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Toru Takamatsu, 29, has traded the highfalutin world of elite restaurants for the vineyards of Hokkaido as he sets out to make his own wine after becoming the world’s youngest ever master sommelier five years ago.

Australian Toru Takamatsu became the world’s youngest ever master sommelier. Then he changed course

The exam is notoriously difficult. The preparation excruciating, even if it involves tasting amazing wine. But this wunderkind traded in a six-figure salary to learn how to make his own drop.

  • Lisa Visentin

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Bar manager Nicole Hayes shows Australian guest Paul Wright how to build a snowman as a remote Yorkshire pub was cut off for three days and counting after snowstorms across Britain.

Aussies snowed in at remote English pub aren’t complaining

Paul and Naomi Wright, from the Northern Territory, had never seen real snow before this trip to the UK. Now they’re cut off from the world.

  • Rob Harris
Members of a Virgin Australia crew have allegedly been assaulted at Nadi, Fiji.

Suspect questioned over alleged sexual assault of Virgin Australia crew member in Fiji

Police are investigating two separate alleged incidents against two airline employees celebrating New Year’s Eve in Nadi.

  • Sarah McPhee, Jessica McSweeney and Penry Buckley
ABC’s news and current affairs correspondent in Moscow Deborah Snow in October 1993.

Snow bound for icy Moscow winter from Sydney summer heat

Deborah Snow worked as a Moscow correspondent at a time when the Soviet Union had just dissolved, Boris Yelstin was in power and tensions were high. It was also where she met her future husband on an unlikely helicopter day trip.

  • Deborah Snow
The cab jumped the kerb and hit pedestrians in Manhattan on Christmas Day.

‘I could just hear him screaming’: Australian mum and son trapped under NYC taxi

Rebecca Stewart said she doesn’t know how she and her nine-year-old boy survived when a taxi jumped a kerb and hit pedestrians outside the Macy’s flagship store.

  • Riley Walter and Daniel Lo Surdo
Oscar Jenkins, a former Melbourne Grammar student, was captured by Russian forces fighting for Ukraine’s foreign legion in the Donbas region.

Australia demands answers from Russian ambassador over Australian prisoner of war

Australia is urgently seeking updates on the welfare of Melbourne man Oscar Jenkins, after footage of him being slapped by Russian interrogators circulated online.

  • Rob Harris and Natassia Chrysanthos
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Overnight, 148 Australian citizens returned home on the two RAAF aircraft that delivered vital assistance to Vanuatu.

Australians evacuated from Vanuatu after ‘terrifying’ earthquake

Rescuers are racing to pull survivors from the rubble of fallen buildings, but the number of dead is “expected to increase”.

  • Ben McKay and Callum Godde
The last remaining Australian hospitalised following the incident at Fiji’s Warwick Resort was discharged from hospital on Wednesday.

Methanol ruled out as final Australian discharged following Fiji poisoning

The Fijian government says testing has shown methanol poisoning was not the cause of an incident which led to four Australians and three others being hospitalised.

  • Penry Buckley
Ali Imron waving to journalists after his sentencing in 2003. He was spared the death penalty because of his remorse and cooperation with authorities.

Bali bomber’s family asks for same leniency given to Bali Five

Ali Imron hopes to piggyback off the charity shown to the last prisoners of the Bali Nine gang.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Martin Stephens, Michael Czugaj, Scott Rush, Matthew Norman and Si-Yi Chen look on as Australia and Indonesia sign an agreement for their return home.

‘No legal basis’: Indonesian MP criticises decision to send remaining Bali Nine home

A senior member of an Indonesian parliamentary committee says the transfer of five Bali Nine members was unlawful.

  • Zach Hope, Karuni Rompies and Amilia Rosa

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