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President Donald Trump listens as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House ...

'Country is being tested': Pressure mounts on Trump

Andrea Lehane with her husband James.

'Cheap thrills': Husband reveals pain after wife killed by monkey bike

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Architect and furniture maker Adam Markowitz.

Meet the people whose incomes may surprise you

Imam Ibrahim Omerdic, (right) accused of conducting the forced wedding ceremony of a man to a 14-yr-old girl.

Girl in 'forced marriage with man 20 years older': Imam in court

7 mins ago

Hot chips. Erskineville Hotel. Good Food photo by Rachel Murdolo January 7, 2013

Fries with that? The truth about salt and your diet

Kimberly Guilfoyle, as she appears on her Facebook page.

Play for Spicer's job may signal trouble in Trumpland

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Sledging will always be part of AFL football: Shaw

54 mins ago

Nation on 'negative watch' despite keeping AAA rating

1 hr ago

'Bizarre, extraordinary': Housemate jailed for murder of mother

UPDATED
26 mins ago

Fairfax boss accuses ABC of threatening future of rivals

Liberal MPs demand Turnbull deploy more troops to scare off China

EXCLUSIVE

A responsible parent takes the needs and care of their children into consideration all the time, not just when an app ...

'Babies often cry...': Texts for dads show how low the bar for fatherhood is set

It's important to have a goal in mind when saving.

The basic money quiz no high schooler has aced. Can you?

The Age, News, 17/052017 picture by Justin McManus. Pool Position. State funeral Collingwood legend Lou Richards at St ...

'Bigger than Texas': Football icon Lou Richards farewelled

Power sleeves at Magraw.

The 80s trend making a welcome comeback

46 mins ago

Champagne taste when you can afford a beer.

Why you should think twice before refrigerating champagne

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Melbourne's tribute to Lou Richards

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Writer Nina Hendy wishes she had discussed her father's estate planning while he was fit and healthy.

My dad rewrote his will just before he died from cancer

COMMENT

Orange roughy fish are found up to 2.5 kilometers below the surface.

The incredible, confronting new life at the bottom of the sea

One website is urging overseas investors to avoid the empty property tax by listing their properties on Airbnb.

Overseas investors urged to avoid proposed 'ghost tax'

Tom O'Connell has lived in his van for more than a year.

'Rent is slavery': The Melbourne millennials living out of vans

The instagram post showing one of the entrances at the Caojiawan train station, in an uninhabited area of Chongqing.

A Chinese subway station built in the middle of nowhere

It's one of Melbourne's most linguistically diverse neighbourhoods.

Move over Thornbury, here's a true slice of old school Melbourne

Three of the best: Michael Voss, Craig McCrae and Justin Leppitsch with the AFL premiership cup in 2003.

Brisbane Lions great Michael Voss sells 'majestic' home

It's not just people aboard Melbourne's trains.

Three of Melbourne's crowded rail lines to get more services

Sawmill teeters on brink, with 160 workers facing the axe

UPDATED

Millions for elite Melbourne schools in hidden windfall

Coates Hire is the latest major Australian employer to flag the option of applying for the Fair Work Commission to ...

Hundreds of workers in danger of 'devastating' 40% pay cut

Cardinal George Pell

Police consider prosecutors' advice on Pell inquiry

Police at the scene of the robbery at Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre.

'I was just petrified': Shopkeeper confronted by axe-wielding bandits

UPDATED

Crown's hotel and apartment tower in the centre. Freshwater Place is the tower immediately to the left.

Millionaires v billionaire in fight over Crown skyscraper

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 16: Broncos players Jordan Kahu(left) and Moses Pangai(right) with 18-year-old Bruklan ...

Crash shattered BJ's footy dream but not his spirit

QLD

Five per cent of renters felt discriminated against them because of a disability.

Renters in Sydney on the 'threshold of disaster'

Michael Pezzullo, Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection .

Staff face sack as Immigration outsources visas

ACT

A police officer was injured during a pursuit on Tuesday.

Policewoman pinned between cars, man charged

WA

John Zakhariev speaks after hearing in Bulgaria.

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John Zakhariev speaks after hearing in Bulgaria.

Australian rejected jihadist doctrine before Bulgaria arrest

EXCLUSIVE
Nick Miller

Jake Wardle (left), James Marshall and David Lynch behind the scenes of Twin Peaks.

Owls are (still) not what they seem: Twin Peaks exhumed

The author, Bruce Maguire, is the lead policy advisor at Vision Australia.

Using technology when you're blind

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Bruce Maguire

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Australian Banking Association CEO Anna Bligh at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 11 May 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares

Morrison demands banks sign tax non-disclosure agreement

James Massola
29 mins ago

Liberals demand PM deploy more troops in WA to scare off China

EXCLUSIVE
Latika Bourke

Fairfax boss accuses ABC of undermining commercial rivals

Matthew Knott

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Revealed: Funding for some rich schools to soar under Gonski 2.0

Matthew Knott

"It needs to be made very clear ... they aren't going to be settling in our country": Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.

Manus crackdown failed to persuade asylum seekers to leave

1 hr ago

Health Minister Greg Hunt's Medicare rebate thaw only applies to seven per cent of diagnostic scans.

Medicare rebate thaw will cover only a fraction of scans

Chris Bowen says Scott Morrison's housing package is a "sham".

Morrison's housing package will increase prices, Bowen says

A screenshot of the warning screen from a purported ransomware attack, as captured by a computer user in Taiwan.

North Korea says world 'astonished' by Wannacry

Kirsty Needham
26 mins ago

The Sednaya prison complex in Syria.

UN cannot verify prison crematorium claims as Syria blocks access

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: his office expressed shock at the US team's position.

Planning for Trump's Western Wall visit rocks Israelis

1 min ago

John Zakhariev, the 21 year-old former Sydney schoolboy, in court in Bulgaria.

'This shows what kind of a justice system there is in this country'

Nick Miller

Illustration: Simon Letch

The key to 'jobs and growth' too often overlooked

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

I encourage the idea of people making well-informed decisions, partying safely and being able to call for assistance ...

More police is not the answer to drug use in Melbourne's clubs

COMMENT
Carolyn Cage

Modern slavery may not always mean physical shackles.

Not relegated to history, slavery is alive and well

COMMENT
Molly Harriss Olson

James Simons was Wall Street's best-paid hedge fund manager in 2016.

Top hedge fund manager made $5.9m last year - every day

Alexandra Stevenson
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Duluxgroup is betting demand from existing home owners will buffet it from a construction downturn.

Dulux paints bright outlook, thanks to home renovators

Patrick Hatch
35 mins ago

Workers' average pay rises fail to keep up with the rising cost of living.

Wages rose 0.5 per cent in March quarter, stalling at all-time low

Eryk Bagshaw

Anti-Trump movement has a new target: McDonald's

Abha Bhattarai

Has Google become too big to own the rights to 'google'?

Oroton shares dive after forecast of 75 per cent earnings plunge

Patrick Hatch

Coke chairman's exit speech was missing one big thing

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The real reason why Chanel crossed the line with its boomerang

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M.J. Bale's Kingston Collection.

Aussie tailor makes history with 'single origin' suit

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 15: Portrait of Tom and Irene Han at their North West Sydney home. The retired couple intend to ...

Budget incentives for downsizers only benefit the well-off

John Collett

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The basic money quiz no high schooler has aced. Can you?

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Thomas Hegarty was the founder of collapsed business Ready Flowers.

Phoenix activity investigation into Ready Flowers and ZFlowers

Cara Waters
18 mins ago

It's hard to say no to work so delegation is the solution.

How I learned to delegate and not catastrophise

Comment
Alexandra Cain

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Sold! The world's most expensive earrings

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AFL legend Lou Richards tribute

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Memo: Trump asked Comey to shut down Flynn probe

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Zakhariev grim about outlook for Bulgarian terror trial

John Shakespeare

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Charlie Hunnam portrays the young Arthur as an amiable chancer in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

Guy Ritchie's King Arthur is a boys club not worth joining

Jake Wilson

Kirsten Dunst says Hollywood's focus on younger stars has made her feel like an "ageing actress" at 35.

Kirsten Dunst says she feels like an 'ageing actress'

Rob Moran

'Bloody rude': John Laws facing backlash over his interview with Socceroos star Tim Cahill.

John Laws hits back at 2DayFM host Em Rusciano

Rob Moran

Jimmy Kimmel is set to host the Oscars for a second consecutive year.

Kimmel to reprise Oscars hosting duties despite 'screw up'

Broede Carmody

Your next US president, Dwayne Johnson?

The Rock more popular than Trump for president: Poll

Broede Carmody

Michael.

Seven Year Switch finally brings the drama with intense face-off

COMMENT
Rob Moran

Actress Melissa McCarthy portrays White House spokesman Sean Spicer, while taping a segment for Saturday Night Live.

How Melissa McCarthy came to play Sean Spicer on SNL

2 Broke Girls has been axed after six seasons.

Which of your fave US shows are coming back – and which aren't?

Rob Moran

Robyn Nevin (left, Mrs Higgins) is sublime and Anna O'Byrne (Eliza Doolittle) enchanting, while Tony Llewellyn-Jones ...

My Fair Lady a nostalgic and sporadically entertaining revival

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Live Nation Australiasia CEO Michael Coppel inside the Palais Theatre. His company will spend $6 million restoring the ...

Palais Theatre dome restored to former glory as renovations continue

Debbie Cuthbertson

Poster for the film David Stratton: A Cinematic Life. Image sourced from web.?

David Stratton, Nicole Kidman, Jane Campion join Cannes clique

Stephanie Bunbury

Power sleeves at Magraw.

Fashion week: The 80s trend making a welcome comeback

Annie Brown
46 mins ago

A responsible parent takes the needs and care of their children into consideration all the time, not just when an app ...

Text messages for dads show how low the bar for fatherhood is set

Kasey Edwards

Gretchen Carlson has cautioned women against going to HR with complaints of sexual harassment.

Former Fox host warns women about reporting harassment to HR

Annie Brown

"It can be exciting that, at 34, I don't have it all figured out yet."

Life no longer follows a set timeline, we have to be OK with uncertainty

Lisa Bonos

A denim jacket works with just about everything.

The best dressed people at Sydney Fashon Week

We are all complicit to different degrees in placing children in rigid gender boxes, including by our choice of gifts.

I threw away my 'parental GPS' and you should too

Jo Hirst

A guest wears the Celine mismatched shoes at the Chanel show during Paris Fashion Week in March.

Mismatched shoes are officially a thing, but should we wear them?

Annie Brown

FILE - In this April 3, 2017, file photo, Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the ...

Bill Cosby blames racism for sexual assault claims

The common cold and respiratory infections can trigger a heart attack.

The common problem that can trigger a heart attack

Sarah Berry

Raia battled an eating disorder from age 11 until her death at 25.

We don't understand this about eating disorders, but we should

COMMENT
Sarah Berry

Artist CJ Hendry says drawing is her meditation, without even know it.

New campaign a reminder of what yoga is meant to be

Sarah Berry

Easy and delicious: Blueberry and goat cheese toast with lemon thyme butter.

Four ways to top toast that are better than avocado

Once a premium product associated with top chefs, Angus beef can now be found on McDonald's burgers.

Angus beef dog food? When ingredients jump the shark

COMMENT

Jill Dupleix's Mother's Day brunch punctuation: Russian apple cake with whisky toffee sauce.

Apple cake with whisky toffee sauce

Jill Dupleix

"My two good eggs" - Sara Walsh

'I had a miscarriage live on television'

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Warning after teen dies from caffeine overdose

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Tired of yelling at the kids? Try this mum's simple hair band trick

Flight attendant students for Emirates pose in the image and uniform classroom at the Emirates Aviation College in Dubai.

Flight attendants reveal 16 things people don't know about the job

The famous Preikestolen cliffs in Norway.

Google Maps gaffe sends hundreds to nondescript Norwegian village

Tigerair 737. The plane features an all-economy class fit out with 180 seats.

I got 'Tigered': Budget airlines behaving badly

Ben Groundwater

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HTC's 'squeezable' new U11 smartphone

51 mins ago

Google Translate aims to be your personal translator as you travel the world.

Google Translate surges forward thanks to AI

COMMENT

Apple is planning three new laptops, according to people familiar with the matter. The MacBook Pro will get a faster ...

Apple set to refresh laptops as Microsoft fights back

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The best deals of Click Frenzy 2017

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'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl' was released at the movies in 2003.

Hackers reportedly hold Disney film for ransom

A new electric car has broken the Nurburgring lap record.

Chinese electric supercar breaks Nurburgring record

David McCowen
1 hr ago

2017 BMW M5 preview.

New BMW M5 revealed

Andrew MacLean

2017 Kia Cerato Sport.

Is this the most underrated small car on the market?

Daniela Intili Stephen Ottley
1 hr ago

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Volvo teams up with Google for Android integration

Drive Staff

What are the best car related apps?

Top 10 motoring apps for every driver

Alessandra Melville

Haval has added a new front grille and fog lamps to its updated H9.

Haval updates H9 after customer feedback

Dom Tripolone

Heath Shaw says sledging didn't work out for him against Jamie Elliott last weekend.

Sledging will always be part of football: Shaw

James Buckley
54 mins ago

Author Phil Tagell with daughter Siobhan

Footy tragic: King-hit by umpire and on losing end of the law

Greg Baum

David Myers celebrates a goal with Joe Daniher on Saturday night.

Emotion gets the better of Bomber after long wait

Daniel Cherny

Lou Richards' coffin at St Paul's Cathedral.

AFL football icon Lou Richards remembered as loyal and unique

Murphy leads the Blues onto the ground.

AFL missed a chance to make a stand: Watson

Andrew Tate

Heppel's hand was bandaged at training.

Injury wrap: Heppell's freak hand injury, Varcoe suffers setback

Marc Murphy leaves the field on Saturday.

What would Eleni do? Hopefully more than the pathetic AFL

Caroline Wilson

The Cats have lost three in a row.

Jimmy Bartel puts the Cats under the microscope

The mood was higher on the Warriors' side.

Warriors belt Mills' Spurs in NBA playoffs

26 mins ago

"I can serve but I can't move that well": Nick Kyrgios.

Kyrgios withdraws from Rome tournament with hip injury

Vixens wing attack Liz Watson is among the players competing for Diamonds midcourt spots

Who'd be a Diamonds selector?

Liz Ellis
56 mins ago

Mitch Nichols, pictured in January.

Former Socceroo arrested on drug possession charges

UPDATED
1 hr ago

Ecstatic: Sydney FC players celebrate winning the grand final penalty shootout.

Seven to make late play for A-League rights

Dominic Bossi

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