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Donald Trump is bypassing mainstream media outlets, which he calls "fake news", and giving favour to conservative news organisations. So how should the media respond?
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, media, united-states
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Dutch police don't just arrest any citizen — but they make an exception for 99-year-old Annie to help her cross off a rather unusual item from her bucket list.
Topics: offbeat, police, human-interest, netherlands
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| UpdatedPlenty of stars have walked the Oscars red carpet wearing a blue ribbon. It's actually a Donald Trump protest. Here's what you need to know.
Topics: donald-trump, event, academy-awards-oscars, united-states
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| UpdatedTransgender teenager Mack Beggs wins a Texas state championship wrestling competition for females, after being forced to compete outside his gender because of a policy passed in the state last year.
Topics: rights, sport, wrestling, united-states
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| UpdatedVenezuela's Adrian Solano achieves social media fame for his hapless runs at the Nordic Ski world titles, but he is still delighted with his adventure.
Topics: sport, winter-sports, nordic-skiing, venezuela
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| UpdatedActivists call for the Syrian Government to engage in serious talks on political transition and for the United Nations to strengthen the fragile ceasefire as violence continues to engulf the country.
Topics: world-politics, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedHere's what Hollywood's best and brightest are wearing at the Academy Awards.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, community-and-society, united-states
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| UpdatedThe 89th Academy Awards are underway in Hollywood, with musical favourite La La Land tipped to dominate on a night that could see the stars get political. Follow live.
Topics: academy-awards-oscars, event, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, actor, united-states
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Manchester United wins a fifth League Cup title as a double from - who else? - Zlatan Ibrahimovic gives the Red Devils a 3-2 win over Southampton
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The Taliban in Afghanistan uses a rare public statement in the name of its leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, to call on Afghans to plant more trees for worldly and other-worldly good.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, tree, afghanistan
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| UpdatedEngland stay top of the Six Nations with a 36-15 win over Italy, but coach Eddie Jones launches extraordinary attack on the Azzurri's tactics, comparing it to Trevor Chappell's underarm delivery.
Topics: sport, rugby-union, england, italy
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| UpdatedIn Moscow's souvenir shops, Donald Trump memorabilia is selling not just to tourists but to locals, as his appeal outlives the fervour over his election win.
Topics: community-and-society, tourism, russian-federation
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| UpdatedThe dose of nerve agent given to North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un's exiled half brother was so high that it killed him within 20 minutes and caused "very serious paralysis", Malaysia's Health Minister says.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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| UpdatedBill Paxton, the only actor killed on screen by a Predator, a Terminator and an Alien, died at age 61 after complications from surgery.
Topics: actor, death, united-states
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| UpdatedAs thousands march in Moscow to remember assassinated opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the criminalisation of street protests and action against the President's political opponents show speaking out against the Kremlin is even harder than ever.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, russian-federation
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| UpdatedIt took four months and 300 emails to get two ABC correspondents permission to enter Russia to cover international affairs in Moscow.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, journalism, information-and-communication, russian-federation
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| UpdatedA fasting diet has the ability to regenerate the pancreas and could potentially reverse diabetes, US researchers say.
Topics: diabetes, diseases-and-disorders, health, science-and-technology, united-states
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| UpdatedHere's the full list of nominees for the Oscars. We'll update it as the winners are announced.
Topics: academy-awards-oscars, film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, united-states
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| UpdatedA 25-year-old man accused of ploughing a pickup truck into a crowd of spectators at a mardi gras parade in New Orleans has been arrested and charged with injuring 28 people, authorities say.
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| UpdatedCambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal drops its case against a suspect accused of killing thousands of people at torture centres and slave labour camps during the country's tragic agrarian revolution, in which an estimated 2 million people were killed.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, cambodia, asia