AMP's head of financial advice loses count of the number of times the company misled corporate regulator ASIC over charging customers fees for no service, in evidence given to the financial services royal commission.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale announces a plan to legalise cannabis for Australians over the age of 18, in a bid to take the drug out of the hands of criminal dealers.

Channel Seven was given a detailed briefing ahead of the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony despite the broadcaster later saying it was shocked that athletes were not shown walking into the stadium.

The UN urges Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to consider resettling refugees languishing on Manus Island and Nauru for the past five years rather than focus on the plight of persecuted white South African farmers.

The US-led military strike in Syria will have been keenly felt in Tehran, whose arc of influence now stretches from Afghanistan to Iraq, into Lebanon and up to the border of Israel, sparking fears of a world war-level conflict, writes Stan Grant.

An irregular heartbeat is the suspected reason for Dylan Roberton's dramatic collapse during St Kilda's AFL clash with Geelong.

The industry says it's not out of the Napster-era woods yet, but things are looking up, as more and more people pay for streaming subscriptions.

Lauded by organisers as "inspirational" and "innovative", the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games come to an end in a heavily-criticised closing ceremony, with Channel Seven's hosts ripping into the event's organisers live on air.

Australian Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo takes advantage of a superior team strategy to pull off a series of brilliant passing moves and win in Shanghai after starting the race from sixth on the grid.

The director of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency urges employers to set targets for men working part-time, saying the normalisation of flexible work environments will help the "promotion of women".