The Winter Olympics has officially been opened overnight in a dazzling, but freezing ceremony in Beijing.
The New South Wales Premier says the latest texting scandal in Canberra is an unhelpful distraction.
A second SAS soldier has contradicted evidence given by Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith at his defamation trial.

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