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"This week Australia is a boy in a hood in a cell": Stan Grant speaks on Friday night.

Stan Grant on verge of tears during fiery speech

Georgina Mitchell

Kevin Rudd would have been a long-shot, even if he got a Turnbull government nomination to become head of the United Nations.

Rudd letters: PM pledged 'strong support' on UN bid

Mark Kenny

Sunrise or sunset: People walk past the Olympic rings as the sun rises on Copacabana beach.

Craven collapse: Rio debacle may be start of the end of the Olympics

COMMENT
Peter FitzSimons

David Jones food halls are set to get a makeover.

How spending entire day in DJs - happily - could soon be a reality

EXCLUSIVE
Jenna Clarke

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull holding a press conference in the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney 29th July ...

Poor omen for the term ahead that Turnbull could be bullied so easily

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

George Pell in the 1980s.

'I hate the bloke, but this surprised me': do Pell claims stack up?

Chris Johnston

Why angst about China's slowing economy is unfounded

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

'Mates always punt together': journo explains cash payments

America's woman in white gets back in the game

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Police officers shot, suspect held, in San Diego

Lindsey Bever
21m ago

'No legal effect': greyhound industry fights shutdown

Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, speaks during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in ...

Point on which Clinton must agree with Trump

Paul McGeough
1h ago

Hugh Jackman was 'the first person I thought of' for a duet, says Barbra Streisand.

Jackman's wife screams upon hearing about new duet partner

Kyle Sturgess is leading leading the 'Don't make yourself as Jedi' campaign.

'It seemed hilarious': why not to tick Jedi on upcoming Census

Sony's PlayStation 4 debuts in China on Friday with no access to music, TV shows and movies and a library of just six ...

Sony just schooled Nintendo on the value of gaming

COMMENT

Melania Trump after her now-infamous speech at the RNC in a Roksanda dress.

Why Melania's 'degree' has disappeared from the internet

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Deep-sea camera catches mysterious purple blob

"Ultimately we decided that we would build to get exactly what we wanted."

Stunning transformation of 'just-liveable dump'

Radisson RED Hotel Brussels.

Hotels

Hotels strike back against Airbnb

Federal election 2016: Final Herbert result to be known next week

1:09AM

Police officers shot, suspect held, in San Diego

1:05AM

Are class actions cactus?

12:25AM

"Ultimately we decided that we would build to get exactly what we wanted."

House transformed from 'just-liveable dump' to dream home

Amber Creswell Bell

The Vaucluse home of lawyer Michael Pitt and his wife Debra.

The second choice in Vaucluse is now a masterpiece

Antony Lawes

111 McCarrs Creek in Church Point.

Sydney's phallus-shaped home for sale

Don’t let the winter doldrums get you down – start planning your spring garden now so everything is ready to go once the ...

The August checklist for gardeners

Alone, at last!

21 things you only do at home when alone

Sheryl Aldeguer was found dead while wearing headphones, after a faulty charger sent a high current through her body.

Store that sold faulty USB charger faces $605,000 fine

Lucy Cormack

'Invalid and of no legal effect': greyhound industry fights ban

Sean Nicholls

The scientists who want your spiderwebs

Marcus Strom

The boy is loaded into an ambulance to be taken to hospital.

Boy trapped under car 'for some time' outside childcare centre

Georgina Mitchell

Sydney's Lord Mayor Clover Moore.

Clover Moore wants to reduce size of Sydney golf course

Jacob Saulwick

SMH News story by, Melanie Kembrey. Story, Caringbah tradie Zane Alchin is being sentenced at the the Downing Centre ...

Facebook troller given a 12-month good behaviour bond

Melanie Kembrey

Australians have lost more than $1 million to tax scams this year.

How iTunes gift cards are being used in tax scams

Esther Han

A teenage boy has a hood placed over his head and is strapped to a chair at the Don Dale Detention Centre in the NT

'We shook our heads in disbelief': resistance to royal commission

VicRoads signs are targeting drivers tempted by the popular Nintendo video game.

Driver slams into school while playing Pokemon Go

VIC

Hizir Ferman after being arrested in 2003

Underworld figure dead after prison guard attack

VIC

The fin seen from the helmet camera worn by Ian Watkins off Albany.

'Emergency, emergency': Kayaker's shark fright

WA

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been given a face-saver or a hospital handpass, depending on how you spin it.

Turnbull's wings clipped before he even gets airborne

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Rudd snubbed by Turnbull: no job, no meeting

Mark Kenny

Racist taunts keep Nauru refugees from school

Nicole Hasham

SMH. Still Portraits of federal labor Senator Penny Wong as part of the Politicains for the Instagram Fairfax ...

Wong warns Australia not to go it alone

Daniel Flitton

Kylie Sturgess is leading the 'Don't make yourself as Jedi' campaign.

Atheists urge: don't put Jedi as census religion

Matthew Knott

Kevin Rudd's UN bid is over.

Roughshod rules in PM's decision to block Rudd

Analysis

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ignored us over the NT royal commission, say Aboriginal groups.

Aboriginal groups push back against royal commission

Hillary Clinton speaks on the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Hillary Clinton asks America to stand by its woman

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Ambulances containing the dead bodies of four prisoners executed in Indonesia return from Nusakambangan where they were ...

Fate unclear on spared death row 10

Jewel Topsfield

Chol Wechtuor holds her son Dakhoa, whose name translates as "destruction of the world", inside the United Nations-run ...

'We just survive': even birth casts a shadow in South Sudan's camps

Colin Cosier

A Parsi priest reverently touches the statues, believed to be of ancestors, outside a Fire Temple in Mumbai, India.

Census shows a people heading for extinction

Amrit Dhillon

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday.

Malcolm Turnbull is in fear of his own party

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

The Pokemon Go game launched on July 6 has gripped the world.

How Pokemon Go has let me enter my son's world

COMMENT
Julia Baird

Archibald Prize finalist Troy, by Mark Horton, which features NSW Deputy Premier Troy Grant.

What these two portraits reveal about our world view

COMMENT
Elizabeth Farrelly

The High Court dismissed an appeal from ANZ Bank customers on Wednesday, ending a class action that has been running for ...

After ANZ bank fee case, are class actions cactus?

Sarah Danckert
1h ago

China's official growth rate is 6.9 per cent but an increasing number of economic commentators from outside the country ...

China will keep doing its own thing

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Investors will be looking for value among a string of tight earnings, clipped dividends and conservative outlooks this ...

Hunt for value amid tight earnings

1h ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull looks at real estate through virtual reality goggles.

Four mega trends set to disrupt the economy

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

ASIC savages online search firm's multibillion-dollar claims

Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker
1h ago

Supercomputers deliver $665m savings in BHP hunt for oil

Sony just schooled Nintendo on the value of gaming

COMMENT

How the IMF blew Greece's debt crisis

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Qantas considered a similar bar/lounge for its Airbus A380s but couldn’t justify the space required.

What it used to be like to fly the boozy skies

Business Class
David Flynn
1h ago

Better known as a high-end sipping spirit, cognac is finding new fans as a cocktail staple.

Cognac's back, and very much in the modern mix

Jane Rocca

Martin Flood is concerned that ASX rule changes will make it harder for him to access sharemarket floats.

Small investors to be locked out of sharemarket floats

John Collett

Personal loans are cheaper than credit cards.

The cheaper debt product Aussies forgot. Hint: it's not plastic

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Men who take a primary carer role feel their careers stagnate, as has been observed in women's careers in previous ...

How being a carer affects your career

James Adonis

"All I want viewers to do is smile at the end of the show" – Ricardo Goncalves of Small Business Secrets with Whitney ...

Why migrants are so good at small business

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

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Katy Perry's roaring DNC performance

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Karl Stefanovic says sorry

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Videobombing Georgia still number one

A robber tries to enter a pub at Surfers Paradise

Dumb robber: worst entry ever

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The early years of Mary, Queen of Scots. Reign - Season 1

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Ryan Reynolds stars in this off the wall comedy

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Six unforgettable retirement adventures

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How to thrive in the digital disruption

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Woody Allen ''was famous in a very different time'', Kristen Stewart points out. "We have had entirely different ...

Kristen Stewart on fame & fashion

Stephanie Bunbury

Jared Leto as the Joker in Suicide Squad.

Suicide Squad is this generation's Dirty Dozen, says Margot Robbie

Jenny Cooney Carrillo

Jimmy Barnes

What it took for Jimmy Barnes to confront his shocking past

Toby Creswell

Stefanovic said he was educating himself and called on <i>Today</i> viewers to do the same.

'I was ignorant': Karl Stefanovic apologises for transgender slur

Ebony Bowden

Delta Goodrem is cast as a reading recovery teacher in <i>House Husbands</I>.

Delta Goodrem makes acting comeback in House Husbands

Linda Morris

Lenny Kravitz performs during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Democrats beat Republicans in entertainment battle

Ebony Bowden

Hugh Jackman was 'the first person I thought of' for a duet, says Barbra Streisand.

Streisand duets with Jackman, and makes his wife scream

Bernard Zuel

Tony Delroy will hang up his headphones in September.

ABC Nightlife presenter Tony Delroy to hang up his headphones

Emily Woods

Founder of Byron Writers Festival Chris Hanley's "genius" was to focus on Australian writers.

'It's weird having a real estate agent running a writers' festival'

Susan Wyndham

Actors John Gaden and Heather Mitchell.

Hansard Monologues brings Parliament's funniest speeches to life

Elissa Blake

Protest graffiti outside the Sydney College of the Arts. SCA students are unhappy about the decision to close the arts ...

University of Sydney terminates art school merger with UNSW

Andrew Taylor

Actresses Lena Dunham (left) and America Ferrera (right) had plenty to say to Donald Trump at the Democratic National ...

The best celebrity quotes from the 2016 Democratic National Convention

Mary Ward

Supportive spouse: Kanye West encourages wife Kim Kardashian to pose naked.

Kardashian nude 'a modern day Renaissance painting' says West

Amy Croffey

Mila Kunis managed to cut costs after her husband spent a reported $345,000 on her engagement ring.

Mila Kunis' wedding ring cost just $120

Mary Ward

When Tinder is dead, will we still 'swipe right?'

When Tinder is dead, will we still 'swipe right'?

Abby Ohlheiser

THE GOOD: Seen here at the opening of David Jones in Wellington on Wednesday night, model and DJs ambassador Jessica ...

Best & worst dressed celebrities of the week

Stocksy.

Caught with porn at work? Maybe you have UPV

Ben Pobjie

"I've found myself forcing my love life into a Manic Pixie Dream Girl narrative too many times."

I was 13 the first time I wanted to save a boy. If only I stopped there

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Introverts need quiet and calm.

The joy and anxiety of being an introvert

Rory (Alexis Bledel) and Lorelai (Lauren Graham) appear in the first trailer for the 'Gilmore Girls' reboot.

Amy Schumer and John Oliver both responded to Gilmore Girls trailer

What do you love to do that you are really good at and can be paid for?

The 11 questions to ask yourself when you feel uninspired

Refreshing Golden Ginger Beer with Lime and Mint

It's worth making the switch for this wellness trend

Sarah Berry

Kelsey Wells

Fitness blogger shows why we should throw away the scales

Searching for best composition in a forest at sunset. Stock photo.

For a healthy mind, try a different way of thinking

Evelyn Lewin

The go-to dish: sheftalia caul-wrapped sausage with lemon and pita.

Simple, delicious cooking at the inner west's Bazaari

Terry Durack

Woah Nelly donuts, for quick bites, made by Janell Smith.

Australia's best doughnuts

Lauren Sams

Roast lamb with tumeric potatoes and cauliflower

Good Food, delivered to your door. No shopping required

Baby Phoebe

Mum welcomes baby 19 - doesn't rule out number 20

Cristina Criddle

Tawny Nelson with three of her four kids.

Elderly man rescues single mum and four kids from nightmare situation

Karen Walsh stages photo shoots to help her get through her cancer treatment.

Mum counts down chemo treatments with funny, inspiring photos

Ariane Beeston

Qantas still flies 747 jumbo jets on several routes, but Boeing may stop making them after nearly 50 years.

Goodbye, jumbo? Boeing may stop making iconic 747s

Jerusalem at dusk, with armenian catholic church "Our Lady of the Spasm" and the the Dome of the Rock in the back

The 10 weird capital cities you (probably) didn't know about

David Whitley

The Cloud Gate, also called The Bean, was created by sculptor Anish Kapoor.

Travel quiz: In which US city will you find this famous sculpture?

Quiz
Mal Chenu

Was Marina on drugs? Had she been kidnapped? Both? On the internet it's hard to tell.

The crazy conspiracies of #SaveMarinaJoyce

Henry Cooke

Watch out for telephone scammers demanding you pay your tax bill using gift cards.

ATO never asks you to pay with iTunes cards

COMMENT
Adam Turner

Xperia X Performance

Xperia X Performance review: a comfy, quiet powerhouse

Tim Biggs

Pokemon Go players in Peg Paterson Park, Rhodes.

Pokemon GO still making mess of Rhodes

Kotaku

LastPass remembers all your passwords so you can use a different one with each online service.

Major flaw in popular password manager

Andrea Peterson

The all-new Mazda CX-9 has arrived with much fanfare, but can it topple the segment benchmarks the Kia Sorento, Toyota ...

Which is the best seven-seat SUV?

David McCowen

2016 Mercedes-Benz E-Class.

The car that's smarter than an A380 reviewed

Andrew MacLean

Updated 2016 Mazda3 Maxx.

New Mazda3 reviewed

David McCowen

2016 Suzuki Baleno.

Suzuki's new Corolla rival reveiwed

Stephen Ottley

Volkswagen's Golf GTI 40 Years has proved popular with traditional car enthusasts.

VW buyers snap up manual Golf GTI

David McCowen

Renault Koleos.

New Renault Koleos prices revealed

Dom Tripolone

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 29: David Klemmer of the Bulldogs is tackled by the Dragons defence during the round 21 NRL ...

Bulldogs edge past spirited Dragons

Mitch Jennings

"I suspect if this goes on for too long we may lose the coach. And if we lose the coach we lose the players."

Sacked Eels signed long-term stadium switch

Chris Barrett

Umpires use a light meter at Kandy.

Let there be light, say Aussies, as run chase awaits

Jon Pierik

Peter FitzSimons photographed at Fairfax Studio, ODI on March 13, 2012. SHD photo by Marco Del Grande

The Rio debacle may be start of the end of the Olympics

COMMENT
Peter FitzSimons

Main man: Waratahs head coach Daryl Gibson.

ARU look across the ditch to avert 'crisis'

Georgina Robinson

"To go to these cities, to play in front of these packed stadiums, it's an impressive lifestyle choice. I wouldn't swap ...

How sevens rugby earned its stripes

Andrew Webster

Mobbed: Tigers hooker Robbie Farah is cheered as he walks off Leichhardt Oval on Saturday.

Farah escapes sanction for criticism of Taylor

Chris Barrett

Sacrifice: Matt Giteau may lose up to two months' salary in order to play for the Wallabies.

ARU could go into bat for Giteau over Toulon pay dispute

Georgina Robinson

Yet to announce his playing future: Kieran Foran.

Schubert may exit as Eels release Foran

Chris Barrett

Heavenly perspective: Wests Tigers back-rower Josh Aloiai has a clear idea about the future.

It's league they play in heaven: Tigers rookie

Adrian Proszenko

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 24: Nathan Cleary of the Panthers breaks away to score a try during the round 16 NRL match ...

Why kid wearing No.7 was born in wrong era

Adam Pengilly

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