Carrara Stadium has undergone an expensive facelift ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which will be held on the Gold Coast in April with over 6,600 athletes from 70 nations competing. Via: Carrara Stadium transformed ahead of Commonwealth Games
A sweet Sydney grandmother with an astonishing 14 grandchildren was asked to name all of them on live television – but she flatly refused. Via: Moment grandmother of 14 is asked to name them all
If a timeline reported by the Daily News is correct Hicks was interviewed by the special counsel before December 1 to find out what she knows about alleged collusion between Trump and Russia. Via: Hope Hicks 'was interviewed by Mueller's team'
Over-by-over updates from the day-night Test in AdelaideAli Martin: England’s need for speed exposed by AustraliaSend your emails to Geoff, or tweet him @GeoffLemonSport 1.58am GMT If you want more detail of yesterday’s play than my potted summary, let’s ask the man whose job it is to give you one. Read more
The multimilion-pound Ajacs project to fund new police force has been put on hold after reports that cash was handed straight to extremists The government has suspended a multimillion-pound foreign aid project amid allegations that money paid to a contractor in Syria was reaching the pockets of jihadist groups. The Read more
Shafik’s family say he was taken from their home in the Emirates and deported back to Egypt, but he has appeared on TV saying he was not abductedFormer Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafik, who returned home from the United Arab Emirates after announcing his bid for Egypt’s presidency, appeared in Read more
Glitzy ceremony honours work including that on mapping post-big bang primordial light, cell biology, plant science and neurodegenerative diseaseThe most glitzy event on the scientific calendar took place on Sunday night when the Breakthrough Foundation gave away $22m (£16.3m) in prizes to dozens of physicists, biologists and mathematicians at a Read more
Lack of agreement threatens to put back progression of Brexit negotiations to second phase, ahead of crunch meeting between PM and Jean-Claude JunckerTheresa May and the Irish government have failed to reach a deal on the crucial Brexit issue of the Northern Ireland border ahead of a crunch meeting on Read more
Younger drivers are up to seven times more likely to be killed or seriously injured compared to those over 25 Via: New driving tests introduced to cut number of young people killed in accidents
Hard-fought progress towards tackling poverty is in peril, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says as the Government's entire Social Mobility Commission quits Via: Fifth of UK population now in poverty amid worst decline for children and pensioners in decades, major report reveals