| | | | At least one person is killed and several others wounded when Venezuelan troops open fire near the Brazilian border, the first bloodshed linked to Opposition efforts to bring aid into the country against the wishes of embattled President Nicolas Maduro. | | | | For all the blood and guts hurled in Parliament this week, the question of how much real change has occurred in our treatment of asylum seekers is very murky, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | Maheshwori was excited to start her new life in India, chaperoned by an old family friend. But at the border, she learnt this man wasn't who he seemed. | | | | It's the larger-than-life tale of one of Australia's greatest crime capers: a bomb is planted onboard a Qantas flight from Sydney to Hong Kong — and if it travels below 20,000 feet, it will explode. | | | | A man has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for the dangerous operation of a jet ski causing the death of his nine-year-old son while on a family camping trip in north-west Queensland. | | | | Canadian authorities are investigating the death of a 42-year-old woman from New South Wales who died after snowboarding through a permanently closed area above an advanced ski run. | | | | The former US president has some refreshing and amusing advice on how to avoid toxic masculinity — and it's in stark contrast to current examples shown to young boys. | | | | Todd Noy was said to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a towering figure in the online fan-fiction community. His books were delivered around the world. But he may have never existed. | | | | If you want to get rid of mosquitoes, breeding more of them might seem weird. But this scientist, working on a remote tropical island once owned by actor Marlon Brando, has hit on a mosquito sterilisation technique that he hopes will eventually eradicate dengue, Zika and more. | | | | Hordes of tourists are ruining one of Japan's most famous tourist attractions and are increasingly getting injured as they harass wild deer for selfies, warn Japanese authorities. | | | | More of us are considering switching to dairy alternatives like soy or almond milk, for health or ethical reasons. But environmentally, the alternatives aren't perfect either. Before you go for an almond-milk latte, here's what to weigh up. | | | | One town's ground-breaking new technology is harvesting sun and air to create water. | | | | Lawyers have finally outlined their case against accused serial killer Bradley Robert Edwards, setting the stage for a murder trial that is set to be the longest, most complex, most expensive and most watched in Western Australia's history. | | | | Scratch the surface of the history of swimming and you might find more than you bargained for — like why your local pool is shaped like a rectangle (hint: it's linked to Napoleon). | | | | The list of threatened species has been updated this week, with a decline in tropical species declared the 'canary in the coalmine'. | | | | A father says the day he watched his infant daughter suffer a violent two-and-a-half-hour seizure was when he decided breaking the law was a small price to pay for her life. | | | | When the chief of Australia's largest dairy processor this week said $1 milk "doesn't make any f**king sense", years of lobbying by farmers was thrust back into view. | | | | Jacinda Ardern escalates the dispute over criminal deportations, warning New Zealand has a dim view of Australia deporting people who moved there as children and have no ties to NZ. | | | | A police officer who kicked a woman while she lay handcuffed and half naked on the floor of a Ballarat police cell is handed a good behaviour bond. | | | | Australia's Ambassador to the US says allegations about his dealings with the travel company are false, saying the circumstances of his meeting with an executive were misrepresented. | | | | The Dutch historian who shot to fame after calling out rich elites is in the headlines again after video emerged of a Fox News host swearing at him during an interview that never went to air. | | | | Police charge a man in Townsville over the theft of a large volume of furniture and white goods from houses in the flood-affected suburb of Idalia. | | | | The world's largest sports shoemaker loses around $2 billion from its market capitalisation after the trainer of the hottest basketball prospect in the United States, Zion Williamson, explodes during a college game and injures his knee. | |  |
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