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As investigations continue into the horrific events that injured more than two dozen people in Springvale's Commonwealth Bank, a picture has begun to emerge of the man suspected of the arson attack.

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A new $83,000 luggage lift installed in the Prime Minister's official residence was first proposed under Tony Abbott's government.

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Small crowds and paying out the remainder of Justin ​Leppitsch's contract contributed to Brisbane's $1.78 million loss this year.

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A man is in a critical condition in hospital after being found in a pool of his own blood in Coolbellup.

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The man who allegedly set fire to a Commonwealth Bank branch in Springvale on Friday morning is an asylum seeker from Myanmar, according to federal government sources.

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There is dangerous talk these days by those who have the ear of some at the highest levels of government.

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When Junior Dean stepped out of the Springvale post office and saw severely burnt, screaming people running out from the bank across the road, he didn't hesitate.

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Dressed for a cool night on a warm Dunsborough beach, celebrity chef and domestic goddess Nigella Lawson opened this year's Margaret River Gourmet Escape with fellow foodies including Ashley Palmer-Watts from Dinner by Heston.

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As 10,000 punters descend on Melbourne CBD early Sunday morning, mother nature will roll out the red carpet for the sixth Sunday Age City2Sea.

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A man has been charged after he allegedly threw two garbage bins at his ex-partner's car and attempted to break into a house where she and three children had locked themselves inside.

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The New York attorney general announced the settlement Friday, 10 days before a jury was set to hear one of the cases.

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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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Fake news, usually with outrageous clickbait headlines, is warping our sense of what is real and what isn't.

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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.

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Whether they are appalled or delighted by the prospect, most observers agree the same forces behind Brexit and Trump are at work in Europe.

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A man has been found dead in Coolbellup. 

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"Manny the Cow", whose escape from a cattle ship in Fremantle made headlines around the world, is to be remembered at a candlelit vigil in Fremantle.

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

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It seemed like a good idea to go to the huge tattoo show and try and meet some people with an eye for the unusual.

Harley Bennell will wear his lucky number 13 in 2017, as he attempts to restart his football career.

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.

"As soon as my cast was off, I wanted to go to Fiji and I just rocked up and helped wherever I could."

Like the thousands of waterbirds he tracks every year, Professor Richard Kingsford migrates annually to NSW's Macquarie Marshes to witness a "great sight of nature: tens of thousands of waterbirds breeding in wetlands".

Sentencing in cases of sexual abuse committed "without force, threat or trick" before this weekend, would be indefinitely postponed if the perpetrator marries the victim.

Questions are being asked about Ivanka Trump's presence in her father's first meeting with a foreign leader.

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A passer-by called police on Friday night after finding a woman standing alone at Greenbank with a severed finger.

Nearly 30 people have been injured, six seriously burnt, in a fire at the Commonwealth Bank in Springvale, in Melbourne's south-east.

Police have caught a woman driving under the influence of of the drug "ice" with a toddler and a baby in the car.

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There have been hundreds of hate crimes since election night, and there are fears the pain is only just beginning.

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

Wondering how to invest in a year marked by US president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, China's attempts to keep growth both high and sustainable, and the continued rise of populism in Europe?

Pedestrian killed in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The three major indexes closed higher for the second week on Friday, but investors are still waiting for positive signs from a Trump agenda.

Japanese advertising giant Dentsu is considering dropping a principle set by a former president encouraging staff to stick to a goal even to the point of death after a 24-year-old employee committed suicide because of overwork.

The second of a three-part series ahead of next week's AFL national draft.

The Catholic Church has pledged to double potential compensation payments for child sex abuse survivors to $150,000

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

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

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.

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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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.