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Australian men have been knocked off the top spot for world life expectancy, a new report published on Wednesday in The Lancet, has shown.

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Woolworths broke its 30-quarter losing stream by winning the second quarter sales race with Coles, posting a 3.1 per cent increase in same store sales for the second quarter compared to must 0.9 per cent growth at Coles.

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Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday arranged for his government to change laws that critics say will bulldoze what is left of Cambodia's opposition parties and political institutions.

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Western Australia's dire finances continue to overshadow even the most meritorious of election pledges, with no quick fix to the GST carve up in sight while costly promises including no tax hikes continue to flow thick and fast.

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Investigators searching through the wreckage of yesterday's fatal plane crash at Essendon Airport say they have already discovered several "interesting facets" to the incident.

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AFL legend Kevin Bartlett says the league should never have gotten rid of the umpires' bounce around the ground, and banning it altogether from the game would be wrong.

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Once home to Redfern's Aboriginal community, The Block will be transformed primarily into student accommodation, under new plans lodged by the Aboriginal Housing Corporation for the area's redevelopment.

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Greens leader Richard Di Natale has called for the decriminalisation of drug possession for personal use while campaigning in Perth for the WA election.

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West Australian Premier Colin Barnett and Opposition leader Mark McGowan will go head-to-head in an election debate on Wednesday night, hoping to sway voters prior to the state election on March 11.

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One of four American golfers who died when the plane they were in crashed into the back of DFO Essendon on Tuesday wrote about his fear of flying on social media, just days before his death.

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Shares are once again struggling to make ground despite strong support for Woolworths, as investors take profits on the miners amid the busiest day of reporting season yet.

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Blackmores' shares shed as much as $13 of their value on Wednesday morning after the vitamins and supplements powerhouse revealed that shifting channels into the all-important Chinese market had crunched its sales and profit.

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Greater Western Sydney CEO Dave Matthews claims other clubs "overrate" the Giants' academy prospects.

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Photographer Gary Sheppard talks about his latest mesmerising project

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Fortescue boss, Twiggy Forrest is set for a multi-million dollar pay day with the decision of the iron ore minder to hike the dividend amid a surge in earnings.

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A robber brandishing a firearm was no match for a 61-year-old man defending himself with a broom in a failed robbery north of Brisbane overnight.

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When Seven West Media wrote down the value of Yahoo7 by $75.5 million, it gave a shift to "programmatic advertising" as the reason.  What it failed to mention was the corporate regulator was also involved. 

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Residents in a suburb of Stockholm predominantly inhabited by immigrants have clashed with police, two days after Donald Trump singled out Sweden.

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Fairfax Media photographer Peter Braig joins us for our latest video tutorial for the March Challenge: Colour.

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French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron has claimed London for France, urging a packed rally of expat compatriots to return to their homeland – and bring the UK's bankers with them.

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Major air disasters are rare in Australia, but it wasn't always so.

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Video shows researchers delivering around 1900 watts of energy throughout a room thanks to a magnetic field.

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Liquor and Gaming NSW says it does not reveal individual venue data "due to legal advice".

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Despite its urgency, one of the Department of Homeland Security officials who briefed reporters on Tuesday insisted there would not be mass round-ups.

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Vladimir Putin is on a bit of a hot streak among Republicans of late.

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Stockland, one of the country's largest home developers, said the strong residential markets along the eastern seaboard, stable retail sales from its tenants and higher office rents going forward, will underpin its growth in the full year.

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Coca-Cola Amatil will close its manufacturing plant in South Australia, at a loss of about 180 jobs, and shift the work to Queensland as part of a $90 million reorganisation.

The results come as Fairfax prepares to separate its real estate classified site Domain and list it separately on the stock exchange. Fairfax is expected to keep a controlling stake - up to 70 per cent - which would ensure it captures the profits if earnings continue to increase at the same pace.

The controversy surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Australia has intensified.

The price of iron ore has surged higher still, reaching its highest level since mid-2014.

The emergence of Brisbane Roar's generation next has further underlined the pressing need for A-League expansion, coach John Aloisi says.

Peter Dutton concedes quid-pro-quo arrangement to take Central American refugees won't start until transfers begin from Manus Island and Nauru.

Just when you thought summer had disappeared, Melbourne's weather surprises again.

Melbourne great Garry Lyon says that Jack Watts omission from the squad of 29 to play the Bulldogs on the weekend is a timely reminder that new coach Simon Goodwin is going to put his own stamp on the team. 

Jake Bradley, the son of Carlton games record-holder Craig, will play for the club's VFL team, the Northern Blues, this year.

Kieran Foran says "big love" at the Warriors and from wider family in Auckland have him feeling positive about returning to play in the NRL.

Aussie hip hop act Bliss n Eso will play a tribute show to the Gold Coast stuntman killed while filming a music video for their latest single.

The rebound in oil - and gas - prices helped to propel Woodside Energy's earnings sharply higher in 2016 as it looks to higher output in the year ahead to maintain the growth momentum.

How Karen Ristevski, a woman 'so full of love and life', could be dumped in a shallow bush grave is unforgivable, her family say.

The head of Australia's central bank said on Wednesday the risks of encouraging more borrowing by already heavily indebted households argued against seeking a faster return of inflation to its target band, another sign rate cuts were off the table.

Australia's largest general insurer posted a 4.3 per cent fall in first-half net profit, but that's better than the market expected.

Smith says officers and a SWAT team were responding to the scene at Ben Taub Hospital, one of the hospitals that is part of the medical centre.

A former firefighter has admitted lighting two bushfires during horrendous weather conditions near Nabiac.

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Local shares are due for a strong open after Wall Street had another record night.

​Milo Yiannopoulos, the incendiary writer and commentator who helped make Breitbart News a leading organ of the "alt-right," resigned from the news organisation Tuesday after a video of him endorsing pedophilia surfaced online over the weekend.

One of the cafes allegedly affected by the recently salmonella outbreak reopened on Monday to huge community support after a forced closure by ACT Health, as Slater & Gordon confirm a rise in claim inquiries and one local woman remains in hospital since Monday, February 12.

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Preparing to drag small-time Aussie pirates through the courts, while sitting on The Lego Batman Movie for two months, Village Roadshow's crackdown sequel looks like a box office flop.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has refer allegations of illegal payments to the NSW Liberals

Under French military supervision, four golden eagle chicks hatched last year atop drones - born into a world of terror and machines they would be bred to destroy.