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SMH News Sydney swelters through another night, as swimmers hit the beach just after 6am when the temperature sits at 27C.

Sydney suffers through scorcher

Sydneysiders who tossed and turned their way through yet another stifling night can rest assured: relief is on its way on Monday afternoon.

Interstate players on the Greater Western Sydney Giants women's team share two duplexes in Condell Park, Sydney.

Meet the Condell Crew

15 interstate GWS Giants recruits playing in the inaugural AFL Women’s season who are all bunking together in a south-western Sydney duplex.

A pet dog wearing a sweater looks on from the roof of a house on the outskirts of New Delhi, India,

World of Photos

A selection of photographs from around the world by Fairfax photo editors. Follow us on Twitter and check out our photography club Clique

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

A selection of photographs from around the world by Fairfax photo editors. Follow us on Twitter and check out our photography club Clique

An Olive-backed Sunbird feeds an insect to its two chicks in their nest in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia.

World of Photos

A selection of photographs from around the world by Fairfax photo editors. Follow us on Twitter and check out our photography club Clique

A hippopotamus dives in its pool at the zoo in Berlin, Germany.

World of Photos

A selection of photographs from around the world by Fairfax photo editors. Follow us on Twitter and check out our photography club Clique

A mural of U.S. President Donald Trump is displayed on the side of a home on January 27, 2017 in Tijuana, Mexico.

World of Photos, Jan 29

A selection of photographs from around the world by Fairfax photo editors. Follow us on Twitter and check out our photography club Clique

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 27: Jeffery Tor, shows his son Kobi the giant snake rooster installation, next to the Sydney ...

Chinese New Year 2017

Happy Lunar New Year! Welcome to the year of the fire rooster, when all your dreams could come true.

Abbey Haberecht, Oakhill College Castle Hill Self-Portrait (But I Don?t Fit the Stereotype) 2016 documented forms

ARTEXPRESS 2017

ARTEXPRESS 2017 will showcase outstanding student artworks created by NSW students for the Higher School Certificate Visual Arts examination in 2016.

Swimmers at Maroubra Beach scramble as the southerly change brings relief after temperatures reached 38 degrees today. ...

Extreme weather hits NSW

Extreme weather hit NSW today with temperatures surging up into into the forties; bush-fires burning in the Hunter Valley and thunderstorms bashing the coastline.

Isabella Busse , 6, walks through floodwater near the Seal Beach Pier during a storm in Seal Beach, Calif., Sunday, Jan. ...

World of Photos

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by Fairfax picture editors

The chaos on Bourke Street on Friday, January 20.

Melbourne CBD horror

Shots have reportedly been fired and pedestrians have been run down during a police chase in Bourke Street in the middle of Melbourne's CBD.