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Junaid Jamshed, a Pakistani pop star turned evangelical Muslim cleric, was on board an aircraft that crashed into a mountainside on Wednesday, a airline official told Reuters.

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A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with has crashed after it lost contact with ground control on Wednesday, police said.

Let the beers flow: the 55 sacked CUB workers will return to work on "fair and decent union terms and conditions", after a bitter six-month dispute.

Victorian students are reporting that they have already got their tertiary admission ranks online or been sent them via text message days before they are due to be released.

Time Magazine has named US President-elect Donald Trump Person of the Year, citing the upheaval in American politics brought about by the election campaign and victory of the New York businessman.

Amid comparisons to Jesus, an interruption from a former dentist turned paint bombing court-denier and allegations the constitution has been "hidden in a drawer since 1975", One Nation Senator Rod Culleton battled for his political life on Wednesday.

Queensland government departments have spent thousands of dollars on hospitality and functions this year, such as workshops, award ceremonies and community barbecues.

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Lawrence Springborg has become the faithful family Labrador of Queensland politics - universally liked and respected but not relied on by his masters to catch and kill a hearty dinner.

High fuel loads, hot weather and never-ending bushfire seasons are making the increasing number of people living on Canberra's urban edge "extremely vulnerable", the Climate Council has warned.

The Beston Global Food Company has not exactly set the world alight with its plans to cash onin on China's dining boom with a loose bag of assets that included "export grade lobster" interests, organic milk and a fine cheese maker.

Fifty years after Charlie Perkins became the first Indigenous graduate, Aborigines are still struggling to gain an education.

Special events organisers splashed out $2.71 million in the past financial year for Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics to attend their events.

The death toll from an earthquake in Indonesia which led to the collapse of shops and houses continues to rise.

Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk says there is "a lot more room for humour in City Hall"



For weeks now four vans bearing photographs of a Sydney businessman emblazoned with false accusations that he is a "corporate thief" and a "fraudster" have been turning up outside an office block in Bligh Street.

Bolivian authorities detained the chief executive of airline LaMia, the owner of the plane that crashed last week in Colombia and killed nearly all of Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team, prosecutors said.

1260-day wage freeze for Barrier Reef public servants before EA consigned to a watery grave.

Less than a week after police appealed to Canberra drivers to slow down, a P-plater was caught speeding 65 kilometres over the limit in Kambah.

Unions rejected an agreement that would see casuals at a local health club be cut, protesting in Civic on Wednesday.

A gardener who filmed his boss having sex and put a camera in her bedroom during a relentless stalking campaign that lasted more than three years has been jailed.

Expect to see a more sophisticated "Gold Coast" marketed to the world in 2017, Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate said on Wednesday.

The road across the Nullarbor from Western Australia to South Australia has been reopened following a bushfire emergency.

Severe thunderstorms are tracking east across south east Queensland and are expected to hit Kilcoy in the north and the Gold Coast hinterland in the south within the hour.

The AFL pre-season has embraced the bush. Now it's once again embracing the suburbs.

The friends of the Perth teen arrested in Bali for possessing what was found to be paracetamol have started a crowdfunding campaign to help his family with their legal fees.

Prepare to be blown away Victoria.

The email contains official WA Police branding, and demands a $260 traffic infringement fine be paid by a specified due date.

Adani is facing a fresh legal battle over its planned Carmichael coal mine, a day after announcing workforce arrangements for the long-awaited project.

Police have raided a number of homes in Perth's southern suburbs targeting significant players in the drug

Hey, Andrew Bogut, did you know that your footy club, Essendon, has a secret laboratory in a dank chamber underneath its Tullamarine HQ, where it not only churns out peptides by the thousands but  does a nice sideline in methamphatamines, supplying bikie gangs all over the northern suburbs?

A Canberra man pleaded guilty to culpable driving after a police officer was thrown from the bonnet of his car, fracturing his spine, as the offender sped away to avoid arrest.

BRISBANE, Dec 7 AAP - The high seas is not the only place you can be charged with mutiny, as three Queensland prisoners have found after allegedly staging a rooftop riot.

As Victoria plans to make swimming part of the curriculum, ACT students are getting less time in the pool

The fairytale of the Western Bulldogs' on-field success has translated into an off-field windfall for the club, with the Dogs wiping more than $6 million from their debt in a year.

Advocates for the ACT's disability community have backed three new parliamentary inquiries set up to investigate the National Disability Insurance Scheme roll-out and accessibility of public spaces.

A Fremantle charter boat company and its owner are on trial over charges stemming from a boozy corporate cruise on which a man allegedly fell overboard and drowned.

When Jeff Kennett presented Coles boss John Durkan with a demand for a compensation payment of more than $1 million for a mistreated supplier the reaction was telling.

A man who stormed a north Canberra rugby club with a co-offender as they brandished a baseball bat and machete and yelled at staff "We need the money" has been found guilty.

The idea of turning Brisbane's Victoria Bridge into the city's newest green bridge with buses, cyclists and pedestrian only has "some merit" Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe told Fairfax Media.

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The Treasury and the Reserve Bank are likely to 'look through' the reported numbers to focus on what's happening beneath them.

"He effectively told her her role on the project was just to be an ornament."

It's all about good food, hiking and coffee in a new series of advertisements encouraging Melbourne residents to take advantage of cheap flights to visit and explore the ACT.

The developer behind a planned apartment tower that might have obstructed the flight paths of emergency helicopter flights at the Royal Melbourne Hospital has been ordered to knock three levels off their 15-level proposal.

Treasurer Scott Morrison has branded the dramatic end to five continuous years of economic growth "not just a reminder, not just a wake-up call, but a demand to support economic policies that drive investment and jobs".

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But even the NSW economy may be losing momentum.

Melbourne have opted not to suspend rising star Clayton Oliver after he was caught drink-driving during the AFL pre-season.

The most recent Brownlow medallists from Hawthorn and Richmond respectively will present Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin their 2012 medals next week.

The man who came up with the scheme at the centre of a humiliating government backdown on climate change policy says has  rejection means the government will have be responsible for higher electricity prices and reduced energy reliability.