| | | | Marise Payne issues a statement raising concerns about China's detention of two Canadian citizens, after foreign policy experts questioned why the Federal Government had been keeping quiet about it. | | | | As the year draws to a close, we reflect on the fascinating and diverse life stories of some prominent people in Australia who died this year. | | | | Police are urging campers to be vigilant after a 20-year-old man was killed when he was run over by his own unattended vehicle at a camping ground in southern New South Wales. | | | | It was a year most investors would prefer to forget with ASX shedding $120 billion as risk was abandoned on mounting fears both at home and overseas. | | | | Just outside of our solar system onboard the Voyager space probes sits the Golden Record, a 'message in a bottle' filled with songs and sounds from life on earth. | | | | Residents from Kowanyama up to the Torres Strait Islands are being told to plan ahead for the possibility of a tropical low developing into a destructive cyclone. | | | | Keeping the same order for the next Test would be the "definition of madness" after Australia's woeful performance at the MCG, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Revellers across the country are in for a show as Australia's capital cities pull out all the stops to ring in the new year. Here's what each state has on offer. | | | | Nine months after he was banned cricket for his role in the ball-tampering scandal, Cameron Bancroft returned to the crease — but was promptly dismissed for two runs. | | | | Four months after losing the leadership spill he instigated, Peter Dutton breaks his silence in an extraordinary spray at former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. | | | | This year saw Meghan Markle officially join the Royal family. But despite the "happily ever after" line peddled by fairytales, things have been far from smooth behind the scenes. What is next for the Duchess of Sussex? | | | | Three Emiratis and a foreigner die when their helicopter crashes and bursts into flames on the highest mountain in the United Arab Emirates. | | | | When an itchy lump on Jacinta Mazzarella's ankle developed into a large, painful ulcer, she feared she would lose a leg. Scientists are now racing to work out why hundreds of Victorians are falling victim to the flesh-eating disease, usually found in tropical areas. | | | | Ryugyong Hotel has towered over North Korea's capital since 1987, a grand but empty pyramid entirely dark except for the lone aircraft warning light at its top. | | | | US President Donald Trump deflects blame for the deaths of two Guatemalan children in US custody and instead points the finger at his political opponents and their "pathetic immigration policies". | | | | Around 445 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru are living in the United States under a deal struck between Malcolm Turnbull and Barack Obama, but their support is drying up. | | | | Former English cricket captain Andrew Strauss remembers his wife's "loving" nature after the Australian-born actor dies aged 46 amongst her family in Australia, from a rare form of lung cancer. | | | | The Rose Tattoo rocker tearfully thanks supporters months after his son Liam was allegedly beaten to death by a friend in Sydney's north. | | | | As the sun beats down and with backyard cricket in full swing, there's a few things you can do to keep your lawn looking lush over summer. | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
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By China correspondent Bill Birtles | |  |
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