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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures with a firing stance.

'If I can do it, why can't you?': Duterte admits to killings

39 mins ago

Walker Corporation and liquor group Kemenys will lodge plans for a mixed-use joint venture at three Kemenys-owned sites ...

$1b residential plan to transform a Bondi institution

Carolyn Cummins

Pasquale Barbaro was shot dead in Earlwood last month.

Lonely funeral of gangster 'snitch' Pasquale Barbaro

ACT courts are facing frustrating delays deciphering interstate criminal records.

Former Newington, Trinity teacher charged with child sex offences

Joanne McCarthy

Scott Morrison says the government is focusing on strategic investments.

Morrison calls for calm as consumer confidence darkens

Peter Martin

Former Governor Rick Perry of Texas at the RNC in July.

Trump's energy pick is a climate sceptic with ties to the oil industry

45 mins ago

Billabong boss losing home 'worse than having an affair'

US F-22 Raptors to fly out of Australia amid China tension

David Wroe

How Moscow aimed a perfect weapon at the US election

Heavy shelling batters Aleppo just hours after brokered ceasefire

Thoughtless aid: Why you shouldn't give a goat this Christmas

COMMENT

Brendan King outside court in October.

The half hour that cost Brendan King a share in a $40 million jackpot

HSC. Hicham Jansis, first in Arabic extension with his proud parents.. Story -Students who have come first in course in ...

At 14, Hicham fled a city now in rubble. He topped his HSC course

EXCLUSIVE

China Southern Airliners this week operated a near-full inaugural flight from Guangzhou to Adelaide - the latest ...

China's flood of cheap airfares deals blow to global carriers

This image released by Lucasfilm Ltd shows Ben Mendelsohn as Director Krennic in a scene from "Rogue One: A Star Wars ...

Rogue One review: No hint of originality but fans won't mind

Peter FitzSimons.

Listen fatso, it's time to get off the couch and back on the field

COMMENT

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Trump's three pro-Russia picks

Christmas lights in Second Street Ashbury. Pictured is 2 year old Robin Rose Sinclair visiting the homes on Second ...

Sydney lights up for Christmas

President-elect Donald Trump smiles.

Hard to overstate how anti-environment the Trump cabinet picks are

Netflix has released a new sci-fi series with no pomp and ceremony; is their silence the new disruption in the ...

Netflix's silence could be the ultimate TV disruption force

ANALYSIS

Mt. Rushmore, USA.

The world's most overrated tourist attractions named

Sydney man Van Ngo is forcibly evicted from his home and arrested for breaching the peace as his property is acquired by ...

Ex-homeowner facing Christmas in jail after WestConnex eviction

Lisa Visentin

Eddie Obeid and the 'moral vacuum at core of his political being'

Kate McClymont

Woman dies after being hit by a car in Sydney's south

Georgina Mitchell

Firefighters were putting out spot fires behind properties near Abermain on Wednesday.

Cool change to bring relief to sweltering Sydney but fan fires

Donut with sprinkles on wood background

Why kids are buying cheap, unhealthy snacks

Ella McCrindle topped Drama in the 2016 HSC.

Ella is First in Course for HSC drama thanks to her own 'Mr G'

Kelsey Munro

Sangeeta Guru was awarded $90,130 in damages for injuries sustained when she slipped on a grape at Coles.

$90,000 court win after slipping on a grape in Coles

Rakesh Dhody injured his finger at Coles

Another massive Coles claim as injured shopper seeks payout

The image of Dylan Voller in a spit-hood at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre helped trigger the royal commission.

NT juvenile justice royal commission wants more time

A teenager has suffered suspected spinal injuries at Wet'n'Wild at the Gold Coast.

Teenager taken to hospital after Wet'N'Wild slide ride

Nicole Bricknell, wife of former Billabong CEO Matthew Perrin, enters the Brisbane Supreme Court ahead of her husband's ...

Billabong boss losing home 'worse than an affair': ex-wife

One of 2 U S Airforce's F22 Raptors arrrives at Avalon Airport last night , the high tech fighter aircraft are here for ...

US to fly F-22 Raptors in and out of Australia amid China tensions

David Wroe

Pacific's most powerful man may just keep Trump focused

ANALYSIS
David Wroe

'Thoughtful' debate takes a hit in social media age: Chief Justice

Michaela Whitbourn

NSW police

NSW government refers former RSL president to police over expenses

Heath Aston

Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison remains optimistic about the economy.

Consumer confidence down, Morrison cautions against alarm

Peter Martin

Attorney-General George Brandis has announced the nation's next top legal adviser.

Stephen Donaghue appointed Solicitor-General

Phone

PM targeted by 'Leanne', the anonymous robo-caller

Michael Koziol

Solidarity movement former leader Lech Walesa in 2015.

'They are destroying everything I fought for': Walesa

Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen marching walk inside the destroyed Grand Umayyad mosque in the old city of ...

Syrian rebels say Aleppo truce deal struck, to take effect shortly

President-elect Donald Trump: how smart is he?

What is Trump up to in his latest pro-Russia cabinet pick?

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Wisdom the albatross, the world's oldest known seabird, tending to her latest egg at Midway Atoll, a wildlife refuge ...

Wisdom, the oldest known breeding bird, lays her 41st egg

Our accuracy is well off.

We are way off target when we guess what others think

COMMENT
Matt Wade

Noah Pozner, one of the victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012.

How one gun tragedy has attracted another kind of ugliness

COMMENT
Josephine Tovey

Copyright laws affect many facets of our lives.

The copyright protection racket has to come to an end

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Outgoing Commonwealth Ombudsman Colin Neave has been appointed ANZ's customer fairness adviser.

ANZ appoints 'fairness officer' ahead of ASIC crackdown

One WA lotto player has won $10 million.

Lotto dreamers get a lesson from millionaires' factory

Colin Kruger, CBD

There is no risk for the Macquarie-led consortium because the price it pays to Tatts shareholders depends on the price ...

Attempts to scupper $6.3b Tatts takeover bid is vintage Macquarie

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

The Russian ruble has climbed against the US dollar for most of 2016.

Ruble rises but it's not due to Trump

Walker Corp in $1b residential project

Billabong boss losing home 'worse than having an affair'

With the Dow at 20,000 is it time to buy or sell?

China's flood of cheap airfares deals blow to global carriers

18 Strathmore, Collinsville, in QLD, is listed for $45,000.

Got $50,000 or less? These are the houses you can buy

If your New Year's resolution includes being more organised, read on.

10 tips for getting your home organised for the New Year

Bree Leech & Heather Nette King for Dulux Colour Trends 2017 – Entwine Palette.

Some paints are better than others- here's how to pick them

Cafes in the mall on Keira street Wollongong.

Is it time for a sea change? How to buy yourself into a job

Anthony Sahade, centre, outside court in 2013.

Brawling multi- millionaires end decade of neighbour disputes

The KEF LS50 Wireless.

Blast off: 15 amazing wireless sound systems to rock your world

Technology
Mark Gambino

Which airline took out top prize for their business class seats?

High Flyer Awards: Which airline is the best in business class?

High Flyer

Shopping centres play Christmas carols because it's proven that it makes customers spend more money.

Six psychological tricks retailers use to make you overspend

Few borrowers fixed their loans when fixed rates were at their cheapest.

Why so few of us fix interest rates at the right time

Clancy Yeates

"We completely reverse engineered the business rather than just overlaying a digital strategy" – Adam Laurie of Cleanawater.

Data pros bought a waste water plant to prove their point

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

Nicholas Chu of Sinorbis.

How he raised $2.5 million without giving up his vision

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HSC 2016: Top of the state

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Sydney cooks in scorching heat

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Snake eats wallaby on golf course

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People need to get to work: Abbott

Federal Politics

A young boy prepares to dive into the water at Bronte Baths a rock pool at Bronte Beach in the early morning before the ...

Sizzling Sydney

Preacher on Stan

Every episode of Preacher - now streaming only on Stan.

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Every single episode of Seinfeld now streaming. Only on Stan.

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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Netflix has released a new sci-fi series with no pomp and ceremony; is their silence the new disruption in the ...

Netflix's silence could be the ultimate TV disruption force

ANALYSIS
Michael Idato

A biopic about '80s Madonna has been named Hollywood's top unproduced screenplay.

Australia's gamble on Madonna film could be Oscar-worthy

Rob Moran

Alan Thicke with son Carter, who was with him when he had a fatal heart attack.

'I love you Pops. Until next time,' Thicke boys farewell dad Alan

Rob Moran

Heidi was found on "death's door".

Pound puppies: Red Dog stars saved from 'death's door'

Ebony Bowden

Ed Sheeran and James Blunt arrive together at the Annual ARIA Awards in November 2015.

Whoa Twitter! New albums released as a star quits music

Ebony Bowden

Ben Mendelsohn as Orson Krennic in <i>Rogue One: A Star Wars Story</i>.

Why Donald Trump supporters are boycotting Star Wars

Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard at home in New York on publication of her final novel, >i<The Great Fire>i<.

The Transit of Shirley Hazzard: a great Australian writer

Susan Wyndham

Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso in Rogue One.

Early reviews on Rogue One land as midnight screening looms

Rob Moran

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The balding, softly-spoken 'rock star' who fills stadiums

Peter Munro

Coldplay's Chris Martin in action at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium this month.

Chris Martin is still that geeky, fanboy kid at heart

Bernard Zuel

Journalist Anne Deveson has died.

Journalist and broadcaster Anne Deveson dies, aged 86

Michael Idato

There's nothing wrong with lingerie, but there are many factors at play when sex becomes a "problem" that a new g-string ...

I wanted more sex than my male partner, and I felt ashamed

Madeleine Ryan

"I find Christmas wearing and false when I'm with my family."

Family estrangement is more common that we realise

Jenna Price

Single Bridget has been making her own Christmas cards since 2010.

'Single Bridget' releases her annual lonesome Christmas card

Jenna Clarke

The burden of school holiday care falls almost entirely on the shoulders of mothers.

School holidays are here. Mothers, get to work

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

First lady Michelle Obama.

Woman who called Michelle Obama an 'ape' gets her job back

Teresa Welsh

Afghan women took part in an international Wikipedia edit-a-thon to increase women's representation on the website.

Women take over Wikipedia to fix site's gender imbalance

Mary Ward

Georgia May Jagger is the face of Volcom’s new swimmers – in a former life they were discarded fishing nets.

The surprising material your cossies are made from

Clare Press

British Prime Minister Theresa May has come under fire for wearing a pair of leather pants in a photo shoot. Something ...

Britsh PM's $1700 leather pants cause more outrage than Brexit

Jenna Clarke

How foods are framed can change their appeal.

'Fight fire with fire': Health lessons we can all learn from Big Food

Sarah Berry

Same, same, but different.

One weight-loss approach fits all? No, not even close

GINA KOLATA

The simple things we do can have a powerful impact on our health.

The power of simple life changes to prevent heart disease

AARON E. CARROLL

Wild hibiscus mojito popsicles.

Beat the heat: 24 of the best ice cream, gelato and popsicle recipes

Chef Guillaume Brahimi has been making variations of this show-stopping trifle for a long time.

How to make Guillaume Brahimi's raspberry and pistachio trifle

Gojima merges together the chef's name and "gohan" - the Japanese word for rice.

Guess where Sydney's first-ever rice burger bar is opening?

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How I responded when a woman complained about my kids in a cafe

Hilary Duff's sweet Disneyland snap attracted a harsh backlash.

Hilary Duff hits back at criticism for kissing son, 4, on the lips

It's important for teenagers to have a mix of relaxation time and productive time during the holidays.

How to stop your teenager doing too little, or too much

Mt. Rushmore, USA.

The world's most overrated tourist attractions named

Krampus run, in Austria, is a terrifying stampede of Christmas ghouls who pick out children who've been bad and given ...

Couldn't make it up: Christmas traditions you won't believe are real

Ben Groundwater

The 787-9 Dreamliner will take 17 hours to fly between Perth and London.

Qantas announces its first route for new Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Patrick Hatch

Several ads for Game of War have mixed generic battle scenes with sexy shots of Kate Upton.

Embezzler spends $1m playing Game of War

AIO Robotics's Zeus 3D printer/scanner is a step up from budget consumer-grade models.

3D printer/scanner can kind of replicate things

COMMENT

Part dog, part cat, part bird: Trico is at the heart of the game's warmth and its issues.

Review: The Last Guardian is an imperfect masterpiece

Bats

Why Aussies will pirate next LEGO Movie

Lifehacker

Microsoft Edge: not a great alternative to Chrome.

Why I eventually gave up on Microsoft Edge

COMMENT

2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe.

Mercedes E-Class Coupe revealed

Greg Kable

The open-topped machine has carbon fibre roof panels for emergency use.

Ferrari unveils exclusive spider

David McCowen

Ford's turbocharged Focus RS has one of the best engines on sale.

Are these the 10 best engines?

David McCowen

BMW has contributed toward electric car infrastructure at popular supermarkets.

BMW boosts charging network

David McCowen

The Mitsubishi Triton is a capable performer that has a very enticing price tag.

What dual-cab ute should I buy?

Cameron McGavin

Mercedes-AMG GT R.

AMG GT R sets Nurburgring record

Dom Tripolone

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 24: Nathan Lyon of Australia bowls during day one of the Third Test match between ...

Selectors contemplate leaving out Lyon in four quicks gamble

Chris Barrett

Under pressure: Coach Darren Lehmann needs a Test series win.

Why a loss to Pakistan could cost Boof his job

Malcolm Knox

Peter Fitzsimons has lost a third of his body weight.

Listen fatso, get off the couch and back on the field

COMMENT
Peter FitzSimons

Wanted: The services of Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold are in demand.

A-League expansion hopefuls chasing Arnie

Dominic Bossi

Comeback: Pat Cummins celebrates after taking the wicket of Martin Guptill during the one-day international series ...

Cummins dismisses talk of imminent Test return as 'silly'

Andrew Wu

Popular: Fans selected Andrew Fifita to play in the All Stars game.

Meninga leaves Kangaroos door ajar for Fifita

Adam Pengilly

Off-contract: Josh Dugan.

McGregor walks away from signing players

Mitch Jennings

Australia's Sam Groth.

Angry Groth out of Aussie Open playoffs

Backs current deal: Steve Smith speaks to the media at The Gabba.

CA proposes to restructure player bonuses amid pay talks

Chris Barrett

Pakistan's Mohammed Amir celebrates a wicket.

Amir did time, now his time has come

Greg Baum

Misbah-ul-Haq feels the tourists have the big-game experience to humble the rebuilding Australians.

Passion trumps age as skipper gets ready for 'mission possible'

Phil Lutton

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