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Debbie SchippDigital News Director

Debbie Schipp is the Daily Telegraph’s Digital News Director, with a background as a sports writer, editor and columnist and TV writer, editor and columnist, and in print and digital production.

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National

A two-year old girl has been airlifted to hospital in a coma after suffering a suspected severe sexual assault in the Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek.

Mother of raped two-year-old speaks

TENNANT CREEK’s alcohol laws are to blame for creating a setting where her two-year-old daughter was allegedly raped, her mother claims.

National

Fake cancer mum gets jail time

FAKE cancer fraudster Melissa Quinn has been sentenced to two years’ jail, but remains free on conditional bail after an appeal.

National

Jude Nathan Francis jailed for seven years after the road death of Mitchell Chase. Picture: Channel 9

Driver jailed over teen’s death crash

AN unlicensed driver who chased a teenage dirt bike rider in his Mercedes, saw him crash, and left him to die, has been jailed.

Social

The raccoon that spawned the #mprraccoon hashtag and transfixed Twitter

Stranded raccoon scales skyscraper

THE world is obsessed with #mprraccoon, the humble critter with a taste for heights who climbed 20 floors before he was rescued.

National

Photo showing missing child William TyrrellPhoto courtesy of NSW Police

Cop’s warning over new Tyrrell search

A NEW four-week forensic search of bushland around the home of little boy lost William Tyrrell has begun. But police said it came with a warning.

Leaders

(FILES) This file photo taken on February 29, 2016 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 1, 2016 shows US student Otto Frederick Warmbier, who was arrested for committing hostile acts against North Korea, wiping his tears as he speaks at a press conference in Pyongyang. REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNSTHIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS US President Donald Trump on September 26, 2017 accused North Korea of brutally abusing an American student who had been held captive in North Korea, saying the young man had been "tortured beyond belief." Otto Warmbier, 22, died in June a few days after he was sent home in a mysterious coma after more than a year in prison in North Korea.Trump had previously blamed Pyongyang's "brutal regime" for Warmbier's plight but it was the first time the president publicly accused North Korea of torture in the case. US officials have said Trump was personally taken aback by Warmbier's death and his comment Tuesday ratchets up the pressure on Kim Jong-Un's regime. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA / KCNA VIA KNS

‘Otto Warmbier didn’t die in vain’

THE US man brain-damaged while held in North Korea and returned comatose to US to die sparked the historic North Korea summit.

Leaders

Trump and Kim Jonmg-un's signatures after todays historic meeting

Kim’s signature ‘looks like his own little rockets’

AS Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump signed a historic agreement, Twitter couldn’t resist scrutinising their signatures.

World

Desiree Pasko got out of her wheelchair and ran to the edge of the poool to help the two boys. SOurce: Liveleak

Drowning boy’s wheelchair saviour

THIS is the moment Desiree Pasko, who often struggles to walk, got out of her wheelchair to help a teen save his drowning mate.

Money

Millionaire left lotto ticket on fridge

A KATHERINE man won a fortune five weeks ago, but hadn’t got around to checking the ticket he’d stuck on his fridge door.

Shorten cops ‘unpopular’ question on live TV

BILL Shorten spoke to “everyday” Australians on Q&A last night. And the Opposition Leader expertly handled one tough question.

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