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A hospitality worker has been sacked after using a racial slur on a receipt.

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• 22 mins ago

Call me old fashioned, but when the speed limit is 100, I like to do 100. Not 98. Not 90. Not freaking 80. But 100.

• 23 mins ago

It's a long way from the back blocks of Fyshwick to the world capital of finance.

• 24 mins ago

Looping a team scarf around Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's neck could portend one of AFL's biggest coups. At least that's what Port Adelaide chair David Koch is hoping.

• 27 mins ago

A former job centre employee upset her co-worker had ended their extra-marital affair is accessing his personal data 5 times.

• 31 mins ago

If you woke up this morning and went outside to grab your morning paper, you could be excused for thinking you were in downtown Beijing.

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• 59 mins ago

Woman appears in court charged with murder.

• 1 hr ago

A fast-growing global cyber attack that has struck computers across Europe and Asia has not affected Australian organisation, the federal government says.

• ANALYSIS
• 1 hr ago

When Andrew Bassat started online job-search site Seek, he knew that damming the rivers of gold would eventually impact newspapers' unprofitable, but invaluable, side product - journalism. "It is not an outcome that we are happy about," he says.

• 1 hr ago

Police warn of fog as car crash on Federal Highway leaves four people in hospital.

• 1 hr ago

Another portion of Melbourne's former industrial heritage is set to be demolished to make way for a 32-storey hotel.

• COMMENT
• 1 hr ago

Maybe it is time to impose a maximum limit on chief executive pay.

• ANALYSIS
• 1 hr ago

The Ahok verdict has sparked candlelit vigils from Bali to Papua. The Indonesian diaspora in Australia have organised protests. But can the blasphemy law be changed?

Grab a beer and prepare to be inspired at this year's Pint of Science festival.

Australian man Stephen Richardson was strangled to death in his Sanur villa, with Bali police suspecting the killer was known to the 63-year-old.

The head of a Dutch fertility clinic is accused of using his own sperm and not that of selected donors to father dozens of children.

How do you clean up more than six million five cent pieces?

Man charged with grievous bodily harm.

Misogynistic attacks on Brigitte Macron, France's first lady-to-be, are down to "jealousy", her youngest daughter said.

The Western Bulldogs have been wayward in front of goals recently and it's costing them.

A West Melbourne man has been charged with multiple offences after a brawl at Melbourne Central.

Tepid data on retail sales and inflation in the US rekindled concern that growth won't accelerate to forecast levels.

Russian officials have fired back at the US media for its response to the Russian photographer's presence in the White House.

Melbourne's air quality will continue to be so poor over the weekend, the Environmental Protection Agency has issued a warning for asthma sufferers.

President Trump attempts to warn sacked FBI director before he starts 'leaking to the press'.

Chinese iron ore futures dropped to near four-month lows on Friday and posted their seventh weekly loss out of eight.

China's central bank said it will maintain a prudent and neutral monetary policy and keep liquidity basically stable.

English hospitals turn patients away after cyber attack cripples computers in the health service.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed it has detected a new Ebola outbreak.

When we send people to war, we ask they prepare themselves to kill or die to defend the nation. But what happens when they return?

President Nicolas Maduro has abruptly dismissed Venezuela's health minister days after the government broke a nearly two-year silence on data which showed the country's medical crisis significantly worsening.

• IN DEPTH

The big banks appear to be on a hiding to nothing in their fight against the new $6.2b tax.

• EXCLUSIVE

Sydney has won a global bid to host the 'Davos of women' after it was backed by leading business and political leaders.

Tigers coach Ivan Cleary will lead the campaign for the NRL to introduce transfer windows after freely admitting Parramatta-bound Mitchell Moses was just one of a number of players across several clubs distracted by the contract circus.

This New York police detective sits at a desk just steps away from the US president.

Russia may retaliate against the United States for the Obama administration's expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats it said were spies, a top Kremlin aide said on Friday.

Mercedes Corby has left Brisbane on Friday, bound for Bali to bring her sister Schapelle home.

More people in Brisbane are choosing to ride bikes with a little extra push, thanks to the hot weather and hills.

Police are considering a formal warning system where identified foreign national gang suspects will be told they are on a watch list and face deportation if caught offending.

The Eagles get their revenge on a depleted Bulldogs side in a thriller.

Traffic lights at a busy Civic intersection were changed three days before a collision there.

The LNP hopes its crocodile policy for Queensland has bite.

The Brumbies' season hangs in the balance after another disappointing loss on Friday night.

Police have issued a public appeal for public assistance to help locate a missing 10-year-old Berwick girl who ran away from home on Friday night.

Te Maire Martin is set to join the Warriors after knocking back Melbourne in a move that will expedite the immediate the transfers of Tui Lolohea to Wests Tigers and Mitchell Moses to Parramatta.

Carlton have moved quickly to address part of their sponsorship shortfall, signing a new sponsor.

Thieves have left a gaping hole in the wall of a Melbourne newsagency, after smashing the bricks with a sledgehammer and making off with a safe.

The NSW hooker and halves position remain the final pieces of the puzzle left unsolved just over a week out from Blues coach Laurie Daley's team announcement for the opening game of the series.

ACT government says it wants to focus on light rail before a convention centre.