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Goldman Sachs named David Solomon and Harvey Schwartz presidents and co-chief operating officers as Gary Cohn heads to Washington. .

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The following are highlights from Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen's press conference.

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A driver was drunk when he ran a red light and crashed into a pedestrian, killing the 22-year-old woman, in Sydney's south on Wednesday evening, police say.

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A recently widowed Ringwood North woman has been left heartbroken after a vintage Holden was stolen from her home.

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Department blows $160 million on IT system that is 5 years late and still not working.

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The Aussie has at least initially taken a hit in the wake of the Fed's forecast for three potential rate hikes in 2017.

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Imagine a land in which everything was outlawed, except for the things that were specifically allowed. Things would more-or-less work, until you tried something new.

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The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point and signalled a faster pace of increases in 2017.

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A truck driver who crashed on the Cahill Expressway, causing traffic gridlock across Sydney's CBD in scorching conditions on Wednesday afternoon, had been disqualified from driving until 2019 and was using a fake driver's licence, police say.

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The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point and signalled a faster pace of increases in 2017.

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Some draw Cold War analogies to the days of the Soviet "Comintern" when the Kremlin sought influence through leftist proxies.

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On Monday, Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, bragged about killing people

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In life, Pasquale Barbaro was surrounded by gangsters, bikies and bodyguards along with the trappings of organised crime.

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The score has been described as a "magical number" - an important benchmark for schools.

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During the presidential race, Flynn drew attention for his scalding attacks against Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified material.

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Iron ore retreated, shedding more than 5 per cent back below the $US80 a tonne mark, as volatility persists.

"Hundreds of shells have fallen on us. People who were supposed to leave were attacked."

The choice adds to a list of drilling proponents who have been tapped for top jobs in Trump's administration.

Silicon Valley leaders were critical of Trump during the campaign but are now taking on advisory roles.

A former teacher who worked at private boys' schools including Newington College and Trinity Grammar has been charged with fresh child sexual abuse offences.

Firefighters who recovered the bodies from the decaying ship said passengers were 'packed in like on the trains for Auschwitz'.

A woman has died after she was hit by a car in Sydney's south on Wednesday evening.

​The planned evacuation of rebel districts of Aleppo stalled on Wednesday as air strikes and heavy shelling hit the city.

The trustee of the national capital is moving to stop areas of the leafy inner south turning into a sea of townhouses and concrete driveways.

When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the FBI called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.

Tax office says it will fast-track refunds "where we can."

ATO pay negotiation stalemate set to drag on into 2017.

On the same day that Sydney woman Sangeeta Guru won more than $90,000 in court after slipping on a grape and hurting herself in a Coles supermarket, a Melbourne man has made an almost identical claim.

Firefighters were called out about 10,000 times over the past year for false alarms.

Brisbane's flood-prone Oxley Creek will be transformed over 20 years into a gigantic waterside "super park", with hiking trails, urban farms and playing fields with some residential blocks and industry zones.

Most of the children kept in Queensland youth detention centres have not been convicted of a crime, as disturbing figures show it takes almost a year on average for matters to be finalised in the Childrens Court.

The mother of Curtis James Powell has said she wants to "see justice" after her sister was charged over the boy's death.

Philanthropist couple tell why they donated $8 million to the State Library of Victoria.

Attorney-General George Brandis has named a constiutional lawyer as the nation's next top legal adviser.

When Jen Armstrong left her violent husband - six months pregnant and with a 10-month-old daughter in tow - she was so financially desperate that a $20 bottle of body wash donated by a stranger felt life-changing.

Melbourne Zoo wants 1000 new car parks built in Royal Park – potentially in a multi-level car park – documents released under freedom of information show.

The US will begin flying its deadliest fighter plane, the F-22 Raptor, out of northern Australia next year, the most senior American commander in the Pacific has revealed.

A blind cyclist in Perth is urging other people with vision impairments to join the fun and jump on the back of a tandem bike.

The latest Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland Economic Update paints a rosy picture heading into the holiday season, with a big retail-spend week ahead in the lead up to the Christmas and Boxing Day sales.

Consumer confidence has dived to its lowest level since April in a "jolt to stability and confidence", plunging into doubt retailers forecasts ten days before Christmas.

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At 14-years-old Hicham Jansiz fled Homs, a city the Syrian civil war has burned to rubble, at 16 Hicham waited in a refugee camp thinking only of water and the food he could not eat.

When Thomas D'Souza enrolled in Victoria University's Bachelors of Engineering Building Surveying course in 2002, he had hoped to be walking out with a qualification allowing him to practise as an engineer in Australia.

A new screening program is identifying patients prone to developing pancreatic cancer, an insidious disease that kills fast and is notoriously difficult to detect early enough to treat.

Shipping giant Toll has been convicted and fined a record $1 million for safety failures after a father-of-three was crushed and killed on Melbourne's wharves.

Police are investigating a road rage incident involving two cyclists and an elderly couple in their car in Scarborough which was captured on camera.

Canberra fraudster Frank Fischetti's crimes caught up with him when he was sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court.