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Saripada Pacasum gagged and turned away the first time he came across a decomposing body. But now he has led more than 10 rescue missions in a war zone.

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Qatar just undermined Australia's efforts to overtake it as the world's biggest producer of liquefied natural gas.

Hong Kong stocks sank the most since November as profit taking in some of the city's top performers sparked a wider selloff.

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North Korea's latest missile launch renews questions about weapons that Donald Trump vowed to stop.

Justices won't sit in Canberra again until October 9.

Get-tough approach to public servants' compo claims pays off.

An accountant charged with attacking his estranged wife with a hatchet in a Melbourne shopping centre has offered to prosecutors to plead guilty, a court has heard.

North Korea has claimed its first successful launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, defying a tweet by Donald Trump in January that "it won't happen".

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The Reserve Bank has disappointed commentators hoping for a hawkish stance by keeping rates steady.

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The new $400 million, 700-key hotel and apartment tower at The Star Gold Coast is getting closer to fruition and sales of the apartments are due to start in the coming weeks.

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Retirement is often called the "golden years".

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An MP already mired in false claims about how long she lived in her electorate is now facing questions over claims to hold two undergraduate degrees.

ANZ Stadium at Olympic Park should be controlled by a board similar to the Sydney Cricket & Sports Ground Trust, says Labor leader Luke Foley, amid speculation the government may renege on its stadium funding policy.

The "con" of building resilience has left junior doctors vulnerable to mental illness and suicide by ignoring the systemic failures of the medical profession, the next generation of medicos has heard.

Outspoken Nationals senator John "Wacka" Williams has hit out at the tensions plaguing his Coalition partners the Liberals, warning that "division is death".

Sixteen of Canberra's 87 public schools received more than $50,000 in voluntary and subject contributions in 2016.

Water levels in more than 60 rivers in southern China have risen above warning levels, the flood control authority said.

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Malcolm Turnbull says he has enough conservatives on his frontbench, and effectively confirmed there will not be a reshuffle over Parliament's mid-winter break.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will urge Donald Trump to demand that American tech companies break into encrypted messages sent by suspected terrorists.

The Queensland connection to 'The Petrov Affair' - the defection of Russian spy couple Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov to Australia in 1954.

The oldest shop-and-dwelling in Melbourne is falling down, and its 93-year-old owners have been told they need at least $30,000 to save it from collapse or be forced to leave.

The planned toll road linking Sydney and Wollongong has been costed at an extraordinary $18 billion – almost $12 billion more than the rail alternative that would cut the journey to about one hour.

Sentence more interesting offenders, give prisoners better food and don't wake them up so early or order them around as much.

Only seven ambulances were free to respond to emergencies across the whole of Sydney on Tuesday after paramedics were left stranded at hospitals that were too full to admit their patients.

You'd be barking mad to dismiss a clothing line for trees.

Prosecutors say a man drugged a Gold Coast woman in an attempt to rape her.

The burglars retaliated and hit the 78-year-old man with his own walking stick.

Star Wallabies backs Israel Folau and Bernard Foley are hoping their special bag of tricks will bring the All Blacks undone in next month's Bledisloe Cup.

Investigators remained on scene into the night trying to determine what happened.

The boy was playing with his brother when the man grabbed his arm, and struck him on the side of his head.

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The not-so fun park operator, Ardent Leisure, is a long way from the retirement home market - unless you're a restless Malaysian billionaire like Seng Huang Lee.

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A person has died on at Rio Tinto's Yandicoogina mine site in the Pilbara on Tuesday.

Prosecutors have closed the Crown case against an ADFA cadet accused of raping another cadet.

"I would not want my wife to undergo this procedure," the French doctor wrote in an email to a colleague in 2005. "And I don't think I'm alone in that".

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Cian Channon-Ling suffered a broken arm and cut above his right eye when thrown from a platform at Hawthorn train station on October 6 last year.

There would need to be "a seismic change in the way we deliver education" to lower university dropout rates by focusing more on career advice in schools, the head of the career industry's peak body says.

The day's burning issues as seen through the eyes of The Sydney Morning Herald's editorial cartoonist.

Capital Football are investigating a brawl involving fans and officials at an NPL game at Deakin Stadium on Saturday.

Demon suspended for six matches by the AFL tribunal for punching Sydney's Callum Mills.

Ambitious plans to build a commercial airport near Koo Wee Rup have been described as Melbourne's answer to Sydney's Badgerys Creek.

"For the pace that Pridda lacks physically, he's extremely quick in the mind. And he's a lot smarter than a lot of other footballers. And same with Mitch. I don't think it's an issue."

They are virtual miniature cities, rising up to seven storeys in the west. Now, a lobby group wants them gone.

Proposed guidelines will ask developers to carry out face-to-face talks with a broad cross-section of the community.

The McGowan government's public sector reform could leave taxpayers with a $25 million bill, according to state opposition leader Mike Nahan.