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15-year-old charged with sex with foster sister under the age of 10.

Teen charged with sex with foster sister under age 10

This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the ...

Hackers may have just revealed huge flaw in global finance market

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Ex-Cooma teacher pleads guilty to having sex with student

Second year ANU student Julia Beard. Photo: Jamila Toderas

Why paying off your HECS debt faster is a 'dumb move'

Missiles are paraded at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang on Saturday.

World on edge as North Korea shows off missiles

Marine Le Pen.

When rhetoric trumps logic: the line that could carry Le Pen to victory

'If it was Viagra, it would have been solved overnight'

Canberra swimmer wins title - then denied world championship spot

Driver caught 50km/h over limit while on bail for speeding

'My blood is boiling': Family breaks silence on Queanbeyan murder

Donald Trump, these people backed you - now they need your help

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Victims Zeeshan Akbar's friends and colleagues, from left, Muhammad Imran, Abdul Wahid, Adnan Amjid, and Hamid Mehmood, ...

'We are just frightened': How Qbn has chaged for heartbroken friends

Balanced Yoga has launched an initiative in Canberra called 'Frontline Yoga,' which is a dedicated yoga class for people ...

Striking a pose to tackle trauma on Canberra's frontline

Mount Majura Vineyard winemaker Frank van de Loo. Photo: Jamila Toderas

Canberra winemakers predict top drops from 2017 vintage

Sam Carter make his comeback against the Rebels.

Rebels send message to ARU by toppling Brumbies

A night to remember: Jarrod Croker.

Croker makes miracle tackle to help Raiders down Warriors

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Croker's cracking try-saver

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

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Three Throsby 'superblocks' to go under the hammer

Sydney Trains staff assaulted by passenger

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Search for missing teen suspended in face of ...

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Defensive crisis looms for Suns

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This is a case where you can judge a book by its cover: it's tiny.

Small and cheap: How did they make this house seem bigger?

Canberra Domain Allhomes. 12 Chowne Street, Campbell. April 15, 2017.?

Canberra homes worth inspecting over the Easter weekend

Canberra Domain Allhomes. 9 Roma Mitchell Crescent sold for $1,141,000 in 2016.?

Can't afford inner north living? This suburb may be your answer

A minimalist approach is a good idea if you're preparing to sell your home.

Property's latest fad: Should you stage your home for sale?

Do we really need a floor so clean we could eat off it?

My friend vacuums her letterbox: people with an obsession to clean

The rubbish tip at Hume towers over the nearby businesses. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Owners of Hume 'pop-up tip' previously fined in NSW

Protections for Forrest's 'garden city' feel won't go ACT-wide

Seven ACT charities have tax status revoked

Maria Brady feels too unsafe in her Rivett home to have her own children there after it was burgled three times in two years

'Living hell': Canberra mum fears for kids' safety after burglaries

The SPARK childhood program is aimed to re-engage people in the job market and has recorded a 100% success rate. ...

How Vicki regained her spark after feeling 'old and horrible'

NSW Police detected an ACT-registered vehicle driving at 158km/h on the Kings Highway near Braidwood.

'People wouldn't give me space': Canberran's excuse for 158km/h

Officer Ian Frame in one of the new blocks.

ACT program to stop reoffending 'failing' Aboriginal inmates

SHD. News. The Sydney Swans flag flies over the Harbour Bridge on the day of the AFL Grand Final, Sydney Swans vs ...

The plan to lay turf on the Sydney Harbour Bridge

EXCLUSIVE

The Queensland government still has spots left in its free PrEP trial.

New HIV cases down 16 per cent in Queensland

QLD

The camel.

Drivers hit with demerits but camel escapes sanction

WA

Zeeshan Akbar, 29, who died in an attack at his workplace in Queanbeyan.

'Blood is boiling': Family breaks silence on murder

"Absolutely confident". Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan.

Easter resurrection at ATO will make-or-break tax time

Department of Human Services staff will begin two weeks of strikes on Thursday.

DHS staff escalate pay fight with two weeks' strike action

Joel Fitzgibbon is Labor's shadow minister for agriculture and regional Australia.

Labor electorates line up for Canberra public servants

Asylum seekers return to the bus after a visit into town, on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, on Tuesday 11 April 2017. ...

No one is safe at the Manus detention centre, refugees say

Gunfire breaks out at Manus Island detention centre

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

Timmy, a SoftBank Pepper humanoid robot.

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

Budget speculation has been dominated by questions over home ownership.

The two four-letter words politicians don't dare use

Senator Pauline Hanson.

Gloves off in war of words against Hanson and One Nation

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

Shock over 'mass arrests' of gays in Chechnya

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A police officer inspects a damaged house for victims during a rescue mission after a garbage dump collapsed and buried ...

Rubbish dump landslide devastates Colombo, leaves at least 16 dead

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The GBU-43/B MOAB bomb.

Questions over use of 'mother of all bombs'

Kim Jong-un's regime may conduct a nuclear test on Saturday.

China warns N Korea tension must not reach 'irreversible' stage

Protesters gather outside the state Capitol building on Friday.

Arkansas judge blocks series of executions

The federal budget is likely to avoid negative-gearing changes.

Negative gearing and the common good

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The latest cartoons from David Pope

F18 fighter jets on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson.

North Korean nukes? Beware US military's myths

COMMENT
Clive Williams

iron ore

The dream is officially over for iron ore

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Paul Singer, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Elliott Management Corporation, speaks ...

BHP's billionaire agitator isn't going anywhere

Brian Robins

Apple CEO Tim Cook. Speculation surrounding an Apple automotive project has been bubbling for years, with Apple keeping ...

Tech giant Apple to test self-driving cars

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

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

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Bottom line is there's no magic number

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

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

Patrick Hatch

Uber lets public look under the hood for first time

NAB executive 'deeply accountable' to customers

Georgia Wilkins

The TAG Heuer Autavia

16 super-fancy new watches that are surprisingly good value

Watches

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

Lifestyle

A DHA Housing home in Townsville.

Defence housing offers a defensive yield in low-interest times

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Ben Hurley

Fees for financial advice are negotiable.

Nicole helps… contain advice costs

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

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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North Korea parades its military might

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Dark horse could win French election

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Filipino Catholics crucify themselves at Easter

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Team America

Ladies cycling study. Cycylists in Centennial Park, Sydney on 16 November 1936. SMH Picture by HARRY FREEMAN Speedwell ...

Rewind - Park life

STAN - better call saul

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

Stan - RPDR

Season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race premieres tomorrow. Only on Stan.

Understanding your toddler's fine motor skills

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The business rules of attraction

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Anne Hathaway in Colossal.?

Anne Hathaway gets her freak on in monster mash-up

Jake Wilson

The documentary <i>Cultivating Murder</I> is dedicated to Glen Turner, who had a genuine concern for the environment.

New film looks behind 'political' killing over land clearing

Garry Maddox

Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia.

A princess' final bow: Carrie Fisher's final screen appearance

Michael Idato

Beyonce's <i>Lemonade</i> video album reinvigorated the form.

How Rage kept rocking in the YouTube era

Tim Byron

set of "The young Pope" by Paolo Sorrentino. 08/19/2015 sc.126 - ep 1 in the picture Jude Law and Diane Keaton. Photo by ...

Pomp it up: Jude Law's Young Pope veers too close to comedy

Michael Idato

Nakkiah Lui's new play <i>Black Is the New White</i> opens at the STC in May.

Nakkiah Lui: writing rom-coms to ease racial tension

Peter Munro

Max Riemelt as Andi and Teresa Palmer as Clare in Cate Shortland's <i>Berlin Syndrome</i>.

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

Karl Quinn

John Clarke died from natural causes while hiking in the Grampians National Park in Victoria.

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

Tony Wright

Canberra friends Lachhu Thapa from The Hungry Buddha restaurants and yoga teacher Lou Nulley formed the Canberra charity ...

The Canberra charity changing lives on both sides of the world

Five-year-old Poppy Breingan from Hackett.

Thousands flock to Exhibition Park for National Folk Festival

Children were delighted when they found Easter bunnies on the baggage carousel at the Canberra Airport.

Easter egg gesture at the Canberra Airport delights passengers

Women at the Los Angeles Children's Hospital joined others on Twitter to recreate the cover.

Female surgeons are recreating this New Yorker cover

Michael Cavna

I love this DVF look on Allison Williams because it’s both retro in a Veronica-Lake-officewear way but also entirely ...

Girls' Allison Williams is looking very 'Marnie 2020'

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

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

Giselle Au-Nhien Ngyuen and her mother

Cooking Vietnamese food is like having my family here with me

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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

This Week We're Obsessed With...Trudeau's royal bromance

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

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

Why so many mothers take selfies with their kids

Kasey Edwards

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

Danielle Alvarez's brown butter and cardamom pear tart.

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

Danielle Alvarez

A lemon curd pavlova is an autumnal dessert option.

Nigella Lawson's top 10 Easter feasting ideas

Photo: LaTroya Woolridge

The twins who have birthdays two weeks apart

Gordon Ramsay with his wife and children last year.

Why Gordon Ramsay refuses to leave money to his children

Love won over tragedy for Pretty Woman.

Thank goodness Pretty Woman didn't end like this

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

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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

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2017 Infiniti Q60 Red Sport.

Infiniti's fastest coupe reviewed

Daniel DeGasperi

2017 Toyota FT-4X Concept.

Top 5: Stars of the 2017 New York motor show

The Drive Team

2017 Skoda Octavia,

New Skoda Octavia prices revealed

Dom Tripolone

2017 Subaru XV.

New Subaru XV reviewed

Drive Staff

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

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

Jaguar F-Pace wins World Car of the Year award

Dom Tripolone

Sam Carter make his comeback against the Rebels.

Rebels send message to ARU by toppling Brumbies

On the burst: Joseph Leilua.

Leilua stars as Raiders down Warriors at Canberra Stadium

Jonathan Patton celebrates one of his six goals for the Giants.

Patton kicks six as Giants outmuscle Port Adelaide

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An image from a video provided by the Economic Development Directorate showing a proposed 30,000 seat stadium on the ...

Brumbies open to synthetic turf idea for new Canberra stadium

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 11: Lauren Wells of ACT smiles after competing in the Women's 400m Hurdles during the ...

Lauren Wells eyeing off Stawell Gift cheque after winning heat

ACt Chief Minister Andrew Barr at the official ceremony on Friday to announce Alex Sloan as the 2017 Canberra Citizen of ...

Wollongong Wolves emerge as partner for Canberra A-League bid

Sia Soliola at Canberra Raiders training on 12 April 2017. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Everyone backing Sia Soliola for Kiwi Test team except himself

Enlighten 2017 launch at the playhouse theatre. ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr

Barr investigates synthetic surface for new Canberra Stadium