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Police have arrested seven people in relation to a terrorist plot on Christmas Day, following raids across Melbourne.

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Tatts Group will reject the takeover offer from a consortium of big-name and will retain its backing for Tabcorp's bid.

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Why are Sydney's buses burning? That is the question transport safety authorities will continue to have to try to answer after yet another bus caught fire on Thursday night, the 53rd bus fire this year.

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Australia has been the target of at least 15 planned terror attacks, including public beheadings, over the past two years.

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Donald Trump begins his involvement with Middle East diplomacy with an extraordinary intervention weeks ahead of his inauguration.

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In one of the last big deals for the year, good mates and businessmen, Geoff Dixon and John Singleton have sold three iconic Sydney pubs.

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Department store owner Myer has been slapped with a pre-Christmas court action by the billionaire property magnate John Gandel. 

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Fresh from a backlash over plans to audit his ministers' phones, Premier Daniel Andrews has another contentious proposal for Victorian MPs: random breath testing at State Parliament.

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Police special forces arrested two men suspected of planning an attack on a shopping mall in Oberhausen in the West German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, police said on Friday.

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Deutsche Bank said it has reached an agreement to resolve a year's-long US investigation into its dealings in mortgage-backed securities, removing a major legal hurdle for the bank.

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A company owned by Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, will have to pay the costs of a journalist who the billionaire tried to force into revealing her sources for a book about the family.

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An explosive attack on a cathedral and a public square on Christmas Day would have struck at the central celebration in both Australia's Christian and secular calendars.

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The man accused of being the Claremont serial killer, Bradley Robert Edwards, is the former president of a Perth little athletics club and is understood to be an electrical engineer.

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A Queensland man facing a string of charges after allegedly stealing a car with a small child still in the vehicle has been denied bail.

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The Italian government has agreed to bail out Monte dei Paschi di Siena after the world's oldest bank failed to to get a capital increase.

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A warm and sunny morning is expected to greet Canberrans on the year's most festive day, but a turn for the worse remains up in the air.

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A man has died in hospital after a two car crash in central Queensland.

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Besieged senator Rod Culleton has been declared bankrupt after a Federal Court hearing in Perth, jeopardising his position in the Senate.

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James Packer's $2 billion Barangaroo casino is all but a reality after a last-ditch legal bid from a local community group was rejected on Friday.

Police were heavy-handed, frightening young children during a raid that targeted suspected Christmas Day plotter Zakaria Dabboussi, his family says.

Emergency medicine expert says such instances are not uncommon.

The ASX ended Friday's session in the red, after investors cashed in on a fairly healthy Santa rally for blue-chips.

Late profit-taking in the miners has pushed shares lower in a shortened pre-Christmas session, as Tatts rejects a competing offer from a Macquarie-led consortium.

Shaver Shop has emerged as the latest dud float of 2016, warning investors earnings will fall short of the forecast included in its prospectus which was issued mid-year.

After telling his colleague what he wanted to eat, George Theodoropoulos​ hung up and resumed raping the woman in a Preston hotel room, the County Court has heard.

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Twenty fire trucks are on the scene in Strathmerton, near Shepparton, responding to a fire that spread through an unstripped oat crop.

Five months after being swept into office, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's behaviour seems to be becoming more outrageous by the day.

The Australian dollar on Thursday night hit its lowest point since May as the currency is under pressure from a resurgent greenback and weakness in the iron ore price.

A toddler has been taken to hospital after being accidentally locked in a car by his grandmother.

After buying Kiwi independent fuel retailer Gull New Zealand, Caltex is expected to make more buys, with most attention focused on acquiring Mobil Oil NZ.

The first man arrested under Queensland government's revamped anti-bikie laws intends to fight the charge against him.

TaskRabbit was founded in 2008 with a big idea. On the company's website and app, people make money by assembling strangers' Ikea furniture or cleaning their bathrooms

Analysis of HSC results demonstrates the continuing impact of postcodes on academic success, despite record levels of funding aimed at stemming chronic educational inequality.

Christmas festivities have become a favoured target for Islamists looking to sow fear and despair.

The father of Sarah Spiers has released a short video on Facebook to let his friends know he and his wife are "comfortable" after police announced they had made an arrest in the Claremont serial killer investigation.

Police have arrested three men following a mass brawl outside Sydney's Town Hall about midnight on Thursday night.

A rogue blogger who claims to have revealed the identities of other lovers of Seven boss Tim Worner could face criminal contempt charges. 

10,000 sparkling lights strung over the body of a car.... it has to be Christmas.

Police have charged a 48-year-old Kewdale man with the murders of Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer and attacks on two other young women, a 17-year-old in 1995 and an 18-year-old in 1998.

President-elect Donald Trump has shaken up years of Pentagon planning, tweeting he has asked Boeing to price a replacement of Lockheed Martin's F-35, the most expensive US weapon system ever.

A Christmas Day terrorist bomb plot targeting landmarks in Melbourne's CBD has been foiled by a massive police operation days before it was due to be carried out. Here's what we know so far.

The final night of the Christmas in the City food markets has been cancelled due to forecast storms.

Almost one in two people end up in a sexual relationship with their workmates, but it may not be the best thing for your career, HR professionals warn.

Police were called to a brawl involving about 40 people in Melbourne's inner north in the early hours of Friday morning.

The embattled stem cell biotech has seen a major US drug company becoming a cornerstone investor and taking an option over two of its main products.

Essendon defender Mark Baguley has hit the training track hard after fully recovering from the knee injury which sidelined him for the second half of the 2016 season.

In a small corner of the Indian capital, amid the quintessentially Indian bazaar called Lajpat Nagar, the streetscape suddenly changes.