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Police search the Murray River for the missing boy.

'Imminent risk': Authorities warned before drowning

BREAKING
25 mins ago

Snapchat co-founders Bobby Murphy, left, and CEO Evan Spiegel, center, ring the opening bell at the New York Stock ...

How can Snap lose so much money yet be worth $45b?

ANALYSIS

Mark Manton

'Quite ruthless:' 12-year career over in 30 minutes

25 mins ago

The mother of the two boys has been charged with attempted murder.

One broke free, so mother held other son's head under: police

UPDATED
33 mins ago

Willoughby has been home to the Nine Network for 50 years.

Goodbye Willoughby: Nine Network announces new home

A syphilis outbreak in northern Australia has seen notifications of the infection skyrocket in Indigenous communities.

The national sexual health crisis nobody is talking about

EXCLUSIVE
42 mins ago

Sessions revelations are much more than so-called 'witch-hunt'

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Wet weekend ahead with risk of storms, flash flooding for city

Questions raised over Baird's salary at new NAB job

UPDATED
1 hr ago

Bunnings swoops on Masters sites to drive major expansion

The Liberals are now tarnishing One Nation by association

COMMENT
Andrew P Street

The Rabbitohs will be hoping Robbie Farah can put last season behind him and rediscover his best form.

Wests Tigers show no mercy as Farah takes on his former side

Live
James Lemon

Hussein Hatem 10 sits inside his families tent at Khazer Camp 1 home to 38,000 internall displaced Iraqi's who have fled ...

'Last time I see you': Kids gathered for school beheading

Nicholas Harding and the 'tasteless' painting

The time I decided to lick a Van Gogh masterpiece

Nick Kyrgios plays a return to Serbia's Novak Djokovic.

Kyrgios gives serving masterclass to defeat former World No. 1

Some managers desperately crave being liked.

So, you're the boss: Why it's important for staff to like you

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Venice Beach locals feel pushed out by Snapchat

Elle McPherson at Industry Beans in Fitzroy.

Elle on keeping it real

The fall in cocoa prices decline is expected to make finished cocoa and chocolate products cheaper.

Sweet news: Chocolate is about to get cheaper

Lorde returns with a pop-focused new single, Green Light.

Lorde is back and she's not the same girl

COMMENT

2013 NRL Grand Final. Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles v Sydney Roosters. Picture shows Sydney Roosters Cheerleaders. ANZ ...

The NRL's cheerleaders are from another time

COMMENT

Just reward: Coach Brad Arthur was recognised for his work over what was a cursed season for Parramatta.

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Just reward: Coach Brad Arthur was recognised for his work over what was a cursed season for Parramatta.

To hell and back: How Arthur kept the Eels afloat

Michael Chammas

Australians' wellbeing improved at more than double the rate of growth in gross domestic product in 2016.

Now for the good news: Life got better for Aussies in 2016

Matt Wade
15 mins ago

Alastair MacGibbon, Cyber Security Special Adviser to the Prime Minister, during a "Lunch with" at the Dickson Dumpling ...

PM's cyber security adviser has no time for hackers

Fergus Hunter
1 hr ago

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Firefighters at the intersection of Eddy Avenue, where a burst water main has clogged traffic.

Flooding cuts access to Central Station for buses and light rail

Shot dead in his driveway after feud over prized bike

The 10,000 pieces of evidence that will settle the homework wars

Nurse Mary Louise Wallace was last seen getting into Robert Adams' car in September 1983.

'Extremely grave': Killer jailed for 20 years after decades on the run

1 hr ago

Les Goldmann says the hearing aid industry is ripping Australians off.

'They don't tell you they're getting commissions': Les' bill shock

Esther Han

Tim Macpherson had just moved into a new home with his family.

Search for answers as young father killed in work accident

Emergency services treat one of the swimmers pulled from the water.

Man dies, woman fights for life in Bondi swimming tragedy

UPDATED

The drugs were concealed in items posted from China and Hong Kong to Sydney, police say.

Chinese drug syndicate members charged over record 300kg drug haul

1 hr ago

Karen Ristevski.

Ristevski to be laid to rest two weeks after her body was found

VIC

A Queensland University Technology administration officer is now facing having to pay costs of up to six figures to ...

Judge denies QUT admin officer's 18C racism appeal

QLD

Mark McGowan and Colin Barnett

Poll indicates Labor could fall agonisingly short of win

WA

A syphilis outbreak in northern Australia has seen notifications of the infection skyrocket in Indigenous communities.

A national sexual health crisis nobody is talking about

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Koziol
42 mins ago

Coalition MP Entsch makes kamikaze penalty rates pledge

James Massola

Lunch with: Cybercop has no time for hackers

Fergus Hunter
1 hr ago

One of the two new Australian Joint Strike Fighters at the Avalon Airshow

Australia's first Joint Strike Fighters unveiled

Summonsed home: DFAT is trying to wrangle 113 Very Important Diplomats back to Australia.

Foreign affairs aghast: Only $1.1m to fly diplomats home?

SKETCH

Khaled Sharrouf is the only known case of an Australian terrorist being stripped of their citizenship under the laws.

'Sensational beat-up': Ministers at odds on anti-terror laws

Penalty rates: "This is a matter that the Government has not decided."

MPs could lose seats unless PM intervenes on penalties: polls

EXCLUSIVE

The Dalai Lama is keen to meet US President-elect Donald Trump.

Dalai Lama sides with Myanmar's Rohingya

Lindsay Murdoch

Imposing visa requirements on Americans could hurt tourism in Europe.

Europeans press for Americans to lose visa-free status to EU

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, centre,on Thursday.

Marine Le Pen loses immunity over IS tweets

Jared Kushner met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak at Trump Tower.

More Trump officials embroiled in Russian envoy scandal

Pauline Hanson's One Nation might not be the political force in WA politics.

The Liberals are now tarnishing One Nation by association

COMMENT
Andrew P Street

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: his character divides into "good Malcolm" and "bad Malcolm".

Men, are they just too emotional to govern?

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley

Marta Dusseldorp as JANET KING in JANET KING. A Screentime production for ABCTV. Photo by Ben Timony

Where are the working-class characters on today's Australian TV?

COMMENT
Sarah Attfield

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Banks may rue not facing a royal commission

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Founder of Boost Juice Janine Allis speaking at the Sage Summit.

Millionaire's top advice for entrepreneurs: Marry well

Cara Waters

microcap

Extraordinary battle under way at Contango MicroCap

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Snapchat co-founders Bobby Murphy, left, and CEO Evan Spiegel, center, ring the opening bell at the New York Stock ...

How can Snap lose so much money yet be worth $45b?

ANALYSIS

Movies make the $26.5b toy industry go round

Volatile week leaves ASX in the red

Jessica Sier

Goodbye Willoughby: Nine finds a new home

Carolyn Cummins

Bunnings swoops on Masters sites to drive major expansion

Catie Low

327 Albion Street, Brunswick

Starting from scratch: how to build your own property portfolio

Knowing the right way to wash, dry and buy bedding is essential for a good night's sleep.

Thread count is a myth: The lies you've been told about bedding

Vanessa De Groot explains how apartment oversupply affects hopeful buyers, like those pictured at an auction in Woollahra.

Is our fear of an oversupply of units in Sydney justified?

Nicola Powell

The Design Files has become one of Australia's most design blogs.

Ten must-follow Instagram accounts for interior design lovers

Gone to a new home.

Potts Point building owners poised to cash in on developer demand

A well-proportioned sleeve can make tiny hands look normal.

There's something very different about Donald Trump

La Corniche ticks all boxes.

Big business: The boutique hotels wooing high-flying CEOs

First Class

The truth is, not everyone can afford to buy a home and renting is cheaper than buying.

The case against letting first-home buyers use super

Noel Whittaker

Beyonce hires help to free up her precious time, and you can do the same.

The secret to finding more time

Catherine Robson

Founder of Boost Juice Janine Allis speaking at the Sage Summit.

Janine Allis' advice to entrepreneurs: Marry well

Cara Waters

Father and son team Ben and Bill Stuth run Bill & Ben The Electrical Men.

The rise of the iTradie

Cara Waters

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Expect more flash flooding Sydney

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Police raid major international drug ring

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Ferrari pays tribute to Australian landscape

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Sweden to reintroduce national service

A blue sky and white clouds are reflected in a street mirror in Frankfurt, Germany,

World of Photos

Stan - Imposters

Liar. Lover. Con artist - Imposters, new series premiering exclusively on Stan

Stan - Adventure time

Adventure Time Seasons 1-7 now streaming on Stan

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Hit the road and escape the city

Advertiser Content

Ten activities to aid toddler development

Advertiser Content

The latest incarnation of King Kong.

Nothing can topple King Kong: Tom Hiddleston

Michael Idato

Germaine Greer in 1970, at the height of her campaign for women's rights.

Trailblazing feminist Germaine Greer's secrets revealed

Gina McColl

Elle McPherson at Industry Beans in Fitzroy.

Elle Macpherson on business, health and her vegan, digital detox

Melissa Singer

Ed Sheeran had a year off but the new album shows him happy, settled and hit-filled

REVIEW: Ed Sheeran's album will divide and conquer the charts

Bernard Zuel

Martha L. Ruiz and Brian Cullinan from PricewaterhouseCoopers at the Oscars in Los Angeles.

Oscars debacle accountants given bodyguards following threats

Rob Moran

Ryan Corr.

Ryan Corr explains why they made the sequel no one asked for

Karl Quinn

Lorde returns with a pop-focused new single, Green Light.

Watch Lorde's return single filled with heartbreak and dancebeats

COMMENT
Bernard Zuel

Kris Smith was the fourth celebrity voted out of the show.

Kris Smith reveals he walked out on relationship with Minogue

Rob Moran

Nicholas Harding and the 'tasteless' painting

'It was tasteless': Artist licks priceless Van Gogh

Peter Munro

Compelling: Kate Mulvany

'King' Kate brings crowd to their feet in peerless performance

Jason Blake

Cate Blanchett in The Blind Giant Is Dancing 1995 by Steven Sewell Belvoir Street Theatre .

'There was an urgent sadness in her eyes ... a melancholy beauty'

Henry Zwartz

Actress Lisa Kudrow was told on the set of Friends she was only appealing once she had make-up on.

Lisa Kudrow was told she wasn't 'f---able' without makeup

Annie Brown

New York comedian Jenn Welch.

Woman tells Tinder matches her dad died and shares the hilarious replies

Lisa Bonos

Models wear a creation for Dries Van Noten's Fall-Winter 2017-2018 ready to wear fashion collection presented in Paris, ...

The most memorable moments from Paris Fashion Week so far

All Kate Iselin has to say about the creepy new dating show is "Hello, custom boyfriend!"

This strange new dating show might be onto something

Kate Iselin

Jane Fonda at the Golden Globes earlier this year.

'I thought it was my fault': Jane Fonda reveals sexual abuse

1 hr ago

Why wasn't there as much outrage about the rate of child sexual abuse?

The outrage directed towards Kasey Edwards missed the point

COMMENT
Jane Gilmore

Solange Knowles looks angelic wearing a pretty white dress with sheer details and ruffles at the Chloé runway ...

The stylish celebrities sitting front row at Paris Fashion Week

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 25: CHANEL Ambassador Kristen Stewart, wearing CHANEL, attends the Charles Finch and CHANEL ...

Kristen Stewart adds edge to lace and other celebrity party pics

Olympic diver Greg Louganis.

How Greg Louganis survived and thrived after a HIV diagnosis

Sarah Berry

A good egg: What's the story?

Butter or olive oil? Eggs or no? New nutritional review cuts through the myths

Cara Rosenbloom

You don't have to abstain from food completely when you fast.

New intermittent fasting studies reignite debate about its benefits

Sarah Berry

Good Food. Andy Bowden cakes & savouries from his new Enmore shop. Photograph by Edwina Pickles. Taken on 1st March 2017.

Exclusive: First look inside Andrew Bowden's Saga cafe

Lee Tran Lam

An outrageous sandwich to rest your face on.

The verdict on ACME's new brunch menu: Order everything

Stop the snack attack

Five tricks to stop late-night snacking

Rhianna Truman, 17, with her four month old son.

After pausing cancer treatment to give birth, teen mum is dying

Some kids are raking in up to $40, but the average per pearly white is $2.62.

Kids receiving up to $40 per tooth as Tooth Fairy expectations rise

What happens when a school stops giving out homework?

What happened when a primary school stopped giving homework

A deep blue hole at the world famous Azure Window on Gozo island.

Move over, Mykonos: Europe's most beautiful, underrated islands

David Whitley

This is the world's most visited country, according to the figures. But where is it?

Traveller quiz: Which country gets the most international visitors?

Mal Chenu

The Alaska Train travelling along the shores of Turnagain Arm near Girdwood.

One of the world's greatest train journeys takes just four hours

Brian Johnston

A flat phone battery might lead to a fine.

Battery life the big issue for mobile phone users

The AWS outage lasted slightly more than four hours.

Amazon's cloud outage due to human error

Moving from portable to home console and back again is as easy as dropping the Switfch into its dock, or lifting it out.

Review: Hybrid console Nintendo Switch is simple, but smart

galaxys8

What to believe from the Galaxy S8 rumours

Kotaku

Artist impression of a habitable planet in the volcanic Hydrogen habitable Zone.

TRAPPIST 1: prospects for life getting better

Car v Bike: BMW M4 GTS v BMW S1000RR.

Car vs Bike: Which is faster?

Andrew MacLean

The go-anywhere image of SUVs has helped them outsell passenger cars in Australia.

SUVs sales overtake passenger cars

David McCowen

2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet.

Mercedes E-Class Cabrio revealed

Greg Kable

2017 Holden Astra sedan prototype.

Prototype drive: Holden Astra sedan

Andrew MacLean

2017 Volkswagen Passat Alltrack Wolfsburg Edition.

Driven: Volkswagen's anti-SUV

Stephen Ottley

2017 BMW 5-Series.

New BMW 5-Series reviewed

Drive Staff

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 03: David Nofoaluma of the Tigers takes a high ball ahead of Alex Johnston of the Rabbitohs ...

Tigers streak ahead to dampen Farah's impact for Souths

Live
James Lemon

Stink: Sam Kasiano and Will Chambers grapple at Belmore Sports Ground.

Here's the 'real news', Des: The Storm don't lose in round one

Adam Pengilly
7 mins ago

Nick Kyrgios plays a return to Serbia's Novak Djokovic.

Aces galore: Nick Kyrgios stuns former world No.1 at Acapulco

Darren Walton

Impact: Alex Gleen and Sam Tagataese clash heads during the Sharks v Broncos match.

Duty of care the issue as NRL walks a concussion minefield

Peter FitzSimons
1 hr ago

Masterclass: Steve O'Keefe celebrates the dismissal of Virat Kohli on day three.

Warne's criticism of O'Keefe was over-the-top nasty

COMMENT
Malcolm Knox

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 03: Giants players celebrate victory following the round five AFL Women's match between the ...

Giant leap: GWS score maiden AFLW victory

James Buckley
1 hr ago

Virat Kohli is the key to the series for India

Australians need to dream big to win mind games with India

Dean Jones

Proud: Steve Smith bats in the nets during a training session in Bangalore.

Smith ratchets up the pressure on humbled India

Andrew Wu
53 mins ago

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 27: Mitchell Pearce and Daniel Tupou walk to training during the Sydney Roosters NRL ...

Pearce has turned a corner, says Robinson

Scott Bailey

Upfront power: James Tamou adds some starch to the Panthers' pack.

The teams that are poised to set the agenda after round one

Phil Lutton

Heavy knock: Alex Glenn clashes heads with Cronulla's Sam Tagataese on Thursday night.

Glenn concussion 'handled appropriately' by Broncos, say NRL

Chris Barrett

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