| | | | Max Meyer's parents say their family had been "uninjured and in no immediate danger" as ski patrol rescuers began an ill-fated attempt to rescue them from a narrow valley while skiing off-piste in Austria's St Anton am Arlberg. | | | | Angry scenes erupt outside a Perth court as supporters of a man sentenced for torturing and killing a kangaroo lashed out at with the media, punching a journalist and smashing a television camera. | | | | Some charities are resembling a dump site after being inundated with unwanted goods in the post-Christmas clean out, with Lifeline estimating half its stores around the country have stopped accepting donations. | | | | A man, 33, is pulled unconscious from waters near the Kiama Blowhole on the NSW south coast where he became separated from the group he was snorkelling with and caught in an undercurrent near the popular tourist attraction. | | | | If undamaged, the data on the recovered device could provide valuable new information to investigators who continue examining the causes of the crash that killed all 189 people aboard. | | | | The businessman-turned-politician drew the ire of many recipients of "unsolicited" text messages spruiking his policies last week — but he claims it's legal and there will be more on the way. | | | | The chairman of Harvard University's astronomy department defends his article suggesting an interstellar object could have been a discarded light sail of extra-terrestrial origin. | | | | Australia's love affair with the plastic appears to be coming to an end, with a falling number of accounts and the biggest annual decline in credit card lending in 13 years of records. | | | | His chances of claiming a second Australian Open crown may have been questioned because of injury, but 17-time major winner Rafael Nadal makes an encouraging start to his Melbourne Park campaign. | | | | ANZ customers can no longer utilise banking services at their local post offices after the bank failed to reach an agreement with Australia Post on their Bank@Post service. | | | | A popular SA roadhouse that played a pivotal role in the rescue of two kidnapped backpackers in 2016 closes in protest against what its owner says is government "neglect". | | | | Footage shows the Mayor of Gdansk on stage just before the attack with a sparkler in hand telling the audience that it had been a "wonderful day", and then the attacker coming toward him. | | | | There's some advice for Bruny Island's growing number of tourists who can't wait in line to use the Tasmanian hot spot's public toilets: "Dog poo bags are good for all kinds of poo!" | | | | Scientist James Watson, lauded after discovering DNA's double helix structure, tells a US television program his views have not changed since he said in 2007 "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — where all the testing says not really". | | | | They are called eye floaters and are quite common for most people due to changes in the vitreous — the gel-like substance that helps make up most of the shape of your eye. Here's why. | | | | A woman who did not know how to swim is left distressed after clinging to the hull of a capsized vessel for hours while her companion swam through rough waters near Hervey Bay to raise the alarm. | | | | Robbie Williams is reportedly playing Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd at high volume to annoy the former Led Zeppelin guitarist, as the pair feud over plans to build a basement swimming pool in a Victorian mansion. | | | | A man facing charges, including child cruelty, following the death of a four-month-old baby at Logan last year intends to fight some of the allegations but tells the ABC it's "none of your business" which ones. | | | | A carpet python "saved from certain death" after being rescued from a Gold Coast pool is being treated for anaemia after having more than 500 ticks removed from its body, a wildlife hospital says. | | | | Leaked Don Dale CCTV footage obtained exclusively by the ABC shows the dramatic moments heavily armed police aimed their guns at surrendering youth detainees during a riot in November. | |  |
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