| | | | In another senior staff shake-up inside his often turbulent administration, President Donald Trump says he has picked the two people he wants to be the next US attorney-general and the next US ambassador to the United Nations. | | | | It is not a good sign for the government's political fortunes — if it does indeed plan to survive until May — that the Prime Minister felt compelled to bring out the nuclear option on Thursday, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | Satellite imagery and data captured over Queensland in recent weeks reveals not only the unprecedented nature of this natural disaster but also the incredible role firefighters played in protecting vast numbers of properties. | | | | After Shaun Marsh got his Twitter foes talking and his fellow batsmen faltered again, it was Travis Head who steadied the ship on day two — but the task for the local boy is even greater on day three. | | | | You may think the closest thing Australia has to a national drink is XXXX or a flat white. But there's another drink that's so well-established here, most Australians don't realise it's our own creation. | | | | Once dismissed as an "angry black woman", Michelle Obama details the journey from working class Chicago to the White House in her new book, and shoots down the notion that working women can have it all, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | Some animals, like the city-dwelling lizard in Puerto Rico, have evolved rapidly with the help of evolutionary biology to successfully co-exist and even thrive in cities alongside pollution and unhealthy human food. | | | | Men's finishing schools were a thing in 1987, and Melbourne plumber Gavin Pearce hoped they could help him emulate the success of his idols Paul Hogan and Pat Cash. Now, we're trying to discover just how it all panned out. | | | | Within 20 years, we'll be buying more than 11 million electric cars every annually. But will the demand that puts on resources like rare earths overshadow the environmental benefits? | | | | A prominent 4WD hire company is accused of charging for speeding fines that do not exist and misleading tourists about insurance cover in a bid to demand thousands of dollars from its customers, an ABC investigation uncovers. But one customer decided to fight back. | | | | The dramatic arrest in Canada of a top Chinese technology executive for possible extradition to the United States has shocked many, just days after a US-China trade truce. But what exactly is Huawei and why does it seem like it's continually being targeted by foreign governments? | | | | German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds back tears as she delivers an emotional farewell speech to her Christian Democrats party, with Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a Merkel protege seen as the continuity candidate, chosen as the new party leader.. | | | | The Chinese Government calls for a reform to the country's increasingly "extravagant and wasteful" weddings as some Chinese couples spend up to $500,000 for pre-wedding photography. | | | | Most physical activity is beneficial, but it seems not all sports are equal when it comes to increased life expectancy. | | | | Australian rugby is at arguably its lowest ebb less than 12 months out from the World Cup and its future does not look bright, as its governing body comes under heavy criticism. | | | | This week controversial far-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos announced he was broke. But the nail in the coffin came when crowdfunding website Patreon banned him, ending his campaign to "Support Milo's Glorious Comeback". | | | | The Reserve Bank may cut interest rates, sink the Australian dollar and increase the supply of money to save the economy, its deputy governor concedes. | | | | More than 25 police staff are working on the case and reviewing hours of surveillance footage from across Auckland as officials reveal "grave fears" for the 22-year-old tourist's safety. | | | | The Australian comedian, whose 2018 Netflix special Nanette brought her international acclaim, said she found "good men talking about bad men incredibly irritating". | | | | In the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history, the city of Butembo, with more than 1 million residents, is now reporting cases of the deadly haemorrhagic fever. | | | | A man extradited to Darwin charged with historic sex offences relating to his former partner and underage stepdaughter is remanded in custody. | | | | A man with a gun has forced police in a suburb of Launceston to bring in negotiators and the heavily armoured Bearcat truck, in an attempt to end a stand-off which started at 4:30pm on Friday. | | | | Where you live could be worth more than $1,000 a year extra to you and, depending on the outcome of a government review, you could be about to get more. | |  |
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