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LEFT: The entrance to the Vatican embassy where human bones were found. RIGHT: Emanuela Orlandi is believed to have been kidnapped after a music lesson in Rome in 1983 when she was 15-years-old.

Vatican bones offer clues

The discovery of human bones at the Vatican embassy could hold the key to one of Italy’s darkest mysteries.

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FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2018 file photo, Harvey Weinstein enters State Supreme Court in New York. New York prosecutors say the former lead police detective in Weinstein's sexual assault investigation urged one of his accusers to delete information from her phone before turning it over to prosecutors. The Manhattan District Attorneyâ€™s office detailed the alleged misconduct in a letter to Weinsteinâ€™s lawyer that was made public Wednesday, Oct. 17. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Weinstein ‘abused 16-year-old’

A 16-year-old girl has joined Harvey Weinstein’s alleged victims, the youngest of the women who accuse him of sexual abuse.

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In this Oct. 18, 2018, photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety is the scene where authorities say they rescued a seriously injured woman who spent six days in the desert after crashing her car near Wickenburg, Ariz. The Department of Public Safety said Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, that rescuers found the severely dehydrated 53-year-old woman on Oct. 18 after following the vehicle's tracks. A maintenance crew and a rancher spotted the car while working along a highway several miles from the historic Western town of Wickenburg. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP)

Woman stuck in tree for 6 days

A woman has been found alive six days after her car flew off a highway and landed on a mesquite tree in Arizona.

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US President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Estero, Florida, on October 31, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Identity politics tears US apart

The United States has suffered many periods of civil conflict but this time there’s no obvious hope of a resolution.

Gerard Baker

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John Macris at Gosford Court in connection of his father , Stelios , being coaught having pseudoephedrine in drums in the boot of his car travelling along the F3

Ibrahim foe shot dead in Athens

Prominent Sydney underworld figure John Macris has been shot dead at his home in a seaside suburb of Athens.

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This handout photo released on October 31, 2018 by the Federal Polytechnique School of Lausanne (EPFL)/ The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) shows Gert-Jan Oskam, at the Lausanne University Hospital in April 2018. - A breakthrough treatment involving electrical stimulation of the spine has enabled paralysed patients to walk again, apparently reactivating nerve connections and providing hope for people even years after accidents. (Photo by - / EPFL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /EPFL/CHUV " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Paralysed patients walk again

The treatment of spinal cord injuries takes a “giant leap forward” after scientists enable previously paralysed patients to take steps unaided.

Tom Whipple

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The Statue of Unity is seen at dusk at Kevadiya Colony in Narmada district of Gujarat State, India, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday unveiled the towering bronze statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a key independence leader being promoted as a national icon in the ruling party's campaign ahead of next year's general elections. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Tallest statue’s great divide

India’s 182m Statue of Unity is proving anything but, dividing critics as it was unveiled to the world amid controversy and congratulations.

Hugh Tomlinson

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FILE - In this June 30, 2011 file photo, James "Whitey" Bulger, right, is escorted from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter to a waiting vehicle at an airport in Plymouth, Mass., after attending hearings in federal court in Boston. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Bulger died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in a West Virginia prison after being sentenced in 2013 in Boston to spend the rest of his life in prison. (Stuart Cahill/The Boston Herald via AP, File)

Whitey Bulger ‘killed by mafia’

A mafia hit man is suspected of killing gangland boss Whitey Bulger and trying to gouge out his eyes and cut off his tongue.

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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2015, file photo, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. A pro-government Turkish newspaper on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 published a gruesome recounting of the alleged slaying of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, just as America's top diplomat arrived in the country for talks over the Washington Post columnist's disappearance. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Khashoggi ‘strangled’ by Saudis

Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey says in official statement.

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Mohammed Ismail Qasimyar, a member of a government peace council, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his residence in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. A Taliban spokesman said Tuesday that five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured American army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined the insurgent groupâ€™s political office in Qatar. But Qasimyar warned Washington against negotiating peace terms with the Taliban. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Gitmo Taliban to join pow-wow

Five members of the Taliban freed from Guantanamo Bay are set to join the peace talks in Qatar.

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Indonesian navy frogmen emerge from the water during a search operation for the victims of the crashed Lion Air plane in the waters of Tanjung Karawang, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. Divers searched Tuesday for victims of the Lion Air plane crash and high-tech equipment was deployed to find its data recorders as reports emerged of problems on the jet's previous flight that had terrified passengers. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Sacking of Lion Air technical bosses ordered

Indonesian officials were last night still trying to confirm the location of the fuselage of Lion Air Flight JT610.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 20, 2018, Australian nun Patricia Fox gestures during a press conference in Manila. - Fox, an Australian nun who battled a government bid to expel her from the Philippines after she angered President Rodrigo Duterte, said on October 31 she will leave rather than face certain arrest and deportation. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)

Aussie nun to quit The Philippines

Sister Patricia Fox will leave The Philippines on Saturday after a long fight against a deportation bid.

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U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., speaks at a campaign rally Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, in Mesa, Ariz. President Donald Trump is in Arizona stumping for Senate candidate McSally. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Pilot, protester in dogfight

One served in Iraq, one demonstrated against it. Now the two women are Senate rivals in Arizona.

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Rupert Murdoch, shown at WSJ. Magazine’s Innovator Awards in New York on Nov. 1, is eager to focus more on the news business, long his passion, and less on Hollywood. PHOTO: ERIK PENDZICH/REX SHUTTERSTOCK/ZUMA PRESS

Times demand stronger US ties: Murdoch

Australia and the US must work harder to strengthen ties in a tumultuous era of rapid change, Rupert Murdoch says.

Cameron Stewart

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FILE - In this Thursday, June 21, 2018 file photo, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, left, and opposition leader Riek Machar, right, shake hands during peace talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It seems that South Sudan's government is spending millions of dollars next week to celebrate a "final final" peace deal to end a five-year civil war. The problem is, the rebel leader who agreed to share power is reluctant to come home. Riek Machar's hesitation and condition-setting amid security concerns is the latest sign that one of Africa's deadliest conflicts might be merely on pause.(AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

South Sudan rebel leader returns

South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar yesterday returned to the capital Juba for the first time in more than two years.

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31/10/2018 : Chinese tourists Shang Yao with his wife Ma Shuo and their young daughter Shang You Ya enjoy feeding the kangaroos at the Lone Pine Koala park, Fig Tree Pocket, Brisbane. There has been a call for a greater push on getting more Chinese tourists. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Call to dream bigger in chase for Chinese tourists Call to dream big in tourism chase

Australia must be more ambitious in pursuit of a bigger share of 80m Chinese travellers a year, Geoff Culbert says.

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Trade Minister Simon Birmingham visiting Pialligo Smokehouse in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Jakarta a ‘key factor in Israel decision’

A review of the potential relocation of Australia’s embassy in Israel will consider the impact on the trade deal with Indonesia.

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PNG minister for sport Justin Tkatchenko. Supplied

World Bank puts PNG on notice for luxury cars

The World Bank has approved a $US150m loan to bolster PNG’s budget, but has issued a please-explain over luxury cars.

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TOPSHOT - Yemeni boy Ghazi Ali bin Ali, 10, suffering from severe malnutrition lies on a bed at a hospital in Jabal Habashi on the outskirts of the city of Taiz, on October 30, 2018. - The war has left almost 10,000 people dead since the coalition intervened, and sparked what the UN has labelled the world's worst humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Ahmad AL-BASHA / AFP)

US urges Yemen ceasefire, talks

The US yesterday called for a ceasefire and peace talks in Yemen, as the Saudi-led coalition sent deployed 10,000 new troops.

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TOPSHOT - A truck carrying mostly Honduran migrants taking part in a caravan heading to the US, passes by a wind farm on their way from Santiago Niltepec to Juchitan, near the town of La Blanca in Oaxaca State, Mexico, on October 30, 2018. - The Pentagon is deploying 5,200 active-duty troops to beef up security along the US-Mexico border, officials announced Monday, in a bid to prevent a caravan of Central American migrants from illegally crossing the frontier. (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS / AFP)

Ryan splits on birthers plan

House speaker Paul Ryan says Donald Trump can’t scrap by executive order a constitutional guarantee to citizenship.

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