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A man has been charged with two fraud offences involving the alleged fraud of almost $1.7 million.

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Before West Texas Intermediate crude nosedived on Thursday, money managers slashed bets on rising prices by 20 per cent.

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The euro fell from six-month highs against the US dollar overnight after Emmanuel Macron's French election victory.

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​Copper slid to a four-month low overnight after data showed a drop in imports into China, the world's biggest consumer.

Iron ore's attempt at a rebound lasted just a few short hours as investor concern over robust supplies returned.

An Afghan-born man charged with setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey will be tried in New York after a federal judge rejected his lawyers' argument that he could not get a fair trial in the city where he is accused of injuring 30 people.

Some of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted three years ago by Islamist Boko Haram militants refused to be part of a group of 82 girls freed at the weekend, a mediator involved in the release said on Monday.

Obama warned Trump against hiring Flynn as national security adviser, official confirms.

On the Thursday evening before Easter, photographers staking out Palm Beach International Airport in Florida awaiting President Donald Trump were surprised to see not one, but two Air Force planes arriving within minutes of each other.

The Turnbull government has denounced Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs that left has thousands dead, declaring Canberra is "deeply concerned" about reports of extrajudicial killings.

MPs kids won't be allowed to fly business class to Canberra from July.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party has opened up a 22-point lead over the opposition Labour Party ahead of a June 8 national election, an ICM opinion poll for the Guardian newspaper showed on Monday.

Australia's appetite for online shopping is surging -  despite a lower Australian dollar - as growth in overseas sales drives the online retail market.

A North Wollongong resident is suing American Airlines after he was crushed by two "grossly obese" passengers seated beside each other during a 14-hour flight to Los Angeles.

The board of Fairfax Media is widely expected to reject private equity group suitor TPG amid a lack of shareholder support for the $2.2 billion demerger.

Australian customs officials destroyed two irreplaceable plant specimens that were being loaned to scientists by international institutions, prompting one of the institutions to suspend all transfers to Australian scientists.

After months of fanfare, Qantas last week released the details of its non-stop flight from Perth to London aboard its new Dreamliner. And the loser is ... Melbourne.

Media stocks have rocketed higher on Monday as investors digest the possibility of a change in media laws and private equity makes an offer for Fairfax Media.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has resisted calls to sack Yassmin Abdel-Magied from a government advisory board.

Technology One and the council have been battling over the renegotiation of a $122 million, 10-year contract to replace 13 systems.

Australian scientists have spent years trying to find out just how far baby clownfish like Nemo travel once they leave the anemone.

With electricity price hikes predicted to be just around the corner a research company is advising Queenslanders to consider changing their plan.

A curious mind led to this story about purple carrots.

Hellenic club offers "cash out" at machines next to gambling floor.

Canberra's Liberal representatives have broken ranks with their party colleagues and vowed to push against a new school funding model

Joe Hockey's disastrous first budget will always be remembered for the term "lifters and leaners".  Malcolm Turnbull's second budget loomed as the year of "good debt and bad" debt, until the Prime Minister unleashed a new political slogan on the nation.

Victorian bail laws are set to get tougher under new reforms drafted after Melbourne's Bourke Street tragedy but the opposition says they are cosmetic.

About 1.1 million Australian students will sit the NAPLAN tests from Tuesday.

UnionsACT says the ACT government must more strictly regulate the labour hire industry, amid claims of "rorting, exploitation and mistreatment".

Two Belconnen mums who last year crowdfunded for socks and beanies for Canberra's homeless are at it again.

Thousands of public servants at large federal department have been affected.

Collingwood legend and media personality Lou Richards has died at the age of 94.

Police busted two women dangerously driving with children in the car on Saturday.

Talk of a crisis in Australian rugby hasn't breached the ACT Brumbies' four walls.

A touch of gold has been added to the Green Machine.

Jesse Bromwich and Kevin Proctor have nobody to blame but themselves, says Don Furner.

​An evangelist and pentecostal church treasurer accused of raping young choir girls bought one alleged victim's silence for $20, a court has heard.

Iron ore's attempt at a rebound lasted just a few short hours as investor concern over robust supplies, including near-record port stockpiles, and speculation some traders in China were rushing to offload holdings combined to snuff out a brief gain in prices.

A Mandurah mum says she is "disgusted" after a "psychopath" jumped her back fence, sniffed the underwear hanging from her clothesline, helped himself to a pack of cigarettes and left on Friday night.

RSPCA WA has launched the biggest appeal in the organisation's history, in a desperate effort to secure funding for more inspectors of animal cruelty complaints.

Westpac Banking Corp chief executive Brian Hartzer has defended vertical integration as the sector prepares for another inquiry.

Controversial former Labor leader Mark Latham has joined the Liberal Democrats, sparking speculation a return to politics might be on the cards.

A teenage boy suffered facial and head injuries in an assault outside Gungahlin College on Wednesday afternoon, police say.

Westpac has unveiled an $4.017 billion cash profit for the first half of the financial year.

Tributes are flowing for one of the AFL's biggest and brightest names, Lou Richards, who died on Monday.

A whisky cocktail infused with the flavours of an Irish stew has helped two Canberra bartenders take out a national cocktail competition.

Border force officers have seized nine kilograms of methamphetamine at Perth Airport over the weekend.

Scores of people refused entry after buying illegitimate tickets online.

This evocative production of Arthur Miller's gripping tragedy is well worth seeing.