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Winner Team McLaren-Mercedes' Oscar Piastri celebrates on the podium with the trophy after the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring race track in Mogyorod near Budapest on July 21, 2024. (Photo by Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Youngest Aussie to win Grand Prix

At just 23-years-old, Australian Formula One young gun Oscar Piastri has won his first Grand Prix, marking a major motorsport milestone after beating his teammate Lando Norris

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Mark Knight cartoon for Herald Sun, July 15, 2024

Trump’s reaction changes history

Seconds after US presidential hopeful Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, he seized the moment. Mark Knight’s cartoon captures him walking away not as a victim but as the clear election frontrunner

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Artist's impressions of extinct flightless bird Genyornis.

Ancient ‘thunderbird’ roamed SA

Partial fossils of a giant 230kg prehistoric bird found in South Australia 45,000 years ago have given scientists clues about the flightless megafauna’s physical structure and appearance

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This undated handout aerial photograph released by Greece's culture ministry on June 11, 2024, shows a "unique" monumental Minoan building atop a hill on Crete in Kastelia, that will affect radar plans for the new international airport which was planned to be operational in 2027. The ministry in a statement said the building had been found on a hill at Kasteli, nearly 500 metres (1640 feet) over land earmarked for the runway of the island's new international airport."It is a unique discovery of particular interest," Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said, with the statement adding that it is the "first of its kind" found on Crete. (Photo by Handout / Greek Culture Ministry / AFP)

Mystery of ancient stone circle

A mysterious 4000-year-old, circular stone structure with maze-like walls in Greece has archaeologists scratching their heads as they try to work out what the unique site was used for

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FOR KIDS NEWS. A study of ancient Egyptian skulls has changed the way we think about the history of cancer treatment. Picture: Dr Edgard Camarós

Surprise Ancient Egypt cancer find

A new study has shown Ancient Egyptians may have performed surgery to treat cancer as far back as 4000 years ago after hi-tech equipment detected cut marks in an ancient skull

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mark Knight cartoon on Donald Trump's mug shot

Trump’s presidential prison portrait

With Trump found guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records, cartoonist Mark Knight revisits a toon created nine months ago imagining Trump as the first US president in prison

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D-Day feature, June 2024 BAYEUX, FRANCE. C. 1944-07. INFORMAL GROUP OF SPITFIRE PILOTS OF NO. 453 SQUADRON RAAF, OUTSIDE A CAFE IN THE TOWN WITH SQUADRON COMMANDING OFFICER 413296 SQUADRON LEADER D. H. SMITH, VICTOR HARBOR (HARBOUR), SA, STANDING IN THE CENTRE OF THE GROUP. THEY MADE A SIGHT SEEING TOUR OF BAYEUX AS SOON AS THEY WERE GIVEN A REST FROM PATROLLING THE NORMANDY BATTLEFIELDS. (IDENTICAL IMAGE AS 042944)   Courtesy Australian War Memorial

Remembering D-Day, 80 years on

On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces stormed Normandy to reclaim Nazi occupied Europe, the little known stories of the Australian soldiers who fought are being celebrated

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 30: People react moments after news that former U.S. President Donald Trump was found guilty in his trial on hush-money payments in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. The former president was found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial.   Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Guilty: Can Donald Trump still run?

US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has been found guilty of falsifying business records and still faces other charges – so can he still run for re-election on Nov 5? The answer may surprise you

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TOPSHOT - This handout photo taken by the South Korean Defence Ministry between the night of May 28 and 29, 2024 and released on May 29 shows unidentified objects believed to be North Korean propaganda material attached to balloons on a street in Chungnam Province. North Korea dropped suspected anti-South Korean "propaganda" into border areas overnight, Seoul's military told AFP on May 29, with one province issuing an alert asking residents to stay indoors. (Photo by Handout / South Korean Defence Ministry / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / SOUTH KOREAN DEFENCE MINISTRY" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

North Korea drops poo balloons

North Korea’s latest retaliation against South Korea is not very neighbourly, with the totalitarian state escalating border tensions by sending balloons filled with poo into a South Korean province

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The discovery of Pompeii stick drawings ‘show children watched gladiator death fights'

Kids’ drawings found in Pompeii

A collection of stick figure gladiator drawings discovered in the ancient city of Pompeii paint a picture of what Roman life was like for kids almost 2000 years ago

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The galleon San Jose

Biggest treasure in human history

Mystery surrounds the final fate of the San José, as suspicions and rumours swirl around one nation amid multiple claims on the shipwreck, long rumoured to hold billions in sunken treasure

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Britain's King Charles III (L) and Britain's Queen Camilla (2nd R) meet with pupils of the Sulivan Primary school as they visit the No Adults Allowed Garden, that they children co-designed, during a tour of the 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London on May 20, 2024. The Chelsea flower show is held annually in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / POOL / AFP)

No Adults Allowed Garden blooms

Keen green thumb Charles III was renamed the ‘King of the Compost’ by cheeky young gardeners at London’s famed Chelsea Flower Show after they ‘banned’ grown ups from their garden

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Four Australian Aboriginal spears taken by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 from Kamay (Botany Bay), are to be repatriated back to Country. Trinity College Cambridge in the United Kingdom has agreed to permanently return the four spears to the La Perouse Aboriginal community.

Spears returned after 254 years

Four Aboriginal spears taken without permission by James Cook and his crew have been formally released in the UK by Trinity College, Cambridge, and returned to direct Dharawal descendants

Animals
Generic dinosaur illustrations, tyrannosaurus rex.

How smart was the mighty T. rex?

Whether a Tyrannosaurus’ mind was as sharp as its teeth is a juicy debate, as some scientists claim the carnivore was as smart as today’s baboons, while others say brain size isn’t everything

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Lush ancient Oz had giant koalas

Lush ancient Oz had giant koalas

The first humans to set foot in Australia would have discovered a large, abundant continent where giant beasts roamed the land, according to a study on the ancient continent of ‘Sahul’