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Medals	G	S	B	Total
1. USA	40	36	35	111
2. GBR	26	22	15	63
3. CHN	24	18	26	68
9. AUS	8	11	10	29
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Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump, during the final day of the Republican National Convention in ...

The voters who may hold the key to a Trump victory

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is expected to announce the same sex marriage vote will be delayed until 2017.

Same-sex marriage vote postponed as PM breaks pledge

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A night to forget: At times the Wallabies looked outnumbered on the field in Sydney.

Wallabies slump to fifth straight loss as scandal looms large

ANALYSIS
Georgina Robinson

Australian woman arrested in Bali after police officer was found 'bashed to death with a beer bottle' on Kuta Beach was ...

'She misses her sons': Byron Bay woman charged over Bali killing

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No mercy: Israel Dagg puts Will Genia in a headlock.

New low for Wallabies after massive Bledisloe defeat

CR3F67 Family panning gold in the polluted Jaba river flowing from Panguna copper mine. Autonomous Region of ...

Mining giant leaves behind 'shameful, evil' billion-dollar mess

Daniel Flitton

The 'Ticketgate' scandal engulfing the Australian Olympic team

Greg Baum

'Now we've walked into another firestorm': community's new threat

Peter Hannam

Teen stabbed in unit block brawl

Wallabies face nervous wait after horror run of injuries

Tom Decent

Angry white men talk tough but fight with hypocrisy

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

Gold medalist Chloe Esposito of Australia poses on the podium during the medal ceremony for the Women's Modern ...

Rio 2016: Sport by sport we rate the Aussies

Shocker: The Wallabies during their thrashing at the hands of the All Blacks in the first Bledisloe Cup match.

Player ratings: How the Wallabies fared in the first Test

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Australia's rich food and lolly history, as seen in 150-year-old Nestle archives.

The changing price of your favourite lollies over 25 years

Patrick and Mel Jacob at their Blue Mountains home this month: “I’d fallen head over heels in love with his gentleness,” ...

Life in prison: what's it really like doing time?

Five brilliant ways to use up your ripe bananas

Aussie athletes made a 'mistake'

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 02: Orlando Bloom attends "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" Costume Institute Gala ...

COMMENT

It seems we can't get enough of naked celebrities

SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES - AUGUST 20: The winning bidders at the property auction at 12 Silver Street Marrickville on ...

Secret weapon gives Marrickville a new price record

Turkey wedding explosion: 22 dead and more than ...

9:51AM

Revamp plan to unlock Sydney's oldest buildings

9:33AM

Australian charged over death of Bali police ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 20: Max Esposito of Australia during the Fencing round of Modern Pentathlon on Day 15 of ...

Max Esposito just seconds from bronze

Palmer makes statement to Brazilian police

Samantha Lane

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 20: Rebecca Henderson of Australia races during the Women's Cross-Country Mountain Bike ...

Agony for Australian cross-country cyclist

Archer Alec Potts walks to the judge's chambers after hours of questioning by police.

Australian athletes fined after detention by Brazilian police

Phil Lutton and Chris Barrett

Games debutant wins 10-metre platform

Brenda Goh

Chloe Esposito: the gold standard

Greg Baum

Medals before money as Park wins golf gold

Malcolm Knox

US women claim sixth straight basketball gold

Doug Feinberg

The Sirius public housing building will not be heritage listed

Fresh bid to save Sydney's brutalist building Sirius

End of prestige drought for Whale Beach as market heats up

40 Edith Street, St Peters: A neutral colour scheme and wonderful timber work provide the perfect backdrop for a host of ...

St Peters – Motorway fears ebb and popularity climbs

Lessons learnt from painting an entire house

Top Property

Dawn Murray and David Stenhouse bought the property at 49 Gipps Street, Birchgrove.

Sydney records strongest ever August auction day

The Hyde Park Barracks on Macquarie Street, with buildings to be demolished at rear.

Revamp plan to unlock Sydney's oldest buildings

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Parent warns of private schools 'double-dipping' over fees

Kelsey Munro

Coal battle: 'Now we've walked into another firestorm'

Peter Hannam

Lee Clark was a mid-level drug dealer while working as a personal trainer at Fitness First.

Bondi Fitness First trainer gets five years for drug dealing racket

Emma Partridge

Sabrina Bremer's burned body was found in Dulguigan, in far north NSW, on Thursday.

'Has anyone seen my mum?': Plea before horrific discovery

Ava Benny-Morrison

"It's about finding where there might be weaknesses": Adrian Piccoli.

'Make schools nervous': Radical powers for education authority

Kelsey Munro

Greens MP David Shoebridge says the party's candidates will publish donations details before the September council election.

Greens issue donations challenge to other parties

Sean Nicholls

Oshin Kiszko's mother Angela says she wants him to have peace, love and fun times while he is still physically able to.

More legal strife for parents of dying boy as doctors return to court

WA
Adrian Beattie

The location of an earthquake that struck off Bowen early on Friday morning.

Earthquake: aftershocks will be felt for 'weeks'

Rebels bikies in shopping centre brawl avoid jail time

CCTV images appear to show a teenager with ankle-cuffs being held down at the Townsville centre.

D'Ath orders review as reports allege youth detention abuse

The facilities at the Manus Island Regional Processing Facility has cost Australia $2 billion.

Manus Island bill $2b and counting – $1m for each detainee

Adam Gartrell

Turnbull government to delay same-sex marriage plebiscite until February

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Greens use Don Dale prisoner abuse as a fundraising tool

Adam Gartrell

Senator David Leyonhjelm is challenging an article published by Fairfax.

Angry white men talk tough but fight with hypocrisy

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

Malcolm Turnbull and Colin Barnett on Barrow Island on Monday for a tour of the LNG project.

Treasury issued warning on Turnbull's GST floor plan

Labor frontbencher Sam Dastyari is going after banks and utility companies charging for paper bills they used to send ...

Labor takes aim at banks and power companies

PM defends giving money to a beggar

The Buk M2 anti-aircraft missile system.

Russia's muscle-flexing hints at Moscow's woes

ANALYSIS
Nick Miller

31-year-old Shaun "Shizz" Miller (left) and in the mask he was arrested in (right).

Drug dealer tries to evade police disguised as elderly man

Visitors mingle along the Landwehrkanal in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin on August 23, 2015 in Berlin, Germany.

Germany, like France, rethinks place of Islamic veils in society

The Night Tube comes alive in London

Nick Miller

Study findings suggest employers need to actively assist their workers to combat job stress.

Too much work really can hurt you

COMMENT
Matt Wade

As mugging is an enterprise into which many individuals have poured a lot of energy and dedication in Rio. Why not ...

Future Olympics need more superfreaks, muggers and embarrassing names

COMMENT
Annabel Crabb

Angry white men talk tough but fight with hypocrisy

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

Commodities surged the most in the first half since the 2008 financial crisis as China's economy stabilised and policy ...

Commodities are taking off again, and this time it's not China

David Stringer

Australia's lolly history is preserved the Nestle archives.

How the price and size of some of our favourite lollies have changed

Esther Han

President Barack Obama waves from the top of the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Wednesday, ...

Obama years - a golden time for investors

ANALYSIS
Jeff Sommer

Pressure has intensified for a royal commission into the banks following US legal action over their handling of bank ...

'Illicit profits' fuels calls for royal commission

Adele Ferguson

Coles knew more than half its workers were underpaid

EXCLUSIVE

Exec excess - reining in big bonuses

Georgia Wilkins and Ruth Williams

Big bank 'rips off own workers' to maximise profit, lawsuit says

Hugh Son and Andrew Harris

Zuckerberg sells $125m Facebook shares for philanthropy

Sarah Frier

Marion Wine Bar by IF Architecture, Fitzroy, Victoria.

Hot shots: 17 of our most ridiculously good looking bars

Fine Drinks
Stephen Lacey

Italian Roberto Malizia's blog <i>This Is Malice</i> has picked up over 15,000 followers.

The overseas 'style influencers' finding success in Australia

Men's Style

Laboratory manager Marina Tretiach sold her house recently through an online marketplace, bypassing the services of a ...

How to be your own real estate agent and save thousands

John Collett

The main point of superannuation as an investment vehicle is it's tax effective.

Dumping a windfall into super is a lazy strategy and not the best one

Noel Whittaker

Sponsoring the Olympics is big business. Simone Biles is now considered the greatest female gymnast in the world.

Sports sponsorship: Why it's a big deal

James Adonis

An advertised image of the "sharelarium".

The business you should never run from your garage

All Black crush Wallabies

Rio 2016: Athletes fined over falsified documents

Rio 2016: Australian athletes made a 'mistake'

All Blacks' hotel room 'bugged'

Young Nepalese Hindu priests bathe as a part of holy rituals during the Janai Purnima festival at Pashupatinath temple ...

World of photos - August 21, 2016

Season 1 & 2 of UnREAL, now streaming.

Spaced - starring Simon Pegg.

The Cate Blanchett monologues at AGNSW

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Influential artist now at AGNSW

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Is this the perfect oven?

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The 11 best TV shows to watch after the Olympics

Paul Kalina

The main difference between the Australian and US version of Survivor is that it is "populated with 24 Aussies".

'Cut-throat but with a smile': how Australians play Survivor

Amy Croffey

The Block's resident pranksters, Ben Toyne and Andy Sutherland.

Meet The Block's greenest ever contestants

Annabel Ross

Bruce McAvaney on duty at the Rio Olympics.

Will Seven's $A170 million Olympics investment pay off?

Michael Idato

Tom Hiddleston as the cool observer Laing with the pregnant Helen (Elisabeth Moss), who is from the lower floors, in ...

High-Rise review: Chaos mixed with black humour

Craig Mathieson

Frank Ocean's latest release deserves to be played and played again.

Frank Ocean review: new release Endless is well worth the wait

Bernard Zuel

Toby Kebbell plays Messala Severus (back) and Jack Huston plays Judah Ben-Hur in <i>Ben-Hur</i>.

Epic fail: movie about arms dealers is bigger than Ben-Hur

Jacqui Taffel

English comedian and talk show host Alan Carr having lunch at Il Solito Posto in Melbourne's CBD.

Chatty Man Alan Carr tells why Rihanna is his favourite guest

Kylie Northover

Cirque du Soleil in dress rehearsal. Photo: Carlos M?ller (Pic supplied 2016)

Cirque du Soleil's Kooza sends in the clowns

Bridget McManus

'Stop the show': a rough landing for Aladdin's magic carpet

Peter Munro

Yuko Yamomoto, Hitomi Kurosawa, Yukio Ota players from the Koto Ensemble and Shiho Sparkle Hooper the Hula Hoop ...

Sydney's Cherry Blossom Festival picks a blooming good time

Julie Power

If we can change our exercise and diet habits, can we make over our dating lives?

What I learned about love after going on 13 blind dates

Madeleine Dore

Styling by Penny McCarthy. Hair by Julianne McGuigan. Make-up by Nadine Monley. Noni wears dress by Akira

Noni Hazlehurst on Aussie TV: 'We don't see anything that's real'

SHD NEWS. Fashion designer Aheda Zanetti and her "Burquini" modeled by Farrah Zbib. Miss Zanetti is on the first all ...

Non-Muslims flock to buy burkinis following French ban

The Duchess of Cambridge knows the power of half-up, half-down hair.

How to do Kate Middleton's favourite half-up hairstyle

Keira Maguire's style on The Bachelor has captivated the nation.

The Bachelor Australia is the fashion magazine we all need

Jenna Clarke

Peter Overton remains the city's most popular newsreader.

White boys' club still rates in battle of nightly bulletin

Andrew Hornery

Jules Allen with her family. The former <em>MasterChef</em> contestant has fostered 31 children.

The food bringing foster families together

Mary Ward

Veggies and protein: a Pete Evans paleo offering.

Why you might want to re-think that 'caveman' diet

Rebecca Gredley

Five nourishing dishes a chef cooks at home

Guy Turland

Why pushups are your new favourite exercise

Benjamen Judd

Is jackfruit the new vegan superfood?

Lindy Alexander

Moist but plenty of crackling: Neil Perry's roast pork with mustard cream.

Weekly meal planner: from healthy ocean trout to a delicious roast

The grilled pork chop at Momofuku Seiobo in Sydney.

Here are the best bar food finalists for The Good Food Guide Awards

Myffy Rigby and Callan Boys

10 things you might not know about oysters

Callan Boys

When she vanished, he called police. Now he's charged with murder

Katie Mettler

Danny Fitzgerald, 13, took his own life after relentless bullying.

Parents share bullied son's heartbreaking suicide note

Ariane Beeston

Mum pens hilarious letter to husband as she is leaving for a girls weekend away.

Mum leaves hilarious note for dad before leaving for the weekend

Potala palace in Lhasa, Tibet Story by Ute Junker on high altitude cities
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Cities with altitude: The world's best cities on mountains

Ute Junker

Some people should charter a flight rather than fly with other passengers.

Traveller letters: Want to be treated like the only person on the plane?

Japan Airlines Co's new employees pose for photographs in front of a JAL aircraft during an initiation ceremony at the ...

What gives this airline's premium economy class an edge

Devices that include the new kind of battery could go for twice as long without needing to be plugged in.

These batteries could double your phone's life

Tim Biggs

Rather than go to war with streaming giants like Netflix and Apple Music, Telstra is using them to win over mobile customers.

Telstra aims to sway Netflix fans

COMMENT
Adam Turner

New technology could help minimise train delays by identifying faults in overhead wires.

The internet of things system helping the trains run on time

Andrew Colley

Pokemon GO players break gyms with eggs

Kotaku

Twitter's filter has been available to users with a blue tick for more than a year.

Twitter finally gives 'quality filter' to all

Caitlin Dewey

Father's Day Gift Guide

Dom Tripolone

Volkswagen Australia will boycott the AAA's Australia's Best Cars awards.

Volkswagen takes aim at car clubs

David McCowen

The new Holden Colorado LTZ is a significant improvement on its predecessor.

New Holden Colorado reviewed

David McCowen

More power for BMW 2-Series

Dom Tripolone

McLaren reveals 570GT concept

Dom Tripolone

Volkswagen is set to introduce a baby SUV based on the T-Cross concept.

VW prepares SUV onslaught

David McCowen

How the Wallabies fared in the first Test

Georgina Robinson
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Miserable outing: Matt Giteau hobbled out of ANZ on crutches.

Cheika finds few positives as casualty ward bursts at the edges

Tom Decent

The godfather: Kieran Foran and Don Mackinnon.

Foran realises it's Hayson or league

Danny Weidler

Betts targeted by Port supporter with racial vilification

AAP with Ashley Porter
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Manchester City's Sergio Aguero scores his side's first goal – from the penalty spot – against Stoke on Saturday.

Burnley stun Liverpool, while City smash Stoke

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Wallabies slump to new low as scandal looms

ANALYSIS
Georgina Robinson

Former Wests Tigers rugby league forward Matthew Lodge narrowly escaped a 25-year jail sentence in the US.

Lodge's first steps on long road back

Adrian Proszenko

Star turn: Isaac Heeney celebrates a goal with Lance Franklin and Gary Rohan.

Swans edge North in thriller to move top

Andrew Wu

Rough handling: Jarryd Hayne is taken down.

Hayne off with a head knock as Titans win

Robert Dillon

Impressive haul: Sullies Vunivalu scores in the corner.

Vunivalu scores four as Storm thrash Manly

Dominic Bossi

A special talent: Ken Thornett fends off a South Sydney defender at the Sydney Cricket Ground during his reign.

Original Eels entertainer stirred my love of game

COMMENT
Phil Gould