| | | | The US President was forced to wait because of a government shutdown, but today Donald Trump delivered a rescheduled State of the Union address in Washington DC. Follow the reaction in our live blog. | | | | You might have spotted lots of women wearing white during US President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. It was a deliberate nod to the Suffragette movement. | | | | After their local school closed, Alyce Paterson was offered transport to one of two local schools. But now she is having to drive her children after being told school buses are full. | | | | A study into the Thwaites Glacier finds a massive 300-metre-high hole that would have contained 14 billion tonnes of ice — most of which has melted over the past three years. If it melts completely, sea levels could rise by 65 centimetres. | | | | Queensland police are investigating whether a father killed his six-month-old son and then himself after their bodies were found in a car on the Sunshine Coast this morning. | | | | Yumiko Kadota, a talented young doctor who aspired to become a reconstructive surgeon, is recovering after spending six weeks in hospital with insomnia. Now she wants to call out the untenable hours, stress and health problems that come with the job. | | | | Stunning new details are revealed about the lawyer whose role as a Victoria Police informant sparked a royal commission, including that she was registered as an informant 10 years earlier than previously thought, prompting the resignation of one of the commissioners. | | | | Donald Trump uses his State of the Union address to confirm he will hold a two-day summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un later this month. | | | | The Opposition says the Liberal MP, who heads up a parliamentary committee examining a contentious Labor policy, has a "massive conflict of interest", but Mr Wilson says all rules have been adhered to. | | | | A search is underway for five people missing in the Northern Territory, after a pair who went looking for a missing party of three also failed to return. | | | | A record prize purse for Australia's best experienced and up-and-coming female golfers is available at this week's Vic Open, which is expected to drive growth in the women's game. | | | | Nathan Sutherland, 36, was charged with one count each of sexual assault and abuse of a vulnerable adult after he was arrested on the basis of DNA evidence. | | | | China's air force issues a sobering message to Taiwan to ring in China's New Year, releasing a video of military jets flying around the self-ruled island — within hours Taiwan responded with a video of their own military capabilities. | | | | Theories about how nine students died on a ski trek in the Ural Mountains in 1959 range from yetis, to UFOs to a Soviet government conspiracy. Now Russian police hope to finally explain the mystery surrounding the Dyatlov Pass Incident. | | | | Huang Xiangmo and his companies gave millions to Australia's major political parties but his bid for an Australian passport has been denied. | | | | The Reserve Bank governor says the chance of an interest rate cut is now "more evenly balanced" with the prospect of an increase as the RBA assesses the fallout from Sydney and Melbourne house price falls. | | | | A man pleads guilty to assaulting a television news camera operator outside a Perth court, where his son was jailed for animal cruelty, but a second man is fighting a charge of attacking a journalist just seconds earlier. | | | | Scientists making their first visit to a Tongan island that rose out of the sea after a volcanic eruption in 2015 find clues as to why it has lasted so long — and a bafflingly sticky, "light-coloured" mud. | | | | David Bottomley completes a doctor of philosophy at Perth's Curtin University via correspondence from Melbourne, a year ahead of schedule — and he says his studies are not done yet. | | | | A 37-year-old man, suffering from schizophrenia, is sentenced to 20 months in jail for setting fire to a massage parlour he claimed "smelt bad". | | | | Hundreds of Townsville residents begin to return to their flood-ravaged homes to find a big clean-up ahead, as the bureau warns the monsoon trough, that has dropped a year's worth of rain in week, will remain active for days. | |  |
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