On Wednesday afternoon, nearly every smart phone in America blared and vibrated with an emergency alert – the first ever test of the national Presidential Alert system.

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Life is weird. And we make it weirder with weird laws to prevent it being too weird, yet these laws rarely work and only cost money. If you have cash in the USA, your chances to see prison are far smaller than should you have committed a lesser crime and be poor. 

The civil construction company building Sydney's troubled light rail has revealed the project has been delayed again, and will not be complete until May 2020.

A report showing Australia is failing to rein in its greenhouse gas pollution was sat on for nearly two months by the Federal Government, before being released late on a Friday afternoon of a long weekend when footy finals fever and banking royal commission findings were dominating headlines, the ABC has learned. 

Statue of Liberty will be dismantled when US imposes sanctions on all countries of the world

Predictably, US President Donald Trump delivered a speech, in which he once again positioned the United States of America as navel of the Earth, the exceptional center of everything. This is not news to anyone.

It seems these things happened in another lifetime, when Bill Leak was at his zenith working for the SMH, before he fell from a balcony. This fantastic cartoon (February 1998) from the collection "Drawing Blood" shows Bill with real pen and ink rather than the awful tablet he seemed to use for the crappy cartoons he did for the crappy slanted Murdoch media, after his fall.

The current impasse between the UK and Russia, initiated by the Skripal poisoning on March 4th and crystallized by the identification of two Russian “suspects” this week, calls for new thinking.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has denied issuing any directions to his friend, ABC chairman Justin Milne, to pressure the public broadcaster's management to sack journalists or change editorial decisions.

“It’s an irreparable loss, not only for Brazilian science but for the world. The building can be reconstructed, restored, and everything else, but the collections can never be replaced. Two centuries of science and culture are lost forever,” said Sergio Alex Kugland de Azevedo, a paleozoologist and former director of the museum.

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Einstein's general theory of relativity is one of humankind's greatest achievements, and it was first proven to be correct in what is now part of Broome's lawn bowls club in far north-west Australia.