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People run down Borough High Street as police deal with a "major incident" at London Bridge.

'Run, hide, tell': Londoners flee amid multiple attacks in London

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People run down Borough High Street as police are dealing with an incident on London Bridge in London.

Third attack strikes London as 'van hits pedestrians'

BREAKING
4 mins ago

Armed police on London Bridge.

London attack: What we know so far about the 'horrific events'

31 mins ago

Andre Agassi is coaching Novak Djokovic at the French Open.

'Time to take care of this guy': Champ draws Agassi back to tennis

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 19: Anthony Chang poses for a photo on May 19, 2017 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Bradley ...

'Watched and tracked': The Australian uni students China spies on

Herman Maifoffer, who was exposed to asbestos in 1978 and died of mesothelioma in August 2015.

'This house killed me': How a home DIY turned deadly

INVESTIGATION

A mural depicting a European Union (EU) flag being chiseled on the side of a disused building near the ferry terminal in ...

Banksy 'offers free art' to those who vote against Tories

Victorian high school targets grade six binge drinking problem

Goodbye Mr Angry: Melbourne's school of second chances

The question about race Australians need to stop asking

COMMENT

Tributes flow for former Ocean Grove man killed in fight in US

UPDATED

'It's a nightmare': South Australian river search ends in tragedy

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - MAY 20: A view from the mostly abandoned Olympic Aquatics stadium at the Olympic Park on May ...

Padlocked and falling apart: Rio's Olympic legacy in tatters

Rebel Wilson arriving to the Supreme Court, Melbourne, for her libel case against Woman's Day.

The picture Rebel Wilson does not want you to see

The Goss

At the double: Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after the final whistle.

Ronaldo stars as Real Madrid win Champions League final

49 mins ago

The students reportedly took LSD on the Gold Coast trip.

Psyched out: Why I cancelled my scheduled LSD trip

Unhappy sex life.

6 things people get wrong about sex, according to sex therapists

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Multiple attacks in central London

US Defence Secretary James Mattis.

US warns of 'most urgent threat' to Australia's security

Bunnings' price promise has helped it dominate hardware in Australia.

Bunnings can afford to shun online but faces other challenges

Derek Josephs and his wife, Christine.

How Derek's brief lapse in concentration led to tragedy

Jack O'Neill, in Santa Cruz, California in 2006.

Man who pioneered wetsuit, built a surf brand empire dies

One of many that slipped through the cracks, the $18.5 million mansion at 16 St Georges Road was demolished.

More heritage homes could be demolished under planning laws

Price record: 43 Gore Street set a new record for Fitzroy.

Fitzroy house sells for nearly $5 million in front of shocked crowd

The Byron Bay home of Anna and Andrew Swain. The lounge room artwork is from Yogyakarta and the old wire birdcage is ...

When France, Scandinavia and Greece meet to become a house

Lucy Feagins

The mansion at 2 Myvore Court, Toorak, is though to have sold for close to $20 million.

Expat pays $20m for Toorak mansion advertised for $14m

Laws aimed at curbing underquoting were passed in Victoria in November.

Agents clean up act as new underquoting laws start to bite

Carmel Arthur, wife of slain policeman Rodney Miller.

A policeman's widow fights for justice - but not the way you would expect

John Silvester
John Silvester

Arrests after vehicle crash in Northcote shopping strip

AFL player's 'stolen' car allegedly caught up in Sydney police chase

Sarah Muller

An injured hiker has been stuck at Cathedral Range State Park, about two hours from Melbourne.

Injured hiker stranded in cold conditions in Victoria state park

A toddler missing for two weeks has been found safe and well.

Toddler safe and well in Richmond after missing for two weeks

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Tradie finds bones feared to be human in Melbourne's west

A proposal by Chinese developer Zhongren for the Maribyrnong Defence Site would include up to 6000 homes. Source: Zhongren

Developers unveil $2.5b plan for luxurious suburb on toxic site

The parents of Matthew Leveson, Mark and Faye, in the Royal National Park.

Levesons had no idea they were so close to son's body

NSW

Marie-Anne Read, who runs the Friendly Grocer at Cook shops with husband George and son Daniel, credits her thriving ...

Why some local shops are thriving and others aren't

ACT

Planning Minister Rita Saffioti .

Two ministers + one day in Sydney = $30,000

WA

Tangalooma Island Resort's resident white-faced heron Harry.

Meet existential bird with an identity crisis

QLD

Charles Gray, who dropped out of school in year 8 and lived on the streets before going on to do a degree in arts and ...

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Charles Gray, who dropped out of school in year 8 and lived on the streets before going on to do a degree in arts and ...

Year 8 dropout becomes face of a national schools campaign

At least a quarter of drivers say they text while driving.

Motorists behaving badly ... and they know it

EXCLUSIVE
Darren Gray

The Travelodge building in Aurora Lane, Docklands. Photo: PENNY STEPHENS. The Age. 1ST June 2017

Deadly combustible cladding found on Melbourne hotel

Aisha Dow

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Dustin Martin (center) sings the Richmond song with his teammates following their win over North Melbourne.

Roos witness first hand why Martin worth millions

Rohan Connolly
35 mins ago

Matt de Boer of the Giants celebrates kicking a goal.

Victory over Dons sends Giants top of the ladder

Daniel Cherny

Dustin Martin celebrates one of his two goals against North Melbourne.

Tiger elite lead the way as sloppy North fall away

Rohan Connolly

In demand: GWS' Josh Kelly.

Kelly, the anonymous $9m Giant

James Buckley

Jamie Elliott has played pretty much as a full-forward leading the goal square since his return.

Daicos, Brown, Elliott: Collingwood's retro move

Michael Gleeson

West Coast's Lewis Jetta is pressured by Gary Ablett, who starred for the Suns.

Suns prevail as Ablett stars, and Wright seals it

Andrew Stafford

Jesse Hogan is likely to miss at least another week in his comeback from testicular surgery.

Demon Hogan 'unlikely' to face Magpies

Jon Pierik

Cop that: The Crows' Matt Crouch reacts as brother Brad and 200-game Cat Tom Hawkins wrestle at Simonds Stadium on ...

Hawkins insists he got Crouch in the chest

UPDATED
Daniel Cherny

Four Australian Treasurers for Ipad

Keating, Costello, Swan and Hockey.

The (Really) Lucky Country: dark clouds as Oz takes world record

The money men: Keating, Costello, Swan and Hockey

Mark Kenny

Lucky Country? Take it from me, another bad recession is coming

ANALYSIS
Ross Gittins

Illustration: John Shakespeare

How our record growth let to complacency, and bad politics

ANALYSIS
Peter Hartcher

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

Winning the fairness debate in our miracle economy

COMMENT
Michael Gordon

Malcolm Turnbull delivers the keynote address at the Asia Security Summit on Friday.

Turnbull warns China against bullying in pro-US speech

David Wroe

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce remains a big figure in Queensland.

Why Turnbull and Shorten have inundated Queensland

Amy Remeikis

The Philippines' cybersex industry has been estimated to be worth $1 billion a year.

Children as young as two rescued from cybersex dens

Lindsay Murdoch

The wreckage of a suicide truck bomb attack in Kabul on Thursday.

Explosions rock funeral in Kabul, killing at least 18 Afghans

The crowd on Friday night during a performance by Swedish band 'In Flames' at the Rock am Ring music festival.

German rock concert resumes after terrorist threat

Vijayalaxmi Sharma, left, with her mother Kamla who was opposed to her daughter's campaign but is now proud of her.

One girl's fight against child marriages in India

Amrit Dhillon

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

Winning the fairness debate in the Lucky Country

COMMENT
Michael Gordon

Ask me anything: a hopeful new message from Perth's Muslim community.

Why do we make Muslims apologise for themselves?

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley

President Donald Trump announcing he is pulling the US out of the Paris climate accord.

Trump's Paris withdrawal changes everything - and nothing

COMMENT
Adam Morton

Bunnings Group chief executive John Gillam is blunt about the big turnaround task in the UK but he's convinced it can ...

Bunnings finds it can afford to shun online

ANALYSIS
Madeleine Heffernan

Changes are coming to frequent flyer programs.

It's about to get harder to earn Frequent Flyer points

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Are the wheels really falling off Australia's economy?

ANALYSIS
Myriam Robin

Uber has become a global headache for the taxi industry.

Uber is transportation, but keep that on the down low

ANALYSIS
Nir Kaissar

Netflix shows are all worldwide hits - until they're not

ANALYSIS
Lucas Shaw

How Treasury spends billions without hitting key deficit

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Talk about tech bubble is flashback to the dot-com era

COMMENT
Shira Ovide

The new rules of choosing a career

Work
Tom Ough

Aston Martin’s next hypercar, the Valkyrie.

Need for speed: The race to create the fastest car in the world

Cars

New Zealand as a backdrop: Founded in 1946 as a shirting business, Rodd & Gunn has repositioned itself as a purveyor of ...

Smoking Gunn: This Kiwi brand is taking over the USA

Men's Style

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Can we improve our retirement income?

Noel Whittaker

Investment returns will grow more slowly than the post-GFC recovery.

Lower returns ahead for investors

COMMENT
Daryl Dixon

Greens senator Nick McKim will introduce to parliament legislation aimed at eradicating late payments to small businesses.

Greens introducing small business payments legislation

EXCLUSIVE
Cara Waters

Appearance-related ageism tends to be harshest among the female gender.

Older workers: 'rusty, invisible and threatening'?

COMMENT
James Adonis

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Richmond too strong for Kangaroos

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Giants go top

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Muslims pray outside Trump Tower during Ramadan

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Trump moves to keep CIA torture tactics secret

Fireworks and bonfire for Empire Night in Sydney on 25 May 1957. SMH NEWS Picture by BERT POWER Queens Birthday cracker ...

Rewind - Cracker night

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Comedian Bill Maher performs in Las Vegas on Nov. 17, 2005.

Bill Maher apologises for using racial slur on his show

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Ninety-thousand people had flocked ot the three-day festival.

90,000 evacuated from German music festival over terror threat

Bernard Fanning: 'It's hideous the way that music is 'consumed' now.'

Bernard Fanning goes off-trend with new album

Jenny Valentish

David Wenham has made his debut behind the camera, with the release of the short film Ellipsis.

Wenham shrugs off risk of shooting 10 day film

Craig Mathieson

Maybe it was the Tim Tams which had Bill Callahan smiling between intense songs at the Opera House

Winning with baritone and Tim Tams

Bernard Zuel

Goldfrapp had spectacle and performance but it was missing some heart.

All that glitters is not Goldfrapp in a shiny Vivid show

Review
Bernard Zuel

Vanessa Redgrave directed and features in the refugee crisis documentary Sea Sorrow, which she hopes will have an impact ...

Redgrave on directing: 'I want to save lives'

Garry Maddox

Expect to see a lot more of Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory on prime time TV.

A-League moves to Network Ten in new FTA deal

Michael Lynch

Psychogeography 1996 by Patricia Piccinini From the series Psycho type C colour photograph 120.0 x 247.0 cm Courtesy of ...

NGV's '90s show Every Brilliant Eye a grungy exercise in nostalgia

Debbie Cuthbertson

French pianist Richard Clayderman, the most successful pop-classical pianist of all time, is in Melbourne for two ...

Megastar pianist Richard Clayderman a man for all seasons

Michael Dwyer

Drummer Myele Manzanza and dancers Elle Evangelista, Timothy Ohl and Anna Seymour in Out of Earshot.

Kage translates beats into pixels as bodies collide in Out of Earshot

Review
Jordan Beth Vincent

Actress Rebel Wilson arriving for her case in the Supreme Court, Melbourne. Photo: PENNY STEPHENS. The Age. 26TH MAY 2017

The picture Rebel Wilson does not want you to see

The Goss
Amy Croffey

Head off problems before they blow up.

The everyday behaviours that can harm a relationship

Olivia Blair

'Heartbroken': Vicky and Chris Cornell.

Cornell's wife releases heartbreaking statement after drug report

44 mins ago

It's about being your authentic self and playing to your moods.

Men should take as much pride and joy in fashion as women do

Wendy Squires

Lara Worthington (nee Bingle) at the Tiffany & Co. HardWear collection launch party on Thursday at Carriageworks, Sydney.

Lara Worthington's very nice payday for 30 minutes of work

Amy Croffey

Amie Baines has produced a new video and photo series featuring 25 women who call Australia home.

The question about race Australians need to stop asking

COMMENT
Jenna Clarke

Josie Pohla with her grandmother Avril.

Meet four Australian women changing the face of activism

Lindy Alexander

Ariana Grande visits fans in hospital following the Manchester bombing.

Ariana Grande visits young UK bomb victims

Even moderate drinking doesn't protect our hearts, a study finds.

Don't raise a glass to alcohol protecting your heart

Sarah Berry

Sex can improve as we age.

The feeling that affects our sex lives as we age

Sarah Berry

EMBARGOED FOR SUNDAY LIFE, JUNE 4/17 ISSUE. My Day On A Plate - Mark Olive (no credit, no archiving)?

Chef's day on a plate doesn't get top marks

Rosewater doughnut 'ice-creams' from I'm Just Here For Dessert.

Baked doughnut recipes, no fryer required

"Flexible" eating allows a day a week to have whatever you want.

'Flexible' eating as effective as counting calories, says CSIRO study

Cold brew coffee is often served over a 'spherical ice cube that melts slower than the devil's heart'.

Road-test: Making cold-brew uses a lot of coffee beans. Is it worth it?

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The unique baby names literally no one is choosing

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Mum rewrites daughter's outdated homework assignment

Lizeth and her mother, with the offensive award. Photo: Khou

Honour student labelled 'Most Likely to Become a Terrorist' by teacher

Your overweight carry on luggage could be dangerous.

Letters: Don't compare overweight passengers to excess carry on

Traditional Christmas market in Frankfurt, Germany.

The 50 amazing experiences you can only have in winter

18 hours: United Airlines is looking launch a new US to Singapore route.

Almost 18 hours: US airline says new route could be world's longest

For accurate shooting, raising the rifle to eye height will let you see a reticule on its tiny glass display.

Farpoint the best home VR shooting experience

The new Skype puts an emphasis on group messaging.

Skype copies Snapchat in big redesign

NBN is encouraging retailers to be less stingy with bandwidth, but will they play ball?

Will NBN's new CVC bandwidth pricing fix congestion woes?

Robocop

Dubai's Robocop rolls onto city streets

Under fire: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook shareholders not happy on fake news

Porsche sport driving school.

Why luxury cars cost too much in Australia

David McCowen

NRMA Driving instructor Lynnette Thomas, with learner driver Samantha Kazar, 21.

Top 10 tips for teaching your teenager to drive

Alessandra Melville

Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin, two-time World Champion and Australian Olympic Snowboarder.

How to pack your car for a trip to the snow

Andrew MacLean

2017 Renault Megane wagon.

New Megane wagon launched in Oz

Dom Tripolone

2017 Volkswagen Amarok Highline.

Is this the best dual-cab ute on the market?

Stephen Ottley

All the leading car brands are offering discounts at the end of the financial year.

The best end of financial year deals revealed

Stephen Ottley

Andy Murray celebrates victory after his men's singles third round match against Juan Martin Del Potro during day seven ...

Andy Murray tops del Potro in French Open third-round

19 mins ago

Collingwood's April Brandley puts pressure on the Giants' Jo Harten.

Giants roll Pies in nailbiting one-goal win

At the double: Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after the final whistle.

Ronaldo scores twice as Real Madrid win Champions League

49 mins ago

Romania's Simona Halep raises her fist as she defeats Russia's Daria Kasatkina during their third round match of the ...

Simona Halep hot streak continues at French Open

7 mins ago

James Hanson of the Rebels is tackled.

Rebels falter, Brumbies win Australian conference

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Roy Ward

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