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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has won the 2016 Nobel peace prize.

Colombian wins Nobel peace prize as deal rejected

BREAKING
Nick Miller
18 mins ago

Slammed by the United Nations: the detention centre on Nauru.

UN slams Australia over Nauru regional processing centres

Michael Koziol

AIPE has gone into voluntary administration.

16,000 students in limbo as private college goes into liquidation

Eryk Bagshaw

The defaced China National Day posters at Australian National University

The 'patriotic education' of Chinese students at Australian universities

Alexander Joske and Philip Wen

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 18: Laboratory manager Marina Tretiach sold her house recently through an online marketplace ...

However you split it, first home buyer numbers don't add up

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Kath Purkis, creator of Her Fashion Box.

'Critical' warning over online Australian fashion store

Here we have the perfect example of White Male Privilege

COMMENT

Forget Blue Poles, there's a 'much more indulgent' poll to target

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

Australian investigators confirm aircraft part from MH370

'I don't care how sick you are': Trump's message to terminally ill

Virgin flight attendant thrown onto galley floor in mid-air incident

Donald Trump promoting The Celebrity Apprentice in 2015.

'God help us': Trump wants to run the nation like he runs his business

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Actor Ross Higgins as Ted Bullpitt in 1980s sitcom 'Kingswood Country'

Kingswood Country actor dies

I sat at Bec's bedside. For once, I was the one doing the talking

COMMENT

Top look: Dior's T-shirts quoted author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

The best of Paris Fashion Week: Mum jeans and T-shirt feminism

'Slight wobble' could lead to record-breaking hurricane hit

Truck rollover causes six kilometre queues

Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in the upcoming film <i>Allied</i>.

Is this the film that broke Brangelina?

An open letter to Block contestants: Don't play dirty

Budgie Nine 'very glad' to be back home after ...

8:59PM

Colombian president wins Nobel peace prize, ...

8:53PM

In the Time of Hope: Obama's America

8:16PM

Police remove a protester from the site on Euston Road in the inner-city suburb of St Peters on Friday.

Women 'picked up and dragged' from Sydney protest site

Truck rollover causes long delays on the M1 south of Sydney

Reclining seat sparks 'mid-air fight' on Jetstar flight to Sydney

Police in Maitland after a woman was shot dead in Horseshoe Bend.

Woman shot dead in home, partner charged with murder

A car fire which sparked a bushfire in Sydney's south on Friday.

High fire danger warning as car fire jumps to nearby bush

Georgina Mitchell

The greyhound ban is weighing heavily on Deputy Premier Troy Grant, left, and Premier Mike Baird.

'Contest about who runs state': Senior MPs reject spill prospects

The woman was taken to RPA hospital where she remains in intensive care.

Sydney man charged after allegedly stabbing his sister

Wet and warm weather makes perfect breeding conditions for mosquitoes.

Big wet and warm weather will bring 'bad mozzie season'

VIC
Aimee Amiga, Neelima Choahan

Mt Druitt resident and Struggle Street subject Peta Kennedy stands outside SBS as rubbish trucks blockade the ...

Struggle Street producers fined for Brisbane filming

QLD
Cameron Atfield

Baby Z died suddenly at Bandyup Women's Prison in 2011.

Coroner finds no blame for baby's prison death

The Royal Flying Doctors Service has airlifted victims of Friday's incident in Kowanyama to larger medical centres.

One dead after car crashes into funeral gathering

Republican vice presidential candidate, Mike Pence.

Running mate backtracks on Trump's proposal to ban Muslims

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall-style forum, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, in Sandown, ...

US election 2016: Trump tells terminally ill to 'get out and vote'

Breach of decorum: Fox News presenters fight over Trump

UN slams Australia's regional processing centres in Nauru

Michael Koziol

Australia's great shame is the result of policy failure, not silence

COMMENT
Michael Gordon

Navy should be authorised for freedom of navigation in South China Sea: Marles

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

Former PM Gough Whitlam and director of the Australian National Gallery James Mollison (left) in front of Jackson ...

Selling Blue Poles, a shameful abrogation of Australia's cultural history

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 05: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meets with vocational training and employment ...

Turnbull in sixth attempt to fend off royal commission

Tom McIlroy and Clancy Yeates

Attorney-General George Brandis is embroiled in a matter so esoteric we can't afford the legal advice to explain it here.

Hurricane Matthew: East coast braces as deadly storm lashes Florida

Portugal's Antonio Guterres, the next United Nations Secretary General accepts his nomination on Thursday.

It's a man's world, united or not

Daniel Flitton

The face of Adolf Hitler is projected onto a 3D canvas as part of an art installation during a rehearsal for the 'Berlin ...

Hitler was true author 1923 book hailing him, author says

Since great white sharks were declared protected in Australian waters in 1998, their numbers are anecdotally said to ...

How on earth did sharks become the new dolphin?

COMMENT
Garry Linnell

(L-R) Nick Kelly, Thomas Laslett and Edward Leaney were caught up in an international political storm over their actions.

The Budgie Nine prove that Australian manhood is in desperate need of an update

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley

Bana al-Abed, 7, is tweeting the horrors of war from Aleppo with the help of her mother Fatemah's help.

'I am very afraid I will die tonight': the girl tweeting a war while we do nothing

COMMENT
Nicholas Kristof

Former Dick Smith CEO Nick Abboud leaving the Supreme Court.

Dick Smith boss saw opportunities, others saw issues

ANALYSIS
Elizabeth Knight
1 hr ago

Melbourne, Australia - Auguest 28, 2015: Sign of Australia Post outside its office in Bourke Street, Melbourne

Australia Post gets books in order, privatisation feared

EXCLUSIVE

Concerns of a Brexit 'hard landing' have kept financial markets occupied.

Energy buoyed, gold hammered, ASX up

First home buyer numbers don't add up

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

'Critical' public warning over Aussie online fashion store

'Sad day for Australia': Ford is officially finished

British pound plunges 6pc in 'flash crash'

Bank inquiry was like speed dating gone bad

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Sydney has dropped out of the top 50 of Knight Frank's Global Residential Cities Index.

The lone Australian city in top 50 for price growth globally

Kate Burke

The hilariously frank Gumtree ad has drawn a flood of responses.

Hilarious Gumtree ad offers up 'financial black hole for rent'

An open letter to Block contestants: don't play dirty

Emotions can run high at auctions and push prices up beyond expectation.

Who is the real winner when a home goes to auction?

Jennifer Duke

Mid-century decor is the trend that won't die down.

Why won't this particular interior design style die?

Steven Surutz

"Wild young men can't be expected to act like saints when they're worshipped as gods."

Aaron Smith's tryst isn't excusable, but it's understandable

Life On Mars

Zac and Jordan Stenmark in new perfume commercial they created for Giorgio Armani

Under the influence: 19 men ruling Australian fashion right now

Men's Style

Financial literacy is useless unless you can separate fact from fiction.

Financial literacy won't help if you don't get your facts straight

Noel Whittaker

NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn at the parliamentary bank inquiry last week.

What the banking inquiry means for shareholders

Scott Phillips

This company bucked all the start-up cliches and still succeeded

Farhad Manjoo

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 14: Oprah Winfrey revs up the audience on the set during the first taping of the "Oprah ...

Five ways your body language harms your career

James Adonis

Energy talks to avoid widespread blackouts

Driver on mobile takes forever to see cop

Australia draw in Jeddah

Cardinals see off 49ers

Sydney Dance Company artistic director Rafael Bonachela.

Fairfax photos of the week - October 6, 2016

The hilarious Stan Original comedy No Activity, now streaming

Every episode of The Circus now streaming on Stan.

Activities that could make your kids smarter

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Hit the road and escape the city

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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Banksy, or someone claiming to be him, in a scene from the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop.

Will the real Banksy please stand up?

Karl Quinn

Could this be the film that broke Brangelina?

Karl Quinn

Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood.

Stones go back to basics with first studio album in a decade

The simple pleasure of seeing Todd Sampson suffer - a lot

Karl Quinn

Officials told the Associated Press that the armed assailants, who are still at large, tied Kardashian up and locked her ...

Is this the end of Keeping Up with the Kardashians?

Ebony Bowden

White people are cross at Netflix for its supposed lack of 'racial diversity' in <i>Luke Cage</i>

Quit whining, white folk. How can all-black show be racist?

COMMENT
Michael Lallo

Lady Gaga at the Maxwell Spring/Summer 2017 collection at The Russian Tea Room in New York, where she showcased songs ...

Lady Gaga launches new album with a dive bar tour

Kerrie O'Brien

Flight Facilities may not look like classical musicians but the ARIA for classical album of the year is now in their hands.

Flight Facilities' "classical" ARIA Award prompts outcry

Bernard Zuel

David Campbell and Hannah Fredericksen as Bobby Darin and troubled wife Sandra Dee in the musical <i>Dream Lover</i>.

Too much blubber weighs down Bobby Darin musical

Jason Blake

Artist Greg Semu at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation 5th October 2016 Photo by Louise Kennerley Story by Andrew ...

Greg Semu turns the body of Christ into tattooed artwork

Andrew Taylor

Artists will take over parts of Fairfield this weekend for <i>Women in Fairfield</i>.

Hidden lives of women revealed in Sydney's West

Andrew Taylor

Dior encourages feminism ... with a $700 t-shirt

Jenna Clarke

Happy kids, great life: How do some people have it all?

COMMENT
Dom Knight

Hijab protest: Chess star refuses to attend championships in Iran

This Week We're Obsessed With

A one-size-fits-all approach is careless, writes Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen.

It's time to admit we need better forms of contraception

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Kylie Minogue puts support behind same-sex marriage

Georgia Love with some of her potential suitors.

What The Bachelorette exposes about our dating culture

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

Chrissy Teigen campaigning for Hillary Clinton.

Chrissy Teigen 'not strong enough' for Twitter anymore

The breathing trick that can make you more productive

Seth Porges

Cold baths: helping or hindering your performance?

Sarah Berry

Ellie Goulding works out at Nike Sydney this week.

'I wanted to run like Forrest Gump': Ellie Goulding

Scorched orange daiquiri from Bulletin Place.

Sydney bar slips out of the world's top 10 watering holes list

Nick Miller, London

Which wines to drink with pizza

Michael Austin

Pork belly fries, Peking duck fries and other fully loaded fries at Night Noodle Markets

Sharnee Rawson

Why are people going bonkers for Bonds ... again?

Jo Hartley

'I am fuming': mum explodes after delivery driver's comment

Cat Rodie

Daughter's hilarious yet blunt get well card for dad

Ariane Beeston

Finland has been named the safest country. Pictured, Helsinki.

World's safest countries: the results will surprise you

Oliver Smith

Two American Samoans have filed complaints over claims they were weighed by Hawaiian Airlines before they boarded their ...

Weighed on a plane: Complaints as airline targets obese passengers

Oliver Smith

Just because we're laughing doesn't mean everyone else is: The 'Budgie 9' at the Malaysian Grand Prix.

The reasons why Aussies behave so badly overseas

Ben Groundwater

Sony's MDR-1000X Bluetooth wireless headphones raise the stakes when it comes to noise-cancelling.

Sony cans' next level noise cancelling

COMMENT
Adam Turner

The Rift headset from Facebook's Oculus.

Facebook, Google chase wireless VR experiences

Joshua Brustein

Dag Kittlaus and his team previously built Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010.

Samsung buys AI firm founded by Siri creators

Elizabeth Dwoskin

The best video game control pads

Kotaku

Pixel is filled with all sorts of custom tweaks not found in the standard version of Android.

Why Google's Pixel is the anti-iPhone

COMMENT
Tim Biggs

Dick Johnson with the 2016 Ford Falcon Sprint.

Driving the last Falcon with Dick

David McCowen

Is this the world's best hot hatch?

Stephen Ottley

The last Australian-made Ford Falcon rolls off the production line.

The final Ford Falcon

Stephen Ottley

Holden built over 100,000 Cruze in Australia between 2011-16.

Holden Cruze production ends

Stephen Ottley

Could Ford have been saved?

Andrew MacLean

Driven: BMW's updated i3 electric car

David Morley

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 06: Dale Finucane of the Storm looks to the referee during the round 22 NRL match between ...

The NRL are not taking concussions seriously

Peter FitzSimons

Graham Arnold speaking to media in August.

The passion of Arnie: 'There will be blow ups this year, a hundred per cent'

Andrew Webster
7 mins ago

Four more years: Greg Inglis will be a Rabbitoh until the end of 2020.

Inglis makes long-term commitment to Rabbitohs

Matt Bungard

Don't prejudge: Semi Radradra deserves to tour unless he is found guilty of a criminal offence.

Fifita and Radradra caught by a puritanical system

Malcolm Knox

The Rebecca Wilson I knew

COMMENT
Andrew Webster

The next step in the Wanderers football evolution

Dominic Bossi

Winner, winner: Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo celebrates after winning the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Ricciardo is melting facades and winning fans from the inside out

Phil Lutton

Close to Test: Leroy Houston warms up during an Australia training.

Houston close to Test debut, as Slipper dropped

Tom Decent

Taking a break: James Maloney missed a holiday but caught a well-earned break with selection in the Kangaroos squad.

Maloney wanted a break, but Australian jersey was too tempting

Adam Pengilly

Andrew Fifita: Was not selected in the Kangaroos squad for the Four Nations tournament on "character" grounds.

What if Fifita had written a letter in support of a killer?

COMMENT
Darren Kane

Plea: Melbourne Storm captain Cameron Smith wants players to start making the right off-field decisions.

Smith: 'Players should know what the wrong or right decision is'

Andrew Webster