| | | | Hundreds of far-right and anti-fascist protesters face off as mounted police join officers in riot gear on St Kilda Beach to monitor the rally, which is also attended by controversial Queensland independent senator Fraser Anning. | | | | Batting looked awfully easy for Australia at times on day three, with Marcus Harris in particular catching the eye. But, like all his team-mates, the joy was fleeting, writes Dean Bilton. | | | | Police say the shooting took place at a bowling alley in the city of Torrance, approximately 32 kilometres from Los Angeles, and authorities are searching for those who may have been involved. | | | | A body found by a woman walking her dog is believed to be that of missing 23-year-old Georgia Wallace, who was last seen on December 29. | | | | Russia says one of its citizens has been detained in the United States, one day after Moscow arrested former US marine Paul Whelan (pictured) on suspicion of spying. | | | | In what could be the last Hopman Cup, the Swiss great teams up with Belinda Bencic to beat a Germany partnership of Alexander Zverev and Angelique Kerber in a winner-takes-all point. | | | | Indian Pacific, the first of several slow TV journeys on SBS in January, is both boring and profound, for reasons that at first I didn't understand, writes Paul Donoughue. | | | | From prominent celebrities to the Interpol chief, the world has seen millions of people in China seemingly vanish into thin air over the past few years — and yet the international community has remained largely silent. | | | | Australia gets their Asian Cup defence off and running with games against Jordan, Palestine and Syria in Group B. Find out more about the Socceroos' opponents and when the games are taking place. | | | | From the oldest in Tangier to the most famous in the USA — writer, literary critic and booklover Jorge Carrión shares his favourite bookshops. | | | | Russian researchers claim Jeanne Calment's daughter assumed her mother's identity decades before her reported death at the age of 122 in 1997, but the claim has been dismissed by a French expert. | | | | Two-thirds of the struggling former industrial city of Stoke-on-Trent voted to leave the EU — now more are warming to the idea of a "no-deal Brexit" in spite of warnings of the catastrophic effects it could have on the UK economy. | | | | The founder of the online flight booking portal that collapsed in December, throwing the travel plans of thousands of people into uncertainty, says her family is "distraught" and "rattled". | | | | To save one of the rarest butterflies in the world, we also need to save an unnamed ant species, an endangered woodland and a parasitic plant. | | | | China's armed forces must strengthen their sense of urgency and do everything they can to prepare for battle, President Xi Jinping tells a meeting of top brass. | | | | Weather conditions ease across Sydney and rain falls on a fireground in the city's Hills district after homes were earlier threatened by a fast-moving blaze. | | | | Phillip Thompson — a former soldier and the 2018 Queensland Young Australian of the Year — is running for one of the most marginal seats in the country, and says post-traumatic stress disorder was to blame for social media threats of violence against Muslims in 2012. | | | | Matthew Wing, 48, had been planning to kite surf towards Coronation Beach, north of Geraldton, but failed to arrive, sparking a search involving boats and aircraft. | | | | After sending commentators into joyous fits with his drop kicks, Sydney-born punter Michael Dickson caps a stellar rookie year in gridiron with a spot in the NFL All-Pro team. | | | | In what Poland's President calls a "crushing tragedy", five 15-year-old girls celebrating a birthday party die after becoming trapped in an Escape Room building which caught fire. | | | | Jellyfish predate dinosaurs and even trees. But now they're booming in numbers, disrupting ocean ecosystems and shutting down power plants. | |  |
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