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Former Fairfax Media photographer Andrew Quilty has been awarded the Gold Walkley award for excellence in Australian journalism, for a striking photograph taken in the aftermath of a US airstrike in Afghanistan.

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Fidel Castro's death on November 25 at the age of 90 has forced Cubans to think about what kind of future they want for their island.

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Thousands gather in Jakarta for the latest rally demanding the city's Chinese Christian governor be jailed for his alleged insult to the Koran.

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A man is in hospital after being stabbed in Sydney's northern beaches.

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If President-elect Donald Trump needs a lesson on the difficulty of reviving US manufacturing, he need look only as far as his daughter's closet.

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Birthdays. Love them or hate them they come around each year.

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An 18-year-old man has turned himself in to police, after a man was shot dead on the Gold Coast.

French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday he would not seek a second term in office in the presidential election in 2017.

A woman who dealt illegal drugs while working for a Perth organisation that aims to help substance abusers has been jailed for three years and three months.

Parents are up in arms after a proposal to cut part of the oval to make way for new classrooms was announced at Inglewood primary school.

• ANALYSIS

Voters appear to be receptive to the Premier's claim that he is listening to their concerns

Hundreds of high-tech high-skilled jobs in fast-growing businesses are going begging in Sydney because the city has become too boring and expensive, leading entrepreneurs say. 

The proportion of IT professionals from India granted 457 visas and put on base salaries of $53,900 or less has tripled under the Coalition government.

Glenn Murcutt's latest building has been lauded as a groundbreaking creation with the potential to transform relations between Muslim and non-Muslim Australians.

The NSW government has sold a historic Sydney property to one of Sydney's most expensive private schools, despite public school enrolments surging in the area over the past four years.

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US President-election Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp" in Washington. But the old lines of Washington power, financial and political, are all to clear in his latest appointments

• EXCLUSIVE

A $285 million plan will put millions of previously unseen treasures on display.

A 24-year-old learner driver was caught allegedly driving unaccompanied at 140km/h, double the speed limit, in Melbourne's west on Friday afternoon.

"It's not that hard to not be a douchebag and we don't think our standards are too high with that."

Dozens of people were left hot under the collar on Friday afternoon after a train from Sydney broke down in the upper Hunter, leaving its passengers stranded for hours in the summer heat.

Five people were taken to hospital, and the Queensland Ambulance Service had another seven call outs in the second day of high temperatures for the state.

You probably won't guess who owns the vintage Vespa.

"A member of the public who had received the alert noticed the vehicle and as per the alert message they phoned 000 and advised police," police spokesperson Samuel Dinnison said.

Joseph was found safe and sound in the back of the Subaru Impreza, which had been left abandoned on Gloucester Street in East Victoria Park.

The company behind the controversial Jupiter wind farm has taken another swing at getting the green light to build 88 wind turbines near Canberra, a year after NSW officials sent them back to the drawing board.

A retired carpenter from Harrison has gone above and beyond to try to draw attention to a potentially lethal situation in his neighbourhood.

Carlton youngster Jack Silvagni has inherited the famous No.1 jumper that both his champion grandfather Serge and father Stephen wore with distinction.

Commuters have taken to social media to express their unhappiness over a Myki price rice that will see two-hour trips cost more than $4.

Screenshots of messages from a suspicious boyfriend and a penis picture were taken into consideration when extending a Queensland teacher's suspension.

Question: How do you predict whether a tsunami will occur after an earthquake?

Mark Forbes, editor-in-chief of The Age, has been stood down pending the outcome of an investigation that is underway.

Mums with an entrepreneurial bent have banded together to open a new business at the former Wanniassa newsagency, the space otherwise left vacant for more than two years.

Why retail veteran Solomon Lew wants cheaper penalty rates and to charge shoppers GST on small overseas purchases.

The Friends of the Birth Centres in Canberra have released their own fundraising calendar.

A Canberra man who police locked up for 24 hours due to a misunderstanding has successfully sued the ACT government for wrongful imprisonment. 

ACCC chairman Rod Sims has poked holes in a major petrol retailer's rationale for higher ACT fuel prices.

"Barnaby gave me a big cuddle," says Burke's Backyard host.

• EXCLUSIVE

Despite a horror few months, the Coalition has regained the lead over Labor

Human rights advocates are taking the state government to the Supreme Court in a bid to remove the remaining 15 or so teenagers from the maximum security Barwon prison.

• COMMENT

Sitting at home watching Netflix or playing on home electronic gadgets, eating delivered takeout food, and getting fatter? You're not alone.

Exasperated nurses have called for a independent review of work health and safety practices at Canberra Hospital, concerned staff shortages and workplace fatigue is putting patients' safety at risk.

Hepburn Avenue has reopened to traffic after a bomb scare involving a vehicle stopped at a booze bus caused the street to be locked-down for two hours.

Queensland divers got an early Christmas present with the Fraser Coast winning the friendly war with North Stradbroke Island to be the new home for Queensland's newest artificial dive reef.

Virginia Taylor and Vernon Hill are moving to Brisbane as the downgrade of the School of Music causes more pain.

The family of a Melbourne man arrested over the fatal stabbing of French tourist in the Northern Territory say they did not know he had left the state.

A former paralympic champion has urged the ACT Government to help a local charity that creates assisted technology for Canberrans with a disability to keep operating.

The ACT Brumbies will turn back the clock to bring a former star out of the wilderness for a shock comeback.

George Christensen said his favourite response was from comedian Magda Szubanski.

Four teens were hospitalised on Thursday, all suspected drug overdoses.