• 12 mins ago

Police have charged three men with murder over the death of a man in Lesmurdie in 2015 and the killing of a woman in Bunbury last month. The incidents are not connected.

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Casino stocks including Melco Crown have rebounded after the government of world's largest gambling market placed restrictions on ATM withdrawals that weren't as harsh as expected.

• 16 mins ago

PolAir and spikes used to end frightening chase south of Brisbane on Saturday morning.

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The letter's signatories also include two conservative allies of Trump senior adviser Stephen Bannon.

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A woman has been left fighting for life and two other people were seriously injured after a driver lost control in Fairfield on Saturday.

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The father of a Melbourne woman who died in Mozambique last month says an autopsy conducted in South Africa shows that his daughter died a violent death.

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The first patrons have flooded through the gates of Dreamworld as the theme park reopens.

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Imagine you're on Tinder, and you get a match and you start hitting it off and couple of days later things start to get steamy. Suddenly you're at the center of a blackmail scam, with the blackmailer threatening to send compromising pictures to all your friends and family.

• 37 mins ago

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

• 1 hr ago

Delays are clearing on Pacific Motorway after truck rollover blocked two lanes on Friday evening.

• 1 hr ago

Jakarta: Australia will contribute $1 million to assist Indonesia with emergency relief in the wake of the devastating 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Aceh that killed 100 people and displaced almost 23 000.

• 1 hr ago

Fox reached a preliminary deal to acquire full control of Sky Plc for $19 billion, a long term objective of Rupert Murdoch.

• 1 hr ago

Ryan Thomas Jessen had gone to the hospital for what he thought was a migraine, but it turned out to be a brain hemorrhage.

• 1 hr ago

Matthew Willmann named Clique Photographer of the Year 2016.

• 1 hr ago

During the lengthy interview, Roof, leaned forward in a rolling chair, chatting with the agents and sometimes laughing.

• 1 hr ago

Fortitude Valley claimed the first roof top car park in Australia

• 1 hr ago

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.

Giuliani had been named by transition officials as one of the contenders to be the nation's top diplomat.

French bank Natixis plans to expand across Asia in a bid to bolster its corporate and investment banking businesses.

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

The spectre of the Boxing Day tsunami haunts scarred communities in Aceh as the number of displaced from Wednesday's earthquake balloons to almost 23,000.

• EXCLUSIVE

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

The benchmark S&P; 500 registered a record high for the third straight session, while the Dow and Nasdaq also hit new highs.

The City of Lights has been forced to close nine parks while it deals with the fast-multiplying vermin.

Chances of completing tough new rules to restrict bonuses for Wall Street executives appear to be diminishing fast.

The 40th birthday celebration for restaurateur Jason Mclaren Jones was a lavish affair, a black-tie masquerade dinner for 220 people hosted in a candlelit marquee complete with opera singers and a jazz band.

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

• EXCLUSIVE

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

An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 has struck off the Solomon Islands.

Move signals that Barack Obama wants the issue addressed before he hands power to Putin-pal President-elect Donald Trump.

About a year ago, 18-year-old college student Lauren Batchelder stood up at a political forum in New Hampshire and told Donald Trump that she didn't think he was "a friend to women."

• Opinion

Sentiment is frothy, valuations are elevated and yet new highs are bullish. Perhaps there's room to run, says Barry Ritholtz.

Copper ended the week higher on Friday after robust data from China offered more evidence that its economy is recovering.

Vale has been granted an operating license for a giant iron ore mine in the Amazonian state of Para known as S11D.

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick US Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a strong advocate of increased oil and gas development who is sceptical about climate change, to run the Department of the Interior, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Friday.

Iron ore and steel futures in China edged lower on Friday as investors locked in gains, though sentiment remains bullish.

The pilot of a hot-air balloon that crashed last summer in Texas, killing himself and 15 sight-seeing passengers, had taken a cocktail of prohibited drugs including the opiate pain-killer oxycodone, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg News.

The athletes from 30 Olympic and Paralympic sports benefited from a state-sponsored doping cover-up, an investigation funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency has found.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

• EXCLUSIVE

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.