| | | | Police believe a man who attacked revellers at a busy rail station on New Year's Eve, next to a stadium where a suicide bomber killed 22 people during a 2017 concert, was motivated by terrorism. | | | | NASA's New Horizons probe flies past Ultima Thule — a ball of dust and ice — after a 13-year, 6.5-billion-kilometre journey into an uncharted region of space beyond Pluto. | | | | Adriana Buccianti is convinced that pill-testing technology could have saved her son, Daniel, from dying after a Victorian music festival in 2012. She wants lawmakers to sit up and take notice. | | | | Over the course of three decades, Russia's billionaire oligarchs built lavish lifestyles — which they're now working on keeping. | | | | Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous have long been the stereotype of kicking an addiction. But a new wave of sobriety start-ups owe more to "lifestyle designers" than a Higher Power. | | | | A man ploughs his car into a crowd of people in western Germany, injuring at least four, with authorities saying he "had the clear intention to kill foreigners". | | | | Rescuers pull an 11-month-old boy alive from the rubble of a collapsed Russian apartment building after a suspected gas explosion that killed at least seven people and left dozens missing. | | | | The US Strategic Command, which oversees America's nuclear and missile arsenal, boasts about dropping "something much, much bigger" than the Times Square ball in a New Year's Eve tweet that has since been deleted. | | | | Experts are forecasting a bumpy ride for the ASX amidst Brexit uncertainty, concerns over US interest rates and the expected slowdown in global economic growth — but the biggest risk is the unresolved US-China trade war. | | | | Mud-caked bodies are retrieved in a hilly village on Indonesia's main island of Java, where at least 30 houses were buried in a landslide just before sunset on New Year's Eve. | | | | A man drowns after getting into difficulty while swimming with his wife and family, in Victoria's sixth drowning in the space of a week. | | | | The Philippines President tells a crowd of 3,000 the assault of the woman was a true story he had confessed to a priest but his offices calls it an anecdote he made up. | | | | Officials are shutting some campgrounds and facilities but with large numbers of visitors arriving at parks across the country, locals are pitching in to clean toilets and empty bins. | | | | The suspect initially described the incident as an "act of terror" but later said the attack was done in retaliation for capital punishment, according to Japan's national broadcaster NHK. | | | | A popular Christmas gift is pulled from sale by Kmart over concerns some components can overheat, melt, or even catch fire — but a recall has not been issued. | | | | Australian wicketkeeper and batter Alyssa Healy is declared the best T20 international player of 2018, and named in both the Twenty20 team and one day teams of the year. | | | | Floyd Mayweather had a very lucrative end to 2018, coming out of retirement for a one-sided boxing exhibition bout — that lasted just 140 seconds — against a Japanese kickboxer. | | | | As World War II crept closer, Australian cities built bunkers to shelter from possible attacks. Now, there's a battle to keep those that remain safe from decaying into obscurity. | |  |
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