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The price of phones, laptops and game consoles are rising thanks to a global shortage of their most important part. 

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A rapid hazard assessment of the Nepal-Tibet disaster says there were "pre-event indications" of the avalanche, including satellite imagery showing a change in the surface of the collapsed glacier.  

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A jury has found a former gang leader guilty of murder after a trial heard he was the mastermind behind the 1996 drive-by killing of legendary hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur.

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The estate behind the icon, who died of cancer last week at age 80, announces Dollyfest, a two-day festival across two consecutive weekends in 2027. 

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Broome detectives allegedly find more than just a protein filling in a McDonald's breakfast item in one of two drug-related incidents linked to fast food in a month.

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If the Israeli prime minister sees settler violence as a "grave injustice", why can't one of the most powerful militaries in the world stop it from happening? The answer, as it often does, comes down to politics. 

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Luxury tourist villas being offered for hundreds of dollars a night were allegedly installed in a bushfire-prone area without prior permission, an ABC investigation has found.

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Industry groups say the move to facial scans in supermarkets is about safety, but analysts say that once the technology is installed, its "scope creep" paves the way for options like discriminatory pricing. 

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Lionel Messi ends his international football career as a living legend with a God-like status in his country, but the dizzying heights the great man reached almost never happened if he had stuck to his original retirement. 

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