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The offender was not known to either victim.

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Police have recovered a stolen black Honda Civic believed to be the getaway vehicle used in a violent Toorak jewellery store heist on Saturday.

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It was the dead of night when Iraqi commandos advanced into the neighbourhood deep in eastern Mosul.

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The Victorian marketing executive Greg Harper was tasked with writing a commercial in 1989 that would "upset, outrage and appal" drink drivers.

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Work will begin this year on three large projects set to transform Brisbane Airport.

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The grass is always greener when it's real and outdoors.

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Three people have been taken to hospital in a stable condition.

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Pinned to the ground by officers who kneed and struck him, Lawrence Crosby screamed whatever he could think of to convince them that he was a law-abiding PhD student, not a violent car thief.

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Thousands of Sydney residents are being driven barking mad by nuisance dogs and their owners, new council complaint statistics have revealed.

After a 40-year hunt sifting through more than 100 possible suspects, police believe they may be closing in on the infamous Easey Street killer.

Three teenagers have been taken to hospital after a wild brawl broke out at a house party in Melbourne's east overnight.

A P-plater disqualified from the road has been charged with drink driving and other offences after rolling his car in Melbourne's east.

It dropped the temperature nine degrees in nine minutes and now a major clean-up is underway in the capital after Friday's freak windstorm.

"Sydney's most prestigious new address" has become the site of the latest Occupy incarnation.

The actor and singer says playing and singing the songs of Broadway legend Cole Porter has been the biggest challenge of his long career.

Queenslanders will receive a brief reprieve from the scorching conditions before things heat up again into next week.

Police are on the hunt for three men wanted over a violent robbery in Brisbane in December.

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.

A NSW Liberal MP has been accused of acting as a double agent and leaking information to Labor to "destroy" a party colleague.

A Southern Highlands woman with a cancelled licence was stopped on Sunday morning driving with a blood alcohol content almost than six times the legal limit.

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Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, who is responsible for keeping government spending under control, billed taxpayers almost $23,000 for weekend trips to the beach resort town of Broome with his wife over four years.

The feeling is more intense the younger you are.

The "outdated" school uniform policy is a discriminatory disadvantage for young girls, psychologist says. 

Two young women were assaulted in separate incidents in Sydney's south.

Donald Trump criticised civil rights leader John Lewis a day after the Georgia congressman said he doesn't consider him "a legitimate president."

A week of protests ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration as US president is set to kick off on Saturday with a civil rights march in Washington by activists angry over the Republican's comments on minority groups including Muslims and Mexicans.

US President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that he would keep intact sanctions against Russia "at least for a period of time," and that he wouldn't commit to the "one China" policy until he sees progress from Beijing in its currency and trade practices.

A Toorak jewellery store was robbed by four men on Saturday with one worker struck on the head with the butt of a firearm.

Islamic State militants launched their biggest attack in months on government-held areas of the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, leaving dozens of dead, a war monitor said.

An old primary school in Melbourne's south-east is on fire.

Residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul said up to 30 civilians were killed in an air strike on a district held by Islamic State this week.

A Liberal party candidate for federal parliament praised by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as an "outstanding Australian" has been accused of not paying his election advertising bill and avoiding a local businessman chasing payment.

Part of the Western Freeway has been closed due to a grassfire at Ravenhall.

The suitability and effectiveness of aerosol spray sunscreens is being questioned after numerous reports of people still getting sunburnt.

Underbelly actor Vince Colosimo is due to face court next month for alleged drug possession.

Bangladesh police said on Saturday they had arrested one of the men behind a militant attack on a Dhaka cafe last year that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners.

Bogus addresses, phantom companies and charities, horror houses and red Ferraris. Vote 1 Intaj Khan?

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 struck off Indonesia's Maluku archipelago on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Tigerair has temporarily suspended sales of flights to Bali after the Indonesian government unexpectedly cancelled an agreement with the airline.

Semi Radradra will have to apply to the courts for permission to play in the Auckland Nines given the recent travel restrictions placed on the controversial Eels winger.

Their announcement came as additional House Democrats called for FBI Director James Comey's resignation, following a closed-door briefing from spy chiefs.hacking.

Queenslanders should start to lean what they can about boxer Jeff Horn, or they might be left behind by one of their own.

China's sole aircraft carrier has returned home following a far-ranging three- week training mission during which its combat capabilities were closely scrutinised and speculation soared over what future role the flat-top will play amid China's growing military ambitions.

Snowdon earned a reputation as one of the country's foremost photographers during a career that spanned six decades.

The former MI6 agent who compiled the dossier on US president-elect Donald Trump reportedly felt "duty bound" to share the intelligence he had uncovered.

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

Renegade troops sealed off Bouake as evening fell, even as a government delegation headed by Defence Minister Alain-Richard Donwahi pursued talks with the mutiny's leaders inside the city.

"I don't think you can really exaggerate how bad things are here because almost every day it gets worse."

Future ones will show Lady Liberty as Asian, Hispanic and Indian "to reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of the United States," the mint said in a statement.