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A man has been killed after being thrown from his dirt bike in Melbourne's south-east on Friday night.

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Sydney has emerged as an economic powerhouse but rapid population growth and sweeping technological changes have left the city vulnerable to complex threats. A risk assessment has for the first time identified the eight shocks most likely to paralyse the city. Matt Wade reports

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The man suspected of setting fire to a Melbourne bank, leaving 27 people injured, is believed to be an asylum seeker who came to Australia by boat.

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President-elect Donald Trump has settled on Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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The Federal Government had consigning the mighty Murray to a "certain slow death" by reneging on a promise to increase environmental water flows, South Australia's environment minister Ian Hunter said on Friday morning.

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The Police Judicial prison on the outskirts of Phnom Penh was once a camp used by the Khmer Rouge to interrogate, torture and ultimately murder its victims.

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Myanmar's government on Friday rejected accusations by minority Rohingya Muslims that the military has killed residents fleeing the conflict in the north-west of the country.

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The father of a Melbourne woman who died in Mozambique last week says he is "absolutely certain" his daughter was murdered by suffocation.

• ANALYSIS

Bond yields are climbing because of a feeling things are about to get better.

Four men have been charged after they allegedly broke into an apartment in Sydney's inner west and attacked the resident with metal poles in the early hours of Saturday morning.

​Copper clocked its biggest weekly fall in a month as the US dollar soared to a 14-year high.

Commodity producers fell as Mario Draghi indicated the region's economy still needs stimulus.

Syrian rebels fought fiercely with pro-government forces as they tried to advance into opposition-held areas of eastern Aleppo on Friday as warplanes continued to bombard the area.

Iron ore just capped the biggest weekly drop in six months.

Malaysian police arrested the head of the pro-democracy group Bersih and several opposition leaders on Friday, widening a crackdown on government critics.

The family of a British woman arrested in Dubai for reporting her own rape has launched an online appeal, urging the public and the UK government to help negotiate her release.

The Mozambican government on Friday decreed three days of mourning after the explosion of a fuel tanker killed 56 people.

Buckingham Palace is going to get a $600 million refit to replace pipes, wires and plumbing more than half a century old.

Shelley Richardson owes her life to her 10-year-old son Heath McDonald, who on Friday was awarded a joint ACT/NSW Ambulance Service Commendation for his bravery and actions when Shelley almost drowned.

An 18-year-old cyclist from country Victoria is fighting for his life after he was struck by a four-wheel-drive in a hit-and-run in West Melbourne in the early hours of Friday morning.

Wallabies coach Michael Cheika is confident Quade Cooper will be fit to play against France despite not training this week as the Australian five-eighth prepares to undergo a late fitness test on the day of the match.

Antonio Bagnato, 26, fled after Australian organised crime figure and international drug trafficker Wayne Rodney Schneider was kidnapped and killed last year.

The outgoing Human Rights Commission president spoke at a conference in Sydney on Friday.

A former SAS trooper has broken down during a Senate inquiry as he told of his brother's attempted suicide and levelled allegations of impropriety at the Australian Defence Force.

Home doctor visits in the ACT have gone up almost 1200 per cent in just three years.

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Greg Hunt pulls Larry Marshall into line with new directive.

One murder. One attempted murder. Almost 50 death threats.

A Queensland bird expert believes he may have witnessed the start of an evolutionary change in the nesting behaviours of crows after one pair's "terrible attempt" outside his office.

Jane would often envision the futures of the refugees she worked to protect on Nauru if they were to settle in Australia.

Police are responding to reports a scuba diver has died off the Great Barrier Reef.

• ANALYSIS

Rising bond yields are placing expensive bond proxy shares under threat.

As she gears up for her 11th Cole Classic, 76-year-old Sue Wiles says she plans to keep doing the annual Manly to Shelley ocean swim "until I drop off the twig".

Two weddings and an election - it's been a big year for the Sex Party's Steven Bailey

Gai Brodtmann is baking the shine dome for a fundraising bakeoff on Sat to help mums with post-natal depression

In what may be considered a dream job by many, a Canberra mum of four is being paid $1500 by the National Library of Australia to sit and read Don Quixote.

Couples desperate to have a baby should not rely on success rates alone to help them choose an IVF clinic.

Business owners at the Westside Container Village are furious at the broken promises and poor management they say has failed the embattled site and left them fearful over their uncertain futures.

Diplomats and their dependents will no longer be immune to the road rules in Canberra, with a demerit points system being introduced under a deal struck between the ACT Government and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

• ANALYSIS

Governments and big corporations no longer have borrowed money on tap at the lowest interest rates on record.

Twenty-seven people have been injured, including six who are fighting for their lives, after a man lit a fire in a Commonwealth Bank branch in Springvale in Melbourne's south-east.

Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace says she'll be happy to take her family to Dreamworld for a ride once it's reopened.

Australian basketball champion Shane Heal has been charged with three count of fraud relating to an alleged $750,000 scam. 

Australia's biggest independent supermarket chain has gone gourmet in the battle to grow sales and boost margins.

It was a Saturday night in August at one of Sydney's most exclusive restaurants when two men from rival crime families came head-to-head.

• COMMENT

How has poor little Oz managed to keep our economy growing continuously for 25 years while, in the same period, other economies have suffered a recession or even two? We've had good insurance policies.

An unlikely alliance has been forged, with Victorian and NSW Education Ministers from the opposite sides of politics banding together to fight Turnbull government changes to school funding.

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In December 2015 James Evans hatched a plan with the National Union of Workers to go under cover to expose wage fraud at a third party fund raiser for some of the country's most well known charities.

A key adage of the corporate world is "don't go into business with a friend". Or, as American oil baron John D. Rockefeller famously put it: "A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder."

Australia's biggest department store scares off persistent short-sellers by posting its fifth consecutive quarter of same-store sales growth.