| | | | US President Donald Trump announces John Kelly will leave his job by year's end amid an expected West Wing reshuffling reflecting a focus on the 2020 re-election campaign and the challenge of governing with Democrats reclaiming control of the House. | | | | Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's global chief financial officer, was arrested in Canada this month and faces extradition to the United States, which alleges she covered up her company's links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran despite sanctions. | | | | A trip to Switzerland, a legal threat, department staff under pressure. A rare blow-by-blow inside account of how power and influence is wielded in a sensitive environmental approval process. | | | | Parliament House in Canberra was designed to facilitate democracy, but instead symbolises the emptiness at the heart of our nation. And its centrepiece — a large slab of reflective granite — evokes a desire to throw coins and to wish for something better, writes Kim Dovey. | | | | Search and rescue police say the plane's sole occupant, the pilot, could not have survived the crash. The wreckage has been located in Tasmania's remote south-west. | | | | French riot police fire tear gas during clashes with "yellow vest" protesters in central Paris during the latest wave of demonstrations against the high cost of living, while demonstrators in Belgium join the cause. | | | | "It shouldn't be done for private profit," Labor's immigration spokesman says, as the party reveals it would ditch plans to offload Australia's visa processing system to the private sector, potentially worth more than $3 billion to the winning company. | | | | For most of day three, the margins were fine, but their impact was enormous as Australia fell victim to poor timing and India took a commanding grip on the first Test in Adelaide. Until a late strike reignited the Aussies' hopes. | | | | Grab your cameras, get away from city lights and you'll have front-row seat for a beautiful sky show this week. A comet is swinging past the Earth and the Geminids meteor shower will reach its peak. | | | | In my career, I investigated several murders that had gone cold — including that of a retired Yakuza boss. With the media's help, detectives can provide justice for victims and their families, writes Terry Goldsworthy. | | | | He was an old man when his case finally went before a court, but Yaseman could still remember the beatings and cigarette burns inflicted by Dutch soldiers. | | | | At first listen it sounds just like any other radio network. But this tiny station broadcasts exclusively to the cells of 80,000 prisoners — and it's "really powerful" stuff. | | | | As Australia's appetite for property sees farmland consumed by cities, there is a danger residents could be left hungry for fresh food. But on Adelaide's fringe, farmers are "holding the line". | | | | The disappearance of 22-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane in Auckland is being treated as a homicide, police say, as they reveal a 26-year-old man who had been with her the night she was last seen will be charged with her murder. | | | | Scores of teenagers were seen surging toward a low railing or wall at the disco just before it gave way, sending a cascade of youngsters over the edge. Italy's President is demanding "full light be shone" on the event, which killed five teenagers and a woman. | | | | A man stuns doctors by coughing up a 15-centimetre-wide blood clot from his lungs in the near-perfect shape of his right bronchial tree, before dying a week later. | | | | Donald Trump blasts former secretary of state Rex Tillerson in a sharply critical tweet, a day after the nation's former top diplomat publicly recounted that the President had tried to do things in a way that violated the law. | | | | Tens of thousands of Malay Muslims rally in Kuala Lumpur to celebrate the Malaysian Government's refusal to ratify a UN convention against racial discrimination. | | | | A family friend asks staff at a Jamaican hotel to decorate a couple's room in honour of their dead son's birthday, but is "utterly horrified" by what they create. | | | | Researchers are left scratching their heads after a seal is found with a spotted eel stuck up its nose in the north-western Hawaiian Islands. | | | | 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 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. | |  |
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