| | | | Foreigners from 35 countries are among 149 passengers and eight crew members killed when Flight ET302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi crashes, with the Ethiopian Airlines chief expressing his "regret" and PM Abiy Ahmed offering condolences to the victims' families. | | | | When Robin Dougherty was diagnosed with cancer at 73 and no longer able to work, a lifetime of bad money habits meant she didn't have a safety net to fall back on. Now she wants people to start getting interested in their money sooner. | | | | The problem with quotas — apart from their unpleasantly anti-democratic vibe — is that you can't really lab test them to see what would have happened without them. But a unique case in India provides a clue, writes Annabel Crabb. | | | | Two pills. That's all it took to change Lisa McManus's life. She was left scarred and disfigured by one of the world's worst pharmaceutical disasters. Now, five decades on, these thalidomide survivors are seeking justice. | | | | As Julie Bishop prepares to leave politics, the high-profile MP reflects on her 20-year political career that — at one time — saw her as the only woman sitting around an all-male Cabinet table. | | | | You know there's an election coming up when politicians start talking about high speed rail. But will it ever get off the ground — and would it be worth the cost? | | | | Two of Donald Trump's top security advisers pay a rare visit to the Pacific in another sign the United States is intent on challenging China's strategic ambitions in the region. | | | | Professor Justin Yerbury, a molecular biologist who has a genetic form of motor neurone disease, says he was denied permission to travel on a Royal Caribbean cruise due to his disability. | | | | A study examining the links between various forms of child abuse — from emotional and physical abuse to sexual assault and neglect — hopes to uncover patterns of offending as well as the financial cost to the community. | | | | The days of a flying fox colony nestled among the high-rise buildings and bustling traffic in the centre of Cairns could be numbered, with plans to move them on. | | | | South Sydney Rabbitohs coach Wayne Bennett has become like the dot on the crossbar — if not quite taken for granted, then so familiar he only consciously registers when something extraordinary happens, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | The Central Coast Mariners have won one game from 21 starts and sacked their coach. The days of Usain Bolt's ill-fated trial with the team seem a lifetime ago, but are we still seeing the effects? | | | | After a five-hour meeting, the 50-year-old lawyer and former university vice-chancellor emerges as the Liberal Party's pick to replace former foreign minister Julie Bishop in the Perth seat of Curtin at the next federal election. | | | | In a looming dilemma for the Coalition, Queensland Nationals say they want coal generation among the projects shortlisted for taxpayer subsidy — and they want Michael McCormack to demand it. | | | | A series of intriguing connections between boardroom players behind the scenes of Nant's collapse raises new questions about who got paid while others lost millions. | | | | One room is clean, the other has a chicken bone on the floor, broken glass on the patio, stained linen and other people's clothes in the cupboard. This is what happened when we showed up undercover at the Ibis Styles hotel in Alice Springs. | | | | Ernest Quintana's family is left devastated as a robot is rolled into his intensive care unit to deliver a video call from a doctor telling the 78-year-old he will likely die within days. | | | | Brazilian forward Anderson Lopes will want to check his surroundings a little better next time he celebrates a goal, after plummeting 3 metres onto a concrete floor when he misjudged a leap over an advertising hoarding. | | | | This couple used to know all their neighbours, but not anymore — and while the rapid rise of apartments around their Sydney home is on hold, development means their life will never be the same. | |  |
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