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Study of 100,000 Australians seeks causes of mental health disorders and early onset cancer
Sax Institute is recruiting for 18 and Up, an intergenerational study of wellbeing and ageing which follows its landmark 45 and Up studyGet our breaking news email, free app or...
Erin Patterson prepares for mushroom murders appeal ruling to learn if she could face retrial or longer jail term
Victorian court to hand down decision on Friday on two appeals regarding Patterson’s triple murder caseGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastErin Patterson is set to...
Lawyers for Marist Brothers face questions over advice to keep serial offender out of ‘legal arena’
A once-confidential letter says child sexual abuser might implicate senior church officials if allowed near ‘the legal arena’ upon his release from jailGet our breaking news email, free app or...
DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17bn in major grocery delivery consolidation
Acquisition will supercharge DoorDash’s grocery delivery, ‘one of the hardest things to get right online’, CEO saysDoorDash is gobbling up Instacart in a $17bn acquisition that will supercharge its grocery...
Police investigate gang links as woman, 19, dies after drive-by shooting at Logan pub south of Brisbane
Vana-Reese Schuster-Togiatau was injured during the shooting outside Fitzy’s Loganholme pub on SaturdayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPotential gang involvement in the fatal drive-by shooting...
Pragmatic or pointless? Europe’s rift over whether to pick up the phone to Putin
With no single European representative negotiating directly with Moscow, some leaders are establishing their own channels – with messy resultsThe Nordic countries rarely fall out in public over foreign policy,...
Spain begins mourning period as search continues for train crash victims
Emergency services, drones and dog unit continue to comb carriages as Civil Guard sets up clinics for relatives to provide DNA samplesSpain has begun three days of mourning to commemorate...
Rare love letters to French aristocrat shed light on Louis XVI maritime mystery
‘Miracle’ cache of letters written by French scientist who died in ill-fated La Pérouse mission give personal account of 1785 voyageAs he prepared to climb the scaffolding to be publicly...
Europe’s central bank chief Christine Lagarde to step down nine months early
Departure of Lagarde, seen as candidate to take over World Economic Forum, comes as eurozone struggles with weak growth and inflationChristine Lagarde, the eurozone’s top central banker, is stepping down...
Hello Kitty company cuts ties with Japanese spy show after China outcry
Sanrio ends association with TV drama Vivant after China says portrayal of ruthless Chinese agents is ‘deliberate smear’The company behind the successful Hello Kitty franchise has apologised and ended its...
Cambodian police and soldiers helped guard abusive scam compounds, Amnesty alleges
Survivors tell rights group that serving officers who worked as guards administered electric shocks and beatingsCambodian police and military officers worked as private security guards in scam compounds where thousands...
Outcry after Call of Duty maker uses real footage of deadly Seoul crowd crush in new video game
Bereaved families have urged the publisher of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 to remove a clip from the game that shows a figure performing CPR and bodies lying in...