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Lachlan Murdoch (left) holds 7.5 per cent of Ten. James Packer is understood to be keen to sell his 7.7 per cent stake.

Billionaires flush $1b down toilet as Ten collapses

A resident peers out of a window from a small section of the building that was not on fire on Wednesday morning.

Reports people jumping from London building as 30 taken to hospital

1 min ago

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton took aim at Slater and Gordon over the class action.

Dutton takes aim at 'ambulance-chasing law firm' after $70m payout

1 min ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the media after meeting with recipients of the National Disability Insurance ...

Frustrated Turnbull calls for end to war with veiled swipe at Abbott

1 hr ago

David Renshaw is sueing NSW lotteries. Pic nick Moir 13 June 2017

Heated exchange over Oz Lotto draw 188 cost man $3.3m, court told

Mia Freedman has come under fire for her comments about Roxane Gay.

A doctor's open letter to Mia Freedman: 'How dare you shame women'

Don't give developers free rein in Sydney: Warning for Turnbull

Jacob Saulwick

Billionaire Uber director makes sexist joke at meeting about sexism

Odd statistic: Women to blame for latest dismal economic news

1900 Manus Island detainees win huge court settlement

AG's stonewalling creates yet another problem for Trump

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough
1 hr ago

TOWER BLOCK FIRE PHOTO: JEREMY SELWYN/ Evening Standard 14/06/2017 $$$$$ SINGLE USE ONLY - NO ARCHIVING - ONLINE AND ...

London fire: 'People are screaming for help and not getting it - they're dying'

Live
44 mins ago

Which Australian cities are the new Mayfair and Park Lane?

NSW town wins vote for top spot on Monopoly board

Tense time: The French stare down New Zealand team as they perform the haka.

France responds to haka with epic 80-second staredown

J. K. Rowling

Rowling to the rescue after Trump blocks Stephen King on Twitter

Simple median measures do not take into account differences in interest rates in different time periods.

What to do if you can't afford to buy a house right now

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Who needs roads when you have a flying car?

China Eastern Airlines: Not the worst, but plenty to be annoyed about.

China Eastern and the world's worst airline experiences

Reconstruction of Progura gallinacea next to a grey kangaroo.

Giant flying turkeys once roamed Australia

Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid.

Ronaldo accused of 15 million euro tax fraud

Taylor Swift's lazy year has seen her fall down Forbes' richest celebrities list.

Swift takes $167m tumble from top of rich list after year off

FIRB fees are making some Chinese buyers more cautious.

Are Chinese investors starting to turn their backs on Australia?

I live in an echo chamber and it's slowly, but steadily, driving me mad.

Why open-plan living is slowly and steadily driving me mad

Kelly Ross

Interiors expert reveals her biggest design must-have

Comedian Tim Ross in his Hunters Hill modernist home.

Why Rosso thinks Sydney is like a 'disappointing friend'

"Poetry in concrete": The brutalist Sirius Building in The Rocks was built for public housing.

Sydney is in a constant battle with itself over the public good

Comment

An express passenger train, similar to this one, has hit a car, killing the female driver.

'It was like a bomb': Train crashes into car, killing woman and dog

Why more than half of new uni students don't need an ATAR

Move over, Melbourne: Gallery approval 'great news for Sydney'

EXCLUSIVE

Police have charged a man with attempted murder after an alleged hammer attack.

Murder charge after alleged hammer attack

Rachel Browne

Robert Hughes lost his appeal against child sex convictions.

High Court dismisses Hughes appeal against child sex convictions

Eman Sharobeem, centre, arrives at the Independent Commission Against Corruption on Tuesday.

Diamonds, hairdressing: Sharobeem was 'plundering' resources for her own benefit

airfares

Why you should always fly out of Sydney in the middle of the day

Mike Tancred has issued an apology to Fiona de Jong.

AOC media boss admits to intimidating phone call, apologises

The injury that came within millimetres of Cam McIntyre's carotid artery.

Runner's brush with death in Brighton dog attack

VIC

Moments before the collision.

Who's in the right? Cashcam crash footage divides public opinion

WA

Shell Wright's dog, Marley, was stabbed at her home on Friday night in Queanbeyan.

'We don't know why': family dog stabbed to death in backyard

ACT

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More than 50 per cent of older workers feel discriminated against because of their age, sending them on a demoralising ...

Building a better bridge to retirement

Conrad Liveris
1 hr ago

British Prime Minister Theresa May

Theresa May's Irish deal hits a Major snag

Nick Miller

Kathryn Greiner is the second Gonski Review panellist in two days to back the government's school funding changes

Gonski Review panellist Greiner joins push for changes

EXCLUSIVE
Matthew Knott

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Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has blamed Labor for the payout.

Despite what Dutton says, the Manus Island payout is momentous

COMMENT
Michael Gordon
54 mins ago

Remember the ozone hole? Today's coal apologists don't

Tony Wright
1 hr ago

Channel Ten collapse: senators urged to change media laws

Eryk Bagshaw
1 hr ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wants an end to the ideological wars over climate change policy.

PM blasts 'glib' slogans, calls for national climate plan

James Massola
1 hr ago

"It is a bill that suits the times we're living in," Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said.

Government to compensate detainees in huge settlement

Michael Koziol

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's partisan note was discordant.

As it happened: the day in Canberra politics

Live
Stephanie Peatling

Social Services Minister Christian Porter.

PM's $1b plan to scrap carbon tax compo dead on arrival

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Gartrell

British Prime Minister Theresa May

Theresa May's Irish deal hits a Major snag

Nick Miller

Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the hearing.

Sessions' stonewalling creates more problems for Trump

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough
1 hr ago

Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies on Capitol Hill.

Jeff Sessions refuses to disclose talks with Donald Trump

UPDATED

Tammy Davis-Charles is in a Phnom Penh jail awaiting trial.

Davis-Charles paid for birth certificates, court hears

UPDATED

Mia Freedman has come under fire for her comments about Roxane Gay.

An open letter to Mia Freedman

Sonia Henry

Rate your council? More like a dating site than a customer feedback form.

Is the Inner West Council trying to date its residents?

Andrew P Street
1 hr ago

Australia's Chief Scientist Alan Finkel.

The endangered elephant in the energy room

Judith Ireland
1 hr ago

The ASX blew back above the 5,800 mark on Wednesday.

ASX surges as investors beat super deadline

Myriam Robin
4 mins ago

The big banks have tightened home lending standards in recent years, and there could be more to come.

Aussie banks still more generous than their global peers

Clancy Yeates

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Markets Live: ASX blows past 5800

13 mins ago

Stephen Quartermaine took to Twitter on the day Network Ten was put in administration.

'Peace out': Ten stars tell viewers to stick with them

1 hr ago

1400 jobs to go at Telstra

Mathew Dunckley

Elliott pushes for 'a visionary' BHP chairman

Darren Gray

Ten goes into voluntary administration

Sarah Danckert and Lucy Battersby

Ten Network's billionaires flush $1b down the toilet

Colin Kruger, CBD

Trying to buy online is more hassle that it's worth.

Cart empty: Why it's time to pull the plug on online shopping

Luxury
1 hr ago

The new uniform of cream and azure blue.

The menswear trend that will have you hitting the bench press

Men's Style

Gabriella Munoz will travel to Mexico to try to find her biological family, along with husband Cesar Albarran-Torres, ...

'I'm spending my inheritance trying to find my birth family'

Gabriella Munoz

There is no reset of the cost base once you move into a property that originally started out as a rental.

What's the capital gains tax on a rental property turned home?

Noel Whittaker

Prue Houston training a client.

Why this woman traded in the 'mumpreneur' dream

Alexandra Cain

A gaming console could be on the shopping list for your business this month.

Six surprising items to claim at tax time

Nina Hendy

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Jeff Sessions: what he did and didn't answer

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Huge fire engulfs London apartment block

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French face down haka in marathon stand-off

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Bottle thrown at Justin Bieber

Refugees and migrants wait to disembark the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) Phoenix vessel after arriving at Reggio ...

World of Photos - June 14, 2017

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The brand new season of Better Call Saul - now streaming on Stan.

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It is happening again. The new Twin Peaks is 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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Popular Ten programs such as The Project will continue unchanged. For now.

What does Ten's crisis mean for viewers?

ANALYSIS
Michael Lallo
45 mins ago

Broad City will bleep out the US President's name in season four.

Broad City to bleep out Trump's name: 'No airtime for this orange'

Broede Carmody

Justin Bieber Justin Bieber has admitted he doesn't know the lyrics to Spanish-language smash hit Despacito.

'I don't even know it': Bieber doesn't know his own song

Broede Carmody

Jungle stars Daniel Radcliffe as Yossi Ghinsberg, a young Israeli who becomes lost in the Amazon.

MIFF kicks off with Harry Potter lost in Jungle

Karl Quinn

Steve Harvey doesn't know what a "caaaaah" is.

Crikey! What's that you said, Robert?

Rob Moran

Queen and Adam Lambert will tour Australia in February and March next year.

Queen and Adam Lambert are coming, with more than hits

Sarah Thomas

So close and yet so far: Bryan Zhu's smile will not fill MasterChef's kitchen again despite his mastering food.

Damn, we almost welcomed back Bryan to MasterChef

Aja Styles

Sandra Sully is rumoured to host a national bulletin on Ten.

News cuts could backfire on Channel Ten

COMMENT
Michael Lallo

Natural dag: Muriel's Wedding, The Musical star Maggie McKenna.

Muriel's Wedding has its new leading dag

Nick Galvin
40 mins ago

Will Small , Margo Ward and John Kirkman. All attended a conference to help them engage with funding groups for their ...

How to win money and influence people

Peter Munro

Caitlin Burley impresses in <i>Oedipus Doesn't Live Here Anymore</I>.

Ancient Greek tragedy goes for spin in 'burbs

Jason Blake

Warning: Former editor Mia Freedman.

Mamamia's treatment of Roxane Gay was cruel, but not unusual

Maeve Marsden

Watch out Kylie, Kim Kardashian is launching a make-up line

Nicole Economos

The then-teenage MacColl moved from Brisbane to Melbourne to see through the pregnancy. 'My teacher and her husband had ...

The insulting advice that pregnant women don't need to hear

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

Spreading misinformation: Freelee 'the banana girl'.

Medieval medical advice, or 21st century wellness tip?

Clem Bastow

Oprah Winfrey said she previously thought she lacked the experience to be president.

Five women who should run for office now that Oprah is out

Emily Heil

Valerie Taylor with Madison Stewart.

This Australian movie will shake our convenience lifestyle

Clare Press

Roxane Gay described the Mamamia podcast as "a shit show".

'Cruel and humiliating': Roxane Gay on Mamamia debacle

Jenny Noyes

There are more and more people embracing polyamory with the enthusiasm that I reserve for napping, writes Kerri Sackville.

The rise of polyamory sure isn't convincing me to try it

COMMENT
Kerri Sackville

Watermelon water: super?

Watermelon water: 'super' water or 'super' joke?

Sarah Berry

Too much sugar, regardless of the type, is a problem.

Fructose is not the worst type of sugar

Sarah Berry

Alicia Penhorwood no longer spends hours ruminating over the same problems.

There is an upside to worry

Evelyn Lewin

'Without butter, everything is boring': Marco Pierre White.

Marco Pierre White: "Why I gave back my three Michelin stars"

The government will conduct a review of its Health Star Rating System on food products.

'Hopeless': five star food rating system has to go

Comment

Speedy spaghetti with prawns.

Light comfort food: Spaghetti with prawns and lemon pepper butter

Adam Liaw

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders

The most mysterious Whitehouse tweet since covfefe

Sexy Chest one-piece suit in pink, dark or tan. Plus others in the one-piece range.

Swimsuit promises to give women the 'dad bod' they never wanted

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Primary school excludes 10-year-old girl with her period

China Eastern Airlines: Not the worst, but plenty to be annoyed about.

China Eastern and the world's worst airline experiences

Ben Groundwater

The train from Jungfraujoch station on the move to Kleine Scheidegg.

The world's most beautiful country to see by train

Steve McKenna
53 mins ago

OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 11: Festival goers enjoy Day 4 of Wilderness Festival at Cornbury Park on August 11, ...

Bucket list: Nine festivals you need to get to, at least once in your life

Katrina Lobley

Genuine Lepin Star Wart blocks on sale at Shanghai's famed fake markets.

Geek Pilgrimage: Shanghai fake markets

COMMENT

Beyond Good and Evil 2 was finally confirmed at the event, to great applause.

Ubisoft confirms Mario, Beyond Good and Evil 2

Super Mario Odyssey worlds feature a range of different graphical styles, but all will feature creatures and objects for ...

The best 5 things Nintendo just announced at E3

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Foxtel targets 17 more pirate sites in Australia

Lifehacker

The upcoming PlayStation-exclusive Spider-Man game closed Sony's pre-E3 conference.

PlayStation showcase is all games at E3

2018 Range Rover Evoque with Si4 Ingenium petrol engine.

New power for Land Rover

Stephen Ottley

Next Generation Honda Accord will ditch its naturally aspirated engines.

Details: New Honda Accord

Drive Staff

Hyundai plans SUV expansion

Toby Hagon

2017 Toyota Prado Altitude.

New Toyota Prado Altitude reviewed

Andrew MacLean

2018 Holden Astra Sportwagon.

Holden Astra wagon coming to Oz

Dom Tripolone

BMW 6er Gran Tourismo, 640i xDrive, Mineralwei?, M Sportpaket 2018 BMW 6-Series Gran Turismo.

New BMW 6-Series GT revealed

Greg Kable

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA: Andrew Fifita of the blues celebrates during game one of the State Of Origin series between the ...

'I'm the ninth-best prop in the game': Fifita

Adrian Proszenko

Tense time: The French stare down New Zealand team as they perform the haka.

France's epic 80-second staredown of haka

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 14: Blake Ferguson looks for support during the round 23 NRL match between the Sydney ...

On-the-outer Ferguson to be given another chance by Roosters

Michael Chammas

Critical: Lions prop Kyle Sinckler.

Aussie referee under fire after Lions shock loss

Richard Knowler

Under pressure: Socceroo James Troisi tries to get a kick away from Brazil’s David Luiz.

Gone in 12 seconds: Brazil too slick for Socceroos

Michael Lynch

Shaun Kenny-Dowall of the Roosters was also allegedly found in possession of cocaine, at a Sydney nightclub.

Shaun Kenny-Dowall's Roosters career over

Debut: Karmichael Hunt in his first Wallabies Test on Saturday against Fiji

Karmichael Hunt 'built for Test rugby', says Bernard Foley

Tom Decent

Topor-Stanley.

Nikolai Topor-Stanley returns to the A-League

Dominic Bossi

No curfews: Blues coach Laurie Daley won't make the casino off-limits to his players.

Daley fears Queensland will strangle them out of Origin II

Andrew Webster

At the NSW State of Origin game two team announcement at the Star in Sydney.

Facebook post before Origin I reveals Hayne's respect for Slater

Adrian Proszenko

James Tedesco announced himself as a genuine superstar in game one at Suncorp Stadium.

Tedesco admits he based his game on Slater

Michael Chammas

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