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Police are searching for two men who used an axe to break into several Canberra businesses on Monday night.

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Senator Jacqui Lambie has accused unnamed figures within the NSW RSL of trying to drive out the league's chief executive.

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Multiple houses are threatened by a grassfire that has broken out in Calder Park in Melbourne's south-west.

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The inaugural match of the AFLW league between Carlton and Collingwood on Friday night was an attendance and broadcast-ratings success.

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Three children caught measles this week after they had contact with an non-vaccinated child in Rockingham.

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The judge's order suggests travel restrictions could be lifted immediately and represents a major challenge to the Trump administration.

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Hawaiian Pierce Murphy has won the 2017 Sydney Morning Herald 10km Sun Run in 31 minutes and 46 seconds.

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Snap is aiming to adopt the most shareholder-unfriendly governance in an initial public offering, ever.

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You can forget the fish fingers for today's discerning diners

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A man has been charged with more than 20 offences following the four-hour chase.

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Police are hunting for a man who its feared is stalking children in fast food restaurants across the Perth metropolitan area.

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Feel you have missed out on a really hot summer Melbourne so far? You are right, but also wrong.

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China-backed developer Sterling Global is snapping up another high-profile Melbourne site.

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A man's body was discovered on the rocks in Coogee Beach early on Saturday morning.

The Book of Mormon's stereotypes of everyday members and missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are spot on.

The morning after the biggest match of her life, Carlton's goal-kicking star Darcy Vescio says she is still "buzzing" after the Blues claimed an historic win in a "rough" opening match of the AFLW season before of a sell-out crowd.

Police have released CCTV vision of a man they want to speak to over the armed robbery.

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Why are people close to US President Donald Trump seemingly leaking to the media like a sieve?

Man and woman dead while mother-to-be and toddler injured after two crashes on Queensland roads.

Sunscreen sellers across Australia are competing for a slice of the sun-care dollar in a country with one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.

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One of two teenage boys arrested in Bankstown last year, allegedly moments away from an Islamic State-inspired knife attack, spiralled into mental breakdown after he was detained and tortured during a family holiday in Egypt, his father says.

The man suspected of lunging at a French soldier with machetes near the entrance to the Louvre has been identified as a 29-year-old Egyptian on a tourist visa.

The teenager was last seen leaving an Upper Mount Gravatt school on Friday afternoon.

Asian tourists have spearheaded double-digit growth in international visitations to Queensland, with a 13 per cent increase in the year to September 2016.

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All the action from the Sydney Sevens as New Zealand look to defend their title in the mens competition.

We are being taken on a tour that Dharma Diani grimly calls "rubble tourism".

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Follow full live coverage of the fourth edition of the NRL Auckland Nines from Eden Park.

The NRL has changed the way it views a shoulder charge, saying the amendments make things "clearer and simpler for fans and players".

US stocks rose as the Trump administration's plan to roll back financial regulations sparked a rally in bank shares.

President Donald Trump is moving to loosen rules enacted after the financial crisis that restrict the way Wall St operates.

They key to convincing people appears to be repetition – the more often something is said, the more likely it is to be regarded as true.

Wall Street banks will have to show they could survive a major global recession as part of an annual stress test by the Fed.

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The Reserve Bank board faces little pressure to adjust rates at its first meeting for the year on Tuesday after the BusinessDay Scope forecasting panel predicted a rarity - an entire year of steady rates.

In most years there’s room for one forecaster of the year. But not in 2016. Hardly any of our panel picked the dive in Australia’s growth rate to 1.8 per cent or the dive in the cash rate to a record-low 1.5 per cent. Wage growth was lower than all but the most pessimistic of the forecasts, and house prices ended the year far higher than the highest.

The market for US short-term interest rates has been abuzz with talk of a winning, hawkish bet on Federal Reserve policy.

Police sources say the man was trying to get into the museum's underground shop carrying a bag before he was shot and wounded.

As stock hedging goes, Brexit isn't the uppermost on investors' minds these days.

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One of the Liberal Party's top fundraising bodies has quietly begun bankrolling the organisations behind two of the Coalition's biggest crossbench supporters.

Falling volatility in currency markets suggests traders are getting used to the rhetoric in President Donald Trump's tweets.

New York: The Trump White House has given its clearest public commitment yet that it will honour the refugee agreement made with Australia even as the president's official spokesman got the name of Australia's prime minister wrong for the second day in a row.

Mohamed El-Erian said lacklustre wage growth in the US may prompt the Fed to pause before raising interest rates again.

BHP has asked the government to mediate with unionised workers at its Escondida copper mine in Chile, the world's largest.

Canadian department store operator Hudson's Bay has made a takeover approach for US department store chain Macy's.

Australian and American officials spent Friday scrambling to shore up the US refugee swap deal – and repair damage to the alliance relationship – amid signs that Donald Trump will likely follow through on the agreement with Malcolm Turnbull.

Key Trump aide Kellyanne Conway has taken "alternative facts" to a new level, citing a massacre that never happened to defend President Donald Trump's so-called 'Muslim ban'.

​Employers added a healthy 227,000 workers to their payrolls in January, the government reported.

Tensions between the US and Iran escalated on Friday as President Donald Trump prepared new sanctions and told Tehran it was "playing with fire."

Paramedics who fought to save victims injured in the tragic Bourke Street mall attack have released a powerful video message thanking members of the public.