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A South African motorcyclist declared dead at the scene of an accident was found alive in a morgue fridge the next day when his family went to identify his body, but he died later in hospital.

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Fifteen people have died and at least 78 have been hospitalised in recent weeks after drinking toxic rice wine at a series of funerals in Cambodia in the past five weeks, officials said on Friday

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President-elect Donald Trump won't be firing himself from Celebrity Apprentice.

A recently emerged militant group called the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in Cairo on Friday that killed six policemen.

Sol Mokdad spent 13 nights in a Dubai jail for trying to promote rugby league there. Now Wayne Bennett is taking his England side to Dubai for a five-star training camp.

Richmond board challengers Peter Casey and Simon Wallace have lost in their respective attempts to become Tigers directors, with incumbents Kerry Ryan and Emmett Dunne both re-elected for new three year terms.

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By all accounts, 2016 was shaping as a year to behold for Packer, by mid year, his life was in turmoil.

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Our wellbeing hit by schools quality - to the tune of about $15b.

Denny Keogh​ once held Australian surfing in the palm of his hand.

Paul Gallen, midway through the second round, looked gone.

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Wilders led a chant against Moroccans in a 2014 campaign rally.

The foster brother of slain Queensland schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer has applied for bail.

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A nurse found to have taken money from a mental health patient under her care in England has been working in Queensland for four years despite concerns she could offend again.

The sister of a fisherman who went missing, along with two other men, after a prawn trawler lost contact off the Fraser Coast in November wants answers.

The booming Sunshine Coast has caught up with south-east Queensland and now has $10 billion in the committed project pipeline and halved its unemployment to 4.5 per cent since 2012.

One Canberra couple will never forget hoping their child would survive cancer at a time many parents were fretting over buying the best Christmas presents.

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It was a stunning disclosure that caused an international furore. And now we know it played out inside a senator's office.

A man has died at a Williamstown property this morning and a woman has handed herself in to police.

Gabi Forman wants to be the next Anna Meares. But she may have to find somewhere else to practise.

Jen Rudge has lived in Townsville for three years, 

Raymond Spackman, 73, was found "safe and well".

Primary school students in Canberra could be subject to NAPLAN-syle testing of health and fitness in an effort to curb childhood obesity.

Fauna traps left out in 35-degree heat when environmental plan requires this to halt at 30 degrees, says Conservation Council.

Clubs group ousts old board and puts critics in charge of its new board.

Emerging St Kilda forward Jade Gresham is eyeing more time in the Saints' midfield after re-signing with the club until the end of 2019.

News Corp should make its intentions to close or amalgamate any of its network of regional newspapers as quickly as possible, the group's former chief executive Mark Jamieson said in Mooloolaba on Friday.

Dreamworld and WhiteWater World theme parks on the Gold Coast will throw open their doors on Saturday following the tragic accident on October 25. 

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Donald Trump hung his winning presidential campaign on the idea that he alone could bring back American jobs.

Australian businesses are struggling to get advertising platform Facebook to act on scams that use their company logos and branding and which lead to complaints from ripped-off consumers.

Van Ngo was the last remaining homeowner in a strip of inner west houses acquired by the state government for the WestConnex motorway project.

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It was supposed to be the Coalition government’s panacea for the crisis in confidence plaguing the financial planning industry, but almost two years after it was launched, it’s a dud.

A Canberra man cannot have his own adoption undone and biological father formally recognised after ACT parliament inadvertently threw out the relevant law in an attempt to clean up the statute book.

Summer snow fell in Victoria's high country overnight, with Mount Baw Baw, Hotham, Buller and Falls Creek all receiving a dusting.

A Sydney drug dealer who gunned down a man in an execution-style killing in front of his fiancee has been jailed for at least 24 years.

Australia's political campaign laws could be changed to require all election materials carry authorisation statements, including text messages and social media posts.

Southern Australia is likely to get its biggest blast of heat since last summer.

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There have been few bigger darlings of the Australian sharemarket than Bellamy's. 

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The NSW government is leading a push for national laws to allow people to sue for damages for serious invasions of privacy.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's disastrous week-long spat over a climate-change policy review has culminated in a showdown with state premiers in Canberra, and criticism from the nation's chief business group.

Nearly one quarter of the world's children live in countries afflicted by war or disaster, according to new figures from UNICEF.

Brisbane residents are cautioned to be on Measles alert, after a case was confirmed in a man who recently returned from overseas.

A Perth man who complained Uber unfairly deactivated his driver account has lost his $500,000 damages claim against the global ride-sharing service.

Vision Australia will not provide Auslan interpreters at its popular Carols by Candlelight event this year, despite calls from the deaf community.

Queensland University of Technology administrative assistant Cindy Prior, who unsuccessfully tried to sue three students under 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act, has been ordered to pay costs of about $200,000.

The AFL now looks highly unlikely to expand its eight-team national women's competition until at least 2019 in a move which has placed it at odds with a number of losing bidder clubs who believe they have been misled.

Saia Faingaa jumped in his car to return to "go home" to the ACT Brumbies and reignite his Canberra rugby career a decade after he started as a dreadlocked teenager.

A WA couple who sued police after they were arrested and tasered in Fremantle eight years ago have been awarded more than $1 million in damages.

The first natural gas has started flowing into the state's domestic system from the Chevron Gorgon Project.

Police who are conducting a line search in Melbourne's outer south-east are believed to be looking for a body.