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Richard Lee Norris represents both the face of tragedy and triumph and features on the cover of America's GQ magazine.

Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Australia remains undeterred by shelling near the MH17 crash site despite investigators being forced back a second time.

Editor-in-chief of The Australian Women's Weekly, Helen McCabe became only the fourth person to win the prestigious St Mary of the Cross MacKillop Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Media yesterday.

Andrej Pejic, the Australian supermodel who famously blurs the boundaries between men and women as an androgynous male model, now goes by the name Andreja, having undergone sex reassignment surgery earlier this year.

Australia's female athletes have won three gold medals and smashed what was thought to be an untouchable world record on the first day of competition at the Commonwealth Games.

The parents of three Perth children who were killed with their grandfather in the MH17 tragedy in Ukraine have released a statement detailing the "intense and relentless" pain that consumes them.

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously backed a motion drafted and negotiated by Australian Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, calling for an independent international investigation into the MH17 tragedy.

Billionaire James Packer and his sister, Gretel have joined forces with Crown Resorts to launch a $200 million National Philanthropic Fund.

"God gives the toughest challenges to his best soldiers and that’s the way I’m taking it," said Alex McKinnon on the NRL Footy Show last night.

As political leaders and everyday people react to the MH17 tragedy, we take a look at the headlines on the front covers of newspapers around the world.