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In this image made from video provided by Oscar Navarro Reyes, Richard Rojas is arrested after a fatal automobile ...

Driver 'mowed everyone down' in Times Square

The schoolgirl was lured to the US via social media app Snapchat, police claim.

Sydney schoolgirl found in US killer's house was lured over Snapchat

40 mins ago

David Strong was admitted into Prince of Wales Hospital with delirium, in Sydney.

Sydney doctors crack a 2500-year-old medical mystery

FILE - In this May 16, 2107 file photo, President Donald Trump watches Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan depart the ...

Trump unloads: 'Single greatest witch hunt ... in American history'

1 hr ago

Roger Ailes, the founder and former CEO of Fox News, has died at the age of 77.

Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes dead after sex harassment scandal

1 hr ago

ATO defcon image

Fast cars, fine wines: Inside the $165 million Tax Office sting

EXCLUSIVE
1 hr ago

Beauty queen used as unwitting bait by alleged tax scammers

Australians in UK to suffer under Tory immigration pledges

No food has left a sour taste for a generation like smashed avocado

COMMENT
Josephine Tovey

'Rolf will be next': Harris released to contest new sex charges

Latika Bourke
1 hr ago

Emerging Nationals push for shift in climate change policy

Chris Cornell's final show.

'Something wasn't right': Vision emerges of Chris Cornell's final show

47 mins ago

Cousins outside court in December.

Fallen AFL star Ben Cousins assaulted in jail: report

43 mins ago

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 02: Juanita Peaches - AGE - Epicure. The fried chicken sandwich served at Juanita ...

Confusion over healthy food leads to a big spend-up on junk

19 mins ago

"I've had a few revelations about how I must have behaved a decade ago."

I am very sorry to my mum friends for the way I behaved

Olivia Mead successfully argued the original sum her late father left her wasn't enough.

Family of billionaire fights secret daughter's $25 million win

A smashed car sits on the corner of Broadway and 45th Street in New York's Times Square after ploughing through a crowd ...

Times Square crash caught on video

Fairfax Media CEO Greg Hywood during a Senate Select Committee hearing on the Future of Public Interest Journalism at ...

It's 'game on' in the battle for control of Fairfax

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Workers construct one of the new houses, conceived by Tateh Lehbib to be weather-resistant, eco-friendly homes ...

Homes built out of plastic bottles to fight extreme weather

Hanging on: The lost koala near Gunnedah late last year.

Meet the koala that wouldn't let go of this bullbar

29 mins ago

A model strikes a pose at Ten Pieces show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The collection was shown at Icebergs in Bondi.

Fashion Week has hijacked the bogan uniform

Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons have taken their tiny home across 27 US states while working on a documentary ...

'You can't hide': How real-life couples make tiny-home living work

1 hr ago

Developers are stuck in "limbo-land" due to planning issues, but even high levels of supply might not fix the ...

Too many Sydneysiders, not enough homes: Boom falls short

1 hr ago

In Melbourne's Exhibition Street at $65,000 you can have a car space ... but no car.

Sydney houses expensive? So is this $400,000 car space

1 hr ago

The lack of affordable housing in the vicinity of employment centres can pose threats to the productivity of our cities.

Surprise, surprise: Houses near jobs are just too expensive

5/57 Yarranabbe Road, Darling Point.

Bank boss cashes in pad for $1.5 million over reserve

1 hr ago

The girls have been charged with attempting to break into a Kununurra forensic police officer's home and car late at night.

Teen girl escapes after being 'kept as sexual slave' in Sydney house

Megan Levy

Kelly Landry's AVO application against Anthony Bell dismissed

Melanie Kembrey

'It will make me drop out of school': Test weighing on Nellie

Pallavi Singhal

"We are hamstrung": Andrew Murray in his home in Miranda.

The knock on the door that changed a homeowner's dream

Jacob Saulwick

Dr John Grygiel at the parliamentary inquiry hearing into chemotherapy flat dosing.

St Vincent's 'cover up' not ruled out by chemo scandal inquiry

Girls from Catholic schools in Sydney are the most likely to go to university.

The factor forcing students out of Catholic schools

Whole suburbs are now being built that won't be connected to the gas grid as prices soar.

Warning that skyrocketing gas bills are 'going to stay'

Molly Hill says she was detained in Hawaii after US border officials suspected her of planning to immigrate illegally.

Australian woman 'strip-searched and jailed' in Hawaii

Department of Human Services secretary Kathryn Campbell detailed its expanded debt collection program at a Senate ...

Pensioners targeted in $980m 'robo-debt' expansion

The Minister for Disability, Children and Youth, Rachel Stephen-Smith, announces a multi-million dollar funding ...

123% rise in child concern reports in ACT leads to budget boost

ACT

Jafari Jewellery has been robbed on Burke Road, Malvern East. Photograph Paul Jeffers The Age NEWS 18 May 2017

Armed gang smashes its way into Melbourne jewellery store

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian at the National Press Club in Sydney.

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian at the National Press Club in Sydney.

Risk-averse politicians in danger of boring us to death

COMMENT
Sean Nicholls

Hanging on: The lost koala near Gunnedah late last year.

Koala discovery took the biscuit, but fears for numbers

Peter Hannam
29 mins ago

BURLEIGH BREWING 00100145 AFR PHOTOGRAPH BY GLENN HUNT 30 JANUARY 2008. Enterprise -Peta Fielding-Burleigh Brewing AFR ...

Beer brawl as independents boot giants from association

Cara Waters

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Noel Pearson has challenged political leaders to 'put a winnable proposition to the Australian people'.

'Noble compromise' will emerge on Indigenous recognition: Pearson

Michael Gordon

Jobless rate down, but Australians are working fewer hours

Peter Martin

Generational change forces Nats to consider emissions scheme

Fergus Hunter

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

Queensland considers $320m 'royalty relief' for Adani mine

Celebrate our victories: Anthony Albanese has distanced himself from Labor leader Bill Shorten's budget reply.

Anthony Albanese critiques Bill Shorten's budget reply

EXCLUSIVE

Scott Morrison has encouraged one of the major banks to break ranks over the new tax

Banks given temporary reprieve on response to new levy

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says the alleged tax fraud matter builds the case for a federal ICAC.

Shorten says alleged tax fraud builds case for federal ICAC

Rolf Harris.

Rolf Harris to be freed from prison ahead of court appearance

Latika Bourke
1 hr ago

Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning shares first picture of herself since release

US Vice President Mike Pence: Presidential material?

Three times Vice President Pence deceived

ANALYSIS

Schapelle Corby is just days away from being deported back to Australia on May 27.

Schapelle Corby 'deserves her freedom': former prison governor

Jewel Topsfield

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian at the National Press Club in Sydney.

Risk-averse politicians in danger of boring us to death

COMMENT
Sean Nicholls

President Donald Trump has sought to play down contacts between his campaign and Russia.

Suddenly, Trump is staring down the barrel of impeachment

COMMENT
Waleed Aly

Somehow, smashed avo has become a recurring trope of commentary on property ownership.

Why the smashed avo meme refuses to die

COMMENT
Josephine Tovey

We're crushing the confidence out of our own people.

Insecure future: Governments are crushing our confidence

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

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Markets Live: ASX down, not out

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Patrick Commins and Myriam Robin
21 mins ago

Attuned to the anxieties of white America, Roger Ailes influenced conservative politics, amplified messages and picked ...

Roger Ailes was the media master who paved the way for Trump

Jim Rutenberg
40 mins ago

Father and son Jeffrey Buckle and Marie Mulherin both work for banks but perform better at different times of the day

What time of day are you working optimally? It's your biology

Anna Patty

Traders welcome return of volatility

ANALYSIS
Myriam Robin

8@eight: Markets find their feet

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1 hr ago

Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes dead at 77

1 hr ago

Investors not coffin up for corporate afterlife

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Cracking the two hour mark is the Holy Grail of marathons.

Breaking the two hour marathon: How to run your fastest time ever

The Long Run
1 hr ago

You can't afford to be cheap when it comes to shoes.

What should you really be paying for your shoes?

Men's Shoes

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Complex situation for defined benefit members

ASK NOEL
Noel Whittaker

Safety has long been the selling point for the Volvo.

'Trading shares is now a poor man's game'

Marcus Padley

Michael Schaper, deputy chairman of the ACCC, says small businesses are a far more attractive target for scammers than ...

Business scams top $3.8 million: ACCC

Cara Waters

Burleigh Brewing Company co-founder Peta Fielding also chairs the Independent Brewers Association.

Beer brawl as independents boot giants from association

Cara Waters

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Car slams into Times Square pedestrians

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Times Square crash caught on video

1 hr ago

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Trailer: Fargo Season 3

Video surfaces of Chris Cornell's last performance

48 mins ago

Scientists from The Australian Museum visit Lord Howe Island to research the current animal populations ahead of a rat ...

Fairfax photos of the week

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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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Soundgarden's Chris Cornell: the screech comes as easily as ever.

'Something wasn't right' at Chris Cornell's final show

47 mins ago

The face of TV cookery: Jamie Oliver

Why Jamie Oliver says he'll retire in 10 years

Sarah Thomas

Caitlyn Jenner at the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards.

Caitlyn Jenner offered $1.7 million to join reality show

1 hr ago

Chris Cornell on stage at the Soundwave music festival in Melbourne Showgrounds in 2015.

Soundgarden's Chris Cornell dies aged 52

Kerrie O'Brien

Fast moving: Ewan McGregor (left) as Emmit Stussy, and David Thewlis as V.M. Varga.

Ewan McGregor plays two very different brothers in Fargo

Michael Idato

Merrick Watts.

Merrick Watts to quit radio, eyes acting career

Broede Carmody

Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams at the Academy Awards, where he was nominated for <i>Brokeback Mountain</i> in 2006.

The Heath Ledger we never got to see

Garry Maddox

In this image released by NBC, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears with host Jimmy Fallon during a ...

Jimmy Fallon opens up about Trump hair tussle

Broede Carmody

Michael Moore.

Could Michael Moore's new doco be the thing to bring down Trump?

Viceroy's House.

Epic drama marred by reliance on 'alternative facts'

Review
Paul Byrnes

PICTURE BY JOHN RUSSELL, THE BORDER MAIL. Corowa. Sows inside one of the sheds at Rivalea Australia pig farming ...

'We love your work, Helen: Here, have this pig'

Taylor Swift attends the "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan ...

What is Taylor Swift planning? Because the signs are all there

Emily Yahr
1 hr ago

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 18: A model poses backstage ahead of the Ten Pieces show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Resort 18 ...

Fashion Week has hijacked the bogan uniform

Jenna Clarke

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 17: Model Emily Ratajkowski attends the "Ismael's Ghosts (Les Fantomes d'Ismael)" screening and ...

Susan Sarandon is Cannes red carpet goals

One-shouldered shirts at Anna Quan.

Fashion week rethinks the crisp, white shirt

Annie Brown

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Don't skirt around it, John Laws was objectifying women

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

US model Bella Hadid arrives in Cannes.

Let's get real about Bella Hadid's supposed wardrobe malfunction

Annie Brown

Greens co-deputy leader Larissa Waters soothes baby Alia Joy after breastfeeding her in the Senate.

Fighting sexism isn't simply 'identity politics'

COMMENT
Ruby Hamad

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks in front of an artist's impression of the new campus, Apple Park.

A look at Apple's 'Mothership' reveals missing feature

SATIRE
Clem Bastow

Confusion over healthy food leads to a big spend-up on junk.

Healthy eating is cheaper, but we're spending big on junk

Sarah Berry
19 mins ago

Tuck into water with lemon before your morning coffee.

5 ways to jump-start a healthy morning

Jessi Roti

Sylvia Keays.

The struggle to make people take gut health seriously

Sarah Berry

Dust bakery in Sydney mills flour on site.

Low GI, high fibre and less gluten: Why it's OK to eat this real bread

The Moon Park fried chicken, pickled radish, soy and syrup.

Moon Park's chicken is back. Mod-Korean eatery moves to Potts Point

15 mins ago

You'll be the most popular person at the party.

Cheesy recipes from haloumi chips to molten dip

hurrah for gin

In defence of slummy mummies (and why fish fingers are for dinner)

Kelly Rose Joniec (Facebook)

Warning after girl nearly chokes on fidget spinner

Hamburg, Germany - April 10, 2014: New Aldi Shopping Carts from a just opened new Aldi Discounter. Aldi is a German ...

7 tips for getting what you want at the Aldi ski sale this weekend

The Boeing 747- 8 Intercontinental passenger plane taxis before taking off on its first test flight at Paine Field in ...

Can I buy my own 747 jetliner - and how much would it cost?

Hugh Morris

More than 40 of the buildings are along historic or religious walkways and 59 are along cycle paths. One of the ...

Italy gives away castles to attract tourists - but what's the catch?

Oktoberfest is the most popular beer festival in the world, but it's not the Germans who love beer the most.

Australia, it's not us: The world's biggest beer drinkers

Oliver Smith

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook hit with $165 million fine in EU

1 hr ago

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Annual Developers Conference in ...

Google wants to probe our lives even deeper

Every room tells a story, literally, in What Remains of Edith Finch.

Review: What remains of Edith Finch is a fantastical family plot

Destiny 2

Everything Bungie just revealed about Destiny 2

Kotaku

Most of the updates coming to Android involve little tweaks.

Everything new about Android O

crash

What to do when you have an accident

Alessandra Melville

2017 Jaguar XF Sportbrake.

Jaguar XF Sportbrake teased

Dom Tripolone

Hyundai's high-performance division is planning a sportier version of the Tucson SUV

Hyundai to build high performance SUVs

Andrew MacLean

170331-AB Volvo F?rarl?s sopbil. Best. av Anna Arbius Bild: Cicci Jonson, Bilduppdraget Volvo self-driving garbage truck.

Volvo have garbage collectors in its sights

Drive Staff

2015 Holden Cascada Launch Edition.

What was wrong with Holden's failed convertible?

David Morley

Genesis

Hyundai's Genesis G70 caught in the wild

David McCowen

Second thoughts: Cronulla captain Paul Gallen believes his on-field performances would warrant another Origin call-up, ...

Gallen claims his form warrants NSW Origin selection

Adam Pengilly

Edging closer to reality: A Floyd Mayweather Jr and Conor McGregor fight remains possible.

McGregor is ready to fight - but is Mayweather game?

ANALYSIS
Victor Mather
1 hr ago

Not having it all her own way this time: Maria Sharapova.

Sharapova needs to realise she is no longer centre of the universe

COMMENT
Oliver Brown
1 hr ago

Cousins outside court in December.

Former AFL star Ben Cousins assaulted in jail: report

43 mins ago

Bold move: Incidents involving players who deceive a match official will be reviewed by an independent panel.

English football's bold move to rub out diving

No.1: Stanford University star Solomon Thomas poses after being selected by the San Francisco 49ers.

Sydney braced for more American football

James Buckley

Working up a sweat: Manny Pacquiao with Andrew Webster after a training run on the streets of Manila.

The day I tried to keep up with Manny Pacquiao

Andrew Webster

Safe haven: Caitlin Thwaites on court.

Diamonds shooter opens up about depression

Simone Ziaziaris
34 mins ago

Busted flush: ARLC chairman John Grant may have run out of chances as far as the NRL clubs are concerned.

Loss of respect has made Grant's position near untenable

Michael Chammas

Darius Boyd (right) deserves to hold his spot as Maroons fullback, according to former coach Mal Meninga.

Slater not ready to bump Boyd as Maroons fullback: Meninga

Greg Inglis spoke to his Rabbitohs teammates about his battle with depression.

Rabbitohs, rugby league community rally behind Inglis

Adam Pengilly

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