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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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Real Life

Jason Leveson, the brother of Matthew Leveson, tries to stop TV crews filming his family at the search site. The search for the Body of Matthew Leveson in the Royal national Park near Waterfall. Matthew has been missing since 2007. NSW Police are looking for the body of Matthew Leveson following evidence uncovered during the coronal inquest into his death. Picture: John Appleyard

Tempers fray at Leveson search site

THE brother of missing man Matthew Leveson has lashed out at media as the search for his brother’s possible bush grave continues.

Real Life

Trump, Farage talk ‘freedom and winning’

TWO of the world’s most polarising men, US President-elect Donald Trump and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, have met to talk “freedom and winning”.

Real Life

(FILES) This file photo taken on November 13, 2015 shows American rock group Eagles of Death Metal performing on stage on November 13, 2015 at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, few moments before four men armed with assault rifles and shouting

Bataclan bans massacre survivors

THE band that was playing when terrorists attacked Paris’ Bataclan last year has been refused entry to the venue’s reopening show.

National

**WARNING UNCENSORED VERSION*** Scenes of hunger-striking asylum seekers from Foxtrot Compound, Monday 19 January. After six days on hunger strike, some asylum seekers are refusing to go to the medical centre for attention because Immigration is capturing some of them, taking them to isolation rather than return them to their compounds. For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713

US to resettle asylum seekers

IN A “one-off” deal, Australia will send asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru to the US for resettlement. Human rights groups object.

National

Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop, PM Malcolm Turnbull and Minister for the Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg at a Joint Press Conference in the Prime Ministers Courtyard at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Crackdown on ‘child-rape holidays’

ABOUT 800 convicted Australian paedophiles travel overseas each year. But not for much longer with all of their passports about to be cancelled.

Leaders

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes a concession speech after being defeated by Republican presidential-elect Donald Trump as her running-mate Tim Kaine(R) and former president Bill Clinton look on in New York on November 9, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / JEWEL SAMAD

Freshly defeated Hillary spotted by hiker

YOU might expect her to be hiding from the world, but Hillary Clinton has emerged, looking exhausted but happy.

Illness

‘People locked into their bodies’

THIS Aussie island is postcard perfect. So what’s causing many of its inhabitants to become paralysed and die ‘slow’ and ‘cruel’ deaths?

Leaders

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 07: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks while accepting the Conservative Party of New York State's nomination for president on September 7, 2016 in New York City. Following the event Trump will take part in a forum with Hillary Clinton, to answer questions on veterans issues and national security. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Donald Trump’s top five policies

US PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump has promised everything. But what does he stand for? These are his key policies.

Real Life

The toilet in the cell of convicted Bali Nine drug trafficker Chan's cell at Kerobokan prison, Bali.

The Aussies languishing in overseas jails

THE conditions in many foreign prisons are shocking by our standards. But that didn’t stop these Australians from landing themselves there.

Animals

Wild orang-utans shot with air rifles

AN orang-utan has been found barely alive, riddled with pellets from an air rifle, some of which have caused him to go blind. But this is not a rare case.

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