Charges filed against 60 Minutes crew in Lebanon
Rory Callinan and Kate Aubusson 9:18 PM Charges have been formally filed against the 60 Minutes team currently imprisoned in Lebanon over a failed child recovery operation.
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Committee recommends impeaching Rousseff
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The first of three steps has gone against the Brazilian president who is "perplex and saddened" by a process she has branded "a coup" in the making.
Young Arabs' support for IS sliding: survey
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Two years after proclaiming a new "caliphate" for Muslims in the Middle East, the Islamic State is seeing a steep slide in support among the young Arab men and women it most wants to attract, a new poll shows.
Church says amen to same-sex marriage
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Norway's Lutheran Church has voted to allow same-sex marriage, becoming the latest of a small but growing number of churches worldwide to do so.
Thai crackdown on sexy dancing and pants
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Lindsay Murdoch 2:39 PM Thailand's military rulers have warned that sexy dancing and sexy clothes are banned during this week's Buddhist new year festivities.
Barack Obama's biggest mistake as president
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Paul McGeough 12:53 PM US president's failure to promote and justify his policies have contributed to many of them being perceived as blunders.
Trump's children can't vote for him in NY
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"They were, you know, unaware of the rules, and they didn't register in time, so they feel very, very guilty - they feel very guilty," Trump said.
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Charges filed against 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown and crew in Lebanon
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Rory Callinan and Kate Aubusson 9:18 PM Charges have been formally filed against the 60 Minutes team currently imprisoned in Lebanon over a failed child recovery operation.
There are 13 people resistant to inherited diseases - but we don't know who
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Gina Kolata 9:13 PM ​Somewhere in the world are 13 incredibly lucky people. Although they do not know it, each inherited a mutated gene that causes a fatal or terribly debilitating disease in infancy or childhood - but these people are adults, and healthy.
Bizarre diplomatic row sees Taiwanese deported from Kenya to China
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J.R.Wu and Faith Hung 7:02 PM Taiwan has accused China of abducting groups of Taiwanese from a Kenyan police station and deporting them to China.
Celeb threesome: Court leaves UK media gagging for more
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Nick Miller 2:59 PM The readers of the National Enquirer in the US know. The readers of a Scottish newspaper know. But the London Sun can't tell its readers which A-list celebrity's husband had an extra-marital threesome ... and it hurts.
Chief cleric says allowing Saudi women to drive would expose them to evil
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Telegraph reporters 1:08 PM Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric has defended a ban on women driving by claiming it would "expose them to evil". Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin-Abdullah al-Sheikh said men "obsessed with women" and with "weak spirits" could end up causing female drivers harm.
Possible link between Zika virus and a disease similar to MS
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Ariana Eunjung Cha 11:54 AM James Sejvar, a researcher with the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said clinicians should be "vigilant" for "immune-mediated illnesses of the central nervous system".
Price of meteorites takes off at Christie's auction
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James Tarmy 11:39 AM You know you're in a niche market when your inventory has to survive a 257,000-km/h entry through the Earth's outer atmosphere.
Secrecy surrounds prosecution of US Navy lieutenant Edward Lin for espionage
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Dan Lamothe 11:25 AM One-time Navy lieutenant Edward Lin faces charges of espionage, attempted espionage and patronising a prostitute in a rare spying case involving an active-duty member of the US military.
60 Minutes crew 'could be detained for a week' over Beirut child snatch
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Rory Callinan 10:37 AM A Channel Nine crew involved in a bungled child recovery operation could be detained for a week after a judge was asked to investigate child abduction charges.
Frustrated refugee in Germany sets fire to home, police say
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Rick Noack 7:24 AM According to police, the 26-year old had lived in the house for more than six months and wanted to express his dissatisfaction with it.
Thai drink-drivers 'to work in morgues'
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7:04 AM Cleaning up and transporting bodies in hospital morgues should bring home the pain to reckless drivers, official says.
US woman jailed for 'insulting' United Arab Emirates
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5:40 AM A 25-year old American woman appeared in court Monday on misdemeanor charges for allegedly insulting the United Arab Emirates in public while waiting for a taxi at the Abu Dhabi International Airport.
Messages show 60 Minutes may have rejected fallback escape plan
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Rory Callinan The first panicked text buzzed on Colin Chapman's phone well before dawn on Thursday morning.
Aussies in the thick of peace efforts
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Colin Cosier The rebels are finally entering the capital of South Sudan, the world's youngest nation - and three Australians are there to meet them.
East Timor takes Australia to UN
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Tom Allard Frustrated by Australia's refusal to negotiate over a sea boundary, East Timor has called in the UN.
Macedonian police use tear gas, rubber bullets on migrants
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Liz Alderman It's the latest in a series of increasingly frequent uprisings by migrants stuck in Greece after countries sealed the main route they had been using to get to Germany
Donald Trump hits back at Boston Globe over satirical front page
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has derided The Boston Globe as "stupid" and "worthless" in response to a satirical front page printed by the newspaper that lampoons a potential Trump presidency.
#CameronTaxSongs: Outrage over Cameron's taxes drives Twitter to song
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British Prime Minister David Cameron will bring forward proposed legislation making companies criminally liable if employees aid tax evasion.
Canadian indigenous community declares suicide crisis
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Ethan Lou More than 100 people in an indigenous community have attempted suicide since last September, and one person has died.