| | | | The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions office says it will not be proceeding with a prosecution as there are no reasonable prospects of conviction. | | | | Bernard Tomic again provides fireworks off the court, as he reopens old wounds with a blistering attack on Lleyton Hewitt and his role as Australia's Davis Cup captain. | | | | A Chinese court sentences a Canadian man to death in a sudden retrial of a drug smuggling case that is likely to escalate tensions between the countries over the arrest of a top Chinese technology executive. | | | | Imagine you're 13 years old. You don't want to sell drugs for a gang, so one of their thugs tries to kill you. You have no family, so you flee for your life, crossing jungles and rivers on a dangerous 4,000-kilometre journey to find safety. | | | | The suicides of four Australian Federal Police officers inside their own workplaces in two years prompts tighter gun access, with officers previously allowed to check them out while off duty — but the union says the new rules didn't prevent a recent "near miss". | | | | Oxford Dictionaries gave us toxic. For the Collins, it was single-use. The American Dialect Society chose tender-age shelter. It's word of the year season, and the Australian votes are in, writes Tiger Webb. | | | | 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. | | | | Fiji's tourism industry, the backbone of the country's economy, is under threat as coral reefs are killed off. But a US-born marine biologist known as "the coral gardener" says he may have a solution to the problem. | | | | Despite the difficulty of winning seats over the major parties and polling predicting a Labor majority victory, there is a belief on the cross-bench that public frustration with the state of politics will see more votes directed their way. | | | | Of all the estimated 300 languages spoken on the streets of New South Wales, chances are you haven't heard much Welsh. But more parents are passing down their mother tongue and Gwenfair Griffith is one of them. | | | | The popular liberal Mayor of the port city of Gdansk dies after being stabbed at a charity event by an ex-convict who said it was revenge against the country's main opposition party. | | | | Andy Murray's time at the Australian Open has possibly ended once and for all, with the injury-plagued star showing plenty of guts in a five-set first-round loss to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut. | | | | When Ellenore Stokes first created a Facebook group for women to share tips and advice, she never dreamed that a year later she would be helping women in situations of domestic violence. | | | | The federation's vice-president, Sheikh Salman, has been silent on the issue of fellow Bahraini Hakeem AlAraibi's arrest and detention — in direct contravention of FIFA's own statutes. | | | | Australian actress Margot Robbie says she had to be convinced to play Elizabeth I in the new film Mary Queen Of Scots, believing she wasn't a good enough actor. | | | | Getting high on weed just once may change the structure and volume of the teenage brain, although it's not clear what affect this may have on behaviour, according to a new study. | | | | The home base of one of the world's longest-running seabird studies, in Tasmania's remote Furneaux Islands, is contaminated with asbestos, and "will probably fall down", according to researchers. | | | | More than half of travellers aren't properly insured. So when buying travel insurance, what do you need to consider to make sure you're getting a policy that works for you? | | | | British Prime Minister Theresa May offers both a promise on workers' rights and a reassuring letter from European Union leaders as she implores British politicians to support her floundering Brexit deal. | | | | As parts of the state prepare to be hit by extreme heatwave conditions this week, with temperatures soaring into the high 40s, a western Sydney scientists says a "rethink" is needed to better prepare our urban developments for more longer lasting and intense heatwaves into the future. | |  |
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