The home in Tugun where a woman allegedly broke into the premises and wound up dead after a scuffle. (ABC image, Dominic Cansdale)

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Deadly invasion: Woman breaks into Coast home, dies in scuffle with occupants

A woman has died after getting into a fight with the occupants of a home she broke into on the Gold Coast.

Culture

Charles Manson follower Linda Kasabian dead at 73

Linda Kasabian, a follower of Charles Manson who served as a star witness for the prosecution in the famed Manson Family murder trial in 1970, has died at 73, the New York Times reports.

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Court date set for couple charged over baby boy's alleged murder

A man and a woman charged with the murder of a five-week-old boy, who died from severe internal injuries at a Queensland caravan park, will return to court later this year.

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Dementia overtakes heart disease as leading cause of illness over 65

Dementia has overtaken coronary heart disease as the leading cause of illness, injury and death among Australians aged 65 and over.

Culture

Raquel Welch, movie star and sixties sex symbol, dies at 82

Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film One Million Years B.C. would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and ’70s, has died. She was 82.