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During a cabinet meeting in Washington, Donald Trump vowed to scrap the diversity lottery visa program.

Trump cancels green card lottery after NY attack

Rachel Olding

Cassandra Sainsbury arrives at court in Bogota in July.

Drug courier Cassandra Sainsbury sentenced to six years in jail

Sean Black, who is a friend and former adviser of One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts.

Adviser to One Nation's Malcolm Roberts charged with rape

The state government is cracking down on drink drivers.

First-time drink drivers to lose licence under tough new laws

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Having failed its turnaround targets, Myer has rejigged its plan.

The longer he spoke, the more Myer's share price fell

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Melbourne Express old square

Man riding mobility scooter struck and killed by a car

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UK minister quits after accused of touching woman on knee

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New York suspect had been planning attack for weeks

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'I'm not ashamed': Adani exec defends controversial mine

New Lion Hodge opens up about playing against his old club

The citizenship crisis is next level chaos for Malcolm Turnbull

ANALYSIS

Heather Jones is the co-owner of Filtered Media and has instituted YOLO days at her business.

Why this Australian company offers its staff paid 'YOLO' days

THUMBNAIL USE ONLY NSW Young Liberals cornetto Streets

'Tone deaf': Young Libs #cornettocaucus draws ire online

Farm Sitters Australia founders, Phillip and Kim Kelly, aim to give farming families the chance to get away from work.

The downside of rural life no one talks about

Aziz Ansari brutally roasted BAFTA's Britannia Awards while accepting a prize at the ceremony.

Aziz Ansari rips awards with 'best acceptance speech' ever

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The sleep phase where you dream may make you less prone to fear

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Suspect 'planned attack for weeks': NYPD

Infidelity is not just a betrayal of vows, it is a rejection of everything the betrayed partner believed they were in ...

The truth about what an affair will do to your relationship

Changi Airport's new Terminal 4 has a capacity to serve 16 million passengers a year.

World's best airport opens $944 million terminal

Baby name Lucifer

Parents wanted to name their baby Lucifer. Court said no

Overflowing inbox, stressed at work

How to stop your overflowing inbox messing with your brain

Trump says calling women liars over harassment ...

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First-time drink drivers to lose licence under ...

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UK minister quits, citing past behaviour

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The source of much amusement.

Tomato sauce? The best memes from the VCE English exam

Man who allegedly rammed police car in CBD on bail, court told

Students analyse giant pile of rubbish on VCE English exam

Angelo Gargasoulas

'You carry the name. I'm doing my best to treat you fairly'

An officer on the roof of a Melbourne CBD business.

Police search Melbourne CBD rooftops for suspected burglar

Police outside the Bakers Arms hotel in Abbottsford.

Woman charged with murder over killing outside pub

Minister for Consumer Affairs Marlene Kairouz (left) sworn in by Victorian Governor Linda Dessau AM in 2016.

When Irish eyes are crying: Minister sorry for scam warning

Detectives arrest Simon Phillips at Russell Lea on Wednesday.

Primary school teacher 'indecently assaulted' students

NSW

ACT Police at the scene of a death following the use of a taser by police at a home in Waramanga.

Canberra man dies after police use stun gun

ACT

ANDREW CAMPBELL PHOTO, Fri 31 Oct 2003....HALLOWEEN...or "oragnge and black" day as they call it Ainslie Primary and no ...

Trick-or-treaters shot in the face with paintball gun

QLD

Oreo was attacked in her mother's backyard in Narrabundah in early September.

'I'm furious': Dog that attacked Oreo returned to owner

ACT

Emily Mottram outside the Majorca Building in Flinders Lane, where she lived in the 1990s.

Forget 'liveable' Melbourne, this is the measure we should use

Artists worked in and on the walls of the big warehouses and students lived in converted containers while Amsterdam's ...

What happens to a weedy wasteland when you let artists loose

Farm Sitters Australia founders, Phillip and Kim Kelly, aim to give farming families the chance to get away from work.

The downside to rural life no one talks about

Neptune Food & Wine draws a strong crowd even early in the week.

How to spend the ideal day around St Kilda Road

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Artist Fiona Hall with her exhibition Wrong Way Time at the Venice Biennale, 2015.

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Artist Fiona Hall with her exhibition Wrong Way Time at the Venice Biennale, 2015.

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COMMENT
Janine Collins

A new report says the violence inflicted against children around the world is worrying.

Sexual violence against girls claims 15 million worldwide

A recent US study shows that downtown high-rise residents consume 27 per cent more electricity and gas per person than ...

High-density living more harmful than suburban sprawl

Sue Williams

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Malcolm Turnbull visits at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Turnbull reveals he learned about Parry at the same time as the media

Nick Miller
1 hr ago

Pleas for New Zealand, PNG to intervene in Manus Island crisis

Michael Koziol

Liberal Senate President to resign after confirming dual citizenship

James Massola

Senator Kimberley Kitching during a Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House

Labor backbencher spends more on flights than most ministers

Eryk Bagshaw

Sean Black, who is a friend and former adviser of One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts.

Adviser to One Nation's Malcolm Roberts charged with rape

Adam Gartrell

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.

Citizenship crisis threatens legitimacy of the political system

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Craig Kelly at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 16 October 2017. Fedpol. Photo: Andrew Meares

More government MPs break ranks to back a full citizenship audit

Latika Bourke

Cassandra Sainsbury is escorted by police to a court hearing in Bogota, Colombia.

Cassandra Sainsbury sentenced to six years in jail

Andrew Wight

Michael Fallon has resigned.

UK minister quits, citing past behaviour

26 mins ago

Several countries, including Britain, the US and Canada, have all moved to legalise e-cigarettes.

Japan firm gives non-smokers more leave

45 mins ago

Summer Zervos

Trump says calling women liars over harassment was politics

3 mins ago

Male cyclists dominate on the streets of Melbourne.

Male cyclists of Melbourne, what is your problem?

COMMENT
Merie Polkamp

President John F. Kennedy and his daughter, Caroline, in 1962.

The joy of JFK conspiracy theories - and why they'll never go away

COMMENT
Tim Stanley

Chris Masters, journalist and producer of the Afghanistan: the Australian story DVD launch of Middle East display and ...

Why the witch hunt into a new book about the Special Forces?

COMMENT
Nick McKenzie

Myer CEO Richard Umbers is caught in a pincer.

The longer he spoke, the more Myer's share price fell

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Treasurer Scott Morrison says the mandated credit reporting regime will be a "game changer."

'Game-changer': ScoMo forces big four banks to share customers' secrets

Clancy Yeates

Hungry Jack's founder Jack Cowin agrees with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that Sunday penalty rates are an anachronism.

Domino's pay deal wipes $70m off Jack Cowin's shares in minutes

Colin Kruger, CBD

People protest against the Carmichael coal mine outside the International Mining and Resources Conference in Melbourne ...

'I'm not ashamed': Adani exec defends controversial mine

Darren Gray

Fed leaves rates unchanged, points to 'solid' growth ahead

29 mins ago

ASX rally rings in first day of November

Jessica Sier

'Toxic intervention': Turnbull slammed over energy crisis

Cole Latimer

Rebel Wilson defamation payout 'manifestly excessive': Bauer

Colin Kruger, CBD

Cathay Pacific makes sure your business lounge experience is as comfortable as your own living room.

How luxury airline lounges are changing for the better

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David Flynn

Gucci has seen a huge rise in sales thanks to a luxury-coveting younger market.

It's not smashed avocado that's eating up Millennials' money

Luxury

Halloween is about calculated risk.

Fear is for Halloween, not for money management

Pat Garrett

John Fraser, Secretary to the Treasury, is standing by his forecast that wage growth will ramp up over the coming years.

'Remarkable' jobs growth raises hopes for wages

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

Christian Beck is the 2017 EY entrepreneur of the year.

'Self-taught, self-made man' wins entrepreneur award

Cara Waters
16 mins ago

An estimated 31 per cent of Australian workers have used leave for mental health or stress within the last year.

Australians took 3.74 million mental health days last year

Cara Waters

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CCTV: rescue boat thief in Port Melbourne

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Cassandra Sainsbury sentenced

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Uluru closed to climbers

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Birdcage performer for a day

A patch of purple at Five Ways Paddington as Jacarandas are in full bloom.

Jacaranda trees are in bloom around Sydney

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Over 200,000 seek shelter in Northern Uganda

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Laura Vandervoort plays one of several victims.

Jigsaw review: New take on horror franchise cuts familiar terrain

Jake Wilson

Michelle Guthrie is set to announce some big changes to the ABC in the coming weeks.

'Morale is very shaky': 7.30 loses senior reporter

Broede Carmody

Aziz Ansari brutally roasted BAFTA's Britannia Awards while accepting a prize at the ceremony.

Aziz Ansari rips awards with 'best acceptance speech' ever

Rob Moran

French actor Gilles Marini says he's been sexually abused by Hollywood.

Sex and the City actor says he's 'a piece of meat' in Hollywood

Jackson Peck

FILE - In this April 4, 2017, file photo, actor Alec Baldwin appears at Barnes & Noble Union Square to sign copies of ...

'I had no idea': Baldwin distances himself from Toback

Broede Carmody

Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold in Entourage.

Entourage star accused of sexual harassment by actress

Rob Moran

Keeping Australia Safe narrator Chris Bath describes the six-part series as a ''relatively spin-free look'' at our ...

Chris Bath embraces her post-Seven media career

Craig Mathieson

Netflix has indefinitely suspended production on the new season of House of Cards, following a sexual misconduct claim ...

Netflix plots House of Cards spinoff series, without Spacey

Federico Garcia Lorca at home in Granada in 1925, beneath one of several paintings Salvador Dali gave him in the mid-1920s.

Spanish poet Lorca get first major translation in decades

BOOKS
Dwight Garner

Indie pop star Jeremy Neale will release his?debut album Getting The Team Back Together in November.

Brisbane's Jeremy Neale gets it together with debut album

MUSIC
Nathanael Cooper

'Seance', presented by duo Darkfield, is a theatrical 'experience' in a shipping container at Federation Square that ...

Looking for Halloween fun? Seance at Fed Square is the ticket

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Brady, with wife Gisele Bundchen, claims he is so hydrated the muscles under his skin must look like 'beautiful tenderloins'.

Brady's 'particularly unusual' sun safety advice baffles experts

Sarah Berry

Infidelity is not just a betrayal of vows, it is a rejection of everything the betrayed partner believed they were in ...

The truth about what an affair will do to your relationship

COMMENT
Jane Gilmore

Justin Trudeau takes his youngest son Hadrien dressed as Paw Patrol character Skye trick-or-treating.

Justin Trudeau wins Halloween as Clark Kent in question time

Nicole Economos

Model Hailey Baldwin wears a creation by Topshop at its London Fashion Week show.

Topshop 'rescued' by Australian online retailer

Melissa Singer

New research found that those who did strength-based exercise just twice a week had a 23 per cent reduction in risk of ...

We ignore this type of exercise but we shouldn't

Sarah Berry

Mikael Bres, a Chinese pole performer, will appear in a show at the Mumm marquee in the Birdcage at Flemington during ...

I trained as a Birdcage 'Chinese pole' performance artist

Melissa Singer

With employers spending resources on anti-sexual harassment training programs and the very public disgrace of so many ...

This is why sexual harassment can't truly be rooted out

Elizabeth Bruenig

Burberry chief Christopher Bailey is stepping down.

Burberry chief creative officer steps down

The Green Man's Arms opens in the old Astor site. And it's all vegetarian.

Just open: Green Man's Arms brings vegetarian counter meals to Carlton

Use plenty of oil to cook the perfect schnitzel.

The secret to cooking the perfect golden schnitzel

Dan Lepard's coconut cake is a real pearler.

Celebrate world vegan day with this gluten-free coconut 'pearl' cake

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Is this every dad's dream come true?

Could your mother-in-law affect how many kids you'll have?

How living with your mother-in-law may affect your fertility

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22 lovely baby names with less-than-lovely meanings

Changi Airport's new Terminal 4 has a capacity to serve 16 million passengers a year.

New, $944 million terminal opens at world's best airport

Craig Platt

Flight attendant students for Emirates pose in the image and uniform classroom at the Emirates Aviation College in Dubai.

Live the dream: How you can travel the world for a living

Ben Groundwater

Spicejet wants to buy planes that can land anywhere.

Who needs runways? Budget airline plans to land on sea, fields

Anurag Kotoky

Every time you use Google Docs you are revealing your data to the company.

Google Docs users locked out in glitch

Google's latest VR device, Daydream View.

New Daydream View is affordable VR done right

Review

Leaving the Mushroom Kingdom behind, Odyssey feels like a trip around an unfamiliar world.

Nintendo reflects and reinvents in timeless new Mario adventure

Review

Professor Brian Cox, particle physicist and science presenter, is in Australia for his fourth and largest tour.

Science can stop rise of 'comedians and clowns'

Michael Malone

NBN director blasts ISPs for poor speeds

Alfa Romeo Giulia Super.

Alfa Romeo Giulia Super review

Stephen Ottley

Mazda's new Skyactiv platform due to launch in 2019.

Mazda eyeing supercar tech

Stephen Ottley

2017 Renault Megane GT wagon

What small sporty wagon should I buy?

Cameron McGavin

2017 Yamaha Cross Hub Concept

Yamaha Cross Hub revealed

Kez Casey

2018 Mercedes-AMG GT S

2017 Mercedes-AMG GT S review

Alex Rae

Ferrari FXX K Evo

Ferrari reveals FXX K Evo

Alex Rae

Hit in the pocket: Jarman Impey was fined $5000 by Port Adelaide this year.

AFL players may face increased code-of-conduct fines

Caroline Wilson

New recruit: Luke Hodge has joined the Brisbane Lions.

New Lion Luke Hodge set to feast on Hawks

Peter Ryan

Jeff Kennett says Hawthorn must begin the new campaign better than it did this year.

Kennett: Hawks' Tasmania fixture not good enough

Jon Pierik

Jake Stringer

Bombers did exhaustive due diligence on Stringer

Peter Ryan

The Doggies have been allocated the second-best fixture for next year, our formula shows.

The winning formula: How good is your team's 2018 fixture?

Scott Spits

Simon Lethlean is favourite for the Carlton job.

Judd, Jenkins on panel to select new Carlton chief executive

Caroline Wilson

Alex Johnson in 2016, taking his first run on grass in 906 days.

Comeback Swan Alex Johnson waits for rookie draft

Peter Ryan

Aaron Mullett.

Blues throw rod at Mullett

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Dusty's Derby: Main Stage with co-trainers Natalie Young, right, and Trent Busuttin, far left, as well as co-owners ...

Dustys Boys take Main Stage towards the Derby

Chris Roots

Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou.

Honduras want match time changed raising fears over heat

South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk will miss next year's Commonwealth Games due to a knee injury.

Knee injury robs Comm Games of one of its biggest stars

Michael Gleeson

Los Angeles Dodgers

Dodgers beat Astros ace Verlander to force game seven

Erik Boland

Marcus Stoinis will miss the Warriors' Sheffield Shield match against NSW to be with his family.

Test challenger sidelined for family leave

Daniel Cherny

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