| | | | Police say Amad 'Jay' Malkoun, who has lived in the Greek capital for the past two years, has injuries to his hands and legs after he tried to start his Mercedes-Benz in a parking lot outside a gym in the upmarket suburb of Glyfada. | | | | In the quiet Victorian countryside, 250-odd women gather to let their hair down. But it's more than bikes, beer and a mechanical bull: Sheilas Shakedown is a lifeline for women who want to ride fast. | | | | The overwhelming messages coming from Canberra are about politicians obsessing about themselves — whether by their savage internal wars, or through feathering their nests. But the incoming ABC chair has just the right advice, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | Australian working mums are increasingly asking their GPs for help to cut back on booze, doctors are reporting. Experts say it points to an alarming trend of the "mummy juice" wine culture going too far. | | | | Mischievous, literate, garrulous, politically merciless and possessed of a not-insignificant personal charm, Christopher Pyne is a character whose departure will sap the Parliament of significant colour, writes Annabel Crabb. | | | | North Korea's relationship with China is historically described as akin to "lips and teeth", in that the nations cannot function without each other. However, analysts say it is so much more than that. | | | | You wouldn't recognise him, but to prisoners Schapelle Corby, the 60 Minutes "forgotten victim" Adam Whittington, and Brendon Luke Johnsson, he's the 'fixer' who got them out of jail early. | | | | We talked to the major players about last year's sagas and successes — and what to expect in 2019. | | | | With sports climbing to debut as an official sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Angie Scarth-Johnson is gunning for a place on the Australian team. | | | | If you think adapting to a rapidly changing media landscape has been a tough slog for Western newspapers and broadcasters, spare a thought for China's government-controlled media organisations. | | | | Dollar-a-litre milk may seem cheap, but there is another product on the supermarket shelf that returns even less money to a greater number of Australian dairy farmers. | | | | A growing number of large agribusinesses are using virtual reality as a practical tool to do everything from training staff to selling stock. | | | | In one of the most significant changes to the home of cricket, centuries and five-wicket hauls in women's and men's one-day internationals (ODI) are now recognised within the players' dressing rooms. | | | | The former gangland lawyer at the centre of one of the biggest legal scandals in history can now be revealed as Nicola Gobbo, who lived a double life as a barrister for notorious criminals and a secret police informer. | | | | Officials are trying to determine if decapitated bodies discovered in the last sliver of Syrian territory held by the Islamic State group are those of Yazidi women held in captivity by the militant group. | | | | A tiny country school has become the latest canvas for international street artist Fin DAC after negative feedback led him to abandon another town. | | | | It started with underground balls and 'scandal sheets' in 1980s New York. Now voguing has hit centre stage in Australia, giving a "culture, community and a family" to its performers. | | | | The two countries are set to sign the landmark agreement on Monday but with both leaders missing the event, there are questions about how likely implementation will be. | | | | Study of dead seabirds found those that swallowed balloon fragments were more than 30 times more likely to die than those that only consumed hard plastic debris. | | | | Hamza bin Laden, who was reportedly groomed by his Osama to take over Al Qaeda, has called for attacks against the US and its allies in the years since his father's death. | | | | Tracey Coulter, 57, admits abusing a young girl during group sex sessions involving up to four adults, including the girl's mother, in acts a judge describes as "depraved and perverted". | | | | Escaping persecution as a gay man in Indonesia, the reigning Kimberley Queen has found a supportive community in Western Australia's north. | |  |
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By Laura Tingle | |  |
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