• 1 min ago

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

• 10 mins ago

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.

• 10 mins ago

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

• 18 mins ago

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

• ANALYSIS
• 28 mins ago

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

• 35 mins ago

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.

• 42 mins ago

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.

• 55 mins ago

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

• 1 hr ago

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

• 1 hr ago

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?

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Pedestrian killed in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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

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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.

• 1 hr ago

Police unsure whether missing man was on-board helicopter during crash.

• 1 hr ago

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

• 1 hr ago

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

• 1 hr ago

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

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

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.

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.

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.

• EXCLUSIVE

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