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A damaged bus at the scene of an accident in the Blue Mountains on Thursday.

Buses carrying children crash in Blue Mountains

1 hr ago

The blinding dusk at Cape Conran give Victorians a chance to see the sun set over the water, rare because of the state's ...

Heat rollercoaster set to hit Sydney from the weekend

25 mins ago

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts says New Zealand has a 'hostile attitude' towards Israel.

'Absolutely nuts:' NZ MP calls One Nation senator a 'village idiot'

1 hr ago

Water police and paramedics at Clareville on Thursday afternoon.

Man dead after boat accident in Sydney's north

Uncertain future for 2500 school students after tribunal decision

Large private school set to close after funding row

59 mins ago

ASX100 chief executives, on average, take home $5.4 million a year.

Fat Cat Thursday: the staggering pay stat just five days into 2017

Police make horrific discovery after routine call-out

Centrelink refer Twitter users to Lifeline amid debt crackdown

1 hr ago

Warning to motorists: fill up today before price rise hits

'It's disgusting': Woman with toddler unleashes racist rant at Coles

Measles warning after infectious air passenger arrives in Sydney

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MAY 09: James Hird, coach of the Bombers looks on while walking from the field after being defeated ...

James Hird rushed to hospital after 'overdose'

UPDATED
56 mins ago

Saeed Fassaie.

After losing my job I changed my name to find work. I regret it

COMMENT

Pakistan's Younis Khan, right, watches as compatriot Azhar Ali ducks a bouncer from Australia's Mitchell Starc, left, on ...

Australia strike with the new ball, Pakistan lose a seventh wicket

Live
1 hr ago

Melania Trump, pictured with her husband President-elect Donald Trump, has once again set tongues wagging about her ...

Is Melania trying to tell us something in this Dolce dress?

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Angelina claims Brad is 'terrified' truth will come out about divorce

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Consumer watchdogs issue warnings about air loungers

Luxembourg: A tiny country that's big on freedom.

The world's most (and least) free and tolerant countries

2016 Toyota HiLux.

Australia's best selling vehicle is not a car

Getting involved: Roger Federer hams it up in Perth.

Federer's dad intervenes after 'embarrassing' stunt

Vesna Vulovic who survived a fall from 33,000ft

Flight attendant who survived 33,333ft fall from bombed aircraft

The scene where a truck driver who was pulled over by police on a road in Sydney's west got out of his rig only to be ...

Driver 'stumbled' into semi-trailer's path during police stop

Megan Levy and Nick Ralston
1 hr ago

Seven Sydney roads make city's traffic the worst in nation

Temperatures soar in Sydney's year of weather extremes

Janette Suffield

'I seriously do not owe this money': letter that shocked Sydney nurse

Clare Leslie, Queenwood School's top IB student for 2016.

The Sydney student with perfect marks who did not get her HSC

The 28-year-old man was critically injured when he fell from Dr Mary Booth Lookout Reserve.

Man critically injured after tumbling down Kirribilli rock face

Goolawah Beach in Crescent Head, where 14 people were swept into the water.

'It smashed everyone': 14 swimmers swept off rocks

WorkSafe investigators are on site.

Teenage worker falls to his death at CBD building site

WA
1 hr ago

Most Brisbane drivers don't know how use a roundabout.

Majority of Brisbane motorists don't know how to use roundabouts

QLD

Climate change has showed little sign of a slowdown, contrary to debate about a warming hiatus.

No 'cooking the books': Study confirms warming hiatus didn't happen

Peter Hannam

CCTV footage shows the alleged intruder sleeping in the couple's bed.

'Goldilocks' intruder: Burglar found napping in bed

NCH - NEWS - Centrelink and Medicare offices on King St, Newcastle. Photo by Marina Neil 15th MAY 2014.

Centrelink referring Twitter users to Lifeline amid debt crackdown

Tom McIlroy
1 hr ago

NZ MP labels Roberts 'village idiot' over sanctions comments

Amy Remeikis
1 hr ago

Payne moves to restore trust, not a moment too soon

COMMENT
Michael Gordon
46 mins ago

Defence Minister Marise Payne declined to give details of the RAAF's involvement.

'We have indicated our regret': Payne on Indonesian insult

Australian and Indonesian flags

What's in Australia's formal co-operation agreement with Indonesia?

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts says New Zealand has a 'hostile attitude' towards Israel.

'Appalled': One Nation seeks sanctions against New Zealand

Amy Remeikis

Centrelink has been sending out 20,000 debt-compliance letters a month since the Turnbull government introduced a new ...

What caused the Centrelink controversy?

Tom McIlroy

Vice President-elect Mike Pence speaks with Reince Priebus, chief of staff for President-elect Donald Trump, right, as ...

Obamacare fight begins, repeal will 'make America sick again'

FILE - In this March 18, 2016 file photo, Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity speaks during a campaign rally for Republican ...

Assange and Fox News pundit wrong about media 'collusion'

ANALYSIS

Jennifer Pinckney speaks beside an image of her late husband, the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, one of the victims of the ...

'I have not shed a tear': killer Dylann Roof's journal

From above: Shanghai Tower.

The cutthroat race to build the world's fastest elevator

George Christensen - pictured with Malcolm Turnbull - is among those seeking to alter the face of Australian conservatism.

Beware the 'new conservatives' motivated by ambition and ego

COMMENT
John Hewson

Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the southern hemisphere.

Sydney is reaching its limits, and not just for the living

COMMENT

Drugs in sport generic.

We should stop banning drugs in sport – it doesn't work

COMMENT
Andre La Gerche

ASX100 chief executives, on average, take home $5.4 million a year.

'Enough is enough': Welcome to Fat Cat Thursday

Investors might be in for another rough day on the ASX.

ASX pushes higher on blue chip demand

1 hr ago

Peter Hall has cited a poor investment performance following Donald Trump's US election win for his decision to quit as CIO.

Hunter Hall denies it knew of Hall's plan to sell pre-Christmas

1 hr ago

PETROL AFR PHOTOGRAPH BY GLENN HUNT 13 NOVEMBER 2007 GENERIC- petrol, gas, lpg, liquid petroleum gas, energy, fuel ...

Motorists urged to fill up before price rise

A third of apartment cranes in 'blacklisted' areas

Buy the US election, sell the inauguration: Morgan Stanley

The real reason Ford abandoned its plant in Mexico

Why the government should pay your mortgage: Steve Keen

Welcome to the year of the renter.

2017: Welcome to year of the renter

Transitional Living Room by Found Associates.

How to make like Michelangelo and spruce up your ceiling

Three Parts House by Architects EAT.

The architecture trends to say goodbye to in 2017

I did something people in their mid-twenties don't usually do: I moved away from the city to a small coastal town.

My friends thought I was crazy: I made a sea-change at 25

It's time to review what's going on in your life and in your home.

New Year, new you: six style resolutions to make for your home

Sometimes the money and the car and the corporate card just aren't enough.

How my dream job turned into a nightmare

Life On Mars

"The rider of a bicycle must (a) sit astride the rider's seat facing forwards." Really?

The cycling road rule I never knew I was breaking

On Your Bike

The excellent John Oliver, British comedian and host of the US Last Week Tonight Show, takes a satirical view of news, ...

Six ways to be better investor through entertainment

Chris Brycki

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The lucky country for investors

Scott Phillips

HiSmile founders Nik Mirkovic and Alex Tomic have used Kylie Jenner to spruik their product.

Dental dimes: $10 millon turnover in 18 months

Kate Jones

Penny and James Taylor have kept a small outfit alive despite a downturn by being conservative and looking after staff.

'Our income has been slashed by 50% but we're positive'

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

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2016 the planet's warmest year

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Stephen Colbert does a Mariah Carey

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World record at age 105

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Boxing Day 'sealebrity' a repeat offender?

Indians watch Rani, 7, perform a rope balancing act at a public park on the first day of the New Year, in Kolkata.

World of Photos

Good Behavior

Michelle Dockery as you've never seen her before. Good Behaviour, only on Stan.

Sherlock

Binge every episode of Sherlock before the Brand New Season Jan 2. Only on Stan.

Meghan Markle opens up about racial abuse online

Mary Ward

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Hit the road and escape the city

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JonBenet Ramsay as Little Miss of Charlevoix County.

Australian director's JonBenet Ramsey doco success

1 hr ago

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 17: Neil Patrick Harris performs during the Hillary Victory Fund - Stronger Together concert at ...

Being ugly is refreshing: NPH relinquishes his vanity

Andrew Murfett

The Real Housewives of ISIS, from BBC2's <i>Revolting</i>.

BBC sparks outrage after airing 'Real Housewives of ISIS' skit

Rob Moran

Jackie Chan (left) and Alan Ng in the new action comedy <i>Railroad Tigers</I>.

Jackie Chan's latest flick fails to hide that he's over the hill

REVIEW
Jake Wilson

Stephen Colbert?parodies Mariah Carey on The Late Show.

Mocking Mariah: Carey gets the Colbert treatment

Casey Affleck at the 2016 New York Film Critics Circle Awards.

Affleck roasts awards host by reciting bad reviews he gave him

Rob Moran

I think I got away with it: Mariah Carey 'sings' at the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, New York.

Mariah Carey 'mortified' by NYE fallout - but is it just for publicity?

Broede Carmody

Margot Robbie on the red carpet in London.

Australian actor Margot Robbie makes Forbes under 30 power list

Olfactory artist Cat Jones working in the UTS Super Lab.

Sydney stinks like cheap coffee in an overpriced car wash

Peter Munro

Gadigal elder Uncle Charles Madden with his grand daughter Lillie Madden and artist Jonathan Jones 7th december 2016 ...

Warami, Sydney. The local language that refuses to die

Peter Munro

Cartier foundation curator Thomas Delamarre: "Exit makes the data visual in an elegant way."

Pretty patterns that paint an ugly picture of what we have become

Elissa Blake

Kayla Boyd

What the backlash against Kayla Boyd really reveals

Natalie Reilly

Enough's enough. It's time for women to hold a Twitter Strike

COMMENT
Jenny Noyes

Lily Allen is no stranger to making thought-provoking comments.

'I've only ever been sexually assaulted by white males'

Nicole Economos

Melania Trump, pictured with her husband President-elect Donald Trump, has once again set tongues wagging about her ...

Is Melania trying to tell us something in this D&G dress?

Melissa Singer

Kim Kardashian also made the news for (mis)promoting morning sickness pills.

Questions raised over morning sickness pill endorsed by Kim

Prince Harry speaks after presenting U.S. Staff Sergeant Elizabeth Marks' gold medal to members of the medical team from ...

Prince Harry has met Meghan Markle's father

Gordon Rayner

Croc shoes the new fad in shoes.Psydeways rave store in Newtown stocks them.shd.news.pic by Jacky Ghossein/jgz

The fashion trends making a comeback in 2017

Melissa Singer

Wendi Murdoch attends the MoMA Film Benefit presented by CHANEL.

Meet Wendi Deng's new beau, a model 64 years Rupert's junior

Nicole Economos

David Goggins.

The 40 per cent rule can make your life better this year

Sarah Berry

Icing an injury: There's little good evidence for it.

Cold therapy? Maybe better to save your money

AARON E. CARROLL

Ed Whitlock.

Scientists marvel at this speedy 85-year-old marathoner

JERE LONGMAN

Beef sliders with bacon, cheese and pickles.

Flip out: 21 irresistible burger recipes for grill season

Good Food

Pho from Hanoi Hannah, Windor. Pho will continue its world domination in 2017.

What's on the menu for 2017? Here are our food and drink predictions

Callan Boys

Sugar, sugar, honey, honey.

Can you go 30 days without sugar? Here's why you should

David Leonhardt

Jessie Swan says her son developed a rash after using the sunscreen.

Three-month-old's 'horrible rash' after using sunscreen

It's okay for mums to have a rest.

Why I'm aiming to be a worse mum in 2017

Family holidays are about sharing new experiences.

The five trends that will dominate family travel in 2017

Luxembourg: A tiny country that's big on freedom.

The world's most (and least) free and tolerant countries named

Hannah Meltzer

Plan what you'll take a few days in advance so you won't have a panic packing session the night before you leave.

Checklist: 23 things you must do before you head off on a trip

Michael Gebicki

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is home to the Dirk Hartog plate.

The most important parts of Australia ... that aren't in Australia

David Whitley

Faraday Future's FF 91 can summon 1000 horsepower and go from 0 to to 60mph (96.5kmph) in 2.39 seconds.

Faraday Future unveils FF 91 electric car

Mike Snider

The Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico, which was used to detect the radio bursts.

Radio bursts from 2.5b light years away

Sevenhugs' touchscreen Smart Remote, on show at CES 2017 in Las Vegas.

This touchscreen smart remote control brings order to the chaos

COMMENT

LG's super-thin "wallpaper" OLED television, on show at CES in Las Vegas.

LG launches super-thin 'wallpaper' TV

COMMENT

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg reveals his 2017 personal challenge

2016 Toyota HiLux.

Australia's favourite car revealed

Stephen Ottley

Autonomous Esky at 2017 Consumer Electronics Show.

Meet the autonomous Esky

David McCowen

BMW i Inside Future at 2017 CES.

BMW gets a bit touchy-feely

Dom Tripolone

2017 Toyota Concept-i

The car with a built-in butler

Andrew MacLean

The driverless valet function that the company touted as solving the headache of finding parking space failed to engage ...

The car you can open with your face

Andrew MacLean

2017 Kia Picanto.

Kia shows off new city car

Dom Tripolone

Smith catch

Lyon and O'Keefe strike as Smith takes another screamer

Live
Rohan Connolly and Scott Spits
1 hr ago

James Hird.

James Hird rushed to hospital

UPDATED
Sam McClure and Patrick Bartley
56 mins ago

Going nowhere: Nine's Shane Warne and Michael Clarke.

Don't like listening to Clarke call cricket? Get used to it

Andrew Webster
57 mins ago

Backed: Nick Kyrgios.

Kyrgios can be best in the world: Laver

Eyeing a start: Terry Antonis.

Antonis in race to start against City

Dominic Bossi

Getting involved: Roger Federer hams it up in Perth.

Federer's dad intervenes after 'embarrassing' stunt

Linda Pearce

Lost overseas: Charles Piutau in action for the All Blacks against Argentina in 2015.

Charles Piutau: The All Black that got away

COMMENT
Paul Cully

In top form: Milos Ninkovic has been a standout in the A-League this season.

Why nobody can stop the Sky Blues

Dominic Bossi

Former Big Bash player Chris Gayle.

Gayle marks anniversary of 'don't blush, baby' incident

Peter Handscomb jubilant after reaching his second century in four Tests.

As runs flow, spotlight falls on Lyon, O'Keefe

Chris Barrett

Perfect pair: Matt Renshaw and Peter Handscomb pose with the SCG Honour Board.

Hope renewed for Australia

Malcolm Knox

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