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Megan Palin is an award-winning journalist and US Correspondent based in New York. She has covered stories ranging from US presidential elections and high profile trials, to the coronavirus pandemic and human trafficking. But some of her favourite assignments occurred prior to her move to the Big Apple. They include traipsing through the remote regions of Australia with a prolific UFO hunter as he searched for aliens, and spending time with a nomadic Indigenous tribe in the NT Outback.

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Muhammad Naveed an uber driver heads into the downing centre ahead of a trial .pic John Grainger

Uber driver jailed for raping passenger

UBER driver Muhammad Naveed pulled over for condoms and a bottle of water before raping sleeping passenger, trial hears.

Leaders

Senator Pauline Hanson asking questions at a Senate Estimates committee at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Hanson’s bid to gag the ABC backfires

BREAKING: Pauline Hanson has been ordered to pay the ABC’s legal fees after trying to stop it from broadcasting more secret One Nation recordings.

World

In this photo taken on June 8, 2017 in Derby Line, Vt., a border post and planters show the U.S.-Canadian border where it leads to the Haskell Opera House and library, a building located in the two countries. Brian and Joan Dumoulin, from the nearby neighborhood of Beebe Plain, say they're having a hard time selling their home that straddles the border. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)

One home in two countries for sale

A HOUSE on the border of two countries is up for sale but living in two nations isn’t all it’s cracked up to be for the couple trying to sell it.

Companies

Funeral industry’s dark secrets

WHEN her sister Linda died suddenly, Sandra Van der Laan was plunged into a world shrouded in secrecy. So she decided to lift the lid on it.

World

FILE - In this Jan. 2, 2016, file photo, Japan's Emperor Akihito waves to well-wishers from a bullet-proofed balcony of the Imperial Palace during New Year's public appearance in Tokyo. Japan's parliament on Friday, June 9, 2017 passed a law allowing Emperor Akihito to become the first monarch to abdicate in 200 years. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan’s emperor breaks 200-year tradition

JAPAN passed a law on Friday that has stood for over 200 years. It’ll mean a huge shake-up for Japan’s Royal family, starting with its 83-year-old monarch.

World

Robert Melson was executed on Thursday, local time, in Alabama

Mass murderer’s last minute plea rejected

A US man who killed four fast food workers in the restaurant’s freezer has been executed by lethal injection in front of his victims’ family.

World

CARDIFF, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 09: Ballot boxes are seen at the Sport Wales National Centre on June 9, 2017 in Cardiff, United Kingdom. After a snap election was called, the United Kingdom went to the polls yesterday following a closely fought election. The results from across the country are being counted and an overall result is expected in the early hours. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

What happens in a hung parliament?

A SHOCK exit poll has revealed there could be a Hung Parliament in the UK. But what exactly does that mean?

World

Is this the worst high five ever?

UK Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has been captured on camera carrying out what has been dubbed “the worst high five ever”.

News

‘Revenge of citizens of nowhere’

THE shock UK result has been dubbed “citizens revenge” with young people leading the charge. Here’s how it played out.

National

Gang rape victim taunted during attack

A TEEN girl who was allegedly gang-raped by boys at a party in the Blue Mountains was taunted during her ordeal, a court has heard. WARNING: Graphic

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