| | | | With extreme heatwave conditions predicted for the end of the week even fit, healthy people are encouraged to take precautions to keep cool when the temperatures soar. | | | | Police are investigating whether a woman, whose body was found behind a hedge near a shopping centre in Melbourne's north this morning, had been sexually assaulted after getting off a tram. | | | | Australia will see the world's biggest house price declines this year, according to one of the world's major credit ratings agencies, which declared homeowners would have to wait until 2020 to see any recovery. | | | | Authorities allegedly bust an international drug syndicate that used airline crews on a commercial airline to bring heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine into the country. | | | | British politicians have entirely lost their long-deserved reputation for pragmatism and compromise, and they're dragging the country down with them, writes Marc Stears. | | | | For Steve, it was around the time he tried to pressure his third girlfriend into making porn that he realised something wasn't right. There are wildly diverse views about online porn in this country, but one thing is clear: Australia has a problem. | | | | A coroner finds that the death of a Victorian soldier in a live-fire exercise south of Darwin was partly the result of a "long-held mindset" against rehearsals for dynamic combat settings. | | | | The world's largest fast-food corporation is stripped of the trademark for one of its best-known burgers across Europe, after a landmark EU ruling in favour of an Ireland-based fast-food chain. | | | | Scientists behind the world's largest atom smasher lay out a nearly $40 billion vision to build a 100-kilometre "Future Circular Collider" under the Swiss-French border. | | | | There is speculation that the President's daughter is among the names thrown into the mix to replace Jim Yong Kim. But to score the role she'd need at least 50 per cent of the Bank's leadership's support, writes Mike Callaghan. | | | | Motorists report an increase in bird carcasses on a busy Tasmanian highway after officials stop oiling seagull eggs to prevent chicks hatching nearby. | | | | A groundbreaking study rates how well countries address child sexual abuse and Australia is some distance from the index leader. | | | | The sight of more than a million fish floating belly up on the Darling River at Menindee has thrown doubt over the management of the Murray-Darling Basin. Here's what we know about the mass deaths, and what experts say could be to blame. | | | | The Democratic New York senator has risen to national prominence as an activist and leading political voice for women. | | | | A Byron Shire councillor has described a new $55,000 sculpture as a "disaster" and wants it removed, saying "from most angles you can't tell what it's supposed to be." | | | | One of Queensland's worst sex offenders is released into the community after the State Government loses a final bid to keep him under strict monitoring. | | | | The Opal Tower interim report, written by some of the state's most senior independent engineers after a more than two weeks of investigation, went some way in giving residents answers as to what went wrong. | | | | China denounces Canada for "irresponsible" remarks after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accuses it of "arbitrarily" sentencing a Canadian man to death for drug smuggling, aggravating already icy relations. | | | | The City of Greater Geraldton council will not enforce Scott Morrison's citizenship ceremony dress code, with the mayor saying "old mate new citizen" should be free to wear "pluggers" to the event. | | | | A tiny wasp enlisted to save Christmas Island's famous red crabs from extinction is showing promising results in the battle against the crustaceans' crazy ant foes. | |  |
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