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Trump invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for hamburgers in his election campaign.

North Korea to Donald Trump: 'We will go to war'

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Band-Aid promo ripped off shelves after complaints

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How a routine $40 medical test became $1000 overnight

Eve and Greg Langham whose daughter, Erin died in a car crash when she was15 years old. 12th April 2017 Photo: Janie Barrett

Your friends and family are dying on the roads

Experts warn significant change is needed to provide more security for long-term tenants.

A renter nation: How to make long-term renting appealing

Mother Halina Osman and baby Moustapha of fourteen months, the child is a severe malinutrition case at Hargeisa Group ...

Is Australia turning 'inwards' during looming catastrophe?

Matt Wade

Melbourne research to be a lifesaver for premature babies

'Under attack': Gunfire rings out at Manus Island detention centre

Michael Gordon

US's first female Muslim judge found dead in Hudson River

Boozed-up underage teen caught with trolley full of stolen alcohol

Melissa Cunningham

Most powerful bomb since Nagasaki dropped to 'send a message'

Pepper the humanoid robot, manufactured by SoftBank Group Corp., stands as employees work in the Orange Arch Inc. ...

Engineers, accountants and journalists, beware the rise of the machine

Adam Gartrell

Dean Smith is taking legal action after injuring himself when trying to run faster than the Cathy Freeman machine at the ...

Man breaks his back trying to outrun Cathy Freeman

Marcus Bontempelli celebrates after kicking a goal for the Bulldogs at Etihad on Good Friday.

Bulldogs are alive... but only just

greg baum

Airports have some idea how many bags are tampered with ... but they're not saying.

The truth behind baggage theft in airports and on planes

Bryan Dawe and John Clarke were one of television's most enduring comedic partnerships.

'The injustice of it': Dawe breaks silence on death of Clarke

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Victory beat Mariners as Berisha notches 100th

The eggs are out there, somewhere

What's open in Melbourne on Easter Saturday

Roast leg of lamb with skordalia. <a ...

Record lamb prices slaughter Easter roast

Chocolate and almond Easter cake

Easter baking: 19 dessert recipes

The Age 28 August 2012. SUPPLIED Jane Turner and Gina Riley in Kath & Kim.

This is what Kath and Kim would be up to in 2017

Planchonella House in Cairns by Jesse Bennett Studio.

Seven Australian architects to watch out for in 2017

The key to upgrading your flooring without breaking the bank

Darren Palmer

Cutting back on eating out can help boost the bank account. Keep your diet healthy by growing your own vegetables.

How to save for a house without compromising your diet

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South Australian Tourism book Underground Serbian Church at Coober Pedy. Picture by journalist Sheriden Rhodes. In ...

Deep digs: Six clever underground spaces used in everyday life

Canberra has recorded the largest jump in median rent among Australia's capital cities.

'Rapidly becoming a renter nation': What tenants need now

Siang Par, left, and Rose Hervatin, right.

Teenage girls missing from Melbourne's east and west

Melissa Cunningham
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Veteran police officer killed in bike crash in front of daughter

Chloe Booker

Taxing decisions: Who's most likely to use negative gearing?

Craig Butt

2 year old Shifra with her Mum Michelle and Dad Neville Matar. Shifra was born premature she missed out on treatments ...

Melbourne research to be a lifesaver for premature babies

Victorian health minister Jill Hennessy has urged the Turnbull government to recommit to national partnerships in health ...

Funding for health, homelessness and children in doubt

Farrah Tomazin

Emergency services on Loch Valley Road in Loch Valley.

Young couple, baby rescued after car plunges off cliff

Hardware Lane in Melbourne.

Laneways set for heritage protection to ward off skyscrapers

Police at the scene of the shooting in Glenfield.

Sydney boy shot 'execution style' in his bed

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Health authorities are now warning people to avoid eating seafood caught from or fishing near the potentially ...

Seafood warning as foam spills from Qantas hangar

QLD

Police at the scene.

Man dead after being shot by police in Perth hills

UPDATED

Two platypuses killed in an illegal opera house style trap at Point Hut Pond in 2015.

Illegal fishing traps are killing native species

ACT

John Clarke could talk. The more you laughed, the more it energised him.

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John Clarke could talk. The more you laughed, the more it energised him.

In the game of life, John Clarke was a champion

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Martin Flanagan

Paul Adams is concerned about experienced staff losing their jobs.

Victoria University accused of 'double-dipping' as cuts bite

Henrietta Cook

One bloke stared stabbing the sausages with a fork...

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Danny Katz

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Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson is hopeful of a fourth straight flag this year.

Clarko's shout as Hawks go soul searching over a few beers

Jake Stringer of the Bulldogs

No Easter bunnies: Dogs bounce back as unlucky Roos slip back to 1975

Jon Pierik

Travis Cloke is helped from the field on Friday.

Casualties Cloke, Boyd in doubt for Bulldogs next match

Daniel Cherny

Chris Mayne has had a slow start to the year for Collingwood.

Teams: Magpies dump Mayne, Saints drop McCartin

Football fans arrive at the AFL's first Good Friday game.

AFL chief : More Good Friday football hard to resist

Jon Pierik

The Dogs and Roos are set to make history on Good Friday.

Why footy on Good Friday makes me hot and cross

COMMENT
Malcolm Knox

Gold Coast superstar Gary Ablett faces a fiery match up in Marc Murphy.

Six pointers: Your essential guide to round four

Ronny Lerner

Nat Fyfe led the Dockers to their first win of the season.

Stay or go now? Time to Cronk up in-season player movement

daisy pearce

Sunrise on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, on Wednesday 12 April 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen (Photo ...

Gunfire breaks out at Manus Island detention centre

Michael Gordon

Australians are dying on our roads, and it's getting worse

Judith Ireland

Rise of the machines: The jobs robots are coming for next

Adam Gartrell

Budget speculation has been dominated by questions over home ownership.

The four letter words politicians don't dare use

Stephanie Peatling

Senator Pauline Hanson.

Government takes gloves off in war of words against One Nation

"We have raised our concerns directly with the Russian government": Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.

Shock over 'mass arrests' of gays in Chechnya

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Koziol

Joytika Prasad fled Fiji in 2000.

Australian children in detention as parents face deportation

Heath Aston

Refugees are rescued last August.

One dead as more than 2000 migrants plucked from Mediterranean

Philip Pullella

Emergency services at the scene of Friday's stabbing attack in Jerusalem.

British exchange student fatally stabbed on Jerusalem train

President Donald Trump promised to 'drain the swamp' during his campaign.

Trump's White House will keep its guest book secret

Myanmar's Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi.

Aung San Suu Kyi 'hung out to dry'

Lindsay Murdoch

Illustration: Andrew Dyson

The single tweet that revealed Trump's foreign policy

COMMENT
Waleed Aly

It's not worth watching a futuristic movie like <i>Ghost in the Shell</i> in an ancient cinema.

Hoyts needs to lift its game if it wants our money

COMMENT
Adam Turner

Too much footy is ... too much.

I love my footy, but this time they've gone too far

COMMENT
Sam Duncan

Elliott Management Corporation CEO Paul Singer is never one to back down from a stoush.

BHP's billionaire agitator isn't going anywhere

Brian Robins

People have evolved to save energy by minimising the thinking we do.

Bottom line is there's no magic number

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

The fake United Airlines ad told customers to go "f---" themselves.

'Sorry, not sorry': United fallout a lesson for all businesses

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

NAB's Andrew Hagger.

NAB executive 'deeply accountable' to customers

Georgia Wilkins

In world's biggest building, workers wait for Trump's jobs

Patrick Hatch

Boundary Bend to 'go for growth' as olive oil prices surge

Brian Robins

Student digs in hot demand by investors

Carolyn Cummins

Sportswear puts pressure on traditional shoe retailers

Simon Johanson

The TAG Heuer Autavia

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The hallways in the Jackalope could easily be a set in a Hollywood neo-noir film.

Surreal estate: Inside Australia's coolest new design hotel

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A DHA Housing home in Townsville.

Defence housing offers a defensive yield in low-interest times

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Father and son Stuart and Cedar Anderson with their invention the Flow Hive, which has been patented around the world.

Flow Hive inventor stung by Chinese 'copycat'

Nina Hendy

There's no point being in first class if there isn't also the satisfaction of knowing others are missing out.

Status anxiety: At work as much as in life

James Adonis

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Bulldogs sneak home in Easter cracker

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Melbourne toddler stuck in plughole for five hours

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Car plunges off cliff in Baw Baw National Park

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Off-duty police officer killed in bike crash

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Carrie Fisher on the set of <i>Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. </i>

The Last Jedi to be Carrie Fisher's final screen appearance

Michael Idato
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Teresa Palmer's life is bathed in a particularly gentle light, but she is drawn, she says, to dark material.

Zen guru Teresa Palmer goes to the dark side in Berlin Syndrome

Karl Quinn

Bryan Dawe and John Clarke were one of television's most enduring comedic partnerships.

'The injustice of it': Bryan Dawe breaks his silence on John Clarke

Tony Wright

Billy Bragg says Maggie Thatcher politicised him and Brexit is doing the same for his son's generation.

Billy Bragg's top tips for anyone hating the new world order

Kerrie O'Brien

<i>Survivor</i> contestant Zeke Smith was outed as transgender by fellow cast member Jeff Varner.

Survivor contestant outed as transgender on TV

Christie D'zurilla

Ukrainian authorities have imposed a travel ban on Russia's Eurovision contestant Yulia Samoylova.

Eurovision 2017: Russia gives song contest cold shoulder

Broede Carmody

Peter Garrett in fine form at Selinas.

The power and passion: Midnight Oil in brilliant form

Bernard Zuel

Shane Warne's stage show has been postponed at the request of his publisher.

Shane Warne's tell-all stage show Warney Uncut postponed

Broede Carmody

<i>Personal Shopper</i>: Stewart seems to battle the camera rather than embrace it.

Kristen Stewart's most interesting film yet ★★★★

REVIEW
Paul Byrnes

Risky business: Joshua Ladgrove's character Neal Portenza.

Review: Neal Portenza's unexpectedly original, absurdist comedy

COMEDY FESTIVAL
Anne-Marie Peard

The villainous Cipher (Charlize Theron) blackmails Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) into submission in <i>The Fate of the ...

The Fate of the Furious is a total fizzer

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Jake Wilson

I've stopped going to baby showers. It's the least I can do for my sanity.

I'm happy for you, but I won't attend your baby shower

Kelsey L. Munger
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Giselle Au-Nhien Ngyuen and her mother

Cooking Vietnamese food is like having my family here with me

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Australian model Jessica Kahawaty save to Saturday HER for PS please pic supplied

How Jess from Sydney became one of the Middle East's top models

Andrew Hornery

With an active lifestyle, Karlie Kloss is a queen of waterproofing her makeup.

Failproof makeup for the emotional (and sweaty) moments in life

Stephanie Darling

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Britain's Prince Harry, ...

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When mothers do take selfies with their kids they're inevitably inviting comment from the usual Moral PanicMerchants.

Why so many mothers take selfies with their kids

Kasey Edwards

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner at an Oscars party in 2014.

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck submit divorce papers

Gucci's new campaign is a celebration of soul, youth and vibrancy.

Gucci reveals campaign featuring all black models

Annie Brown

Moving in: It's a commitment.

How to know when you're ready to move in with your partner

Evelyn Lewin

Sometimes you 'should' sometimes you shouldn't.

Resist the tyranny of 'I should'

Linda Blair

Devil of a bun? Nope.

Could your hot cross bun be giving you dementia? Uh, no

Sarah Berry

Three Blue Ducks slow cooked lamb shoulder.

Sticky lamb shoulder recipe from Three Blue Ducks

A lemon curd pavlova is an autumnal dessert option.

Nigella Lawson's top 10 Easter feasting ideas

Danielle Alvarez's brown butter and cardamom pear tart.

How to cap off your Easter Sunday: brown pear and cardamom tart

Danielle Alvarez

River definitely enjoyed her Nutella treat.

'Food police' attack star over daughter's treat

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Boy take YouTube driving lesson to drive to McDonald's

This x-ray image shows how easily a grape can block a child's airways.

'Just cut the damn grapes': mum's plea after son's close call

Airports have some idea how many bags are tampered with ... but they're not saying.

The truth behind baggage theft in airports and on planes

Michael Gebicki

Festival-goers attend day three. Not pictured: Me, kicking back on the grass.

Heading to Coachella? 11 things first-timers need to know

USA
Kylie McLaughlin

Secret Bali.

Traveller letters: Escape Bali bogans at this secret Balinese paradise

Videos of Youtuber RomanAtwoodVlogs with altered titles and descriptions.

YouTube hacked by online security group

Scalpers have made a fortune buying up NES Classics and marking up prices on eBay.

Nintendo discontinues NES Classic console

Two people familiar with Facebook's process said the company had strengthened its formula for detecting deceptive accounts.

Facebook combats fake accounts, news amid growing pressure

Kotaku

Tetris helps car crash victims: research

Kotaku

VPNs are one of the most effective tools for protecting privacy.

How to protect your metadata with a VPN

COMMENT

2017 Subaru XV.

New Subaru XV reviewed

Drive Staff

The Jaguar F-Pace was named World Car of the Year.

Jaguar F-Pace wins World Car of the Year award

Dom Tripolone

Mercedes is set to up the power of the next AMG A45 to more than 300kW.

Next A45 to have at least 300kW

David McCowen

Volkswagen has teased its new I.D. Crossover Concept ahead of the 2017 Shanghai motor show.

Volkswagen teases new electric SUV

Dom Tripolone

2017 Genesis GV80 concept.

Is this the death of headlights?

Stephen Ottley

2017 Subaru Ascent.

Subaru shows off Kluger rival

Stephen Ottley

Besart Berisha of the Victory

Berisha cracks the ton as late goal downs Mariners

Michael Lynch

"You go through every emotion": Matt Callander.

'I've got no more tears': Turf legend on son's battle with brain cancer

Andrew Webster

John Coates: Australian sport's Donald Trump.

John Coates. Australian sport's Donald Trump

COMMENT

'Significant damage': The Rebels say the ARU does not have the right to "axe" the franchise's licence.

Rebels ratchet up stakes with bid for ARU compensation

Race caller Greg Miles.

Greg Miles calls time on his race-calling career

Patrick Bartley

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