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A Qantas Airbus A380 – the airline was first to fly this route with the superjumbo.

Paying $50 to choose my seat on this Qantas A380 was money well spent

Although I’m surprised at having to pay up to choose my seat, the space on a superjumbo remains unsurpassed.

  • Julietta Jameson

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Shark killers extraordinaire, orcas Port and Starboard.

Two killer whales are hunting down great white sharks, Hannibal Lecter style

Forget Free Willy, this is Silence of the Lambs. Shark experts are trying to figure out how and why these orcas are dispatching one of the ocean’s fiercest predators.

  • Jonathan Edwards
The South African Sanae IV research station in Antarctica where the alleged assault occurred. 

‘Horrible situation’: Nine scientists stuck together for Antarctic winter amid claims of assault

For a continent without permanent residents, Antarctica has been host to a notable amount of crime and misconduct.

  • Zimasa Matiwane and Amelia Nierenberg
Marco Rubio in the Oval Office with Donald Trump.

Ambassador ‘no longer welcome’ in US after think-tank comments

It is highly unusual for the US to expel a foreign ambassador, although lower-ranking diplomats are more frequently targeted with persona non grata status.

  • Ellen Knickmeyer and Matthew Lee
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We took a 12-person extended family overseas trip. Here’s how it went

Travel can be fraught enough; holidaying with a large, eclectic group signals potential disaster.

  • Catherine Marshall
Rita Greyling, a 33-year-old business management consultant from Wakkerstroom, in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Oscar Pistorius’ new ‘lookalike’ girlfriend and the battle to shake his dark past

The family of Reeva Steenkamp have been quick to comment on Pistorius’ new relationship, nearly a year after the former athlete was released on parole.

  • Ben Farmer
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Three Jewish doctors walk into a hospital ...

Take my vrou, please.

Paul Fletcher MP

If the Libs offered more pros, there might be no ‘con job’

I voted for Nicolette Boele in the last federal election not because Paul Fletcher was part of one of the worst governments ever inflicted upon this country, but apparently because I am such a stupid woman I had no idea what I was doing.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, ahead of the State Banquet, for the state visit to the UK by President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee, at Buckingham Palace, London, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. (Yui Mok/Pool Photo via AP)

Archbishop of Canterbury resigns ‘in sorrow’ over handling of abuse scandal

Justin Welby had faced calls to resign after a report found he had taken insufficient action to stop a person it described as arguably the Church of England’s most prolific serial abuser.

  • Rob Harris
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.

Demands for Archbishop of Canterbury to resign over abuse scandal

Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide, has been criticised for failing to report John Smyth, said to be the most prolific abuser in the church’s history.

  • Rob Harris

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