If you are feeling worried about the fate of the world, spare a thought for the kids. Donald Trump claimed victory in the US presidential election and the headlines and social media exploded with words like "fear", "plunge", "shock", "upset", "uncertainty", "misogyny", "chaos", "revolution", "racism", "unthinkable" and "tragedy".
Recently-retired Geelong champion Jimmy Bartel is partly relieved that Gary Ablett was not granted his wish of a return to the Cats in last month's trade period.
Everbody was caught with their pants down when it came to Donald Trump's unexpected election victory, including the bookies, which are paying dearly for their collective misjudgement.
"For me, the personal views I hold – especially on equality and fairness – will not and will never be compromised," Annastacia Palaszczuk says the day after the US election.
Janie Panton Roberts, 21, was at a music event at Petersham in Sydney's inner west when her boyfriend gave her a dose of the drug MDMA in June this year.
All the latest news and live coverage as Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States.
Two exhibitions – one of still life paintings and another celebrating the natural world – at Form Gallery in Queanbeyan are a pleasure to visit, says Peter Haynes.
A man who stabbed his partner's lover to death when he found them naked in bed has been sentenced to a minimum of four and a half years in jail.
Jane Ward travels 1700 kilometres to see every home game in the West Coast Fever fixture.
There is a danger from the inability to predict Trump's actions or how other states might respond.
As the dust settles on the US election result, the influx of Americans to Australia has already begun - led by none other than a Collingwood player.
The green-eyed Afghan woman famous from the cover of National Geographic magazine three decades ago was deported from Pakistan.
WA Nationals leader Brendon Grylls has clashed with business and mining interests at a breakfast function and defended his right to push for a controversial new $5 a tonne mining tax if he holds the balance of power after the March election.
The mother of a Melbourne woman travelling in Africa has been told her daughter was murdered, according to the 20-year-old's sister.
At least seven people were killed and more than 50 injured when a tram overturned in south London, police say and later confirming the driver has been arrested.
A surge in mining stocks is leading a $45 billion recovery rally on hopes a Trump administration will provide an economic boost.
"Just continue the rescue," missing skipper's wife says.
The ATO's superannuation system, a Sydney hospital and the Tasmanian government were honoured this year.
Donald Trump's victory should be a wake up call to mainstream political parties and the global establishment, according to Cory Bernardi
Keep your shirt on. The world as we know it may be ending, but if so it won't be for a while. And maybe things won't change as much as feared.
Planning to have a caesarean before 39 weeks dramatically raises the risk of the baby going on to experience developmental delays in school, Sydney researchers say.
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has signed a three-year contract extension, ensuring the Kiwi international remains at the Roosters until at least the end of 2020.
The Queensland government has granted the controversial Carmichael mine an 11th hour exemption to new water laws that could have seen the project subjected to further legal challenges.
In the days before he was gunned down in the driveway of his home in the city's south-west, Sydney crime figure Hamad Assaad knew he was a marked man.
Two F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets have collided over the Pacific Ocean near San Diego while flying a training mission from the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar.
Bushfires are not Sydney's biggest disaster threat
Investors are focusing on Trump's promise to boost infrastructure spending as the basis to look towards resource stocks as the winners of the surprise election.
The man who flew a drone to pick up a sausage in bread from a Bunnings sausage sizzle has given a warning to anyone who might like to do the same.
Australia back-rower Boyd Cordner is excited about the prospect of taking on England's giant forwards in Sunday's crucial Four Nations encounter at London's Olympic Stadium (0100 Monday AEDT).
Most women who play in the AFL's new league will earn $8500 in their first season of football, a boost from the $5000 originally offered by the league.
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Thirteen people squatting inside a two storey terrace house were evacuated early this morning after the roof caught on fire.
Seven AFL clubs broke the league's rules in 2016, but the league found they did so unintentionally.
Donald Trump is a demagogue but not ultimately a fool. The calculated trade is to bet on optimism.
Donald Trump's journey to victory in the US presidential election prompted the biggest rally in five months for a Chinese stock that sounds like "Trump Wins Big" to Mandarin speakers. "Aunt Hillary" fell.
Most new Republican administrations are filled with experienced hands from a previous government - that's not likely with Donald Trump. He's likely to bring in fellow billionaires and possibly his children.
Donald Trump's stunning victory is already creating winners and losers in markets and governments around the world, from miners in America's Appalachian Mountains heartened by his devotion to coal, to Mexican peso traders stunned by the sell-off.
Trump supporters at the university election party were chanting: "grab her by the pussy".
A Trump administration could take the lid off coal and fracking regulations, begin a massive repair of US roads and bridges, rebuild defence, repeal the Dodd-Frank financial reform act and kill Obamacare.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivered her Wednesday morning concession speech in an ensemble so symbolic and so perfectly framed in the TV screen that her message was loud and clear even if you couldn't find the volume knob.
While Conor McGregor will be chasing history at UFC 205, reigning lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez, the man almost nobody is talking about, has a history of catching it.
Police have revealed CCTV footage revealing the moment a young man was "coward punched" in Civic, which allegedly knocked him out and forced him to undergo emergency surgery.
England are set to spring a selection surprise for this weekend's autumn opener against South Africa by naming Elliot Daly at outside centre in place of Jonathan Joseph.
The local share market is set to jump at the open as global markets settle in the wake of Donald Trump's shock election victory.
Michael Moore's thesis, which he laid out in detail and which has now proved to be spectacularly correct.
"The sun is up," Barack Obama said on Wednesday morning, a fact so simple, so obvious, but one he nevertheless clearly thought many Americans needed to be reminded of as they woke to first day of a new era.
A man and a woman have been killed after their car hit a kangaroo and flipped onto its side near the hamlet of Denver in central Victoria.
Global sharemarkets rallied on Wednesday in a dramatic turnaround from overnight losses fuelled by the upset victory of Republican Donald Trump as investors poured into sectors that appeared poised to benefit from the policies of a Trump presidency.
As Clinton shook the woman's hand, she noticed her name tag. "I know that name," she said.
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