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Donald Trump and tweet.

'Do you believe it?': Trump vents on Twitter after Turnbull call

2 mins ago

Steve Bannon, chief strategist for U.S. President Donald Trump, listens during a meeting held by President Trump, not ...

White House gang of four: Who leaked Turnbull's phone call?

Stephanie Peatling
1 hr ago

President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office of the ...

'Worst deal ever': Trump 'hung up' in first call with Turnbull

1 hr ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull refuses to disclose details of his phone conversation with Donald Trump.

Exposing mad king Donald's bullying does PM a favour

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

President Donald Trump is putting out conflicting signals on refugees.

Trump is finishing what Hollywood and media started

COMMENT
Waleed Aly

Telstra customers are experiencing widespread disruptions.

Telstra glitch sends personal SMS texts to strangers

1 hr ago

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and Police Minister Troy Grant arrive at a press ...

Council mergers decision 'imminent', says Berejiklian

1 hr ago

Jacob MacDonald.

On the run 8 days, escapee conceived child with girlfriend

Donald Trump is "still considering" whether to take Australia's refugees.

Reporter drops sensational bombshell from 16,000 km away

Low interest rates and a growth in the number of public servants are the ACT's two biggest economic drivers according to ...

Aussie dollar soars on huge trade surplus

1 hr ago

You have to feel sorry for Turnbull and his hijacked week

COMMENT
Andrew P Street

'He just walked in and stabbed them': Sydney students in shock

The health threat that is 'falling through the cracks'

Peter Hannam

Terror suspect raises IS salute, grins at supporters as he's jailed

Trump's angel son-in-law goes missing as devil runs rampant

COMMENT

Israeli settlers burn tyres and block an entrance ahead of the upcoming eviction of the settlement of Amona in the ...

Nation transfixed as police evict messianic settlers claiming the rule of God

1 hr ago

Ebony Bowden

Eye of fish and blood of goat: a real I'm A Celeb... tucker trial

Tziporah Malkah is on <i>I'm a Celebrity</i> to raise funds for a homeless woman's shelter.

Er... didn't you say you were tired of talking about James Packer?

Beyonce shows off her baby bump in an Instagram post announcing her pregnancy.

More than 7m people liked Beyonce's big pregnancy reveal

To Sua ocean trench in Upolu, Samoa, South Pacific, Pacific Deep ocean trench Samoa tra20-samoa

Swimming spots so good you should plan your trip around them

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Who gets the best book deal?

'Please welcome my very good friend John Tra-valtaaaaaahhhh!': Winfrey is famous for her shouty guest introductions.

Oprah's return to TV could prove to be a disaster

News. David Jones Fashion parade. Photograph by Edwina Pickles. Taken on 1st Feb 2017.

The three must-have winter items revealed in DJs fashion show

A little girl doesn't come to the conclusion that girls aren't as brilliant as boys because one person told her so.

Study reveals the true terror of raising daughters

COMMENT

News/Sport. Official preview and pre launch of the Westside at Acton Park. Tennis star, Nick Kyrgios, was on hand to ...

Kyrgios gets an 'open invitation' to join sporting team

EXCLUSIVE

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull refuses to disclose details of his phone conversation with Donald Trump.

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US President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Trumplomacy: Turnbull learns Trump doesn't 'make nice'

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Wednesday 1 February 2017. ...

Malcolm Turnbull's donations delay feeds voter distrust

EDITORIAL
1 hr ago

Jockey Edgar Britt in racing silks and a hat, New South Wales, ca. 1930 [picture]. [nla.pic-vn6295902]

King's jockey was 'one of Australia's treasures'

OBITUARY
1 hr ago

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WIRES is urging people not to touch any injured, sick or abandoned flying foxes they find, for their own safety and that ...

Trying to 'save' a bat can be deadly - for you and the bat

Kim Arlington

Opal data reveals just how many people took a sickie

Matt O'Sullivan

Bizarre decision: Berejiklian's housing focus off to a bad start

COMMENT
Jacob Saulwick

Police are doorknocking homes on Kennedy Street in Guildford after a fatal shooting.

Man killed after being shot in the chest at Sydney home

Gladys Berejiklian speaks at a press conference on Monday.

Taxpayers set to lose billions under latest sell-off plan

EXCLUSIVE

Many of the boxes that were stored by Extra Mile Movers were returned to Maria with extensive water damage.

Removalist blamed for $30,000 damage

Drug offence: Kyle Lovett has avoided a conviction for having a small amount of cocaine.

'Sweating, clenching his jaw': NRL player hid cocaine in his undies

Angelo Gargasoulas, brother of alleged Bourke Street killer Dimitrious Gargasoulas leaves the Melbourne Magistrates ...

Bourke St accused's brother fronts court with bandages, stitches

VIC

Jacob MacDonald.

Jail escapee conceived child with girlfriend while on the run

ACT

Missing since 1998 ... Rachel Antonio.

Police may dig up tip to find missing schoolgirl

QLD

Gary Baron who won Tatts Lotto and failed to disclose the win to the rest of his syndicate. Still supplied by Cam Houston

Bitter $16m feud ends as lottery winner pays out syndicate members

VIC

President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office of the ...

Bannon, Spicer, Flynn and Trump: who heard Turnbull's phone call?

Stephanie Peatling
1 hr ago

Trump tweets he will study 'dumb' refugee deal with Australia

James Massola
2 mins ago

How it happened: Trump's extraordinary Turnbull call

Greg Miller and Philip Rucker
1 hr ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull refuses to disclose details of his phone conversation with Donald Trump.

PM's approach vindicated by Trump's madness

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Donald Trump is "still considering" whether to take Australia's refugees.

The reporter whose sensational story dropped a bombshell

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Wednesday 1 February 2017. ...

Turnbull learns Trump doesn't 'make nice'

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the media after a visit to the CSR Viridia Glass factory in Dandenong, south ...

With a single story, Malcolm's factory visit went off the rails

Richard Willingham

Infected mosquitoes transmit diseases like chikungunya, malaria, dengue and zika.

Superbugs take up residence in South-east Asia

Lindsay Murdoch

Marine One, with US President Donald Trump aboard, lands at Dover Air Force Base to meet with family of William "Ryan" ...

Questions over US raid in Yemen as civilian deaths 'likely'

1 hr ago

South Korean presidential contender Moon Jae-in in December.

As Ban ends South Korea presidential bid, Moon rises

A settler barricaded inside a makeshift building in Amona surrounded by masked Israeli police.

Evicted Israeli settlers attack police and praise Trump

1 hr ago

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

Australia must tell our close allies when they're wrong

COMMENT

The flag flies at half-mast on the Peace tower in Ottawa.

Why 'progressive' Quebec has had so many massacres

COMMENT
J.J. McCullough

Premier Gladys Berejiklian's decision to remove Rob Stokes as planning minister was inexplicable.

Bizarre decision: Berejiklian's housing focus off to a bad start

COMMENT
Jacob Saulwick

David Lawrence and Marcs are the latest retail chains to fall victim to rising costs and falling sales.

Retail rot spreads to big-name fashion chains

12 mins ago

Gold prices recently fell and bond yields rose, meaning bondholders took a hammering.

Safe havens feeling less safe in Trump times

45 mins ago

Mining companies are resisting laws that would give the ATO more power to go after profit shifting.

Export boom remarkable in 'weak trade growth' era

The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index and the broader All Ordinaries Index each slid 0.1 per cent to 5645 and 5696 points ...

ASX slips, Australian dollar soars on trade data

1 hr ago

Why the Tabcorp takeover of Tatts should get the green light

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Banks forced to repay customers $41m after errors

1130 jobs in danger at Marcs, David Lawrence

BBQ chicken seller turns property tycoon with 2500% stock surge

Overseas investment in Australian development sites has evolved away from high-rises and towards house and land estates.

Chinese developers buy one-third of Australia's development sites

Many homes contain items hidden in the walls, under the carpet or buried in the back gardens.

What lies beneath: uncovering the secret histories of our homes

1 Callan Street, Rozelle.

Meet May. She moved into this Rozelle cottage 90 years ago

There could be serious health hazards lurking in your bedroom.

Health hazards at home: Nine ways to detoxify your bedroom

27 Morgan Road, Belrose.

A spot of tennis is just what the doctor ordered (for home buyers)

Social media is a minefield - don't cause an explosion.

Hashtag don't: 10 social media sins every adult should avoid

Technology
57 mins ago

When drinking is part of your socialising, it can be harder to stop.

The simple reason you should do FebFast (and it's not your health)

Personal Development

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How to boost the age pension by $792 a fortnight

ASK NOEL
Noel Whittaker

The superannuation rules are changing in July.

Rush to beat this year's super deadline

Daryl Dixon

Hari Shotham says each machine turns over $1000 a week.

No staff, no tills, just profit for man who saw a slot in the market

The competition to be home for the best start-ups is tipped to heat up in the next five to 10 years.

Should start-ups be paid to move location?

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Fatal shooting in Guildford

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Yemen government workers without wages

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Cathay Pacific A350 arrives in Australia

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David Taylor sad and angry witnesses 'didn't help'

Footprints, tyre marks and a patch of ground free of snow where a car was previously parked are pictured on a parking ...

World of Photos

Sherlock

Brand new season of Sherlock now streaming, Only on Stan.

Stan - Billions

Binge every episode of Billions before the brand new season - 20th Feb

Meghan Markle opens up about racial abuse online

Mary Ward

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Claudia Karvan robed and bewigged in Newton's Law.

Claudia Karvan is back - as a top notch lawyer in new ABC drama

Craig Mathieson

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in the original <i>Star Wars</i>.

Yoda was wrong: after Rogue One, the future for Star Wars is clear

Garry Maddox

Hillary Clinton on the day after her election loss.

Hillary Clinton to pen reflections in two book deal

Linda Morris

Michelle Guthrie became the first female managing director of the ABC in 2016.

Dear Michelle Guthrie, here's how to fix the ABC

COMMENT
Debi Enker

Fairfax entertainment reporter Ebony Bowden takes on the <i>I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!</i> tucker trial... ...

Eye of fish and blood of goat: a real I'm A Celeb... tucker trial

Ebony Bowden

Tziporah Malkah is on <i>I'm a Celebrity</i> to raise funds for a homeless woman's shelter.

Tziporah Malkah 'hates' being defined by Packer

Ebony Bowden

<i>Pitch Perfect 2</I> gave its director, Elizabeth Banks, the second biggest opening ever for a female director.

Hollywood diversity: Male film directors outweigh women 24:1

Linda Morris

I'll scratch your back, Kyle, if you scratch mine, purrs Bek on Wednesday night's MKR.

MKR cranks up the procreation theme between the singles

Aja Styles

Matthew McConaughey, as Kenny Wells, looks for investors by phone in a Las Vegas bar. There's nothing but grit to cling ...

Fat, daggy and bald - this gold digger is no Gordon Gecko

Paul Byrnes

Cabaret: Snappy and vivid but with much of the spontaneity boiled off.

Vivid and snappy but there's something lacking here

Jason Blake

We'd forgotten how to protest: Ross Mueller with actor Justin Smith.

Here's the funny thing about George Brandis ... no, really

Elissa Blake

A photo from the facebook page of Alexandre Bissonnette

We need to wake up to the radicalisation of white men

COMMENT
Celeste Liddle

<i>Hidden Figures</I> opened to a much wider number of screens than the small-scale effort its modest budget and 'niche' ...

How the film industry can do right by women this year

Clem Bastow

Single parent Erin O'Dwyer with her twins when they were babies, Ambrose (right) and Clancy (left).

My day as a 'lazy' single mother of twin boys

Erin O'Dwyer

Sarah Paulson attends the 28th Annual Producers Guild Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 28, 2017 in Beverly ...

Red carpet wrap: Sarah Paulson's frock is a Velvet Goldmine

Beyonce shows off her baby bump in an Instagram post announcing her pregnancy.

Beyonce just perfected the art of the pregnancy announcement

Annie Brown

A little girl doesn't come to the conclusion that girls aren't as brilliant as boys because one person told her so.

Study reveals true terror of raising daughters

COMMENT
Ben Pobjie

Barack Obama is on holidays in the British Virgin Islands.

Obama spotted in backwards cap and people are not coping

Mary Ward

David Jones Fashion parade.

David Jones launches one of its strongest winter campaigns

Jenna Clarke

Clean or confused?

A diet in disguise? How 'clean eating' became a dirty phrase

Sarah Berry

Stand up to cheer up.

Getting up can cheer you up

GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

From 'torture' device to modern convenience.

The treadmill's weird history

Mike Plunkett

What do chefs put in their kids' lunchbox?

What do Sydney chefs put in their children's lunchboxes?

Quay's new uni dish

Watch Peter Gilmore make Quay's new uni dish

Spices can play a key part of good health.

The top four spices to keep in your pantry (for flavour and health)

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'Get off your phone!': the daycare note that's got people talking

This Year Three student has no time for homework.

Kid's hilarious response to homework is all sass

Your kids are watching you more closely than you realise.

Check yourself on these 8 things before your kid becomes a teen

Hong Kong has been named the world's most visited city.

Not Paris or New York: The world's most visited city named

Sinead Pearson
1 hr ago

Tourists taking photos at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.

There's a time and a place for selfies, and this is not one of them

Anthony Faiola

Iririki Island Resort & Spa, Vanuatu.

Why you need to visit the Pacific paradise on our doorstep

Paul Chai

Telstra customers are experiencing widespread disruptions.

Telstra experiencing nationwide outage

1 hr ago

The Pixel 2 should be more refined in a lot of ways, including build quality.

All the big Android phones to expect In 2017

Hideo Kojima.

Famed designer Hideo Kojima on auteur games, going independent

Apple's iPhone 7

Apple beats Samsung for first time in years

Mobile advertising made up about 84 percent of total ad revenue in the quarter, Facebook said.

Facebook sales top estimates on ad gains

2016 Alfa Romeo Giulia QV.

Alfa Romeo Giulia QV sold out

Jonathan Hawley

2017 Mercedes-AMG E63 S

Mercedes' fastest wagon revealed

Andrew MacLean

NFL quarterback Cam Newton stars with Miranda Kerr in Buick's Super Bowl commercial.

Super Bowl LI car ads revealed

Dom Tripolone

The iconic McLaren F1 was powered by a BMW supplied engine.

McLaren and BMW team up for new engine

Dom Tripolone

Mercedes-AMG GT R

Mercedes-AMG GT-R price revealed

Andrew MacLean

2017 HSV GTSR W1.

Driven: HSV GTSR W1

Stephen Ottley

Last dance: Danny Green and Anthony Mundine.

I am a matador: Mundine bullish about last dance with Green

Steve Larkin
1 hr ago

Fittest man in sevens: Ed Jenkins leads the way.

What makes a perfect rugby sevens player?

Cameron Mee

Bidding farewell - for now: Ben Barba.

Barba banned from Brisbane Tens as ARU stand in sync with rival code

UPDATED
Adrian Proszenko

"Our rationale behind the trials shift is to create 'more and significant competition' leading into our benchmark ...

Swimming Australia copies US to ensure Rio failure is not repeated

Phil Lutton

News/Sport. Official preview and pre launch of the Westside at Acton Park. Tennis star, Nick Kyrgios, was on hand to ...

Kyrgios given chance to shoot hoops with Sydney Kings

EXCLUSIVE
Adrian Proszenko

AFLW players are the top talent in their sport.

Don't write off the AFLW simply because it is women playing footy

COMMENT
Claire Siracusa

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 05: Brandon O'Neill of Sydney FC celebrates a goal scored by David Carney of Sydney FC ...

Sydney prepared for another dogfight against Roar 'bad boys'

Dominic Bossi

Under pressure: St George coach Paul McGregor knows he needs to deliver this season.

Dragons coach faces career-defining choices

Adrian Proszenko

Gaining experience: Sam Heazlett.

Match abandoned due to fears over wet outfield

Cameron Mee
1 hr ago

Six wicket haul: Yuzvendra Chahal celebrates the dismissal of England's Ben Stokes.

England lose eight wickets for eight runs

Jonathan Liew

Brutal assessment: Trevor Hohns, pictured with Australia cricket coach Darren Lehmann.

Player's union slams Hohns over 'earth shattering' White sledge

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