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Donald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Blood in the water for Trump's ticking time bomb

Paul McGeough
2 mins ago

Bach flower remedies are said to "correct emotional imbalances where negative emotions are replaced with positive."

Pharmacies caught out giving 'deeply concerning' advice

11 mins ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been given a mild reprove.

We dodged a bullet with heatwave - and Turnbull must acknowledge it

COMMENT
1 hr ago

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull both raised concerns with South Australia's ...

Coalition marriage on the rocks after Liberal deal with One Nation

COMMENT
53 mins ago

Robert Xie is escorted to a prison truck after being found guilty of the murder of the Lin family.

Xie learns his fate: Mass murderer will die in prison for killing family

BREAKING
37 mins ago

What did Coles expect? While they may claim that self-serve checkouts are more convenient for customers, the real point ...

Self checkouts have failed and this is the proof

COMMENT

What I do for the $37.05 that no one wants to pay

COMMENT

Man driving with kids stopped to light bushfires, police allege

45 mins ago

Uni launches review after agreeing to host controverisal dinner

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'Pathological liar': Concerns over Trump's mental health

Property investor blow: Bank to ignore negative gearing benefits

Steve White at his destroyed home in Uarbry, about 70 killometres west of Merriwa.

'It was horrendous': shock as villagers return to ruins

Matt O'Sullivan
1 hr ago

Adele: an early red carpet highlight.

Adele stuffs up live tribute to George Michael at Grammys

Live
1 hr ago

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Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.

SNL is simply exhausted when it comes to Trump

COMMENT

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Without bees, our meals would look pretty dire

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Hole in tallest US dam grows

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Adele: an early red carpet highlight.

All the frocks on the Grammy Awards red carpet

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge attend the 70th EE British Academy Film Awards ...

Duchess of Cambridge shines on BAFTAs red carpet

Balancing act: Erin Holland fills the Moet et Chandon champagne fountain at Royal Randwick.

There's one thing Sydneysiders will always judge you on

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"Snails ate our mail", said one taxpayer who didn't lodge his tax return on time.

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"Snails ate our mail", said one taxpayer who didn't lodge his tax return on time.

'Snails eat our mail': The best excuses the ATO hears

Nassim Khadem

Women and children in a makeshift house they share with six others in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, ...

Why do we care more about a travel ban than a genocide?

Ruby Hamad

Traffic on New South Wales Crescent in Barton. Telopea Park school parents want the road closed and made part of the ...

It shouldn't be this hard to get children to school

COMMENT
Stephen Greaves

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Principals are cracking down on parents who try to beat the enrolment rules.

Crackdown on families trying to game Sydney school catchments

Alexandra Smith
37 mins ago

Sydney mum's heartfelt vaccine warning

No guilt: Parents spending their kids' inheritance

Heat records kept tumbling on a hot Saturday.

Heatwave leaves NSW as the hottest place on the planet

Peter Hannam

Scammers often create believable profiles, including stealing the identities of real, trusted people such as military ...

How lonely hearts scammers upped their game to net $25m

David Morabito.

Sydney father killed, four injured in popular water-ski race

Local band members Pat, Sam and Alex play in the outdoor courtyard of the Harold Park Hotel in Glebe.

Call for councils to back off after Harold Park live music furore

Domino's worker Tosif Varsi faces imminent deportation after the franchisee he was working for lost his store.

'I am so desperate': Ex-Domino's manager to be deported within days

Yusuf Ozyilmaz is among the taxi drivers protesting.

Why we are protesting: Taxi licence owner explains blockade

VIC

An extensive investigation resulted in a man being charged with raping a woman in Brisbane's north.

Carer charged with raping woman with disability

QLD

Taylor Street bridge in the East Northam on February 11 after flooding reached its peak.

Second man feared dead after floods wreak havoc in WA

WA

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during question time at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 13 February 2017. Photo: ...

PM leaves door open to review Medicare rebate freeze

Live
Stephanie Peatling
10 mins ago

Turnbull government ties welfare cuts to NDIS funding

Adam Gartrell
35 mins ago

Tax sink hole: Gas multinationals claim $50b more in credits

Heath Aston
48 mins ago

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has played politics over same-sex marriage but complains that the Coalition are doing the ...

Hypocrisy, thy name is politics

COMMENT
Mark Kenny
53 mins ago

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 07: Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce speaks at the Qld Media Club event on December 7, ...

Nationals, Liberals divided over preference deal with One Nation

Federal government ministers might think it hilarious to bring lumps of coal into the House of Representatives and talk ...

Brandishing coal in a heatwave? Morrison might as well fiddle

COMMENT
Peter Hannam
1 hr ago

Statements from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government blaming 2016's South Australian blackout on the state's ...

PM and ministers told wind not to blame for SA blackout

EXCLUSIVE

Lake Oroville Dam in California.

Evacuations start below tallest dam in the US

1 hr ago

Donald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Trump's security adviser in trouble over calls to Russian envoy

Paul McGeough
2 mins ago

Alejandro Toledo is accused of receiving millions of dollars in bribes from a Brazilian conglomerate in return for ...

Peru president asks Trump to consider deporting wanted ex-leader

1 hr ago

Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders says President Donald Trump is a liar.

Bernie Sanders calls Donald Trump a 'pathological liar'

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull both raised concerns with South Australia's ...

The Liberal-National marriage is on the rocks

COMMENT
Andrew P Street
53 mins ago

President Donald Trump is quickly finding out the US Bill of Rights means he can't have everything his own way.

We are ill-prepared for our own version of Trump

COMMENT
George Williams

Conservative senator Cory Bernardi speaks at the anti-halal fundraiser in Melbourne.

Small-l liberal voters have been abandoned in the race to the right

COMMENT
Tim Dick

Warning: Snails are known mail eaters.

'Snails eat our mail': The best excuses the ATO hears

Nassim Khadem

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Markets Live: Miners on a roll

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Jens Meyer

Ansell said it had strong interest from a group of potential buyers.

Ansell close to selling condom business

Patrick Hatch

Achoe Malarone, 41, was a store manager when he took more than $22,500 from tills at Phillip and Belconnen JB Hi-Fi stores.

What slump? JB Hi-Fi defies retail gloom with profit surge

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Sears, Kmart join Nordstrom in dumping Trump brands

Property investor blow: Bank to ignore negative gearing breaks

Clancy Yeates

Domino's shares fall on wage fraud allegations

Patrick Hatch

JB Hi-Fi sales up 23.6 per cent, beating estimates

Catie Low

A man walks inside the fenced off area on the Euston Road side of Sydney Park.

Residents fear Alexandria will soon become 'unliveable'

Seemingly harmless items in your home could pose the greatest danger.

The most dangerous decor items in your home

Jane Hall says given her interests, she doesn't make too many furniture and design mistakes.

Why actor Jane Hall prefers living by herself

House prices falling? Try telling that to first home buyers in Sydney and Melbourne.

Melbourne overtakes Sydney on list of world's most dynamic cities

Photo: Noah Darnell | Lauren Bryan Knight

Working from home? How to maintain a work-life balance

Herringbone and Rhodes & Beckett have confirmed that seven of their stores will close immediately.

No mercy: Retail reaper moves on Herringbone, Rhodes & Beckett

Men's Style
5 mins ago

The Vacheron Constantin Historiques Cornes de Vache 1955.

An old-school Swiss watch legend finally joins the digital age

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Nicole helps… identify a good financial adviser

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Superannuation is a safe place to keep your cash if you have a partner who gambles.

How to plan for the future if your partner gambles

George Cochrane

Laser technician Hilary Quinn says tattooing is back in fashion leading to steady business.

In the business of tattoo regret

Cara Waters

Peggy Willcox, owner of Mooney Real Estate, had to let someone go for inappropriate dress.

How to #DressLikeAWoman in small business

Sylvia Pennington

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Liberals to direct preferences to One Nation

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Usain Bolt's All-Stars sweep Nitro series

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Wild weather continues across Australia

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Trump weighs revised travel ban

An animatronic baby is displayed during the press preview for the 'Robots' exhibition at the Science Museum in London.

World of Photos.

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Beyonce performs at the 2017 Grammys.

Pregnant Beyonce wows Grammys with gilded ode to motherhood

Broede Carmody
1 hr ago

'I need to start this again' ... Adele performs at the 2017 Grammys.

Adele's brutal stuff-up at Grammys over George Michael

Live
Rob Moran
1 hr ago

LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 12: Nicole Kidman attends the 70th EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) at Royal Albert ...

Sorry Nic, La La Land continues awards season domination

Broede Carmody

Broadcaster Alan Jones wrote to Premier Mike Baird about John Boyd's development proposal for Cooks Cove.

Jones set to return to work, details 'unbelievable pain'

Broede Carmody

Winner: 25-year-old Australian Flume claimed the Grammy for best dance/electronic album.

Flume wins award for best dance album at Grammys

Broede Carmody

Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.

Has SNL exhausted Trump material or are just exhausted

COMMENT

Joanne Lees.

Joanne Lees reveals she has an Australian father on 60 Minutes

Neil McMahon

Josh Lawson in Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story

Lawson's ridiculous hair isn't only thing wrong with Hoges

COMMENT
Karl Quinn

No more farewells: Rock legend Suzi Quatro in Sydney.

Put some clothes on, veteran rocker tells youngsters

Sarah Thomas

Phillip Johnston: Surprises abound in his new work.

Twelve gun musos all fire together after just one rehearsal

John Shand

Tan Dun

Collision of art music and folk tunes adds little to either

Peter McCallum

Blue Ivy Carter and Jay Z waiting for Beyonce to perform at the Grammys on February 12 in LA.

Grammy Awards 2017 best dressed: Beyonce's daughter Blue Ivy as Prince

Amy Croffey
1 min ago

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge attend the 70th EE British Academy Film Awards ...

Photos: Duchess of Cambridge shines on BAFTAs red carpet

Meryl Streep arrives at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall on Sunday, Jan. ...

'Catastrophic': Meryl Streep in fresh attack on Trump

Adele: an early red carpet highlight.

Grammys frocks and shocks: Stars go to absurd lengths

Jenna Clarke

Portrait of Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 29 August 2016. Photo: Alex ...

Sarah Hanson-Young on what it's like to be a 'fly in, fly out' mum

Joanne Brookfield

Actress Kate Bosworth is seen arriving at the Calvin Klein Collection fashion show with new chief creative officer Raf ...

Kate Bosworth is wearing fake Calvin Klein to NYFW

Mary Ward

Laverne Cox is feeling herself on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards.

Laverne Cox is as obsessed with Beyonce as everybody else

Annie Brown

Singer Joy Villa makes a statement.

Social media mixed on Trump-inspired dress at Grammys

Annie Brown

Mergler and Hazelden finish their day with the run leg. They welcome supporters joining in.

Illness and heatwave don't stop couple's marathon effort

Sarah Berry

Bodyweight exercises are good, hand taping optional

Determining workout depending on your age

Lindsey Metrus

A supplement that may be able to give you a kick-start.

Could this anti-ageing supplement help prevent diabetes?

Paula Goodyer

Snapper in crazy water Photograph by William Meppem

No-red-meat weekly meal planner

Spiced doughnuts with blood orange and whey butterscotch at Pei Modern, Sydney.

Mark Best shuts Sydney restaurant Pei Modern

Pete Evans' paleo butter chicken with cauliflower rice

Pete Evans's healthy butter chicken without the butter

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'Women should have to take their husband's surname': study

She is still a mother who just always wants the very best for her child.

A note from the mother of 'that' child

Photo: Jaime Fahs Nystuen/Facebook

Boy's traumatic haircut prompts act of kindness from stranger

The Premium Economy offering from Qantas.

Flight test: There's a reason why Qantas premium is in high demand

Alison Stewart

The Trevi Fountain is Rome's most romantic spot.

The world's 10 best places to be on Valentine's Day

Brian Johnston

The real cost of plane of turnarounds - it's not just about angry passengers.

The reason why fast turnarounds are essential for airlines

Samsung said it retrieved 96 per cent of the more than three million Note 7s it had sold and activated.

Who owns your phone: you or its manufacturer?

Be sure that your dreams of romance don't turn into a nightmare this Valentine's Day,

Valentine's Day: beware lonely hearts scammers

LoL OPL 2017

Esports: all the latest action from LoL's Aussie league

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Google's test of AI's killer instinct

Gizmodo

Magic Leap promises to overlay interactive graphics onto real life.

Magic Leap device spotted for first time

BMW Australia has confirmed the X2 is coming to local showrooms

BMW confirms X2, X7 SUVs for Oz

Drive Staff
56 mins ago

2017 Isuzu D-Max.

Isuzu's new HiLux rival reviewed

Drive Staff

2017 Volkswagen Golf.

New high-tech VW Golf revealed

David McCowen

Mercedes-Maybach G 650 Landaulet ;*Kraftstoffverbrauch kombiniert: 17,0 l/100 km, CO2-Emissionen kombiniert: 397 g/km ...

Mercedes' million-dollar bush basher

Greg Kable

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Aston Martin DB11 road test

Andrew MacLean

2017 Maserati Levante.

Maserati Levante to double local sales

Jez Spinks
1 hr ago

NRL player Semi Radradra arrives at Parramatta court.

'I used my hands on her': Semi accused of punching partner

Melanie Kembrey
1 hr ago

Jockey Josh Cartwright.

Jockey suspended for 18 months over 'worst ride in Australia'

Patrick Bartley
13 mins ago

Robbie Farah had a solid hit-out for the Rabbitohs at the weekend.

Big questions confronting your NRL club in 2017

Michael Chammas

Hobbled: Brett Stewart was restricted to just 11 games in 2016.

What Parramatta could prove to NRL that Manly could not

Michael Chammas

Dean Jones spoke to Chris Smith.

Was this the most baffling axing in Australian cricket history?

Tim Lane

OTTAWA, ON - FEBRUARY 5: Chair umpire Arnaud Gabas reacts to getting hit in the eye with a ballbhit by Denis Shapovalov ...

The true cost of Denis Shapovalov's attack on umpire

Sharks coach Shane Flanagan had a video of Wigan's 26-16 win over Salford emailed to him while in transit at Abu Dhabi.

Flanagan warns Wigan not to turn on the biff

Steve Mascord

Andrea Petkovic said the incident was "the epitome of ignorance".

Germans outraged as US plays Nazi-era version of anthem

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 12: The Chiefs celebrate their victory after the Rugby Global Tens Final match between ...

'Shocking start to the day:' Chiefs rally to take title for fallen mate

Phil Lutton

Try time: Gael Fickou of France dives over to score his team's opening try.

Scotland the Brave wilt in the face of power

Richard Bath

Lote Tuqiri, of the Waratahs, passes during the Rugby Global Tens match between Waratahs and Rebels at Suncorp Stadium.

Ten reasons the Tens are better than the Sevens

Phil Lutton

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