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120 parties have expressed interest as the sale of high-profile assets of food and beverage Keystone group begins.

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The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich on Friday began planning the attack one year ago after visiting the site of a 2009 school shooting in south-west Germany that killed 15 people.

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This weekend's release of PokémonGo in Japan saw shares rocket higher still, but analysts are divided over the future of Nintendo.

Tens of thousands of people have flocked to this year's Splendour in the Grass over the weekend as the music festival wrapped up on Sunday night.

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Player died after being tackled on Sunday afternoon.

Documents warn that toxic gases, asbestos and contaminated groundwater will be dredged up as the cross-city tunnel is built.

Letters taken from a prison computer used by underworld killer Carl Williams may implicate him in more murders, his ex-wife says.

An Australian activist whose investigations led to the closure of a "tiger temple" in western Thailand faces a defamation charge brought by the temple.

A bomb scare triggered by a note found on a Qantas plane has caused an evacuation of Queenstown Airport in New Zealand on Sunday afternoon.

Jason Taylor wanted ownership from his halves. And he got it as he relishes the semi-final pressure in the final six weeks of the season.

Software for cracking down on shoplifters and "drive-offs" at service stations may be able to help banks fight fraud, Westpac's venture capital fund claims.

The attacking abilities of the individual Wests Tigers players proved to be the difference between the two teams in their comfortable 25-12 victory over the St George-Illawarra Dragons.

A senior government minister warns against the loose use of the word 'terrorism'.

A man has been arrested and another is seriously injured after a stabbing in regional Victoria.

It was meant to be a deluxe bird house to encourage the city's worst feathered pest - the pigeon - away from Melbourne's grand old buildings.

It's 'A Nightmare on Smith Street', a horror show of daytime drug dealing, wanton vandalism, and terrifying burglaries linked to one house in a once-quiet St Kilda neighbourhood.

GWS Giants have virtually shut the finals door on Port Adelaide and secured their first finals appearance in their fifth year.

From a life spent dodging bullets in his war-torn village in Burma, refugee Htun Htun has found himself in a more welcoming place.

The Chaser and former Fairfax columnist Mike Carlton will headline program.

Coach disappointed by defensive efforts in last-quarter fade-out, Hawks' Clarkson hails Mitchell after 'sloppy' win.