| | | | Light planes, helicopters and even jet skis are being used to push cattle to higher ground as floodwater, which came from the same weather system that killed as many as 500,000 animals in Queensland's north and central-west, moves south, and graziers are welcoming it with open arms. | | | | Ric De Castro hopes new laws currently before the WA Parliament will allow him to use his late wife Susanna's embryos to have a baby using a surrogate, but critics of the bill says simple biology rules that single men have "no right to parent". | | | | Centre Alliance Senator Rex Patrick says the Federal Government's legal advice that disputes a royal commission finding that parts of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan were unlawful should not be "cloak and dagger stuff" and calls for its release. | | | | When it comes to skin care, here are some of the most commonly shared myths that can be cleared up immediately, and some truths you can rely on, writes Sara J Brown. | | | | Guy Kennaway was shocked when his mother asked him to help end her life. But he doesn't want her to suffer a painful "modern medical death" like his stepfather did. | | | | Despite evidence that earnings outside the resources sector are slowing, the ASX has gained a solid 5pc in recent weeks on some very volatile trading. | | | | The violence comes as the opposition begins making good on its high-risk plan to deliver humanitarian aid to Venezuela, despite objections from President Nicolas Maduro, and several soldiers deserted at the Colombian border. | | | | There are a number of ways people living in apartments and tiny houses can recycle their food waste. And it's not only the environment that benefits. | | | | Queensland police confirm a nurse who was found lying in the driveway of her Arundel home with a mystery head injury has died in the same ward where she worked. | | | | Suffering from a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, Troy Thornton wanted to die at home but was forced to travel overseas because he could not get two doctors to certify that he would definitely die within 12 months. | | | | Real estate agents in Adelaide's inner west are preparing for house prices to take a hit in the wake of controversial changes to the catchment zone for two public high schools. | | | | China is using AI and other surveillance tools to impose its "Orwellian" social credit system, and now it has been revealed that a poor social credit score can stop you from travelling by plane or train. | | | | Animal activist group PETA faces a backlash over tweets accusing Google of dangerously "fawning" over the late conservationist Steve Irwin, with the organisation accused of "dragging a beloved dead man's name through the mud" for publicity. | | | | Cameron Bancroft says he was trying to share "important learnings" during his controversial tell-all interview in December, but then lets his bat do the talking on return to the Sheffield Shield. | | | | Tropical Cyclone Oma has weakened to a sub-tropical low but is still whipping up damaging winds and dangerous surf, the Bureau of Meteorology says. | | | | A group of good Samaritans rescue a helpless pooch trapped in the icy waters of Estonia's Parnu river — only to discover the dog is actually a wolf. | | | | From Dolly Parton to the dorky third cousin who friended you on Facebook, it would seem every man and his dog knows the "distracted boyfriend" meme. But was it inspired by a 1950s US marines magazine? | | | | The National Photographic Portrait Prize is awarded to Melbourne photographer Alana Holmberg for a portrait of her pregnant sister taken in a break during a planned shoot. | | | | Police recover the body of 29-year-old expectant father Bradley Keeley from bushland close to where his car was found broken-down and abandoned a day earlier. | | | | Scouring desolate country for the world's most venomous snake, two ecologists had all but given up their search until they saw something on the side of the road. | | | | 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. | |  |
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