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A one-year-old girl has died in hospital after a two-car crash on Phillip Island.

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It's not just Santa Claus who could be tiptoeing into your house on Christmas Eve. 

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Michelle Obama says the White House needs a "grown-up" and the nation will come to appreciate her husband, US President Barack Obama.

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A western Sydney teenager suing three media outlets for allegedly mocking him for sporting a "hair-larious" mullet has suffered a setback in his defamation case, after a judge took the scissors to major parts of his claim.

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A young boy is in hospital after nearly drowning in a public swimming pool in Sydney.

The surgeon who created the life-saving Heimlich manoeuvre for choking victims has died.

China's defence ministry said it has engaged in talks with the United States about returning an underwater drone it had seized in the South China Sea, but said Washington had not helped matters by "hyping up" the issue.

Seven people have been rescued from crocodile-infested waters in the Northern Territory after their car was washed off a flooded road.

In a passionate speech marking the 25th anniversary of the Australian Republican Movement, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has reaffirmed his support for an Australian republic.

President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday he has chosen US Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina to be his White House budget director, turning to a fiscal conservative to help pursue his policy agenda.

People living along Papua New Guinea's coastline fled to higher ground after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck.

A baby has died in hospital after a two-car crash on Melbourne's Phillip Island.

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

Four people including a child have been winched to safety in a dramatic aerial rescue after a helicopter they were travelling in was forced to make an emergency landing in national parkland near a southern Sydney beach.

The latest home landscaping trend has arrived and it has a decidedly man-child feel to it: introducing backyard putting greens.

'In the future, what will matter is not where the purchase happens, but how you can influence it.'

A Syrian government official said on Saturday the stalled evacuation of the last opposition-held area of Aleppo will resume, alongside some evacuations from four besieged towns and villages.

Despite the fall, there are still 1900 households on the waiting list.

Like most kids in Australia in the 1980s Chris loved dressing up as Star Wars villain Darth Vader.

Some lucky Canberra kids got to open their presents early this year.

A 15-year-old boy in Queanbeyan is being charged under NSW one-punch legislation for allegedly accidentally killing his little brother.

The perfect gift for Jocelyn this Christmas? Preventing just one family from going through what she is.

The figures are the highest since the lease variation charge was introduced in 2011.

November to February has consistently been the busiest time for Canberra's frontline domestic violence crisis workers, and this year is expected to be no different.

Twenty-eight men killed while escaping Japanese internment or executed after recapture in World War II have been considered for a posthumous honour.

Lawsuit accused it and other banks of rigging an interest rate benchmark used in the $US553 trillion derivatives market.

Money given to parents upon the birth of their baby does not improve their child's future school performance.

China and the United States are using military channels to "appropriately handle" the seizure by the Chinese navy of a US underwater drone in the South China Sea, China said on Saturday.

Jenny* was just 10 years old when she started slipping notes into her neighbour's letterbox.

China must do more to deflate a property bubble that expanded this year by "strictly" controlling speculation while also stepping up the fight to rein in excessive corporate borrowing, a top economic official said.

Supporters of South Korean President Park Geun-hye rallied on Saturday for her reinstatement while opponents gathered to repeat their demands that the leader, impeached over a corruption scandal, step down immediately.

Now with kids of her own, a woman adopted in 1972 is asking her biological Mum to get in touch at Christmas.

New laws set to come into play next year will affect how eggs can be labelled.

Several people have been killed after a bus transporting soldiers exploded near a university in the central Turkish city of Kayseri. 

It began with a glint of high-vis orange, poking out from underneath a piece of plywood in the shallows of the Parramatta River. 

A family of four have been rushed to hospital after their 6.7 metre boat exploded near Patonga on the central coast. 

In a world where governments and large organisations tend to hold all the power, the digital revolution has produced Change.org, a site for the everyday person to start a petition about an issue they care about.

Anne Frank may not have been betrayed to Nazi occupiers, but captured by chance.

Women will have been able to vote in federal elections for 144 years before they make up half of the nation's Parliament.

Brisbane has for the first time direct fights to Shanghai, China's biggest city with a population of 24 million.

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.

A new power station for south western Victoria will be among the offers to multinational Alcoa when federal and Victorian industry ministers Greg Hunt and Wade Noonan fly to New York on Monday.

The state government has scotched a proposal to privatise the Sport and Recreation Centres used by tens of thousands of students for school camps a year, following fears of a parent backlash.

Maribyrnong councillor is calling for Australian laws to keep up with technology after receiving rape threat via app.

John Grant is set to receive a 12-month stay of execution to allow the Australian Rugby League Commission chairman to work through a long-term club funding model, but support for the embattled administrator in his home state remains divided.

The number of waterbirds across eastern Australia's wetlands hit another record low this year.

The evacuation of residents from the last rebel-held section in the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo broke down Friday with thousands of people still trapped inside, as concern escalated about their fate.