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Images of the ransom screen for WannaCry were shared online throughout the weekend.

'This is not game over': Cyber attack sparks call to arms

11 mins ago

The latest decision to privatise services will affect about 1200 drivers.

'Biggest betrayal': Sydney bus routes to be privatised

1 hr ago

N2 Extreme Gelato suspended a member of its social media team, after a controversial blackface Facebook caption.

Gelato shop forced to apologise amid anger over social media post

Australian Sara Connor listens to an Indonesian interpreter during her trial in Bali, in February.

Bitter blow as Bali court increases jail term for Australian woman

44 mins ago

Ray White

House prices fall again as loans to investors drop

UPDATED

The insurance industry's use of private fraud investigators has been scrutinised.

Dead son's belongings were stolen, but remark from insurer stung more

'Unbelievable' Twitter attack exposes tensions over Gonski plan

'A lot less fear': Republicans break away from Trump

Taxpayers billed for $11,000 in cosmetic work, ICAC told

Accused drug mule 'bullying another prisoner'

Son arrested over mother's gruesome death 'hearing voices'

UPDATED
1 hr ago

George Calombaris is facing legal action over food poisoning at his Hellenic Republic restaurant in Kew.

More pain for celebrity chef as restaurant sued over mass food poisoning

EXCLUSIVE

Karl Stefanovic sitting front row at MBFWA on Monday with girlfriend Jasmine Yarbrough, his mother Jenny (far left), her ...

Karl turns up at Fashion Week with girlfriend - and her mother

Kara McCullough after she was crowned the new Miss USA in Las Vegas.

Nuclear chemist named Miss USA ruffles feathers with answer

The kitchen – where the now-late owner was reportedly born.

'It's crazy': Unlivable cottage sells for $500k over reserve

When sizes differ, it can be hard to work out the best deals

What it means when a food label says it has 'real ingredients'

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Street style at Fashion Week Sydney

Is this banana really 'too bent'?

Supermarkets refuse to sell millions of ugly bananas

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - OCTOBER 21: Todd Spiewak and Jim Parsons attends the 2016 GLSEN Respect Awards on October 21, 2016 ...

Big Bang Theory star ties the knot in New York

The Bachelor Sam Wood and Snezana Markoski announce they are expecting a baby on Mother's Day.

Sam and Snez drop baby bombshell on Mother's Day

Netflix TV series The Crown.

Most expensive TV show ever fails to make the cut for awards

The author's daughter playing in their national treasure of a home.

'It's complicated': Living in a national treasure with a toddler

25 Browning St Campsie has sold for $1,195,000 at auction – $515,000 over reserve.

Derelict Campsie home sells for staggering $1.9 million

Crown's Waterfall apartment project will consist of 331 apartments across four towers.

Crown takes $395m gamble on rising interest in inner-south

Strathfield's suburb record has been reset at $8.8 million.

Sanity boss sets Strathfield record after upsizing to $47m home

25 Montpelier Place in Manly sold for $6.3m on Saturday.

Sydney auction market bounces back after last week's year low

An artist's impression of the controversial proposed "glass box" building.

On The Rocks: Fate of Sydney's controversial 'glass box' decided

'A huge relief': The one world title Australian children do not want

Paper trail solves $50m mystery behind tunnel, ill-fated bottle shop

Associate Professor Julie Leask said public health professionals appear to be increasingly active in conversations about ...

The unintended consequences of No Jab No Pay policy

Train trips fell by 19 per cent during the morning peak last Friday, compared with the same period a week earlier.

Extra 200 trains a week scheduled to cope with demand on line

Former NSW RSL president Don Rowe.

Investigation triggered after $200k withdrawn on company credit card

The teenagers were taken to hospital in an unknown condition.

Wedding reception ends in 30-person fight on inner west street

Carmichael Mine could would supply as much as 60 million tonnes of coal a year.

'Monumental experiment': Concerns over Adani's mine plans

Peter Hannam

Patrick Cronin died in April last year.

Murder charge dropped against man accused of killing footballer

VIC

Lemons being harvested on irrigated land in Cobram, Victoria.

Vegetable supplies left to rot without workers to pick and pack

Church

Abuse survivors call for acccess to their personal records

'We see students who are doing very well in maths deliberately choosing general maths to achieve a band six, which ...

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'We see students who are doing very well in maths deliberately choosing general maths to achieve a band six, which ...

The HSC maths equation that doesn’t add up

Pallavi Singhal
8 mins ago

Robbie Farah wants to hold onto his position as hooker.

Daley's dilemma as Farah clings to Origin spot

Andrew Webster
1 hr ago

"A decade ago, the bigger the firm, the more you made. Now I think partners are more sophisticated about where they're ...

Clever reforms will save money - and reduce crime

COMMENT
Andrew Bushnell

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Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon has said the Greens should stand by its commitment to the six-year Gonski agreements

Gonski attack: the tweets started at 9pm and didn't stop for 48 hours

Matthew Knott

'The people think it's fair': PM puts pressure on Senate over budget

James Massola

Fairfax-Ipsos poll: Budget delivers much-needed government boost

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison.

Poll results: Don't pop the champagne just yet, Malcolm

ANALYSIS
Michael Gordon

Manus Province police commander David Yapu, centre, said shots had been fired at the compound.

Soldiers fired bullets into Manus Island centre, PNG police admit

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Koziol

Julia Gillard receives an honorary doctorate at the University of Canberra in 2015.

Abbott and Gillard to receive honorary doctorates in Israel

An unidentified Afghan man leans against a chainlink fence of a refugee camp after arriving with other asylum seekers on ...

'The system here is broken': Secret recording revealed

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, centre, supervised the missile launch on Sunday.

North Korea's latest missile launch 'ignored' by China

Kirsty Needham

David Deakin's hands are tied behind his back with the cord of an iPhone charger during the April 20 raid on his apartment.

Philippine cybersex crackdown nets 62-year-old's arrest

Lindsay Murdoch

A number of mummies inside the newly discovered burial site in Minya, Egypt May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - ...

Egypt sees discovery of ancient burial chamber as blessing

Nearly 30 prisoners attacked two prison guards during a mass jail break at Buimo prison in Lae, Papua New Guinea. ...

17 prisoners shot dead in PNG jail break

Miriam Merten in the corridor of Lismore Base Hospital.

Seclusion in psychiatric hospitals must end today

COMMENT
Ian Hickie

US President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump must be impeached. Here's why.

COMMENT
Laurence Tribe

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

Which government problems had you forgotten still exist?

COMMENT
Andrew P Street

The budget's backbone is made up of areas that nearly cost Malcolm Turnbull the last election.

The five pain points that wrote the budget

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe
35 mins ago

Banks say the levy undermines a push by regulators for banks to run larger funding buffers.

Bank levy could make us less shock-proof, industry claims

Clancy Yeates
1 hr ago

WannaCrypt

WannaCrypt attack exposes gaps in cyber insurance

Richard McLeish

TPG has approached Fairfax Media with a higher offer.

Bid 'materially undervalues' Fairfax says major shareholder

UPDATED
Lucy Battersby
1 hr ago

China's trade plan benefits to flow to Australia

Myriam Robin

You couldn't pay me to move to Sydney

COMMENT
Sylvia Pennington

Bouncing banks help offset ASX Monday morning blues

Jessica Sier

Commonwealth Bank runs ad against bank levy

Patrick Hatch

<b>Rolex Oyster Perpetual Yacht-Master II</b><br>

High seas: The latest trend in watches is plain sailing

Watches

Does the cost outweigh the benefits of living in Sydney?

Sorry, but you couldn't pay me to move to Sydney

COMMENT
Sylvia Pennington

UBank's goal is to deliver simpler, better, smarter banking to customers.

NAB-owned UBank launches robot to sell home loans

John Collett

It's important to get financial advice before selling the family home to fund retirement.

When seniors own $1m home, but have no money

Noel Whittaker

Tizzie Hall is in the business of getting babies to sleep.

The art and business of baby sleep whispering

Cara Waters

Helen D'Silva runs her psychology practice as a sole trader.

Doing it all on your own

Louis White

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Sara Connor's sentence increased on appeal

30 mins ago

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Why are Australia's cricketers in a pay dispute?

1 hr ago

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AFL show Bounce slammed for 'blatant racism'

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Putin the pianist: Can he really play?

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

Best of Fairfax cartoons, May 15

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It is happening again. The new Twin Peaks premieres 22 May. Only on Stan.

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Brand new season of Billions - now streaming. Only on Stan.

New approaches for retaining millennial staff

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How to create a better customer checkout experience

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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Bounce host Danny 'Spud' Frawley holding a Chinese menu while mocking the historic Shanghai AFL game.

Fox Footy sorry after Bounce called out for 'racist' segment

Aja Styles
1 hr ago

Tonight's Q&A will be defined as much by who didn't show up as who did.

Students set to protest Q&A;'s post-budget special

Broede Carmody

Craig Reucassel urges a Woolworths executive to test if shoppers genuinely reject ''ugly'' fruit.

Chaser's Craig Reucassel tackles Australia's huge banana waste

Michael Lallo

Netflix TV series The Crown.

BBC drama topples Netflix's crown at the BAFTAs

Broede Carmody

This Oct. 1, 2016 photo released by NBC shows Alec Baldwin portraying Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ...

Saturday Night Live rides ratings high thanks to Trump gags

Broede Carmody

Michael Fassbender plays an android in <i>Alien: Covenant</i>.

Why Fassbender loved shooting Alien: Covenant in Australia

Stephanie Bunbury

George Lazenby in <i>On Her Majesty's Secret Service</i>.

Why this Aussie turned down a fortune to play James Bond again

Karl Quinn

Julie Andrews, pictured with Anna O'Byrne who plays Eliza Doolittle and Charles Edwards, who plays Henry Higgins.

How did Dame Julie solve a problem like Eliza?

Nathanael Cooper

Violin virtuoso Satu Vanska turned triple somersaults backwards on the violin to meet the demands of Locatelli's Violin ...

Virtuoso escapes fiendish labyrinth with grace, style

Peter McCallum

Wagner

Even more than 100 years on, this music can still divide a nation

Jason Blake

Grounded: Olivia Kingston, Raegan Williams and Alex Warren perform vigorous dance in SE7EN.

Farts, burps and squeaky doors. Are they having a laugh?

Jill Sykes

Karl Stefanovic sitting front row at MBFWA on Monday with girlfriend Jasmine Yarbrough, his mother Jenny (far left), her ...

Stefanovic and Yarbrough's PDA ... beside their mothers

Amy Croffey

Kara McCullough after she was crowned the new Miss USA in Las Vegas.

Kara McCullough, a nuclear chemist, named Miss USA

Labor MP Anne Aly walked the runway for Thomas Puttick's show.

Labor MP Anne Aly swaps counter-terrorism for the catwalk

Jenna Clarke
1 hr ago

Alice McCall makes the case for wearing feathers. Anywhere.

The case for dressy trackpants and/or feathers every day

Annie Brown
2 mins ago

Street style at fashion week, day one.

The street style not to miss at Sydney fashion week

Photo taken by my Instagram (and regular) husband.

I wore my pyjamas to fashion week, it was a great life choice

Annie Brown
1 min ago

It's OK to cry in front of children.

Should we cry in front of our children?

Jacinta Tynan

Adam Driver as Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Confusingly, Kylo Ren is the fastest growing baby name

Annie Brown

Neil Laybourn (L) and Jonny Benjamin.

The simple words that convinced a suicidal man to keep living

Colby Itkowitz

Start gently and build up slowly.

You don't need to do high-intensity exercise to lose weight

Paula Goodyer

DJ Tigerlily.

DJ Tigerlily's top marks for 'following the diet trends so well'

Pan fried chicken with fregola.

Mid-May meal planner: Simple autumnal fare

Andrew Bowden unveils his Rita cake on <i>MasterChef Australia</i>.

Watch: The cake the contestants will be making on MasterChef tonight

Go easy on the oil and swap white rice for brown.

The tricks for turning fried rice healthy

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Can your toothpaste tell if you're pregnant?

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The easy way to choose the perfect lipstick colour ... if you dare

The detrimental effects of smacking your kids.

What five decades of research has confirmed about smacking

Leg room is surprisingly generous in economy-class seats onboard Cathay Pacific A350-900 aircraft.

Flying economy, where leg room is surprisingly generous

Tim Richards

Planey McPlaneface?
Or Vegemite?
Qantas' Dreamliners need new names.

Qantas new Dreamliner could be named 'Vegemite'

Don't feel bad about taking your hotel toiletries with you.

The shameful truth about what happens to your hotel toiletries

Gavin Haines

Code

WannaCrypt: what you need to know

The research used tiny wires to provide a scaffold for brain cells grown on a semiconductor chip.

Researchers grow grey matter on a chip

WannaCrypt

WannaCrypt attack exposes gaps in cyber insurance

While we mostly jumped ship to Apple three years ago, there's a single reason we still run a PC for work as well.

NBN: Customers sold 'unattainable speeds'

Gizmodo

A computer screen shows an error message after Britain's National Health Service was hacked.

Massive cyber attack earns a mere $35,000

ANALYSIS

Porsche sport driving school.

Back to school with Porsche's driver training

Daniela Intili

2017 Toyota Yaris ZR 2017 Toyota Yaris

Which is the best Toyota Yaris model?

Andrew MacLean

Head on: ANCAP crashed a 1998 Toyota Corolla with its 2015 cousin.

New v old: Crash test results revealed

David McCowen

2017 BMW 5-Series.

Quick spin: BMW 530d

Stephen Ottley

Hyundai has been busted testing its new i30N at Bathurst.

Busted: Hyundai caught testing new i30N at Bathurst

David McCowen

Alfa Romeo Giulia QV.

Alfa Romeo lays the groundwork for its future success

Andrew MacLean

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Hopoate's religion about-turn to help win new deal at Bulldogs

Adam Pengilly
1 hr ago

Under performed: Glenn Maxwell did not live up to his stature as an international player in the IPL, said his coach.

IPL coach's scathing attack on Glenn Maxwell after IPL exit

Daniel Ricciardo finished third at the Spanish Grand Prix.

Ricciardo hopes to push on after 'lonely' podium

Andrew Tate

Windies

The tail-ender brain fade that gifted Pakistan a test victory

"Unfairly fast": Sprinter Ben Johnson, who admitted to using performance enhancing drugs during his career, in an ad for ...

Ben Johnson betting ad 'completely wrong': ASADA

Steve Larkin

Nick Kyrgios has been without a coach for two years.

Former world No.4 set to coach Kyrgios

Sydney FC new signing?Jordy Buijs. please credit Jaime Castaneda.

Boost for Sydney FC as overseas player re-signs

Dominic Bossi

Go for gold: Paige Hadley (right) has ruled out an Australian international boycott.

No international boycott for Diamonds

James Buckley

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 12: Mitchell Moses of the Tigers runs with the ball during the round ten NRL match between the ...

Mitchell Moses to join Eels by Tuesday, says his league legend uncle

Hot or not: Laurie Daley has big decisions to make ahead of State of Origin 1.

Who's hot and who's not for NSW ahead of State of Origin

Matt Encarnacion

Captain's Call: Boyd Cordner has got the backing of a raft of former NSW Blues captains to take over as the state's next ...

Boyd Cordner earns backing of former NSW Blues captains

Matt Encarnacion

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