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A man has died on the Mornington Peninsula after the car he was driving struck a power pole.

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A Mercedes has crashed into six other cars in a prolonged accident on the main street of one of Sydney's most exclusive suburbs.

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Construction of a tollway Premier Daniel Andrews says will help fix Melbourne’s transport woes will draw tens of thousands of passengers off trains and into cars, his own top advisers have found.

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Oil prices boosted by global output reductions will be capped because of new supply before long, according to Goldman Sachs.

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US energy companies this week added oil rigs for a seventh week in a row, extending a seven-month drilling recovery.

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US defence official says the drone was part of an unclassified program to collect oceanographic data.

Shares in pharmaceutical company Mayne Pharma Group fell by a quarter on Friday after 20 US states filed a lawsuit against it alleging it engaged in a conspiracy with others to fix prices on two generic drugs.

Deutsche Bank will pay more than $US40 million to settle charges that the bank misled clients about how it routed orders.

The yield on the German two-year government bond, the Schatz, hit minus 0.80 per cent for the first time.

The United Nations is getting daily reports of rapes and killings of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, the UN human rights office said on Friday.

President Barack Obama says the US must and will take action against Russia in response to cyber interference with the election.

A web of defence contracts and business dealings threatens to compromise Donald Trump's pick for national security adviser, Michael Flynn. The dealings include links to the Turkish and Russian governments

Latest triumph for Indigenous groups on Cape York Peninsula adds to the number of jointly managed parks spread over 2 million hectares in the area.

The painstaking evacuation of civilians and rebels from besieged eastern Aleppo has once more been halted by a burst of gunfire hitting the convoy of buses and ambulances leaving the city.

''Sydney's fundamental, wicked problem is the issue that our jobs are in the east, and our housing development is in the west.''

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The finances of the embattled Obeid family have been given a $10 million boost with a property sale that could help pay for their numerous legal battles. 

A German-Iraqi boy tried to detonate a bomb at a Christmas market in Ludwigshafen last month and planted another device near the town hall, prosecutors say.

US bond yields, already at two-year highs, are set to keep rising, thanks to rising rates and the premium investors will demand for holding Treasuries during a Trump administration, experts say.

The competition watchdog will not appeal a Federal Court ruling that Woolworths did not act unconscionably when it demanded up to $60 million in cash from suppliers to plug a profit shortfall.

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When Col Fullagar isn’t jumping out of helicopters volunteering as a firefighter in remote areas of NSW he works in the cutthroat world of life insurance.

The distraught mother of the 21-year-old, who grew up in a refugee camp, said she did not understand why her son went swimming in the lake.

If ever a reminder were needed that Australia is the lucky country, it can be found in our language. While the world as we know it was metaphorically exploding all around us, we were afforded the luxury of obsessing over food, house prices and a form we couldn't fill out properly on our laptops.

Canberra appears further than ever from meetings its 2020 greenhouse gas target, with emissions continuing to rise. 

Canberra's only bourbon distillery could shut down if it does not find a permanent fix to its electricity woes.

Aussie rock legend Shannon Noll braved the rain to perform at the launch of Christmas in the City on Friday night.

Police are searching for a baby boy who was taken by a man known to him more than a week ago.

Australian Radio Network national content director Duncan Campbell said not to read too much into the first ratings results for 2017, as ratings will "ebb and flow" for all the stations thanks to the shake up of breakfast presenters.

The recreational use of cannabis should be legalised in Queensland and such a move could reap millions for the state's coffers, a Brisbane-based economics firm has argued in a new report.

The 27-year-old Bald Hills man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, allegedly held the baby down in a hot bath until his mother noticed the boy's skin was red.

Government of Cuba has proposed resolving a Cold War-era debt by paying the Czechs in a treasured Cuban commodity.

Innocent people could end up in jail under a proposed legal reform, with the Australian Lawyers Alliance describing it as "dangerous".

Seven schools have tumbled out of the top 10 on this year's higher-level English merit list, while for higher-level maths, a new rising star has leapt an astounding 65 places to storm into the top 10.

Opposition leader Tim Nicholls said the LNP would make a decision based on the best interests of Queenslanders and people who needed weapons to control pests and vermin.

The NRL season is months away but Billy Slater is already making his play to return to the field for Melbourne Storm.

An application to build a third service station in Dunsborough's town centre has been unanimously rejected twice by planning authorities.

A $9 million expansion of the Alexander Maconochie Centre complete with a bakery, gym and hairdressers aims to improve concerns of poor rehabilitation raised in a damning Auditor General's report.

Firefighters are battling a large, out of control fire at a metal factory in Melbourne's west.

After his former Labor comrade Stephen Conroy landed a lucrative job lobbying for the interests of bookmakers, former MP Kelvin Thomson has joined the other side of the debate.

The former prime minister has used the platform of receiving an honorary doctorate to criticise the state of Australian public discourse.

Everything seemed to be going well for Miss Canada, Anastasia Lin, during an interview Wednesday promoting the Miss World pageant - until she was asked whether she would be attending a screening of her new movie, which has reportedly enraged officials in her native China.

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The government's decision to revamp Safe Schools and cut ties with its controversial co-founder Roz Ward is a tough but necessary move to preserve the integrity of a program that is invaluable for so many young people.

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Since leaving jail a little more than a decade ago, Savas Guven has emerged as a very wealthy man.

In a country town at the edge of the Warrumbungles in NSW's north west, a tiny high school is punching well above its weight in the HSC. 

Grace Corr won't have to miss out a year working to fund her studies after receiving a Wakil scholarship.

Police are hunting a man who threatened a petrol station cashier with a blood-filled syringe in Kalgoorlie.

Here's what you need to know about the several changes across Sydney that have been revealed for the holidays, including special shop trading hours and disruptions to important payments and services.

More than a dozen trains have been cancelled across the south-east Queensland network on Friday.

Women's football has never been so popular, but for a least one sport radio station talking about the game remains a male-only domain.

An alleged Mongols bikie has been charged for wearing their "colours" in public, the first person to be charged under the state government's Serious and Organised Crime laws.