| | | | Formula One race director Charlie Whiting, a popular and key figure in the sport, dies three days before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, the governing FIA said in a statement. | | | | Last week the Australian Labor Party announced a policy on abortion that would have once been regarded as high-risk politics. But even outspoken pro-life conservatives have been restrained. | | | | The reputed head of the Gambino crime family becomes the first New York mob boss to be killed since 1985 when he is shot dead outside his car on Staten Island. | | | | Students planning to join Friday's global day of action over climate change have been described as victims of "politically correct" teaching and include some who are "barely literate or numerate". | | | | When Sarah Latham replaced her lost car key, she was unaware of the openings it would present. | | | | The family of a 12-year-old girl left a quadriplegic after a diving accident at a swim school says the $150,000 fine is "nowhere near enough". | | | | She left her life in Australia to marry an Islamic State group fighter in Syria. But as the caliphate crumbles, this woman says her child is gravely ill and she wants to come back. | | | | A homeowner will not be charged after he drove his car towards three people he believed were "acting suspiciously" in his driveway, striking one and breaking their leg, Tasmanian police say. | | | | In the thick of a Tasmanian winter, Ben and Victoria O'Sullivan lived without water and electricity in a tool shed to dodge hefty rental prices — 18 months later, they've bought their first home. | | | | A Nimbin resident escapes potentially serious injury after a man allegedly shoots a bow and arrow at him, piercing straight through his mobile phone — but leaving him with only a small cut on his chin. | | | | A man who terrorised motorists in Melbourne by deliberately driving into their cars and attacking them with weapons is sentenced to three and a half years in jail. | | | | As US President Donald Trump reverses his statements expressing confidence in the safety of Boeing's 737 MAX jets and orders them grounded, the US aircraft manufacturer itself recommends the move. | | | | Travel is stressful enough at the best of times, let alone when a major aircraft manufacturer starts having problems. Here's how you might be affected by the groundings of the Boeing 737 MAX 8. | | | | Joseph Maldonado-Passage, who appeared in a Louis Theroux documentary and once ran for president, allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill the operator of a Florida-based animal sanctuary. | | | | In an ironic twist, some of Brexit's key political and financial backers appear to be looking for opportunities abroad, much to the annoyance of Remain supporters who accuse them of hypocrisy. | | | | On January 22, 1856, an extraordinary event in Australia's history occurred. And its protagonist, the "famous" Mrs Fanny Finch, deserves a more prominent place in history, writes Kacey Sinclair | | | | Islamic State fighters are fleeing their collapsed caliphate and must be held accountable for their crimes. A special UN tribunal may offer the best way forward, writes Louise Chappell. | | | | A US judge rules former sitcom star Lori Loughlin, who allegedly paid $US500,000 to help her daughters cheat their way into the high-profile University of Southern California, can continue travelling to and from Canada for work before surrendering her passport by December. | | | | The man who acted as a lookout and support person for the mastermind behind the murder of police accountant Curtis Cheng is found guilty of conspiring with three others to plan and prepare a terrorist act. | | | | Two former students of a Sao Paulo school arm themselves with homemade bombs, knives, axes and a crossbow, and kill eight people and themselves in an attack described as "unspeakably brutal". | | | | Police investigating the stabbing death of a 27-year-old woman at Glendale near Newcastle, fatally shoot a 21-year-old man after he allegedly threatened them with a knife. | |  |
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