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Angela Merkel indicated a change of heart earlier this week, favouring a free vote on the issue.

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The lawsuit says a Times editorial falsely stated Palin incited a mass shooting.

A solicitor, a football club secretary and four former senior police officers have been charged over the Hillsborough stadium disaster, more than two decades after 96 people died.

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The corporate watchdog has been called on to investigate recent trading of Aveo’s shares ahead of the company announcing a $145 million buyback this week.

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Swiss prosecutors have examined multimillion-dollar Australian taxpayer-funded payments to controversial lobbyists hired at the behest of billionaire Frank Lowy to help Australia win the right to host the 2022 World Cup.

Reversal of the Fair Work Commission's decision to reduce Sunday penalty rates in industries including the hospitality and retail sectors could lead to industrial "chaos" and reduce wages to a political "plaything" experts warn.

Former prime minister, John Howard, has described Australia's leadership of the so-called RAMSI mission to stabilise the Solomon Islands, which come to an end this week after 14 years, as one of Australia's and his government's greatest foreign policy achievements.

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Only a few weeks back the Queen bestowed upon Frank Lowy a knighthood.

Teen boys charged with brutal stabbing death of service station worker refuse to appear.

The corporate cop would no longer need to tip off targets of its investigations before obtaining a search warrant, something it must sometimes do today, under draft recommendations from a key government taskforce.

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Pop diva Mariah Carey may claim she doesn't know where her former fiance is, but it seems the Israeli police do.

About 50 Ainslie Village residents attended a meeting with Housing ACT and Argyle Housing on Tuesday.

Government minister Christopher Pyne has apologised for his "unhelpful and damaging" same-sex marriage speech

The delivery halt remains, and there is yet to be a timeline announced for the roll-out of the first NGR passenger services or the full roll-out.

Fremantle captain Nat Fyfe has told 7 News Perth he's "pretty close" to signing a new deal with the Dockers, seemingly ending months of speculation over his future at the club.

A Royal Australian Navy member who died in unknown circumstances on a patrol boat has been remembered as a loved husband and father and "proud Navy man".

Rail commuters across south-east Queensland have vented their anger online after they were hit with extensive delays during peak hour on Wednesday evening following a communication breakdown.

Lex Haris, CNN's investigations editor, traveled to a journalism conference in Phoenix last week. In hindsight, his timing was terrible.

ACT Health to recruit a new deputy director-general of data and performance after years of issues.

Fishmongers have been left wondering whether their businesses will survive to see new Sydney Fish Markets being built.

Barristers for an ADFA cadet charged with raping a fellow cadet have sought to paint the relationship between the woman and the accused as a burgeoning romance that "jumped a few steps" as a result of lowered inhibitions.

Geoff Pryor has made sure his cartoons live on in the storehouse of our national identity.

Get in quick for this quintessentially Canberra fundraising event.

Government calculations were out by about $100 million, according to an Auditor-General report.

"We just found out that one of his neighbours has put an extension cord over his back fence and has plugged it into his power point in his backyard."

Alleged victim of a robbery invented the incident after being sold sugar instead of drugs, jury told.

Edmond Rostand's French classic comes to the Playhouse.

Church organisations, Scout groups and sporting clubs won't be forced to report all child abuse allegations.

Senator Lee Rhiannon has been suspended from taking part in any contentious decisions in the Greens' party room until her NSW wing reforms.

The mercury will drop to minus 6 degrees on Sunday for June's coolest day.

A baby wombat has been rescued after surviving days inside the belly of its dead mother.

The developers of a new government office block next door to the ACT Legislative Assembly will have to halt construction during sitting weeks under the terms of its contract with the ACT government.

The ACT Auditor-General is set to launch a fresh probe into ACT Health's data management.

Another public service agency lays down its arms.

Boyd Cordner will be given every chance to shake a troublesome calf complaint for the State of Origin decider with teammates predicting the NSW skipper will play with "half a leg" if it means the chance to run onto Suncorp Stadium.

A priest was seen covered in blood on the day of the frenzied stabbing murder of a single mother in the back of her Thornbury bookshop, a new report has revealed.

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Macquarie has announced an internal investigation into the advice it gave clients who invested in Cleveland Mining Group.

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Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann's tragic death has left many patients without an experienced heart surgeon.

A manager at a roofing company has been fined $7500 plus costs of $517 after a labourer suffered multiple fractures in a five-metre fall through a skylight in Perth.

A sacked former Northern Territory prisons minister claimed Aboriginal children continued to be victims of genital mutilation and were forced into underage marriages but he was powerless to stop the abuse because of cabinet solidarity.

In more than 1000 games and 50 years' involvement with league football, Kevin Sheedy has had a long roll call of memorable moments. For him, however, the most significant didn't even happen during a game.

Slater the northern koala is a popular fellow these days at Perth Zoo.

In December last year, police received a panicked report from a person in fear of their life after being stood over by bikies. 

Barry Hall and Brent Staker admit they still feel uncomfortable watching footage of that infamous punch in 2008, which has cast long shadows on both men's AFL careers.

A former Brisbane police officer will face court over allegations he misused the police database more than 40 times and leaked information to a member of the public.