| | | | As the British Parliament readies itself to consider eight alternatives for tackling the Brexit quandary, Prime Minister Theresa May has offered her own scalp if colleagues support her twice-rejected plan. | | | | Researchers are warning that ramping up soy production in Brazil to supply the Chinese market could result in large-scale deforestation of the Amazon, particularly given the pro-development, anti-environment rhetoric of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. | | | | It was a photo five years in the making that made Bob Hawke so envious he wanted to dress up as Santa in response. Here's how it happened, and why it will never happen again. | | | | Opposition Leader Bill Shorten uses a live WeChat session to distance himself from "wrong" comments made by former NSW Labor Party leader Michael Daley. | | | | The drop comes despite a multi-million-dollar government spending program to attract people to the region and bucks the nationwide trend of capitals accounting for more than three-quarters of the country's population growth. | | | | Dr Cathryn O'Sullivan turned to her tradie colleagues in Antarctica when she broke her hand, and now Australians will share that kind of remote medical experience with the world. | | | | Naysayers who argue campaign financing doesn't interest the punters underestimate the intelligence of the Australian people. Voters don't like what they can plainly see, writes Rebecca Huntley. | | | | Facebook will extend a ban on hate speech to halt the promotion of white nationalism and separatism, a decision that is praised as "long overdue" by human and civil rights groups. | | | | Ravneet Kaur was visiting her parents in Punjab when she was reported missing on March 14 — now Indian police plan to extradite her husband and his alleged lover, both living in Australia, to face charges over her murder. | | | | A spectacular return from Pat Cummins, yet another captain's knock from Aaron Finch and a freewheeling 71 from Glenn Maxwell secures Australia an ODI series victory over Pakistan in Abu Dhabi. | | | | A two-week search to find the woman who helped Majda El Hajji and her baby escape the attack on the Al Noor mosque has ended with tears, hugs and a vow to stay friends forever. | | | | A disease is wreaking havoc on Australian beehives, and one PhD student and beekeeper is trying to find out why. | | | | The Riley family is known as the goat chasers, trekking through the New South Wales high country with their pack of kelpies to muster feral goats. | | | | Former Nationals leader Tim Fischer says One Nation should be placed last on his party's how-to-vote cards in the upcoming federal election, despite multiple current Nationals MPs suggesting they should be placed above the Greens. | | | | Research continues to point to blue-green algae toxins as a trigger for neurological diseases, with motor neurone disease under increased investigation. | | | | Mattress shredding, recycling, and restoring household items are all part of the war on waste after the Townsville flood clean-up. | | | | A handcuffed prisoner manages to escape from the back of a police van, outrunning officers to be on the loose for nearly an hour. Schools were sent into lockdown before the 29-year-old was found by the dog squad. | | | | When disaster strikes, the media is usually quick to draw attention to the devastation, but the trauma and struggle often lingers for years once the spotlight has moved on. | | | | A riot in the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre prompted staff to unlawfully lock seven detainees in a "disgusting" space for up to 10 days, the Queensland Ombudsman has revealed. | | | | Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner says Nicola Gobbo was warned about threats from "dangerous individual" Andrew 'Benji' Veniamin, who was an associate of Carl Williams, but officers continued to use her as an informer for another six years. | | | | The software giant's president says vague new laws are damaging the Australian technology industry and causing customers to seek options in other countries. | | | | The conservative Nationals MP made 28 trips to the Philippines in four years, spending more time in Manila than Parliament House in 2016 and 2017. But Scott Morrison says it hasn't been happening since he became Prime Minister. | | | | It took mere moments for raging floodwaters to reduce this traffic bridge to crumbling debris in a New Zealand river as strong winds and heavy rainfall hammered the country's South Island. | |  |
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