| | | | Aboriginal woman Tanya Day was removed from a train for public drunkenness and taken into police custody, where she sustained injuries. She ended the day unconscious in hospital and never woke up. | | | | When the mining boom ended in 2014, the bottom fell out of Perth's property market and the slide shows no sign of ending. But on the eastern seaboard, experts warn the rise — and fall — in house prices will be much more significant, and swift. | | | | The former federal environment minister rejects critical advice from his own department that a $1.4 billion development on protected wetlands being proposed by a major Liberal party donor was "clearly unacceptable", documents obtained under Freedom of Information show. | | | | Ada Hegerberg was crowned the top football player in the world — and then asked to twerk. It's one of many recent incidents speak to the discrimination women face every time they take to the court, or pitch, and we've have had enough, writes Kate O'Halloran. | | | | Italy's faltering economy and booming corruption problem has cruelled the opportunity to save a whole city from some of the worst industrial pollution in Europe. | | | | Staff at a family-run Christmas tree farm are struggling to maintain their yuletide spirit as an inundation of deadly brown snakes leads to untended trees and dangers to browsing visitors. | | | | Scientists using ice core samples to examine the rate of melting of the Greenland ice sheet have confirmed that it's melting up to five times faster than pre-industrial rates, and accelerating. | | | | Almost 900,000 people were added to the public hospital elective surgery waiting list over the last year, a jump of 70,000 in five years, and they had to wait longer. | | | | The late president is remembered at his state funeral as a World War II hero, Cold War veteran and commander-in-chief of a United States victory against Iraq who went on to represent a bygone era of civility in American politics. | | | | Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the United States that if it follows through on a threat to walk out of a key arms treaty and starts developing the type of missiles banned by it, Russia will do the same. | | | | The former husband of missing Sydney woman Lynette Dawson is arrested on Queensland's Gold Coast and is expected to be charged with her murder. He is the focus of the popular Teacher's Pet podcast into the 37-year-old cold case. | | | | Consumers were largely responsible for the weaker third quarter GDP result. But when the economy is still expanding, why are households still feeling the pinch? | | | | The city of Padang launches a new campaign to "cleanse" LGBT people of their "social sickness" through religious exorcisms, a move that's been seen as part of the country's growing intolerance towards the community. | | | | While the Queensland bushfire disaster has blackened 4.2 million hectares of the state, volunteers from across the country have helped to avoid widespread damage and loss of life. | | | | Istanbul's chief prosecutor files warrants for the arrest of a top aide to Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler and the deputy head of its foreign intelligence agency on suspicion of planning the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. | | | | A national recall is issued for Nanna's family apple pies from Coles, Woolworths, IGA, Foodlands and other independent supermarkets after an "equipment failure with a supplier". | | | | A neglected 17th-century Italian painting, left leaning against a church wall, shows how different fungi and bacteria colonise different colours, depending on what they like to eat. | | | | As Nicole Kidman arrives at Australia's annual film and television awards, she tells audiences to look past the blockbusters at the smaller films that are hard to get made and hard to find audiences for. | | | | Donald Trump started December in much the same way that he has behaved during every other month: with a storm of tweets. But to the relief of many Americans, a change may be on the way, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | A magistrate says Luke Kevin Dempster, who bashed a kangaroo with knuckle dusters and took videos of a live chicken being set on fire, got "obvious pleasure" from his "vicious, violent, protracted, crimes", sentencing him to two years' jail. | | | | Hundreds of police in Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands launch a coordinated sting to bring in dozens of members of the 'Ndrangheta criminal group — a powerful branch of the Italian mafia — while seizing $3.1 million, cocaine and ecstasy tablets. | |  |
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