape Town. | | | | Countless cultural artefacts were looted from the continent to sit in western institutions, and with the opening of the new museum in Dakar, Africa want them back. | | | | Someone who knows Jim McLean, the 76-year-old bushwalker missing for weeks in Tasmania's rugged south-west, says he is a "tough old bugger" — he will need to be if he is to survive where so many others have not. | | | | As many of us head to the shops in search of bargains, what we're not thinking about are those extra fees that we may incur by using our debit or credit cards at the checkout. | | | | A high pressure system off the east coast is trapping in the heat, pushing up temperatures across the southern parts of the country, with Victoria's north-west preparing for a record-breaking run for the most consecutive days over 40 degrees. | |  |
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