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The World Trade Organisation upheld Australia's right to impose plain-package label restrictions on tobacco products.

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A Southern California father said he and his family were booted from a Delta flight after they declined to give up a seat they had bought for their teenage son and were attempting to use for his 2-year-old sibling.

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Iron ore is in full-scale retreat, with futures in China plunging to end limit-down on investor concern about demand.

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Washington: President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel this month as part of his first foreign trip, wading directly into the tangled diplomacy of Middle Eastern politics.

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A landmark Australian law on restrictive tobacco packaging has been upheld at the World Trade Organisation after a five-year legal battle, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the situation.

US President Donald Trump will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on May 24, senior sources said on Thursday.

Chicago Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans apologized on Thursday for the city employees who forcibly removed a United Airlines passenger, an incident that prompted international condemnation and led the airline to revise its policies.

Erin Molan addressed the Anthony Bell infidelity allegations head-on on Thursday night.

The family of a 10-year-old boy who was decapitated on the world's tallest waterslide in the US will receive almost $20 million ($A27 million) in settlement payments.

Former US President Barack Obama endorsed centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron for France's presidential election on Sunday in a video message in which he praised Macron for appealing "to people's hopes and not their fears".

A man has pleaded guilty to a drive-by shooting, linked to a drug debt, that injured a woman in Canberra's south. 

Residents of a Symonston caravan park are concerned new ownership will see their rent rise as infrastructure continues to crumble.

Two people aged in their 60s have been injured while fleeing their burning Sydney home with their teenage grandson.

Four separate businesses have lodged word-for-word identical submissions supporting a controversial plastic to fuel facility in Hume.

Hidden crevasses, hungry polar bears and the relationship between a father and his son-in-law are the hurdles standing between Queensland adventurer Geoff Wilson and another polar feat this month.

Some Brisbane motorists are pushing the speed limit by more than 70 per cent. Brisbane City Council is trying to make them slow down.

Prince Philip is to stand down from royal duties, Buckingham Palace has announced.

Professor Laurie Brown says she lost more than $200,000 on the pokies, despite a known problem

Canberra clubs have been told to cap EFTPOS cash withdrawals at $250.

Tomas Cubelli is part of the Brumbies' walking wounded but hopes to make a comeback in time to make a finals charge.

A teacher at Mount Scopus Memorial College has been charged with making and possessing child pornography after his previous employer, Bialik College, allegedly uncovered disturbing inappropriate images on the hard drive of his former laptop. 

As debate rages about the deliberate out of bounds and no third-man-up rule changes this season, the league's laws of the game committee met on Thursday for the first time this season.

When Caitlin Moran turned 12 and had to stop playing the game she loved, she couldn't understand why.

Canberra Raiders legend Mal Meninga calls for Canberra to sellout the final Anzac Test.

Richmond have been decimated for Saturday night's crucial clash with the Western Bulldogs, with Dion Prestia joining fellow recruit Toby Nankervis on the sidelines.

A Sydney man has been cleared of raping a teenager in the laneway outside his father's Kings Cross nightclub after a retrial.

In the leaders' first meeting Malcolm Turnbull will be carrying a box from the Bungendore Wood Works Gallery, near Canberra.

Stars back for Hawthorn, a weary Bomber rested and pain at Tigerland.

Tony Abbott has predicted Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull could dump a controversial education funding reform, telling a group of private school children south of Perth the government would be "on a loser" if it looked like disadvantaging Catholic schools.

He's the visionary behind some of our most memorable advertising campaigns. Phil Selby, copywriter at NATION Creative, talks us through his Canberra favourites.

Injury-plagued ruckman Nathan Vardy has been named in the Eagles' team to take on Port Adelaide after overcoming an elbow injury he suffered in West Coast's win over Fremantle last week.

The Majura Valley Bush Festival will be back next year.

 A 19-year-old university student from Ballarat has died suddenly from meningococcal disease on Wednesday night.

Emergency services are on the scene of a fatal car crash on the Kings Highway.

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Which of the Donald Trump's will greet Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull when he has his first face-to-face meeting with the new US president?

Fernando Manuel Paulino - fuelled by a "white-hot hatred " - was so enraged his ex-wife would benefit from their assets that he repeatedly threatened to kill her before fatally stabbing her at least 16 times, a jury has heard.

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Gun forward Jesse Hogan has returned to Melbourne training, with the club believing he is eager to play against Hawthorn on Sunday.

The NSW auditor-general says increasing class sizes is one way of coping with a surging student population.

Labor has not settled on a figure for schools funding despite attacking the Turnbull government over its new deal.

As word broke that Buckingham Palace had called an emergency meeting and speculation swirled surrounding the content of that meeting, at least one media organisation was bound to make a gaffe.

An Australian soldier has died during a training exercise.

A plan by the country's top billboard firm to buy its largest rival may jack up the prices charged to advertisers while cutting service levels, a sign it may block the $735 million deal, the competition watchdog has warned.

Chinese state media has hit back at a rare and detailed attack by North Korea on its neighbour and major economic backer.

A stroke survivor and her partner have been forced to auction personal items and survive on Salvation Army food vouchers after Centrelink suddenly cut off their carer payments after a brief assessment over the phone.

When the National Zoo and Aquarium opened the Jamala Wildlife Lodge two years ago, most visitors were local. 

The Indonesian government has launched a $US2 billion ($2.6 billion) lawsuit against the company responsible for the worst oil spill in the history of Australia's offshore petroleum industry.

Oil and gas producer Santos says governments are to blame for east coast gas supply problems.

Health panel set up to investigate a plastics to fuel factory at Hume effectively kills off plan.

Police issue descriptions of two wanted men.