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US President Donald Trump listens as Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's president, left, speaks during a news conference at ...

Trump's ego and self-image were dealt a great blow

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough
46 mins ago

Lonely call: Most economists expect the RBA to keep rates at a record low of 1.5 per cent for the rest of the year.

RBA will have to cut rates several times this year: Credit Suisse

1 hr ago

The big splash in 'infrastructure spending plans suggest most of the winners will be workers and companies sprawled ...

Fundamental principle most investors should know - but they don't

ATO deputy commissioner Michael Cranston near the Central Local Court in Sydney on Thursday.

'Government will be furious' at ATO fraud arrests

Former Parramatta Eels chief executive Scott Seward.

Former Eels CEO pleads guilty over his role in salary cap scandal

BREAKING
6 mins ago

US President Donald Trump is lurching through crises of his own making.

Working for Trump is the worst job in Washington right now

1 hr ago

'You don't know what's around the corner': Family hit by tragedy

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

3 mins ago

Man who murdered his wife in front of their daughter learns his fate

1 hr ago

Thompson saw a man's name on a police brief. A day later he was dead

Times Square victim was with her sister when a speeding car hit them

Passengers stand and sit in aisles on a train travelling through the Blue Mountains.

'One older lady collapsed': A tourist's view of Sydney

1 hr ago

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

Why this koala wouldn't let go of this farmer's bullbar

Coca-Cola Amatil and Pepsi, the owner of Schweppes soft drinks, have yet to launch kombucha products in Australia ...

The $7 fizzy drink that has Coca Cola scrambling

25 mins ago

Chris Cornell's final show.

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

Calorie count: There's a reason why airlines don't tell you what's in your in-flight meal.

The startling number of calories consumed on the average flight

1 hr ago

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Melissa McCarthy's 'Spicey' bloopers

All up, it's not cheaper, so why do we do it?

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

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

Caitlyn Jenner at the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards.

Reality show prepared to 'break the bank' to get Caitlyn Jenner

Choc-coffee combo: Caffeine addicts and chocoholics beware.

Coffee in a cone: Now you can have your caffeine and eat it too

The six things Australians blame for high property prices.

The six things Australians blame for high property prices

Toowoomba has been dubbed Australia's most haunted town.

The stuff of nightmares: Is this Australia's most haunted town?

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

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

How to survive living in a tiny home with your partner

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

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

Sydney doctors crack a 2500-year-old medical mystery

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

EXCLUSIVE

Kelly Landry's AVO application against Anthony Bell dismissed

Melanie Kembrey

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 18: Nellie Joseph 14 years old in Maroubra on May 18, 2017 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by ...

'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

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

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Armed gang smashes its way into Melbourne jewellery store

UPDATED

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Solar power, home batteries and electric cars are "the three legs of the stool for a sustainable energy future," says ...

Elon Musk, I owe you an apology

COMMENT
Garry Linnell
1 hr ago

Corby looks to her lawyers during her trial in July, 2005.

Not quite freedom: Life at home won't be the same

Jewel Topsfield
1 hr ago

A modern farm house on a hill side with trees surrounding it, a water tank, horse and a tractor are in the paddock.

Building with grace should be Architecture 101

Elizabeth Farrelly

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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
1 hr ago

Trump's Russia conversation 'within expectations', says Bishop

Fergus Hunter
1 min ago

Jobless rate down, but Australians are working fewer hours

Peter Martin

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 20 April 2017. ...

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

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reflected in a bus rear view mirror as he arrives at a concert at the National ...

Russia anxious about political chaos engulfing Trump

1 hr ago

Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning shares first picture of herself since release

1 hr ago

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

Irish actor Amybeth McNulty as Anne in the new TV series, Anne with an E.

New Anne of Green Gables gives us a heroine for our times

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley
33 mins ago

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

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

Risk-averse politicians in danger of boring us to death

COMMENT
Sean Nicholls

Coca-Cola Amatil and Pepsi, the owner of Schweppes soft drinks, have yet to launch kombucha products in Australia ...

The fizzy drink that has soft drink giants scrambling

Madeleine Heffernan
25 mins ago

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Markets Live: ASX down, not out

Live
Patrick Commins and Myriam Robin
1 hr ago

Australians are visiting shopping centres less and less.

We are visiting shopping centres less and less

Madeleine Heffernan

Lonely call: Most economists expect the RBA to keep rates at a record low of 1.5 per cent for the rest of the year.

RBA will have to cut rates several times this year: Credit Suisse

Narayanan Somasundaram
1 hr ago

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

Jim Rutenberg

Insecure future: Governments are crushing our confidence

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

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

Anna Patty

Traders welcome return of volatility

ANALYSIS
Myriam Robin

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

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

What should you really be paying for your shoes?

Men's Shoes

Remember: An investment's tax benefits are the cream on the cake.

The one thing most investors get wrong

Noel Whittaker

Reverse mortgages are not very popular in Australia, probably because the rates tend to be higher than standard loans.

How would a reverse mortgage affect my age pension?

George Cochrane

Wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat can be an issue at work.

Politics is supposed to be a no-go zone for the workplace

James Adonis
1 hr ago

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

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Car slams into Times Square pedestrians

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Times Square crash caught on video

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Trailer: Fargo Season 3

Video surfaces of Chris Cornell's last performance

Illustration Andrew Dyson

Best of Fairfax cartoons, May 19

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

New approaches for retaining millennial staff

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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

"The Chinese communist party is not particularly happy with me": Richard Gere.

Chinese leaders 'not happy with me', says Richard Gere

Garry Maddox

Caitlyn Jenner at the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards.

Caitlyn Jenner offered $1.7 million to join reality show

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

Melissa McCarthy's outtakes just as funny as SNL sketches

Broede Carmody

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

Soundgarden's Chris Cornell dies aged 52

Kerrie O'Brien

The face of TV cookery: Jamie Oliver

Why Jamie Oliver says he'll retire in 10 years

Sarah Thomas

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

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

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

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

Choc-coffee combo: Caffeine addicts and chocoholics beware.

Have your brew and eat it too: Coffee-in-a-cone hits Australia

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

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

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Mesmerising video of baby being 'unwrapped' after birth

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The reason girls are getting their period earlier

Daniel Neman
40 mins ago

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Parents, keep cotton buds out of your kids' ears

Calorie count: There's a reason why airlines don't tell you what's in your in-flight meal.

The startling number of calories consumed on the average flight

Gavin Haines
1 hr ago

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.

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

A new documentary shows that it wasn't the size or scale of the asteroid's impact that ended the dinosaurs, but where ...

Dinosaurs 'minutes away' from surviving

1 hr ago

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook hit with $165 million fine in EU

Getting ransom money in Bitcoin is easiest for cyber-crooks, but it isn't the most secure.

Why bitcoin may soon fall out of cybercriminals' favour

Destiny 2

Everything Bungie just revealed about Destiny 2

Kotaku

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

2018 Hyundai i30N preview drive.

Is the new Hyundai i30N better than a Golf GTI?

Andrew MacLean

2017 Mercedes-Benz E220d All-Terrain.

Driven: Mercedes-Benz's SUV alternative

Daniel DeGasperi

2018 Skoda Karoq.

Skoda's new Toyota C-HR rival revealed

Dom Tripolone

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

Hyundai plans go-fast SUVs

Andrew MacLean

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What to do when you have an accident

Alessandra Melville

2017 Jaguar XF Sportbrake.

Jaguar XF Sportbrake teased

Dom Tripolone

Former Parramatta Eels chief executive Scott Seward.

Ex-Eels CEO pleads guilty over role in salary cap scandal

BREAKING
Adrian Proszenko, Louise Hall
6 mins ago

Turning it around: Dan Hannebery admits he was one of the Swans' leaders who was down on form at the start of the season.

Hannebery denies Swans are suffering GF hangover

James Buckley
53 mins ago

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

Cousins outside court in December.

Former AFL star Ben Cousins assaulted in jail: report

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

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

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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