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Amazing stories of survival are emerging from Italy’s catastrophic bridge collapse. People have described the split second decisions that stopped them from driving off the edge of the bridge, and the terrifying run for safety as they feared the rest of the structure would come down. Europe correspondent James Glenday reports. Read more here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-16/more-survival-tales-from-genoa-bridge-collapse-2b-victims/10126098 […]
In the late 1970s, Ron Stallworth hoodwinked David Duke, the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the inside story of how he did it — and why he thinks racism has only gotten worse since then. Read more here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-07/blackkklansman-ron-stallworth-black-cop-who-infiltrated-the-kkk/9971370 For more from RN, click here: https://www.abc.net.au/rn/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RadioNational […]
Former Japanese professional baseball player Shogo Kimura is changing fields, from baseball to cricket. Kimura, spent most of his baseball career as an infielder with the Hiroshima Carps, is now looking to join a top-level cricket league in India or Australia one day. Read more here: For more from ABC News, click here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/ Follow […]
For more than 40 years, Tina Arena has been a household name. The musical powerhouse is as tenacious as she is talented. and now, she’s taking on the role of another formidable woman, playing Argentina’s legendary first lady, Eva Peron, in the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice classic musical, Evita. For more from ABC News, click […]
It takes a lot to shock the entire parliament into spurning one of its own, but today, that happened to the Queensland Senator Fraser Anning. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives voted to condemn his official ‘first’ speech, which called for a ban on Muslim immigration and invoked a Nazi-era slogan. But Senator […]
Rescuers are trying to find survivors in the rubble of a massive bridge collapse in the north-west Italian city of Genoa. At least 26 people were killed and others badly hurt when the motorway collapsed. Most of the victims were in cars and trucks that plummeted to the ground. Read more here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-15/what-caused-genoas-bridge-to-collapse/10121848 For more […]
On 17 August 1977, Australian radio stations were inundated with calls as the world mourned the loss of The King. For some, the loss was personal. ABC’s This Day Tonight aired this story. Read more here: For more from ABC News, click here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/ Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abcnews Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.au Subscribe […]
Former Japanese professional baseball player Shogo Kimura is changing fields, from baseball to cricket. Kimura, spent most of his baseball career as an infielder with the Hiroshima Carps, is now looking to join a top-level cricket league in India or Australia one day. Read more here: For more from ABC News, click here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/ Follow […]
Budget airline Jetstar is under fire for using foreign cabin crews on Australian routes and paying them a base pay of as little as $100 a week. Read more here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-14/jetstar-under-fire-over-foreign-cabin-crews-pay-domestic-flights/10107814 For more from ABC News, click here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/ Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abcnews Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.au Subscribe to us on YouTube: http://ab.co/1svxLVE […]
There’s a new push in Australia to build incinerators to burn our waste. Is this the way to go? Those clever Swedes think so. Foreign Correspondent sends War on Waste’s Craig Reucassel to Sweden to investigate. Read more here: https://ab.co/2OxxX8I Watch Foreign Correspondent on iview: http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/foreign-correspondent SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/ABCNEWSAUS About Foreign Correspondent: Foreign Correspondent is the […]