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A fire has completely destroyed the Tuggeranong Baptist Church. Photo: Dion Georgopoulos

Canberra church destroyed by suspicious fire

UPDATED

The USS Fitzgerald is seen off Shimoda, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, after the Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ...

Sailors missing after US destroyer collision near Japan

40 mins ago

Australian bull rider Bradie Gray has suffered life-threatening injuries after he was thrown from a bull.

Aussie bull rider severely injured in US rodeo

A memorial including a photo of Philando Castile adorns the gate to the governor's residence in St Paul, Minnessota, in ...

Officer who shot black driver live on Facebook acquitted

The woman was refused bail.

Canberra woman found with drugs, cash in car during police stop

Los Angeles County Coroner's Office will mark the cause of Carrie Fisher's death as undetermined.

Coroner reveals cause of Carrie Fisher's death

Turnbull's citizenship test: Are you as Aussie as Warnie?

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley

Michelle Carter guilty of killing her boyfriend while an hour away

Trump's latest Tweet tirade confirms he's under investigation

When Australia's lights go out, both parties will be to blame

COMMENT

Anger as ACT units hit with $30,000 development tax

Wil Anderson.

Wil Anderson arrested after being 'disruptive' on board a flight

54 mins ago

Dejected: Bernard Foley at full-time after the Wallabies' shock loss to Scotland.

Jock horror: Scotland get sweet revenge over Wallabies

14 mins ago

Clementine Ford.

The reason I name and shame men online

Ben Mendelsohn.

How Ben Mendelsohn went from dish pig to Hollywood's A-list

Lock up your bosses, Canberra CEO's that have successfully paid their way out of jail in fundraising efforts for ...

Canberra bosses serve jail time, raise $74,000 for Lifeline

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Sampling the abyss

Kit Harrington as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones.

Jon Snow's 'real name' may have just been leaked

A new office desk from Herman Miller that can tell when you're not there.

The office furniture that can tell when you're not there

Sport is best when passion plays

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Big Week In Art: Jack Watts and St Sebastian

9:17PM

Sunshine Coast win grand final with Giant victory

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Canberra remains a tough city for renters.

Soaring Canberra rental costs 'the stuff of nightmares'

Auctioneer Troy Reddick of Elders Belconnen.

Auction numbers surge in the ACT amid buyer competition

04 February 2010 .News Canberra Times photo by RICHARD BRIGGS. story by Ewa Kretowicz. ACT Government housing... The ...

Bega Flats site opposite Canberra Centre to be auctioned in August

What will be the future Civic Square in Canberra.

Entire Canberra city office block to be razed in the coming weeks

Canberra Domain Allhomes. Rivett Street House, by Tony Trobe of TT Architecture.

These ACT Architecture Awards finalists are edgy and sustainable

Kikka Happonen and Luigi Spagnolo with Yogi Bear at the A Pooch Affair high tea.

'Pupaccinos anyone?': Canberra's pooches treated to high tea

Liberal MLA Elizabeth Lee shuts down online 'fat-shaming'

Plans to ease car parking headaches at Parliament House

An image of Steven released by ACT Policing.

ACT police seek missing man Steven Whatling

Kids party business Enchanted Canberra is looking for superheroes for weekend work.

Public servant by day, caped crusader by weekend?

Amaroo Primary students last year.

Amaroo School to become Canberra's largest

ONA Coffee's head roaster, Sam Corra, (centre) at World Brewers Cup in Budapest representing Australia this week.

Canberra coffee makes a splash on world stage again

Salim Mehajer arrives at Downing Centre Local Court on Friday for second day of his electoral fraud trial.

Police reveal Mehajer fraud allegations

NSW

Adam Cranston (right) has had his assets seized including expensive race cars. His brother Joshua (left) has not been ...

ATO tax fraud: Funds of 'syndicate members' seized

NSW

Only Romania and Turkey were ranked below Australia in education in the latest UNICEF report card.

Australia ranked 39 out of 41 countries for education

Australian National University scientist Graham Farquhar is the first Australian to win a Kyoto Prize.

ANU scientist proud to be first Kyoto Prize winner

Senior Defence Department official Kim Gillis

The eight APS contractors that will cost $5.5m

CPSU National Secretary Nadine Flood.

'We're talking about one employer': Union slams APS gender pay gap

Female workers are at a disadvantage from the first rung of their career ladder, the study shows.

The grades where pay is increasing most in the APS

Simon Birmingham has a two-pronged strategy over Gonski 2.0.

Government in secret bid to secure Gonski deal

EXCLUSIVE

How teacher unions are holding progress on school funding hostage

COMMENT
Matthew Knott

Coalition brawl over British-style Home Office deepens

David Wroe

Refugees at Manus Island will learn their fate soon.

US to notify Manus Island detainees within six weeks

Colin Packham

Veteran journalist Michael Gordon observes Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.

Farewell to Michael, a giant of journalism and a decent man

Tony Wright

Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump aboard the USS Intrepid in May.

Off the record? This is all a confected nonsense

COMMENT
Tony Wright

Former prime minister Tony Abbott.

Far from protecting his reputation, Tony Abbott is trashing it

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

The Ofo bike-sharing app on a smartphone in front of the company's bikes parked on a sidewalk in Shanghai, China.

Bike-sharing boom travels from China to rest of the world

Kirsty Needham

US President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House last week.

Trump discloses multimillion-dollar income in latest filing

Australian police officers fold the Australian flag during a flag-lowering ceremony. in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Australian police leave Cyprus after 53 years

Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale with Australian Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells in May 2016.

Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale dies

Jeremy Corbyn: rejected by his colleagues but trusted by Labour Party members.

Leaders who see beyond the caucus wall

COMMENT
Jack Waterford

David Pope

The latest cartoons from David Pope

Australia's Chief Scientist Alan Finkel.

The endangered elephant in the energy room

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

Wall Street where the financial crisis began almost 10 years ago.

Ten years since the GFC, world suffers 'debt overhang'

Nassim Khadem

Institutions that don't take deposits, that fund themselves on the wholesale market such as Pepper Money and Liberty ...

Home loan crackdown and the Law of Unintended Consequences

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

CBS wanted to help Network Ten get through its financial difficulties and had already agreed to cut the cost of its ...

Network Ten staff told not to order anything

Lucy Battersby

Frank Lowy, now Sir Frank.

Listening to the BBC while hiding from Nazis leads to a knighthood

Deborah Snow

Amazon to acquire Whole Foods for $18 billion

The fear that drives billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes

Damien Murphy

Cleanskin king represents new face of BHP

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Strong jobs growth takes interest rate cuts off table

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

The Alex is just one of seven new boutique hotels to open in Perth.

How Perth quietly became Australia's coolest city

Lifestyle
Elizabeth Clarke

Toby Jones and Mikey Nolan of Double Rainbouu say many of their deals are signed after hours.

The high school dropout who became our hottest export

Men's Style

Commuting makes you miserable.

Money can buy happiness if you spend it on these three things

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Noel Whittaker.

Unlucky seniors in the pension card trap

EXCLUSIVE
Noel Whittaker

Women need to see themselves in leadership to stay at a company, the study found.

One way tech startups founded by women are different

A new study has revealed the types of jobs that lead to early death.

How your job is killing you

James Adonis

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Dashcam captures truck smashing into bridge

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US moves to seize DiCaprio's Picasso

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Community rallies for London fire victims

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Putin's joke: 'I'll grant Comey asylum'

SMH News story by Rachel Olding. Story: First court appearance for ATO tax fraud people - Michael Cranston, Lauren ...

Fairfax photos of the week - June 16, 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.

Understanding your toddler's fine motor skills

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Simon Gleeson: the theatre star despairing at the state of the arts

Latika Bourke

Green Light was the first new material from Lorde in nearly four years, after her first album Pure Heroine made her a ...

Lorde on fame, staying up late and being 'quite naughty'

Andrew Stafford

Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman.

Avengers director under fire for sexist Wonder Woman script

Author Arundhati Roy is as unafraid of bearing witness to tenderness as atrocity which is part of The Ministry of Utmost ...

Was it worth the wait? The verdict on Arundhati Roy's new novel

Review
Felicity Plunkett

ABC Radio host Red Symons.

ABC in damage control after Symons' 'racist' comments

Rob Moran

Daniel Radcliffe in the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

20 years of Harry Potter: rating the boy wizard's impact

Yoko Ono at the MCA in 2013 for her exhibition, War is Over.

Yoko Ono set to receive credit as songwriter of Imagine

Samantha Schmidt

Green Light was the first new material from Lorde in nearly four years, after her first album Pure Heroine made her a ...

Lorde's new album, Melodrama, is brilliant

Bernard Zuel

Owners of Ziggy's Fresh at Fyshwick food markets Toni and Ken Irvine celebrating their win last year.

Canberrans in the running for Sydney Markets Fresh Awards

Rod Cuddihy and Kristen Henry after their epic dangle on Friday morning.

Radio duo's death-defying dangle raises more than $50k

Liberal MA Steve Doszpot is winding up his popular trivia nights but is not stopping his commitment to helping local causes.

MLA's 10th Annual Charity Trivia Night will be his last

Katherine wears Dion Lee “Contour Tie” dress, $1590, from David Jones.

13 Reasons Why's Katherine Langford: 'I feel lucky to have a platform'

Cosima Marriner

Mamamia founder and publisher Mia Freedman.

How Mamamia's Bad Feminist moment went so wrong

Jenny Noyes

Susan Carland

How these women are staring down their trolls

Ginger Gorman

Ignore the fact that this bow-down-beautiful Oscar de la Renta blends into the background a bit, and instead just focus ...

This week's red carpets were positively blooming

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 23: Lisa Wilkinson arrives at the 59th Annual Logie Awards at Crown Palladium on April 23, ...

Criticism of Mia was 'completely out of proportion': Wilkinson

Andrew Hornery

The Bachelor series five Matthew Johnson, Matty J. publicity pic from Channel Ten. For PS

Channel Ten clashes with paps over Bach spoilers

Andrew Hornery

Chris Brown (L) and Karrueche Tran are seen during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2015 at Lincoln Center for the ...

Ex wins five-year restraining order against Chris Brown

Jayme Deerwester

Los Angeles County Coroner's Office will mark the cause of Carrie Fisher's death as undetermined.

Carrie Fisher died of sleep apnoea and 'other conditions':

Roxanne Gay.

Roxane Gay's brave memoir illuminates struggle with eating and her body

Jim Higgins

Reflecting on the ephemeral nature of life can bring our priorities into perspective.

The 'unexpectedly positive' experience of dying

Sarah Berry

The Vitali bra: offering emotional support?

Could 'wellbeing' bra help you stay calm?

Jo Hartley

Chocolate-chip macadamia shortbread.

How to bake simple shortbread plus 10 recipes

Neil Perry's rendang of beef.

Neil Perry's beef rendang

Sesame, date and banana cake with tahini cream cheese icing and caramelised banana.

Yotam Ottolenghi's banana cake and cookie recipes

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Babies worse than bad body odour for fellow travellers

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Why I think birthday party goody bags should be banned

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Four ways parents can help a bullied child

Indian woman eating banana leaf rice, overhead view on wooden dining table. SatJun17cover-WorldFood - Ben Groundwater ...

The eight cities with the world's best local dishes

Ben Groundwater

The space race: Overhead locker storage can be a source of tension between passengers.

Traveller letters: Airlines need to crack down on overhead bin hogs

Sixteen-year-old travel blogger Zac George became the youngest person ever to buy his own ticket and fly in Etihad’s ...

Aussie teen the youngest ever to fly world's most luxurious airline class

Julietta Jameson

Super Mario Odyssey

Super Mario Odyssey is insane in the best way

NBN chief executive Bill Morrow unveiled fibre to the curb plans back in 2016.

NBN begins Fibre to the Curb trials

COMMENT

This city beneath a statue of Genesha appears identically in the game's art, trailer and early tech demo.

First look at the incredibly ambitious Beyond Good and Evil 2

Solar paint samples painted on glass.

Paint makes clean fuel out of sunshine and air

An impression of China's Micius quantum satellite.

China's leap towards a global quantum internet

Audi RS3 LMS.

Driven: Audi's 'affordable' race car

Peter McKay

Hyundai won't be joining the likes of Mercedes-AMG in Formula One.

Hyundai rules out F1

Toby Hagon

Range-topping dual cab ute comparison: Toyota HiLux TRD, Ford Ranger Wildtrak, Nissan Navara ST-X.

What's the best range-topping ute?

David McCowen

2017 Lexus CT200h.

New Lexus CT200h revealed

Drive Staff

Audi's RS3 sedan is a giant-killer in a compact package.

Driving Audi's sports car killer

Peter McKay

Jaguar and Land Rover have invested $25million into US ride-sharing business, Lyft

Jaguar invests in Uber rival

Andrew MacLean

Dejected: Bernard Foley at full-time after the Wallabies' shock loss to Scotland.

Jock horror: Scotland get sweet revenge over Wallabies

14 mins ago

Jason Taumalolo will be vital in the Origin-depleted Cowboys match against ladder leaders Melbourne.

Live: Steve Mascord's Stupid Saturday NRL blog

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The Swans converge on Gary Rohan after he sealed the win against Richmond at the MCG.

Swans get off the canvas to hurt the Tigers

Brodie Croft is swamped by his Melbourne Storm teammates after kicking the winning goal against the Cowboys.

Storm's young guns topple Cowboys in thriller

1 hr ago

Jarrod Croker shows his dejection after the Panthers stole a last-minute win from the Raiders.

Mid-season report card: NRL finals still on the Raiders' horizon

Faalelei Sionie can't make it past the Wests defence.

John I Dent Cup: Royals down Wests in 'most boring' game of season

Assistant coach Dan McKellar will be named as the Brumbies Head coach for the 2018 season. Photo by karleen Minney.

Larkham to give Dan McKellar space to make 'own team'

Jed Simbiken scored a hat-trick in the Kangaroos' win over Tuggeranong.

Speechless Simbiken flies high for Kangaroos