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You're not wrong: Sydney has just tossed and turned through a night of "quite exceptional" heat.

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A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital, the ACT SES has received 650 calls for help and 13,000 Canberrans are without power following a freak windstorm.

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The 18-year-old initially fled the scene on foot, but was quickly found and later charged with a string of offences.

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Premier Daniel Andrews weighs in over Alcoa stalemate

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A man has been flown to The Alfred hospital in a critical condition after a car he was driving crashed into a house in Clifton Springs, near Geelong, on Saturday morning.

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A 13-year-old boy has suffered serious head injuries and three other people are injured after a crash involving a semi-trailer and a campervan on the Hume Highway near Goulburn Friday night.

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Joshua Kushner, 31, kept a low profile while building his venture capital business. That may be about to change.

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The catamaran with three on board left the central Queensland coast on Friday afternoon and weren't located until Saturday morning.

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Police have charged six teenage boys with a total of 21 offences following a crime spree that ended in a police chase through Seaforth on Sydney's northern beaches.

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An Australian man has survived an avalanche in Canada thanks to an early surprise gift by his friends.

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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has pulled out of today's Portsea Polo, citing the visit of Japan's Prime Minister as the reason for her absence.

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The government has drafted a law that would crack down on the camps' worst excesses, including electroshock and other "physical punishments."

An increase in Facebook and positive sentiment from three big bank results boosted Wall Street ahead of a long weekend.

A local tyre shop in Parramatta is currently on fire with multiple fire services desperately trying to control and extinguish the two-storey blaze.

Legislative move comes despite concerns about not having a ready replacement and the potential financial cost.

A 50-year-old man has died when his Harley Davidson left the road in Teelah, 150 kilometres west of the Sunshine Coast.

Former Essendon football boss Danny Corcoran believes ex-coach James Hird has been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder for years as a consequence of the four-year battle over the notorious Essendon supplements saga.

A man has died after the car he was travelling in crashed into a tree in Kallista, in Melbourne's south-east.

Secrets shared with the White House could be passed on to the Kremlin, US spies reportedly told their Israeli counterparts.

US President-elect Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn took a call from the Russian ambassador last month, and discussed setting up a call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin after Trump's inauguration on January 20, a Trump spokesman said on Friday.

There was a spa bath in the cabin, the beach close by and a glass of bubbles in hand (soft drink only of course).

Oil is poised for its first weekly decline in more than a month as traders await proof of global production cuts.

It would be easy to miss Joseph Maree if you walked past him on the street.

Shares in troubled infant milk formula group Bellamy's fell for a third straight day Friday with investor sentiment soured by the difficulties seen in reviving its fortunes.

​Profits at JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America surged last year, as the industry received a boost from a stock market rally.

Deutsche Bank has banned text messages and communication apps on company phones in an effort to improve compliance standards.

​Copper hit a five-week high on Friday while aluminium climbed to its highest in nearly 20 months.

Iron ore imports by China surged to a record last year amid unexpectedly strong steel production and lower local mine output.

Conditions across the southern half of NSW are expected to ease over the weekend but the mercury will likely remain in the low to mid 40s in the state's north.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday reprised his election campaign attacks on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, declaring her "guilty as hell" and deriding her supporters' criticism of how the FBI handled an investigation into her emails.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said the person who wrote reports containing details of compromising material Russia allegedly collected on US President-elect Donald Trump has not worked for the British government for years.

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At best it's careless to call anyone a Nazi – but to liken all of the US intelligence agencies to Hitler's goons is to recklessly seek trouble.

A woman has told a London court that when she was 12 years old Rolf Harris asked her for a cuddle then put his hand up her skirt and "touched me where no one had touched me before".

Hungarian police have detained two foreign women under European arrest warrants for terrorism-linked activity, police said in a statement posted on their official website on Friday.

President-elect Donald Trump said his administration would produce a full report on hacking within the first 90 days of his presidency and accused "my political opponents and a failed spy" of making "phony allegations" against him.

He was once one of the richest men in the country, but on Thursday former property developer Stephen Larkin was taken away in handcuffs after he was jailed for falsely nominating others for 62 traffic offences.

The event represents a very busy two weeks of corporate entertainment, deal make and relationship building.

Where does the time go? This year will mark the 10th anniversary of the onset of the global financial crisis.

For 10 years, Raymond Kataryna's relationship with his bank was clear. Then, the relationship started to blur.

About three in five offenders who evade police on the roads are getting away with the crime, prompting questions over whether the official pursuit policy is working.

CANBERRA, Jan 9 AAP - GOVERNMENT MPs WHO'VE MISBEHAVED SINCE THE COALITION CAME TO POWER IN 2013:

When it comes to the all-important China market, the shadow of government regulation looms large.

Steve Dickson's leap from the Liberal National Party to One Nation is the latest in a line of similar cross-party defections, almost all of which in the past two decades have involved the conservative side of politics.

While the predicted sweltering temperatures for Brisbane may have dropped slightly, the weekend is going to feel hotter than ever, according to Bureau of Meteorology.

Isla has made it into the top 10 baby girls names for Queensland - but Ella and Ruby have fallen out of fashion.

Queensland's newest One Nation MP has left his former colleagues in the LNP seething after his decision to jump ship.

Police are seeking help to identify a man found wandering and disoriented in Box Hill on Thursday night.

• COMMENT

If someone running a business knew their future capacity to do so depended on ensuring they paid the correct wages, that might just give pause for thought.

Conservationists are urging Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to make a last ditch appeal to Japan's Shinzo Abe to halt the slaughter of whales underway in waters near Antarctica.