| | | | A faraway star and Saturn's huge moon Titan are about to line up perfectly in space. If a modified 747 with a telescope on board can get into a precise point above the Pacific Ocean at the exact time, scientists can catch a shadow that will help us better understand the universe. | | | | Allocating more water to the environment is one recommendation from the royal commission but that would lead to up to 12 regional towns being closed down, according to the Victorian Water Minister. | | | | The Kurdish-Iranian journalist's book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison was written on his mobile phone over multiple years and he hopes the win will "bring more attention" to the situation of refugees in detention. | | | | The incident in 2017 happened at the height of the battle to retake Mosul, and Australian officials concede had they known civilians were in the area the airstrike would never have happened. | | | | When 45,000 homes and businesses in Sydney's eastern suburbs were plunged into darkness yesterday, Carl Prins' house was the only one in the street with a working fridge — here's why. | | | | The day has arrived where commissioner Kenneth Hayne hands in his report on Australia's financial system, but will it break the dominance of the major banks, which has been more than two centuries in the making? | | | | A study of underwater sound waves recorded on the day the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared suggests a different route and a possible crash site north-east of Madagascar. | | | | The health benefit of breakfast has now been debunked by a review of research into the impact of skipping a morning meal on weight and metabolic rate, write Tim Spector and Jeff Leach. | | | | In an era where homosexuality was considered a medical disorder in Australia, this device was used alongside aversion therapy to "treat" gay men. | | | | Mother-of-three Julie Rush — wife of Rockhampton anaesthetist Andrew Carll — is confirmed as the second person found dead inside the couple's home on Monday night. | | | | A Federal Government program designed to get parents back into the workforce comes under fire from single mums who say mandatory appointments and activities for their kids go too far and are "making lives more difficult". | | | | It's bitterly cold in some parts of the United States as a polar vortex forces temperatures to plunge much further south in North America than normal. But at -50C, this is a new level of cold. | | | | Ancient pandas had much more diverse diets and forest habitats than pandas living today, an analysis of bones and teeth reveals. | | | | Netflix wants viewers of its new docuseries on Ted Bundy to stop talking about the serial killer's good looks and to remember his brutal crimes. But women fawning over Bundy is nothing new — he had fans even on death row. | | | | The detention of Chinese-born Australian writer Yang Hengjun over suspected espionage sparks division within the overseas Chinese community, with critics questioning his professional history as well as his ties to the Chinese Communist Party. | | | | Perth, long renowned as the pace bowling capital of the world for its rock hard pitches, has not produced a Test fast bowler for almost 25 years. But one promising new quick signals a return to the fast lane, writes Clint Thomas. | | | | Lady Gaga is being applauded for her strong show of solidarity with sexual abuse survivors after a transcript of her deposition in a case involving pop star Kesha was made public. | | | | The Queensland Premier declares a disaster in Townsville, where persistent heavy rain has caused a landslip near several properties, prompting police to evacuate residents. | | | | The principal of a school in Melbourne's west is stood down as the state's Education Minister labels footage of him dragging a student across the playground "appalling and concerning". | | | | A Tasmanian woman whose home was one of three destroyed by bushfires in the Huon Valley this week says she had a "terrible feeling" when the fires first sparked up that her property would not survive the summer. | | | | The White House press secretary tells the Christian Broadcasting Network that Donald Trump is the most conservative president in US history, and says calling the border wall with Mexico immoral is "ridiculous". | | | | Rain finally falls in western Queensland, with drought-stricken graziers grateful for the reprieve from the dry conditions as heavy but patchy rain falls across the west. | |  |
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