Atlanta: For a year, it prompted boycotts, demonstrations and economic fallout that helped dethrone a sitting governor. In the end, in a strange and profoundly American collision of polarised politics, big-time sports, commerce and the culture wars, North Carolina's notorious House Bill 2 was finally laid to rest Thursday – although many were left wondering if some of its negative effects might linger.
NSW floods continue to wreak havoc, with new evacuation orders expected later on Saturday.
In the same week Manly's civil war was cooling with a meeting that became public, a private gathering with perhaps even greater significance was taking place.
The leader of a Rohingya Muslim insurgency against Myanmar's security forces said on Friday his group would keep fighting "even if a million die" unless Aung San Suu Kyi takes action.
David Nofoaluma was given the chance to play under Ivan Cleary a few years ago and knocked it back. But it appears inevitable the pair will come together at Wests Tigers.
Prosecutors alleged the man tried to break through a door his partner had locked to protect herself and her children.
Police have charged a 28-year-old man over the death of Ian Baz Bosch who was stabbed while waiting for a bus south of Perth on November 19.
The AFL has dropped a bombshell announcing the 2018 Grand Final will be played at the new Perth Stadium instead of the MCG, which will be out of action for overdue renovations next September.
In a barely noticed respite from last week's hyper-partisan squabbling, Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten actually agreed on a couple of things. It is an enduring curiosity that such moments tend to escape attention.
After 400 days of public hearings, the royal commission has sat for a final time, ending with the powerful stories of sexual abuse survivors.
Police broke an out-of-control gathering north of Perth on Friday night, after dozens of teenagers spilled onto the streets.
Iranian refugee Mustafa Ehsan has been named Canberra's young citizen of the year for his work with young refugees and asylum seekers.
Police have charged six teenagers following a spate of alleged violent aggravated burglaries across Melbourne's northern and western suburbs.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wrote to British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday formally requesting a second referendum to be held on Scottish independence ahead of the United Kingdom's exit from the EU.
A federal judge has given final approval to a $US25 million ($32 million) agreement to settle fraud claims arising from US President Donald Trump's defunct commercial education venture.
Anti-Islamic State fighter Ashley Dyball has been remanded in custody charged with murder over the disappearance of Samuel Thompson.
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate Nicholas Care.
Traffic congestion along the Bolte Bridge is expected to ease after the introduction of additional lanes and a new signalling system to improve the flow of almost 200,000 vehicles a day.
France's consulate in Shanghai said on Friday that a French national was assaulted with a knife in the city and urged the French community in China to be vigilant.
When President Donald Trump berated Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull two months ago over 1,250 refugees the US agreed to accept from Australia, the phone conversation was perceived ominously: A decades-old alliance that was already strained by Australia's economic reliance on China was now being put under greater stress.
Dr Ganesh Rakh has made a decision to change attitudes towards girls at his own cost – now others are joining him.
Japan's whaling fleet has returned from its Antarctic hunt in the name of scientific research with 333 minke whales, despite international criticism.
An exhibition at Sydney's Blender Gallery starting April 1 will show portraits of the iconic musician Patti Smith never seen before in Australia.
Melburnians could be mistaken for thinking they are experiencing the first touch of the winter chill on Saturday morning.
It was a rare display of genuine Royal affection. Prince Charles beamed with joy. So too did the 11-year-old boy.
A woman has died after a two-car collision on the Bruce Highway north of Gympie.
A search will continue over the weekend for a missing man last seen in a Logan suburb, which was later impacted by floodwaters.
Why pregnant women aren't told about the serious virus that can cause serious malformations and disability in their unborn babies.
The Australian Museum celebrated its 190th birthday this week. Its long history is nothing if not colourful. A tale of death and discovery, misadventure, prizefighters and a tiny snail called Attenborougharian rubicundus. Well, more of a slug really.
Latest on the flood situation in south-east Queensland in the wake of Cyclone Debbie.
Stocks in the US and around the world ended a strong first quarter with a whimper amid political and economic uncertainty.
A contentious deliberate rushed behind decision paid against Sydney's Callum Mills late in the final quarter of a gripping grand final re-match against the Western Bulldogs has left AFL coaches, players and fans confused
Two men in hospital with serious injuries following crash
Oil prices fell after another rise in the US rig count signalled yet a higher hurdle in efforts to pare the global glut.
In her first major speech since losing the US presidential election, Hillary Clinton has criticised Donald Trump's proposed cuts to international programs.
While shorting had long been a reality of how sophisticated investors play the market in Australia, it has of late turned brasher, louder, and far more aggressive.
Police have concerns for the welfare of a 14-year-old Melbourne girl who has been missing for two days.
When Rupert Murdoch became an American citizen in September 1985 he was seen as a man willing to sacrifice anything, even his nationality, to pursue business.
Some of China's ports are demolishing old buildings to create more storage space, trading sources said.
Credit Suisse Group, some of its employees and hundreds of account holders are the subjects of a major tax evasion and money laundering probe that spans five countries.
Credit Suisse faces a sweeping tax evasion and money laundering investigation spanning five countries including Australia.
The top US diplomat and the Pentagon's chief stressed the importance of NATO and criticised Russia on Friday, easing allies' concerns over the new Donald Trump administration.
South African bank stocks tumbled and bonds plunged after the firing of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.
Trump's former national security adviser offers to be interviewed by congressional investigators on Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
Boeing's newest and largest Dreamliner, the 787-10, took off on its first flight on Friday, kicking off a flight test program for the high-tech jet.
The social media startup co-founded by James Griffin was put into voluntary liquidation owing the tax office more than $160,000
In the end, the deal to secure Malcolm Turnbull's signature election pledge of enterprise tax cuts, at least for small and medium businesses, was, to use the vernacular, a little "exxy". Big business missed out. A bridge too far. As such the cost to the budget is substantially less - around $20 billion. The X-man of Australian politics, Nick Xenophon has once again proved the master-negotiator, and Turnbull, the great deal-maker and achiever of results. As in all compromises, neither got all they wanted, But both will be happy.
The "no strings attached" donation is believed to be the single largest donation to complementary medicine research in Australia.
The culture of 'don’t dob in a mate' strikes at the heart of our poor treatment of whistleblowers.
The Prime Minister was in the midst of a counter-attack against Bill Shorten on penalty rates last week when he likened the Labor leader to Sally McManus, the new (and first female) secretary of the ACTU. "I nearly said Sally McAnarchist," he quipped.
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