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A North Korean defector unleashes a coloured liquid protest on a poster of Kim Jong-un during a rally in Seoul. Kim Hwa ...

World's undisputed superpower is again powerless

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Australian captain Steve Smith.

$40m black hole: Nine urged to call stumps on cricket coverage

Cory Bernardi's breakaway conservative party will swallow up Family First.

Cory Bernardi's party to join forces with Family First

Cold and wet weather conditions are expected in Melbourne this week.

Melbourne weather: Cold front to bring rain, snow and hail

Muslim activist and television host Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

ABC presenter courts controversy with Anzac Day Facebook post

Police surrounded a house in Wangaratta.

Man and woman found dead after police hunt for armed man

AFL smashes attendance records after massive Anzac Day round

Reborn Bombers leave Magpies with nowhere to hide

Greg Baum
Greg Baum

Armed gang steals $50m in 'robbery of the century' in Paraguay

Money still 'incredibly cheap' after housing crackdown that wasn't

Shunned marchers defiant: 'They're going to need handcuffs'

Sarah Wilson's latest book deals with anxiety.

How struggling with anxiety helped Sarah build her business

Nathan Buckley bemoaned his side's inabililty to make the most of opportunities.

Anzac Day is Groundhog Day for Buckley

Amy and Tyson impressed at David and Betty's MKR score.

Angry, Angry Man failed to show in MKR grand finals decider

Flash and dazzle: House of Bond.

House of Bond boils Alan Bond down to basics

COMMENT

internet network addict mother using digital tablet pad ignoring little sad daughter left alone bored and depressed ...

It's almost impossible not to judge other parents

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Essendon break Anzac game drought

The waxworm makes short work of the polyethylene plastic.

A very hungry caterpillar could rid world of plastic bags

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Lettuce growing in the garden

The food scraps that magically regrow themselves

Topshop has released a pair of clear plastic 'jeans', which cost about $100.

Topshop releases a pair of $100 clear plastic 'jeans'

COMMENT

The view of Melbourne's CBD from Keilor

The suburb 'like a country town in town' is just 18km from the CBD

Large studio apartment in Richmond

Ka-ching! Melbourne's top Airbnbs net owners up to $150,000 each

Many see the property market as out of reach, or aren't yet convinced it's the best place to park their savings.

Plenty saved, but why don't these millennials want to buy houses?

Altair Guimarães, 62, lives in an apartment block in Rio.

One man, one city, three evictions: The human cost of Rio's growth

Tamsin and daughter Martha in their vegetable garden.

'The hills were so green, I cried': Tamsin's triumphant treechange

The car as it narrowly misses the Anzac Day marchers in Elmore.

'It was horrifying': Car narrowly avoids Anzac Day marchers

Taxi driver allegedly bashed by fare-evading teens

Damp commemoration for Diggers fallen and living

Lightning over Cunningham Pier on Geelong Waterfront on April 24.

Rain soaks Anzac Day services after Geelong cops a deluge

Don Nardella will be forced to give back money.

Suspend Nardella's pay, former Labor speaker says

Stephen Papal and his son Ben repair the memorial in time for Anzac Day.

Good Samaritans' golden touch restores vandalised war memorial

Yambuk's only local-born veteran, Mick Cain, officiates at the village's first dawn service.

The village of Yambuk finally hoists its own flag for Anzac Day

Tony Wright

A mystery Australian collector paid $855,000 for these four stamps at auction last week.

Aussie pays $850,000 for four Indian stamps

John Coates, president of the Australian Olympic Committee.

Coates hits back at 'vindictive' campaign

A large number of police cars descended on Coogee.

Wild Coogee night: Brawling teens surround cops

NSW

Canon Garland was the Anglican parish priest at Kangaroo Point and Red Hill.

Meet the priest who created Anzac Day as we know it

QLD

AOC president John Coates.

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AOC president John Coates.

More bullying claims emerge to haunt Coates

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Bachelard

One in four Australian children are considered overweight or obese.

Fundraising chocolate is not that innocent

COMMENT
Emma King

Lambs have been reared in an artificial womb.

Researchers perfect artificial womb

Rania Spooner

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Alex Fasolo takes little consolation from being among the Magpies' best.

Reborn Bombers leave Magpies with nowhere to hide

Greg Baum
Greg Baum

Nathan Buckley bemoaned his side's inabililty to make the most of opportunities.

Anzac Day is Groundhog Day for fuming Buckley

Michael Gleeson

Triumph and relief. Jobe Watson

Worsfold still not quite over 'the 'wall'

Scott Spits

Yellow and black: Richmond players belt out the song on Anzac Eve.

How good are Richmond, really?

ANALYSIS
Jon Pierik

carey

Clarkson fronts Carey - to apologise

EXCLUSIVE
Sam McClure

Roo-ing their misses: North Melbourne have faded late in games this year.

It's a different world on the three-quarter-time ladder

Daniel Cherny

Injury to Jake Spencer has left Melbourne with a parlous ruck situation.

Ruckless & luckless, the Demons need to be inventive: Goodwin

Michael Gleeson

It was a massive crowd at the MCG for the Anzac Day eve clash between Melbourne and Richmond.

AFL on track for second-highest attended round in history

Ronny Lerner

Malcolm Turnbull with Australian troops at Australia's main base in the Middle East..

Australian troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for long term: PM

David Wroe

Cory Bernardi's party to merge with Family First

Latika Bourke

Work for the dole a 'demonstrable failure, demonises unemployed'

Amy Remeikis

The design for Austral's fleet of Pacific patrol boats.

Shipbuilder cuts first steel in promised rebirth of naval industry

David Wroe

A North Korean defector unleashes a coloured liquid protest on a poster of Kim Jong-un during a rally in Seoul. Kim Hwa ...

There are no easy answers for a nuclear North Korea

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Australian Army officer Captain Yikang Feng at Taji Military Complex, Iraq.

From Shanghai to Baghdad: Captain Feng's Anzac journey

PM Malcolm Turnbull.

'You are 268th in the queue': Citizenship changes spark chaos

Ahok is interviewed by one of the schoolchildren.

Jakarta governor Ahok invokes Finding Nemo in blasphemy defence

Jewel Topsfield

North Korean defectors prepare to release balloons carrying leaflets and a banner denouncing North Korean leader Kim ...

Kim Jong-un marks army's anniversary with subdued fireworks

Kirsty Needham

Heart

President stands accused in death of a boy called Heart

Lindsay Murdoch

Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron waves to supporters.

Russian hackers who targeted Clinton appear to attack Macron

The workplace is not the diverse and inclusive place pushed by the rhetoric.

Job ageism exists and is thriving

COMMENT
Charmaine Weeks

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un: Under his watch, North Korea has been aggressively pursuing a decades-long goal of ...

Of course North Korea wants nukes. We should learn to live with it

COMMENT
Tom Switzer

Not all the rich are selfish, greedy, rotten people.

Before you start hating the rich, get your facts straight

COMMENT
Amanda Vanstone

Banks

Looming bank profits require delicate handling

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

There's a steady stream of would-be childcare educators who don't understand the basics.

No clue in reality: when vocational training falls short

Sylvia Pennington
1 hr ago

Steve Smith.

Nine urged to call stumps on cricket coverage

Lucy Battersby

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

Private equity sets a higher bar for former Spotless boss

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Barangaroo launches new public park zone

Carolyn Cummins

Gurner challenges Fitzroy Club knockback in Supreme Court

Simon Johanson

Investors cheer Europe's political mood

Vesna Poljak

MUA, Patrick at battle stations as 'peace deal' looks to be in tatters

Sarah Danckert

Longines Heritage 1945.

10 new vintage-style watches that will never go out of fashion

Watches

- 125 S, la prima vettura costruita dalla Ferrari nel 1947.
- Nella foto la vettura replica realizzata nel 1987 dalla ...

Looking back at 70 years of triumphs and disasters at Ferrari

Luxury Cars

A-REITs have done very well, including ALE Property Group, which owns pubs.

The best-performing asset class of the past five years

John Collett

Vendors will potentially pay less tax if the hammer falls after June 30.

You'll lose 2 per cent of your taxable profit selling before June 30

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

There's a steady stream of would-be childcare educators who don't understand the basics.

No clue in reality: when vocational training falls short

Sylvia Pennington
1 hr ago

Physiotherapist Pete Hunt is starting to see a lot of people with neck and back pain related to their mobile.

There's one very good reason your neck's sore

Alexandra Cain

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Melbourne taxi driver allegedly bashed by teens

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A very hungry caterpillar could rid the world of plastic bags

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Car's near miss at Elmore ANZAC parade

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Descendants hold separate Anzac remembrance march

Illustration: Simon Letch

Best of Fairfax cartoons, April 26

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.

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Flash and dazzle: House of Bond.

House of Bond boils Alan Bond down to basics

COMMENT
Debi Enker

Amy and Tyson impressed at David and Betty's MKR score.

Angry, Angry Man failed to show in MKR grand finals decider

Aja Styles

John Boyega and Oscar Isaac as Finn and Poe in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

A Star Wars first? Lucasfilm fails to shoot down gay fan theory

Broede Carmody

'I thought he was joking': Faye Dunaway, left, and Warren Beatty before announcing the Oscar for best picture.

Dunaway speaks about Oscars gaffe for the first time

Elton John fell ill after his recent South American tour.

'Violently ill': Elton John fights 'potentially deadly' infection

Molly Meldrum gifts Samuel Johnson with a golden Stetson.

'I profusely apologise if I upset anyone': Meldrum apologises

Rob Moran

Busby Marou.

Busby Marou new song plays at Anzac AFL clash

Bernard Zuel

<i>House of Bond</i> stars Adrienne Pickering and Ben Mingay.

Alan Bond's family condemn 'shameful' Channel Nine biopic

Broede Carmody

The face behind the mask: what was found beneath the layers of black paint.

Does a Sidney Nolan self-portrait lie beneath Ned Kelly's mask?

Debbie Cuthbertson, Arts Editor

Tour de force: Kate Mulvany in <i>Richard 3</i>.

Kate Mulvany a masterfully villainous prince in Richard 3

review
Cameron Woodhead

Luisa Hastings Edge in The Rabble's production <i>Joan</i>.

The Rabble's Joan an unnverving take on Maid of Orleans

Cameron Woodhead

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge is sprayed with water during the London Marathon.

Prince Harry sprayed William with water and Kate Middleton loved it

Jenna Clarke

Topshop has released a pair of clear plastic 'jeans', which cost about $100.

The most disappointing thing about Topshop's $100 clear plastic 'jeans'

COMMENT
Melissa Singer

My friend believed that had she given birth to daughters, rather than sons, her life would be complete.

There is nothing harmless about sex selection

Cat Rodie

Designer Bianca Spender says she can't imagine having her garments made by makers on the other side of the world.

Sure, we like the idea of 'Australian made,' but we don't like to pay for it

Clare Press

A woman prays on the street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Trump's global policy on women's health should be called 'pro-death'

COMMENT
Nicholas Kristof

Getting divorced: Stephen Belafonte and former Spice Girl Mel B.

Mel B's 'abusive' husband Stephen Belafonte granted visitation

Amy Croffey

Cabbage and cartooning with friends on the home-school porch.

Home-schooling my kids in Vanuatu has been a learning curve

Rachael Mogan McIntosh

Serena Williams shared a pregnant selfie on Instagram.

'I can't wait for you to join the players box': Serena's letter to unborn child

Drinking at home over dinner still counts.

More older Australians are drinking booze in a risky way

Sarah Berry

Healthier, happier and more productive?

The Swedish six-hour workday could help you live longer

Thomas Heath

Menopause: it's never too late to get moving.

Powering up - why women should get in training for menopause

Paula Goodyer

The Happy Kitchen's sesame seared tuna with crunchy Asian slaw.

Good-mood food: Seven recipes to boost your happiness

Neil Perry's bruschetta with cherry tomatoes, basil, olives and feta.

The Mediterranean diet is healthy. But is it actually Mediterranean?

Keep them fresh: Adam Liaw's spring greens salad.

Freeze the miso, rinse the chicken? Take our food safety quiz

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'Am I unreasonable?': woman shocked by cafe nappy change

Bradley Herbst, dressed in his daily costumes, with daughter Sydney.

Dad's social media deal with teen gets job done in hilarious way

This mum's method of managing her feuding siblings has divided the internet.

Mum shares unusual way to manage feuding kids

Berkeley River Lodge was built in 2012 and is open for eight months of the year.

No Wi-Fi, phones, or roads: Aussie hotel at the edge of the world

Louise Southerden

Silver Muse, the newest luxury cruise ship from Silversea.

New, ultra-luxury cruise ship takes to the sea for the first time

Brian Johnston

Half of the world's aircraft are expected to be equipped for Wi-Fi within the next six years.

How Wi-Fi actually works on planes and why only some airlines have it

Hazel Plush

The Kitty Hawk Flyer is one of several prototypes being designed by Kitty Hawk, a start-up based in Mountain View, ...

Silicon Valley takes on dream of the flying car

The Galaxy S8 started shipping last week, but some people who pre-ordered in South Korea complained about the display. ...

Samsung to roll out fixes for Galaxy S8

Like Telstra Wholesale, NBN also denies there is a deadlock.

ACCC fails to break Telstra, NBN broadband deadlock

EXCLUSIVE

Amazon announces new products or services all the time that don't go anywhere. But the potential is intriguing.

Amazon takes on Apple, Google as digital master

Telstra only shut down its twenty year old 2G GSM network last year.

Future of Australia's mobile network

Holden Commodore VFII SS-V Redline Ute.

Two up: The best two-seat cars

Stephen Ottley

Few cars can match what HSV's Tourer offers.

Quick spin: HSV Tourer LSA

David McCowen

Honda Civic TypeR Nurburgring Time Attack
April 2017
Worldwide Copyright: ? Patrick Gosling, Chris Brown/ ...

Honda's supercar-beating hatch

David McCowen

Apple has kitted out a Lexus RX450h with computer game controls.

Apple's unconventional idea

Drive staff

The 2017 Suzuki Swift will arrive in June.

Suzuki Swift coming soon

Drive staff

The car features somewhat derivative styling.

Driven: MG's Mazda CX-3 rival

Andrew MacLean

Strong voice for Australia: John Coates.

If Coates loses job, Australia loses voice on world stage

COMMENT
Roy Masters

Game-breaker: Felise Kaufusi celebrates his try against the Warriors at AAMI Park.

Storm's rising stars prove the difference in win over Warriors

Roy Ward

Jockey Jordan Childs drives outsider Dornier to a surprise win in the VRC St Leger at Flemington on Tuesday.

Dornier flies under the radar to make Leger a family affair

Michael Lynch

Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan drives to the net against Milwaukee Bucks forward Thon Maker.

Dellavedova, Maker face NBA play-offs elimination

Brian Lara has suggested getting rid of draws in Test cricket.

Every Test match should have a winner: Lara

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