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Sarah Klau has planted a marker for Commonwealth Games selection with a match-winning performance in the NSW Swifts' 54-40 Super Netball victory against the Adelaide Thunderbirds at Ken Rosewall Arena.The Swifts are now one of four teams on 16 premiership points who are fighting for the last two spots in the finals behind pacesetters West Coast Fever and Melbourne Vixens.
European stock indexes opened lower on Monday, after oil prices slid and riskier currencies took a hit during the Asian session as unexpectedly weak economic data from China highlighted fears about a slowdown in growth.China's April retail sales plunged 11.
Labor's housing policy is "total chaos" and shows they haven't learned during their time in opposition, the deputy prime minister says.Campaigning in Darwin on Monday, where the Nationals hope to snag Lingiari from retired long-term Labor MP Warren Snowdon, Barnaby Joyce likened Labor's election bid to a children's game.
Former Somali leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has won the presidency again in voting by parliamentarians in an airport hangar protected by blast walls from Islamist insurgents whom he must now fight for a second time.The 66-year-old, who ruled from 2012 to 2017, reversed the previous election to defeat incumbent Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed by 214-110 votes on Sunday in a third-round run-off whose result was confirmed about midnight.
A passenger on a Delta flight was shocked to find the stranger next to her taking photos of her feet. Find out how she reacted.
The super ‘flower’ moon of May rose behind the ancient temple of Poseidon in Greece. This full moon is a supermoon, according to the almanac, and coincides with a total lunar eclipse, highly visible in the western hemisphere, which will turn the moon a reddish-brown.
Asian shares have edged higher despite data reinforcing investor fears the global economic recovery may be more fragile than expected, even as inflationary pressures remain high.MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gained 0.
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The woman stunned passersby with the act. Find out more.
A bullish Scott Morrison has suggested he has no intentions of going anywhere, regardless of Saturday's election result. Find out more.
The Australian share market has closed modestly higher, putting together a two-day winning streak for the first time this month.The benchmark S&P;/ASX200 index closed on Monday up 17.
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The driver of the luxury sports car has managed to divide a community with one act. Read more.
There has been a sharp increase in a deadly bacterial disease. Find out more.
AAP/Mick TsikasToday we are running two longer articles looking at the men who are vying to be the next Australian prime minister. You can read Paul Strangio’s profile of Anthony Albanese here. Revealing insights into Scott Morrison’s political character and tactical approach are coming through as the prime minister finds himself on the ropes towards the end of this campaign. In last Wednesday’s final debate between the two leaders, when they were asked to speak to the other’s strengths, Morriso
Natalie Barr, Ally Langdon blow up at Scott Morrison, Barnaby Joyce. Source: Sunrise
Telephone voting for the federal election will be available for voters who test positive for COVID-19 from 6.New rules have been introduced allowing people in isolation to cast their vote over the phone.
Ukraine's military says it's working to evacuate all remaining troops from their last stronghold in the besieged port of Mariupol, ceding control of the city to Russia after months of bombardment.The evacuation likely marks the end of the longest and bloodiest battle of the Ukraine war and a significant defeat for Ukraine.
Next year's New Zealand election looms as a brawl over climate policy after the opposition National party signaled stark disagreement with the government's emissions reduction plan.On Monday, Jacinda Ardern's government released a plan four years in the making, from its introduction of the Zero Carbon Act in 2018.
Lebanese are voting in the first parliamentary election since the country's economic collapse, with many hoping to deal a blow to ruling politicians they blame for the crisis even if the odds of major change appear slim.The election, the first since 2018, is seen as a test of whether the heavily armed, Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies can preserve their parliamentary majority amid soaring poverty and anger at parties in power.
