8 August 2018
In a series of Twitter posts, Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk says he wants to take the company private at $US420 sending shares soaring.
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8 Aug: Crew fatigue is being blamed for the capsize and loss of a commercial fishing boat - with Maritime New Zealand saying fatigue is one of the biggest safety issues for the industry.... more
7 Aug: Up to 100 people were inside the West Pemenang mosque for a Koran recital when the Lombok earthquake struck. Most managed to escape, but not everyone could get out.... more
7 Aug: French woman Marie Laguerre, who was hit outside a Paris cafe after she responded to a man harassing her in the street, has launched an online anti-harassment campaign.... more
7 Aug: As thousands of tourists try to get off Indonesia's Gili Islands, a British trader says pool water overflowed into his bedroom and he was told to "run to the hills as fast as possible".... more
7 Aug: In the late 1970s, Ron Stallworth hoodwinked 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.... more
7 Aug: After shutting the door to Australia and the world's scrap imports, China is now waging a rubbish revolution on the home front to deal with a mounting waste crisis.... more
6 Aug: Meet the specialist Royal Navy dive teams who are called out every day to towns and cities right across the bottom half of Britain to deal with unexploded World War II bombs.... more
6 Aug: As Julian Assange's six-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London is drawing to a close, the ABC's daily news podcast The Signal has been investigating what will happen when his time in the embassy runs out.... more
6 Aug: Andrew Gaff's cowardly punch scattered Andrew Brayshaw's teeth across Perth Stadium like wedding confetti, but he received a standing ovation and was sent back on the field to play, begging the question: is it time for the red card rule?... more
