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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

Emergency services support witnesses to the incident.

Man killed by bus had been getting out of car in Sydney CBD

Sydney GPO has been sold in a secretive deal for $150 million.

'Turnbull should intervene' to save historic GPO building

Michael Evans

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

Coroner reveals Carrie Fisher's likely cause of death

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 is acquitted

1 hr ago

The Department of Communications is exploring options to force streaming services to create more local content.

Netflix and Stan may be forced to make more Australian shows

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

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley

Michelle Carter guilty of killing her boyfriend while an hour away

Australian rodeo rider fighting for his life after bull stomped his chest

'Constant stress': budget's $20m for people like Emily

$6900 spent on 12 chairs as Nevine's warnings went ignored

Michael Evans

Brooke Ledner, banned from practising psychology for a year in June 2017 for having an inappropriate relationship with a ...

Sydney therapist banned for having sex with patient

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

Jock horror: Scotland get sweet revenge over Wallabies

1 hr ago

Salvage mission: Isacc Heeney in action for the Swans.

Swans finish all over Tigers to keep season alive

1 hr ago

Clementine Ford.

The reason I name and shame men online

Ben Mendelsohn.

From Sydney dish pig to Hollywood A-lister

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Sampling the abyss

Johnathan Thurston.

Peter Fitzsimons

The tormentor from Townsville set to toy with NSW again

Hat-trick hero: Second-rower Angus Crichton bagged a treble for the Rabbitohs.

Grand Angus: Crichton hat-trick saves Rabbitohs

Geoffrey Edelsten has congratulated ex-wife Brynne on her 'engagement.' Pictured here together in November 2012.

Geoffrey Edelsten surprised by ex Brynne's 'engagement'

The Goss

Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman's sword trick has inspired a social media movement

Happy vendors Samara and Brendan Dobbins with children Saskia 3, Flynn 8 and Amelie 10, outside their home at 28 Thorby ...

Leichhardt home sells for $2.22m, tripling in price in 13 years

8 mins ago

Marcus Higgins is unsure if he will be able to afford the rent of his Chippendale unit when the price increases next month.

The 'plague' on Sydney's tenants: Rents continue surge

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 05: Good Food, Three Blue Ducks - Rosebery on August 5, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by ...

'Desert wasteland' no longer: Sydney suburb transforms

You now have the ability to control the light levels in every room from your laptop, tablet or phone by simply moving a ...

Future is now: Home technology to actually get excited about

Craig Rosevear has swapped his drum sticks for gavels.

Drummer trades rock star life for auctioneering

Former NSW minister Carl Scully has published a political memoir.

$1 billion Sydney desalination plant 'decided by Arbib focus group'

Sean Nicholls, Kate McClymont

The booming crisis hitting Sydney's high schools

Greens warn of US gun culture risk as state nears 1 million firearms

James Robertson

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

'Have you been deleting stuff?': Police reveal Mehajer allegations

Walsh Bay redevelopment, and inset, Brigid Kennedy.

Restaurateur deals major blow to $210m Sydney development

Two screenshots from channel 9 last night of Moudasser Taleb, a 22 yo man from Panania stopped at Sydney Airport ...

'ISIS all the way': Sydney man denied bail after airport arrest

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 15: Eman Sharobeem arrives at ICAC for her 5th and final day of evidence into alleged fraud on ...

How did she get away with it? Taxpayers should be horrified

ANALYSIS
Michael Evans

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

Australia ranked third last in quality education study by UN agency

Tomato prices have surged after Cyclone Debbie.

Stop seeing red: High tomato prices should 'halve' by next month

In a world first, Dr Ben Tang and co-researchers have developed a blood test to predict which flu patients will develop ...

How one drop of blood could thwart the flu before it strikes

Velvel (Zev) Serebryanski, a former member of Melbourne's ultra-Orthodox community.

'Infatuated': Chilling confrontation over abuse caught on video

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Offenders are largely left alone with their thoughts and in the full knowledge of the community's hatred for them and ...

Can you cure a child sexual offender?

Jane Lee

Journalist Laurie Oakes.

Mid-winter balls up: Media to blame for 'gotcha' culture

Imre Salusinszky

Romance Was Born “Billowing” dress, $590, from David Jones.

The TV role that turned a Perth 21yo into a global star

Cosima Marriner

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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

Donald Trump may or may not find Malcolm Turnbull's send-up funny - but who cares?

Fitz files: Full marks to Turnbull for his Trump routine

Peter FitzSimons

Malia Obama seems to back her father's policy decision.

The daughter effect

Matt Wade

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, Chloe Shorten, Lucy Turnbull and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull arrive for the ...

The seven stages of 'off the record'

Annabel Crabb

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
1 hr ago

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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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Blimp crashes near US Open

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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 ...

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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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

Ugo Rondinone, The Plain (2014).

Review: Goldberg's Eurovisions - private art for the public good

John McDonald

Advertiser supplied pic. The Paul Grabowsky Sextet will perform in Wollongong on November 8 Paul_Grabowsky.jpg

Paul Grabowsky review: Chemistry experiment without end

John Shand

Poppies by eX de Medici.

TGIF - and here is your weekend fun sorted

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

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

Live: Steve Mascord's Stupid Saturday NRL blog

Live
Steve Mascord
41 mins ago

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

Jock horror: Scotland get sweet revenge over Wallabies

Tom Decent
1 hr ago

Salvage mission: Isacc Heeney in action for the Swans.

Swans finish all over Tigers to keep season alive

Andrew Wu
1 hr ago

Career fears: Steve O'Keefe is shattered by his demotion.

O'Keefe questions selector over his Bangladesh demotion

EXCLUSIVE
Jon Pierik

Joyce was previously the reserve grade and U23 manager of Manchester United.

Former Manchester United man tipped to be City's new coach

Michael Lynch

Fabian Coulthard of DJR Team Penske celebrates his win in race one in Darwin.

Teammates Coulthard, McLaughlin finish 1-2 at Darwin V8s

32 mins ago

Mat Ryan has signed a long-term deal with Premier League newcomers Brighton.

Another Australian signs English Premier League deal

Michael Lynch

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

Young Aussie bull rider severely injured in US competition

Hear and persistence: Nathan Peats.

'I was filthy at Brad Arthur and Parra for a long time'

Andrew Webster

Eye to the past: Laurie Daley has led a generational change that has the Blues primed for long-term success.

Success breeds success: Blues plan for dynasty

Scott Bailey

Part of a new generation of Maroons: Dylan Napa.

'Toughen up or go home', says Queensland's Napa

Phil Lutton

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