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Workers at the new Perth Children's Hospital are told to drink bottled water, while the hospital's building contractor John Holland investigates the source of lead detected in the water.

The world's largest living primate is only one step away from extinction, according to a report released Sunday at the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii.  The bad news about the Eastern Gorilla means that four of the six great ape species now listed internationally as critically endangered.

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South Korean shipping giant Hanjin filed for bankruptcy protect and stopped accepting new cargo earlier this week, causing "a ripple effect throughout the global supply chain".

CommSec has voluntarily refunded $1.1 Million to clients, and paid another $700,000 in fines for contravening the Corporations Act.

Tasmania has backed off of a plan to start all kids in school at age three and a half, leaving it out there as an option for parents starting in 2020.  But an education expert says there's plenty of evidence that parents really should take advantage of the opportunity.

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is going after Volkswagen over cars that were programmed to provide false reading on emissions tests.

Australia will expand its involvement in airstrikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq by amending its laws to match its coalition partners, according to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

US Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump gave his much-promoted policy address on immigration; it contained nothing new, but racists and white supremacists loved it.  The angry address capped a day in which Trump actually went to Mexico.

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Brazilian prosecutors will decide in the coming weeks whether to lodge criminal charges against Samarco and its executives for last November's deadly dam burst at its iron ore mine at Fundao.  Samarco, which is jointly owned by BHP Billiton and Vale, denies wrongdoing.

Queensland might be breaching UN conventions on children's rights and torture because of the number of ten- and eleven-year olds locked up in the state's jails.

Recovery teams discovered the bodies of nine people in a nursing home in far northern Japan in the area where Typhoon Lionrock dumped heavy rain, causing mudslides and flooding.

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The European Union's antitrust regulator is expected to order Apple to pay potential billions of dollars in back taxes to make up for years of alleged sweetheart deals from the government of Ireland. 

Scientists with the SETI Institute - which stands for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence - have dedicated two massive telescope arrays to tracking down the source of a mysterious and powerful radio signal from way, way out there.

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