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The ECB said it would cut monthly purchases to €60 billion but extend the buying program at least until the end of 2017.

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The euro tumbled as Mario Draghi signalled he stood ready to add to stimulus if current efforts fail to shore up the economy.

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In the latest episode over the proliferation of conspiracy theories and the people who believe it, a woman who thinks the Sandy Hook school massacre was staged was charged with threatening a parent.

The offer by the Turkish restaurant in London started with a simple note, handwritten on a sheet of white paper.

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Taxpayers continue to fund the generous pension plans of criminal former politicians.

A man who allegedly tasered a pregnant woman after breaking into her Adelaide home has been arrested.

'Barnaby's feathering his own nest.'

The Victorian Coroner will investigate the extraordinary "thunderstorm asthma" event that claimed the lives of eight people and inundated emergency services in Melbourne and Geelong last month.

A Melbourne RSL located on prime real estate is the latest Melbourne services club that will shut its doors, with the sale of the property to reap a huge profit for the state head office.

Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art's recently commissioned sculpture that sits pride of place outside the gallery doors in a remembrance to our state's shared history, its artist says.

A Kambah couple in their 80s are sharing the Christmas spirit in the most beautiful way.

Crashes between cars and pedestrian in Brisbane's CBD cost $14 million last year and $135 million since 2005, according to figures reported to Brisbane City Council.

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The Turnbull government is sitting on advice that an emissions intensity scheme would make electricity bills cheaper.

The Queensland Government must share with Brisbane City Council the information it has learned about the impacts on Brisbane road network of the potential closure of the Victoria Bridge promised by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in July, Brisbane's deputy mayor Cr Adrian Schrinner said on Thursday.

There are reports that star Fremantle import Harley Bennell's car has been impounded by police after he was caught driving without a licence, adding yet another off-feld distraction to the crucial Docker's off-season rebuilding.

Security forces should shoot at the boats of migrants trying to reach the European Union illegally, a member of parliament for the Danish government's main political ally, the Danish People's Party, suggested on national television.

"Spank me if I'm wrong" is recommended sales "banter" in the customer service manifesto.

The Labor Party has given Australia's authors, booksellers and publishers an early Christmas present, revealing it will oppose any attempt to remove restrictions on parallel imports of books.

An office worker was lucky to escape uninjured after a large sheet of glass fell from a building and landed on him.

Energy giant Santos has relegated its billion-dollar Narrabri gas project to a "non-core asset", stoking speculation the company plans to sell or spin off the venture.

It could feel as cold as 10 degrees in Melbourne on Friday, with snow possible on the Alpine Ranges and a hail risk in Victoria's south.

"Wow. Do people not feel bad selling a toy for 5x it's value in the shops. I get that it's an opportunity to make money but geesh it's Christmas. I'm sooo glad my kids don't want these."

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Kristina Photios has quit the Liberal Party after 12 years to speak out against a "vocal minority" of conservatives.

BRISBANE, Dec 8 AAP - Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczcuk has ruled out a state-based carbon tax after her South Australian counterpart suggested his and other states could go it alone.

In local government terms, the break has become official. Bankstown is no longer western Sydney.

What could have been a warm December day has quickly turned frosty, as the mercury in Melbourne plummeted by almost 10 degrees in just four hours on Thursday morning.

Assisted dying laws will be introduced to the Victorian parliament with the support of Premier Daniel Andrews next year. 

A stranger has grabbed a five-year-old girl's dress as she rode on her bike in Melbourne's outer east.

When Rio Tinto chief Jean-Sebastien Jacques took the reins of the world's second-biggest mining company in July, there was speculation he'd sell the company's diamond business. Not so.

He's only been a Docker for two weeks but draftee Griffin Logue has already made a big impression with the club signing him to a one-year contract extension.

German construction company Hochtief, the controlling shareholder in engineering contractor CIMIC Group, has been fined $400,000 after being found to have engaged in insider trading.

Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry has taken a swipe at both major parties' approach to restoring the budget's health, backing greater bipartisanship in a wide-ranging critique of political leadership around the world.

The Royal Commission into juvenile detention rejected a last minute attempt by the Northern Territory government to stop witnesses giving evidence. With the push on to complete the Royal Commission by March 31, staff have been working seven day weeks since September and concerns about difficulties with young witnesses giving evidence have started to impact on the inquiry

If "you don't have the future until you acknowledge the past" then former ACT Brumbies board member Murray Harley thinks the Super Rugby club is on shaky ground.

The Gold Coast is under-resourced in tackling fare evasion, with only 6341 fines dished out in one year and nine officers stationed in the region, LNP member for Currumbin Jann Stuckey says.

A warning for severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and heavy rain has been issued for south east Queensland.

A shop owner has been charged with selling toxic moonshine alcohol that killed three people near the north-western NSW town of Collarenebri.

Do you have a bunch of clothes in your wardrobe but they just... aren't quite right?

Media experts are cautiously optomistic about the News Corp buyout of APN's regional newspapers, but say 

Canberra's children doing better than the rest of the country, but some problems not improving.

WA Police said the puppy had been returned to the store, and no charges had been given to those involved.

'Twas the month before Christmas, and all through the town, dazzling lights were strung up, timed to carols and songs.

The St Mary's Cathedral underwent a dramatic transformation on Thursday night, turning into a magical castle as part of a free show that will continue until Christmas Day.

Surveillance cameras installed in Brunswick amid public anguish over the rape and murder of Jill Meagher have been expensive, have failed to reduce crime and regularly malfunction, an independent review has found.

Prosecutors argue chief magistrate's comments on 'abysmally run' cases may create a perception of bias.

A man has appeared for a sentencing hearing after he lit a gas bottle on fire in McDonald's.

The Sydney skyline is set to be transformed with the development of the new $500 million Ritz-Carlton hotel, including apartments and an updated restaurant strip at Pyrmont, as part of the Star Entertainment group's renovation of the city's main casino as it prepares to take on James Packer's Crown resort at Barangaroo.

The ACT's performance worse than anywhere except Western Australia, but probably just an anomaly, say economists.

He missed out on reclaiming his Test spot, but Adam Voges cracked an unbeaten 78 to help guide Western Australia to a drought-breaking eight-wicket win over Queensland in the Sheffield Shield clash at the WACA Ground.