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Passenger Alyce Fisher's photograph of emergency services outside the plane.

'It's gone': pilot tells passengers of lost propeller

1 hr ago

Australia's Steve O'Keefe celebrates the dismissal of India's Ajinkya Rahane on the second day of the first cricket test ...

Australia finally make breakthrough after DRS woes

Live

Alex Carl and her mother

The moment a $3.9m wedding fell apart

The terrace sold for $2.01 million, more than triple what it last sold for.

Inner-city terrace triples in price in just over 10 years

54 mins ago

'We aren't going to be bullied by CEOs or anyone else': Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.

'Stick to your knitting': Dutton to CEOs on same-sex marriage

Michael Koziol

Captured Victorian fugitive Tony Mokbel stares out from a photo pinned to the wall at the Victorian Police Centre in ...

The crime boss who should have stuck to making pizzas

Turnbull can't promise leadership like it's not already his job

COMMENT
Anne Summers

How dodgy mortgage brokers land you with bigger repayments

Aussies caught with 10kg of cocaine say it was planted in bags

EXCLUSIVE
1 hr ago

Only his family knew his address. Barakat's killer still tracked him down

'No legitimate funding' behind China police chief's Sydney buy

Virat Kohli claps Steve Smith after failed DRS call.

Kohli's mocking applause reignites feud with Smith

24 mins ago

A shark breaches at Bennetts Beach.

Picture-perfect water at tourist hot-spot is swarming with sharks

bURGESS

Souths bounce back in second half with Burgess lucky to be on park

Live

'One of the main reasons I try to sleep with different girls as often as possible is to improve my own confidence,' ...

What happened to Warriena Wright?

L_00377.NEF Loving - the Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga film

Joel Edgerton on Loving and what he thinks of reality television

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Peter Dutton strikes out at Alan Joyce

Orange juice

100 per cent orange juice probably isn't as natural as you think

Hair-raising: The Eels defence grapples with Kevin Proctor.

Depleted Titans stun uninspiring Eels despite injury crisis

Cummins

Aussies blow their golden chance to bat India out of the match

Marion surveys her kingdom with her family, dad Robert Kelly, mum Jung-a Kim and baby brother James.

Adorable BBC interview girl is the hero of the internet

Rob and Ruth Peters are being forced to sell their Manly home as part of the government's crackdown on illegal foreign ...

Couple forced out of home by foreign buyer crackdown

Ivy Muse owners Jacqui Vidal (left) and Alana Langan in their store in Armadale, Melbourne.

How Jacqui and Alana are turning this '70s trend into a big business

29 Terry Street, Surry Hills, is one of Sydney's skinniest homes. How does the rest of the world compare?

Seven of the skinniest houses from around the world

Having recently returned home from the UK, Isobel Williams set about finding her first Sydney flat to rent, which is ...

Why I gave up on apartment hunting in Sydney

Brett Blundy's house at 19 Bayview Hill Road, Rose Bay.

Why homes with great views were once considered 'depressing'

A swimmer braves grey clouds at Manly on Saturday morning as Sydney faces another week of rain.

Sydney's miserable March: the wet weather has just kept coming

43 mins ago

Three men arrested in raid on 'Sydney drug syndicate'

Rachel Olding
29 mins ago

Plane that lost prop mid-flight a 'hair's breadth from disaster'

Paramedics treat a man in a helicopter at Coogee Beach.

Man dies after being pulled from water at Coogee beach

Police seized more than 200 cannabis plants in two separate raids.

More than 200 cannabis plants seized by police on mid-north coast

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 10: Ron Medich arrives to King street court for his murder trial on March 10, 2017 in Sydney, ...

Dramatic scenes as juror discharged in murder trial

Kate McClymont

"An economically feasible way to deliver affordable housing": Clover Moore.

City of Sydney's new housing plan likely to anger developers

Guard of honour: fans attempted to mob Arnold Schwarznegger at his fitness expo despite his 40-strong 'safety team'.

When Arnie met Bill...with a 40-person strong entourage

VIC

A New Zealand man has been accused of throwing a quokka off a jetty.

Police charge Kiwi accused of throwing a quokka off a jetty

WA
1 hr ago

"As a licensed firearm owner and sporting shooter, I understand the need for sensible, practical firearms legislation," ...

One Nation lashes out at national gun agreement

QLD

Apology to Roxy Jacenko.

Apology to Roxy Jacenko

Less recognised is the behavioural impact of Trumpist anti-establishment populism on mainstream politics.

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Less recognised is the behavioural impact of Trumpist anti-establishment populism on mainstream politics.

Is Lake Burley Griffin a swamp that needs draining?

Mark Kenny

Endangered: Cheetahs in the Tamboti Game Reserve in South Africa. A study says there are an estimated 7100 cheetahs ...

Stray dogs helping endangered cheetahs escape death

Julie Power

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the media after his tour of the Snowy Hydro Tumut 3 power station in Talbingo, ...

The Man from Snowy River if Banjo Paterson was alive today

Annabel Crabb

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Outgoing ABC Chairman Jim Spigelman. 15th March 2017. Photo: Steven Siewert

ABC boss delivers home truths about the broadcaster

EXCLUSIVE
Matthew Knott

Joyce floats national royalty plan to dismantle coal seam gas bans

Amy Remeikis

The plan that could wipe $40,000 off the cost of a house

EXCLUSIVE
Eryk Bagshaw

Portrait of Nationals Senator John Williams in his office at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 4 September 2014. ...

Senator reveals he has Parkinson's Disease

Michael Koziol

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: Gas companies won't get a social licence if "while billions of dollars of gas are being ...

Malcolm Turnbull says he can't work with new ACTU boss

Amy Remeikis

John Haines says he is not in a position to comment.

RSL NSW man referred to police as High Court figure called in

EXCLUSIVE

Minister Peter Dutton: "If you want to become a politician, resign your job at $5 million a year, come on to $250,000."

Big business is bullied into backing same-sex marriage: Dutton

Tom McIlroy

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Begin baby boom across Europe, Erdogan tells Turks

Students laugh at the Prerna Girls School, a place where girls are taught their rights as women in the world.

An Indian school converts submissive girls into empowered women

Amrit Dhillon

The Large Blue butterfly or Maculinea arion which is the largest and rarest of blue butterflies.

Police net butterfly killer, and he may face prison

US novelist Ernest Hemingway attending a bullfight in Madrid, Spain.

Creativity linked 'to higher risk of suicide'

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association says many people have given up on dieting.

Dieting for the deluded: confessions of an over-eater

COMMENT
Richard Glover

Scarlett Johannson: "I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it's a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be ...

The real reason people cheat? Monogamy is a lie

COMMENT
Wendy Squires

Malcolm Turnbull is reconsidering housing affordability options but the property market might beat him to it.

House price shock: governments get serious

EDITORIAL

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre

How the two-speed economy worm has turned

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Game of phones: Telstra's regional roaming rage

Lucy Battersby

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Dishonest, illegal and fraudulent 'bad apples' still at large

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

NAB could increase earnings by 4 per cent on the back of this move on rates.

Banks are itching to increase your mortgage interest rate

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

A lawyer's love for all creatures great and small

Mark Hawthorne

Boom time for the box out the back of Bourke

Lucy Battersby

Big gun malls in the billion-dollar sales club

Carolyn Cummins

Fed rate rise boosts Australian property interest

Carolyn Cummins

You call that a drink? 35 of the craziest cocktails from the world's best bars.

Thirsty? These are the craziest cocktails you'll ever drink

Fine Drinks

In his 50s, George Clooney sets the benchmark for aging gracefully.

Want to look great at 50 and beyond? Start doing this now

Grooming

Smoking is still bad for you, but taking cannabis in oil form can have medicinal value.

Medical cannabis stocks are all the rage, but it's a bubble

Scott Phillips

The government has a few options to help first-home buyers.

Adopt US model of tax deductions for homeowners, not investors

Daryl Dixon

Rob Deutsch, the founder and owner of F45 Training, has relocated to the United States.

The fastest growing franchise you've never heard of

Cara Waters

Call centres are often denigrated, ridiculed, avoided and despised.

Life in a call centre: could you handle it?

James Adonis

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BBC viral spoofed using multitasking woman

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Trump ignores Merkel's handshake offer

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Monopoly gets a makeover

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Fear, hunger and destruction as IS retreats

National Zoo and Aquarium Jura, Cheetah.

Wild Side: Building a zoo

Stan - Billions

Brand new season of Billions - now streaming. Only on Stan.

STAN - better call saul

Criminal. Lawyer. Better Call Saul returns April 11 on Stan

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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Hello to more than half a million Australians, and goodbye, as Adele, pictured in Brisbane this month, wraps up her tour ...

Give it up, Australia. You've been owned by Adele

Bernard Zuel

Scarlett Johansson plays The Major in <i>Ghost in the Shell</i>.

Why is Scarlett Johansson playing a legendary Japanese heroine?

Andrew Taylor

It is not the first time Hasbro has used a public marketing campaign to update the game's pieces.

Booted: Hasbro ditches 'tokens' and unveils new Monopoly

Michael Idato

U.S. President Barack Obam, left, laughs with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden after presenting the Medal of Freedom during ...

Hollywood commissions comedy based on Obama-era White House

Michael Idato

L_00377.NEF Loving - the Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga film

As Loving opens, Joel Edgerton slams Married At First Sight

Garry Maddox

Matilda Brown, left, and Rachel Ward, the mother and daughter female leads in <i>The Death and Life of Otto Bloom</i>.

Which film made Rachel Ward come back to the screen?

Karl Quinn

Stephen Colbert poked fun at MSNBC's Rachel Maddow during the latest episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Colbert mocks Maddow's Trump 'scoop'

Broede Carmody

MELBOURNE, NEW SOUTH WALES - DECEMBER 21: Artist/photographer Bindi Cole Chocka is seen during lunch with The Age ...

Indigenous artist Bindi Cole Chocka: Leak's cartoon not racist

Kylie Northover

Nicole Kidman as Sue Brierley in <i>Lion</i>

Special treat in store for fans of hit movie Lion

Garry Maddox

Jordan Rakei: Part of a renaissance for jazz.

Review: Jordan Rakei proves that groove is in the heart

Jonathan Seidler

Paris Combo

The night that David got the gig and won the girl

Nick Galvin

I have to pre-empt this gallery by saying it was very, very dry on the goods this week (everyone must be in hibernation ...

Sarah Paulson rewrites fashion's colour chart

The Kiwi spoof pokes gentle fun at the viral BBC interview ... and has subsequently gone viral.

The perfect parody of that BBC interview

Everyone has a moment that changes them forever. Mine exists in that classroom.

I was in Year 3 when I learnt my first lesson about sexism

Amy Butcher

President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, ...

Another overseas leader, another awkward Trump handshake moment

Models Nicola Clarke and Rachal Rutt show off some House of Riot T-shirts on Friday.

Model turned 'boss bitch' says her T-shirts express 'mass frustration'

Melissa Singer

Di Maloney's Point Piper mansion.

Beliebers left hanging as star bails on Sydney party

PRIVATE SYDNEY
Andrew Hornery

Elizabeth Debicki will be attending the Golden Slipper at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday as a guest of at Longines.

How the A-list were wooed to the Golden Slipper

Jenna Clarke

Kate Middleton in the offending outfit.

Kate Middleton reportedly 'less than pleased' with William's dad-dancing

Breakfast: it's worth the effort.

Breakfast, fasting, snacking: the verdict on meal-timing

Amby Burfoot

Fuel your mood with happy foods.

Eating your broccoli can make you feel less stressed

Sarah Berry

Taryn Brumfitt believes that there has been a shift in the way many people view the "perfect" body; it no longer has to ...

Taryn Brumfitt on stripping down to shape up

Sarah Berry

Jo Alderdice saved a 3-year-old child from attempted abduction.

'I thought I would have to stab him': mum stops child abduction

Five siblings seeking a forever home have sparked a viral response.

Five siblings on the search for their 'forever family'

Jason Momoa with his two children with Lisa Bonet, Nakoa Wolf, 8, (left) and Lola, 9.

Jason Momoa's photo of daughter with 'naked' rock star causes outrage

Martin Benn and Vicki Wild on tour.

How three-hatted Sepia restaurateurs do Hong Kong

Good Food Baked camembert cheese at Royal Hotel in Paddington. 15th November 2015. Photo: Steven Siewert

27 of our best-ever cheese recipes

Adam Liaw's classic roast chicken with bread and butter stuffing.

15 things you should be able to cook by the time you're 30

Qantas A380 QF2 is stranded in Dubai due to technical difficulties.

Traveller letters: Qantas flight delay results in five-star stay

Bondi Beach girls ... but can anyone become one?

What it's like to be a Bondi chick for a weekend

Annie Dang

Cathedral Gorge, Purnululu National Park. Western Australia. must credit: Sean Scott Photography, supplied by Western ...

Photos: Stunning images of the Kimberley's record-breaking wet

The S8 would be the first to use the technology to verify financial payment applications.

Samsung S8 users to pay with their faces

This wanted poster provided by the FBI shows Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, 33, a Russian national and resident. The ...

What the Yahoo case says about Russian spies

COMMENT

Quantum physicist Professor David Reilly in his lab at the University of Sydney.

The Australian helping Microsoft deliver its billion-dollar project

A screenshot from the first instalment of the game.

Video game banned by Australian censors over 'ritualistic' sex scene

LoL

The League of Legends team house that folded

Kotaku

Which is the best dual-cab ute: Volkswagen Amarok V6 Highline, Ford Ranger XLT, Toyota HiLux SR5 and Holden Colorado Z71.

What is the best dual-cab ute?

Stephen Ottley

Hyundai has been refining its i30N hot hatch.

Too cool: Hyundai tests new hot hatch on ice

David McCowen

Lexus LC500 Coupe.

Is this the best looking car on sale?

David McCowen

2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk.

2017 Grand Cherokee prices revealed

Dom Tripolone

Seven worst Ferraris of all time

David McCowen

The Audi TT Offroad concept points to the styling of the new Q4 going on sale in 2019.

Audi confirms new Q4 SUV

Greg Kable

Virat Kohli claps Steve Smith after failed DRS call.

Kohli reignites DRS controversy

Andrew Wu
24 mins ago

India's Murali Vijay attempts to play a rising delivery during the third day of their third test cricket match against ...

Australia finally make breakthrough after DRS woes

Live
Phil Lutton

bURGESS

Souths hit back after Burgess elbow put Bunnies on back foot

Live
Steve Mascord

Jockey Hugh Bowman rides Winx to win race 5.

Winx crashes through $10 million barrier with 16th successive win

Adam Pengilly
39 mins ago

18032017. Sydney Races. Jockey Ben Melham rides She Will Reign to win race 7, The Golden Slipper, during Sydney Racing ...

Cheapest horse in the race takes out $3.5 million Golden Slipper

Adam Pengilly
43 mins ago

Kyrgios has been forced to pull out of the game due to sickness.

Kyrgios pulls out of Federer clash due to illness

UPDATED
Theo Katsaros

Approaching greatness: Dylan Hartley knows a win against Scotland will cement his side's place in history.

England urged to seize moment as greatness awaits

Mick Cleary

Overachiever: Steve Smith's extended knock was one of true significance.

Smith's innings a masterpiece of carrying team on his shoulders

COMMENT
Malcolm Knox

Taking his chance: Wests Tigers' Michael Chee Kam.

How Chee-Kam benefited from Simona's deregistration

Adam Pengilly

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 06: James Segeyaro of the Panthers breaks a tackle during the 2016 Auckland Nines match ...

Segeyaro closes in on NRL return to Sharks

A tale of two halves: Sharks halves James Maloney and Chad Townsend.

Sharks pair ready for sky blue jerseys

Andrew Parkinson

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