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Rocco Arico rose from bumbling boob to feared gangster and police believe he is implicated in two homicides.

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Kurtley Beale is expected to sign with the Waratahs in coming weeks after turning his back on a $1.5 million deal with English club Wasps.

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Several people have been injured in an axe attack at Dusseldorf train station.

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Shares are set to open tentatively higher after oil weighed on Wall St again overnight and bonds continued to sell off, while the Aussie dollar dipped below 75 US cents.

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A suspect in the execution of Sydney crime figure Hamad Assaad has been gunned down in his high-rise apartment.

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Six school children are among a number of people injured in a serious crash between a school bus and a car in Sydney's north-west on Friday morning.

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Gold is sliding toward $US1200 an ounce as positive US data reinforce the allure of other investments.

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James O'Connor has been summoned to face a French rugby disciplinary hearing this month over his alleged cocaine possession.

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Seven years since it was ravaged by fire – which was a month after the local council permitted it for redevelopment – the enormous waterfront parcel regarded as Phillip Island's best site is finding its way into the hands of a new owner.

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Crude oil extended its biggest slump in over a year amid record US. stockpiles on Thursday, pushing down energy and mining stocks, while bets that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next week lifted financial stocks. The declines are set to be mirrored in the local sharemarket, with a mixed open expected for the ASX.

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Residents in Brisbane's bayside and riverside suburbs have been warned of flooding as the city braces for higher than normal tides over the weekend.

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Gold Coast champion in ominous touch on his return to the field for his first game in eight months. And he says he'll be even sharper by round one.

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A man has been rushed to hospital after he reportedly fell more than five metres from a building on the Gold Coast.

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The assassin's bullet aimed at changing the course of Myanmar's future came from point-blank range, in broad daylight, at the country's biggest airport.

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A 53-year-old man was savagely beaten during a road-rage incident in South Yarra on Sunday.

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Oil dropped below $US50 in New York for the first time since December. It pared earlier losses in late New York trade.

A former CareFlight doctor, who suffered serious physical injuries when his patient transport plane crash-landed off Norfolk Island, has been awarded almost $1 million in damages from the company that owned and operated the aircraft.

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The first-term congressman spent three decades as a physician and is now part of a group of Republican doctors trying to roll back Obamacare.

The Brumbies and University of Canberra say a court-room drama last year was between individuals and not the organisations.

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Washington state said it would renew its request to block the executive order.

Speedy cyclists, Barton Highway crashes and our citizen of the year.

Plans for a free trade agreement between Australia and the European Union have hit another big delay, which trade minister Steven Ciobo has blamed on the EU.

The Waratahs can breathe a sigh of relief after scans cleared five-eighth Bernard Foley of any abnormalities relating to the serious concussion that ruled him out of football indefinitely.

Soth Rey's face has a wide gaping hole, her nose and right cheek eaten away by necrosis, a rare form of rapid cell degeneration.

A Melbourne mother and her two children have been missing for more than three days, police say.

A man has been shot dead inside an apartment block in Sydney's inner west, police say.

Underworld figure Mick Gatto claims he was approached by a senior Essendon official to help "sort out" the supplements scandal in 2014, contradicting his other assertions that he reached out to the football club.

Passengers on the Manly Ferry have been stranded after the ferry broke down near Manly on Thursday evening.

The Fed will lift rates next week in response to strong economic data, according to a poll of more than 100 economists.

Mario Draghi has embraced, with increasing mindfulness, the task of normalising European monetary policy.

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, said the group will work with technology companies to close gaps identified in thousands of Central Intelligence Agency documents it published this week as well as in additional material it has yet to disclose.

​Iron ore and steel futures in China fell to one-month lows. Spot iron ore slid below $U87 a tonne.

Air strikes killed 23 civilians, including eight children, on Thursday in countryside around the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, a war monitoring group said.

Migrants are making risky journeys in the cold as they flee from the US to Canada in increasing numbers to escape a crackdown on undocumented immigrants by the Trump administration.

Shyam Acharya allegedly assumed the identity of a doctor in India, before he migrated to Australia and gained employment with NSW Health in 2003.

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The Coalition government is considering the creation of a new affordable housing finance corporation to kick-start tens of millions of dollars in investment in community housing, in one of several major initiatives being examined for the federal budget.

The NSW electoral commission says the payments breached strict donation caps.

The Premier has refused to tell parliament what she was advised about the budget blowout

Pauline Hanson acknowledged there was no test for vaccine allergies, as she had claimed on the ABC.

​A parliamentary review has found that the system of handling injured workers' complaints is 'dysfunctional'.

A serial conman who allegedly ripped off investors through an online betting agency and funnelled millions overseas will remain behind bars because he poses an unacceptable flight risk.

Labor front bencher Kate Ellis is set to quit politics at the next election, after more than a decade in federal parliament.

The Nationals have called for a ban on political donations to exempt any individuals or entities with "a genuine involvement" in Australia and the national interest.

Chinese warships have carried out naval drills in Australia's maritime backyard for the third time in three years in a move that experts say strengthens the case for greater co-operation with Indonesia.

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Rio Tinto is to get a new chairman later in the year, with Jan du Plessis expected to leave the company.

Three 'critical and serious incidents' mar Greens election campaign and erode party trust and morale.

He could be the buy of the season and won man of the match honours, but it didn't stop Luke Keary from being caught in Roosters coach Trent Robinson's crosshairs after the Tricolours recorded their best ever start under the premiership-winning coach.

The cost of doing nothing at this week's SANZAAR meeting on Super Rugby? Try the next generation of Wallabies, and the future of your local rugby club.