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In late April, the top federal cybersecurity agency, US-CERT, announced that Russian hackers had attacked internet-connected devices throughout the U.S., including network routers in private homes.

More than 3,500 MDMA pills were seized at the Midnight Mafia Music Festival at Sydney Showground on Saturday.

There were 130 Sri Lankans hidden in a rusty tanker off the cost of southern Johor state.

Despite some basic potential flaws, AI can be a useful tool for spotting online propaganda – but it can also be startlingly good at creating misleading material.

Lucy Turnbull was “flattered and charmed” when French President Emmanuel Macron described her as “delicious.”

The two African American men who was arrested at a Philadelphia branch of Starbucks last month have reached a settlement with the coffee shop and the city for US$1 (AU$1.33) each.

David Goodall, Edith Cowan University honorary research associate and Australia’s oldest scientist at 104, has flown to Switzerland to end his life.

Cambridge Analytica is shutting down immediately.

Commonwealth Bank has admitted to losing historical financial statements of almost 20 million personal accounts in a 2016 incident and decided not to make it public

The Labor Party faces a byelection in the seat of Perth after first-term MP Tim Hammond announced he was leaving politics because of the difficulties of being separated from his young children.

Queensland MP Andrew Laming has suggested school teachers should spend more hours at work and get fewer holiday leaves.

A 13-year-old boy has been charged with armed robbery after allegedly using a toy gun to rob a Gold Coast service station.

Qantas has finally apologised to a Perth woman who suffered burns while on a flight to Queensland last month.

A former teacher in Adelaide who propositioned an emotionally vulnerable student for sex has received suspended jail sentence.

A family in Temora, NSW, are grieving after a freak accident killed their 7-year-old son.

David and Glenda Joy were told that because they didn’t draw up a contract, the money they lent to daughter Lucy was considered a gift.

The meeting between North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and South Korea’s Moon Jae-in is certainly one of the most dramatic and momentous events in the recent history of East Asia.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit this week to the Trump White House will be awkward. His host is a president who has referred to African states as “shithole countries.”

The Turnbull government has pledged $500 million in the May budget for the rehabilitation of the Great Barrier Reef.

The men were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse instead of the gang rape of which they were accused.

Kensington Palace has announced that Prince William and Kate Middleton’s third child is named Louis Arthur Charles.

The government is scrapping its $A8.2 billion planned increase in the Medicare levy, declaring a stronger budget outlook means it is not needed to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Bill Cosby has been found guilty of drugging and molesting a woman.

French President Emmanuel Macron has set aside temporarily his newfound friendship with US President Donald Trump to take aim at many of the latter’s policies.

Kanye West supports Donald Trump. This is what the Grammy Award-winning rapper revealed in his newest batch of tweets posted on Wednesday evening.

The car mounted the kerb, hitting two pedestrians, after it collided with another vehicle around 12:20 p.m.

The previously proposed Medicare levy has been scrapped.

The TPP was on track to become the world’s largest free trade zone by joining Pacific Rim countries that collectively produce about 40 percent of global economic output. But Trump railed against the accord.

Research shows that nearly 1 in 5 university students are affected with anxiety or depression.