The 12th-ranked Matildas will need to get past two top five teams in the US and Germany plus an African nation to get out of their Paris Olympics group.
Intelligence from multiple sources led police to narrow the search for Samantha Murphy's body to a reserve near Ballarat but it was called off within hours.
Labor has continued to back Kevin Rudd to remain as US ambassador if Donald Trump becomes president again, despite calls from conservatives for him to go.
CLIVE WILLIAMS continues on from his last Whimsy column with another intriguing aspect of English pronunciation – the influence of regional dialects and accents.
COLIN STEELE reviews an entertaining and informative book that explores the role of love as a psychoactive agent of history and art through essays on 50 objects.
"What worries me is the decision of our own former PM Scott Morrison to join the Trump motorcade with his new boss, Michael Pompeo, a weird believer in the 'Rapture'," writes The gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Gratitude is the first step to kindness, because the inevitable result is, despite your efforts – happiness." ANTONIO DI DIO continues his Short History of Kindness series. This column sprung from a book of Italian poems.