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Tanker inferno kills three

crash Two children are dead, and their parents severely burned, after a fuel tanker collided with three cars near Batemans Bay.

Federal police to take over airports

The Australian Federal Police will take control of security at the nation's 11 busiest airports.

Neighbours flee as bikie clubs feud

Neighbours of Newtown tattoo parlour forced to move due to bikie feud over defecting Nomad.

Plane safety compromised, says union

Safety inspections and repair work could be carried out by someone with less than one month's training.

Raised voice heard before body found

A Christmas visit went horribly wrong when a woman found her elderly mother dead in bed at her home.

World

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Tehran At least eight people have been killed in riots in Iran, state media reported. They included the nephew of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Slumdog

Taliban, terror and Bollywood

Success story pierced through the tragedy of war in South Asia.

Video

Plane suspect was known to US

More information emerges about the young Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a US airliner on Christmas Day. (02:32)

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Personal Finance

The year that had everything

It was a roller-coaster ride - has any year been so eventful?

Small Business

Abandoned by the RBA

The idea things are on the mend for small retailers is ridiculous.

Executive Style

New definition of a luxury car

In coming years a prestige car may not be big and roomy.

National Times

It remains nameless, but it was the iDecade

Helen Razer HELEN RAZER | Ours has always been a prodigious language. Since Beowulf first opened his trap English has zealously created, or stolen, more words than any of its rivals.

Simon Letch illustration

Did they say that?

Gerard Henderson Traps for the sages and soothsayers.

Technology

modern warfare

Big bang theory

Many non-players still struggle to grasp the point of video games.

Drive

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Cars of 2010: Sports cars

Whether its top-speed or top-down, these new releases should have you covered.

Sport

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ELVs showed IRB in bad light

A year of self-inflicted purgatory for the game they play in heaven.

Football

Alan Hansen

The champions have a mental advantage over Chelsea.

Cricket

Peter Roebuck

Two exhilarating pieces of cricket illuminated a taut day.

Olympics

Sport in the Noughties

The real man behind Ian Thorpe's cool facade.