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Bodyguard Semi Ngata, pictured with Fadi Ibrahim in 2016, has been shot in the back.

Ibrahim family's feared enforcer shot in the back

BREAKING
Rachel Olding
12 mins ago

Bluegogo got in trouble after a row of tanks parading down Beijing streets towards Tiananmen Square appeared on social media.

Tanks for nothing: 'Prank' to blame for Bluegogo crash

Kirsty Needham

Sarah Edelman

We celebrated a core human right - then denied one the next day

COMMENT
Sarah Edelman

Basil Al Jarah has been charged.

After 18 months, first charges laid in Unaoil bribery scandal

Breakthrough: Australia celebrate their win over England in the first Women's Ashes T20 match at North Sydney Oval.

Mooney strikes winning blow as Australia land Ashes with T20 win

James Buckley

ABC's Four Corners revealed youths being restrained in mechanical chairs.

NT government to close Don Dale, promises historic overhaul

'Close your exams': Sydney Uni exam 'compromised'

Mugabe appears in public for first time since coup, to applause

Iraqi forces recapture last Islamic State-held town, defeat 'caliphate'

Severe storms to bring hail, damaging wind to parts of NSW

A broken system that breaks children will shut within three months

Fergus Hunter

Brandon Evertz has listed BigUnlimited on the ASX.

How a 23-year-old turned a $500 loan into a business worth $575 million

Bitcoins sit among twisted copper wiring inside a communications room at an office in this arranged photograph in ...

It won't be long before a Bitcoin is worth over $1 million a pop

COMMENT

Aymen Terkmani is led away from the Supreme Court in Sydney in August 21 after being found guilty of murdering teenager ...

'Too brutal to describe': Jailed for sexual assault, murder of friend

An official US government Twitter account appeared, briefly, to endorse a call for President Donald Trump to resign.

Pentagon retweets call for Donald Trump to resign

Jon Snow likes the idea of being King in the CBD North.

Finger shrinkage? The weird things that happen when it's cold

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'Sorry': NT government on youth detention

Brazil's Neymar takes the ball forward against England.

This is how the Socceroos rank among the World Cup finalists

Shock selection: Chris Woakes gets a ball past Tim Paine during England's match against a Cricket Australia XI at ...

'Australia look confused': England have upper hand, says Warne

In both NSW and Victoria, about seven people a year die after falling off a ladder.

'Thought I'd just grab the gate': Australia's terrifying DIY toll

COMMENT

The provocative mural of Abbott and Pell on the wall of the Botany View Hotel in Newtown.

Provocative mural of Abbott and Pell meets unhappy ending

Ibrahim bodyguard shot in the back

1:38AM

The yes and no city: Why Sydney is so divided on ...

1:15AM

Photos of the week

1:07AM

David Fifita and wife Jade Robinson.

David Fifita's wife sentenced over Centrelink fraud

Man in serious condition after being shot in western Sydney

Fred Nile recants on-the-record assisted dying argument

Sean Nicholls

John Alexander has confirmed he will be eligible to stand in next month's by-election after receiving advice from the UK ...

Alexander confirms eligibility to stand in byelection

Waverley Cemetery.

Where will they go? Sydney's limited supply of cemetery plots

The Warrawong newsagent fought off the robber with a slap.

'I don't know why I didn't punch him': Newsagent slaps away robber

Money seized during raids across Sydney.

Three secret Sydney drug labs shut down by raids

Lucy Cormack

Westpac trader Colin Roden.

'Implausible': Westpac trader grilled over testimony

Jeff Beck with his grandchild.

Father of four fights for life after flesh-eating bug strikes

Hector Ryan was a student at St Kevin's College.

High school student identified as teen who died in crash

VIC

Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk prepares to leave Cairns for Townsville.

No plane sailing: Jet drama grounds Premier's campaign

QLD

Anthony Ziebell is representing the Affordable Housing Party in the Bennelong electorate.

Tenant advocate to take on John Alexander, Kristina Keneally

EXCLUSIVE

Auckland performed well in the rankings.

City across the ditch the preference for expats over Sydney

November 17, 2017 JENNY BROWN Contributing writer The East Sydney Early Learning Centre, designed by Andrew Burges ...

Sydney designs among winners at World Architecture Festival

Having the right tools goes a long way to achieving great results.

Secateurs or hedge trimmer? Beginner's guide to gardening tools

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Channel Nine presenter Ben Fordham.

Radio to renovation: Ben Fordham's double life

Protests inside the detention centre on November 11.

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Protests inside the detention centre on November 11.

Life on Manus: 'We don't want them here if they are unhappy'

Mark Isaacs

A Gonds tribesman looks over central India’s Parsa East and Kante Basan coal mine. Operated by Adani, the mine has had a ...

How school dropout Gautam Adani built his $12bn empire

good weekend
Tim Elliott

Alan Joyce and his partner celebrate the "yes" campaign's win at a picnic in Sydney on Wednesday.

Big businesses forced to speak out on social trends

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley

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Coalition senator Barry O'Sullivan is leading a Nationals push for a banking commission of inquiry.

Bank inquiry in balance as Nationals ponder crossing floor

James Massola

Royal commission findings 'will live as a stain on the reputation' of NT

Fergus Hunter

Men of God hold no mortgage on the national soul

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

John Alexander has confirmed he will be eligible to stand in next month's by-election after receiving advice from the UK ...

I'm eligible to stand in byelection, says Alexander

James Robertson

Former prime minister Paul Keating in Sydney on Friday.

Keating steps up attack on Victorian assisted dying bill

Mark Kenny

Other councils are planning to also vote on Australia Day celebrations after the City of Yarra decision.

Child detention royal commission delivers 'disturbing' findings

Fergus Hunter

Steve Martin was number two on Jacqui Lambie's Senate ticket at the 2016 election.

Lambie's successor wants to be referred to the High Court

James Massola

Shiite militia fighters walk along the Syrian border outside al-Badi, Iraq, earlier this year.

Iraqi forces recapture last Islamic State-held town, defeat 'caliphate'

Fijian Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum during an interview in his office.

'We've had to relocate': Fiji to move villages inland as seas rise

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in Pretoria, South Africa last month.

Mugabe told his fate is sealed as party plans dismissal

UPDATED

An official US government Twitter account appeared, briefly, to endorse a call for President Donald Trump to resign.

Pentagon retweets call for Trump to resign

The carinata trail in Gatton, Queensland.

Qantas flight to show how biofuel cuts the mustard

EXCLUSIVE
Patrick Hatch

The trouble is that the size and scale of Murdoch's content assets don't hold "king" status in the US market - indeed he ...

Predators circle Murdoch as Netflix drives US media frenzy

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Naomi Simson says the devil is in the detail for business.

'Details can often get you': Red Balloon cops ACCC fine

Cara Waters

Harbour Energy's unsolicited offers have driven Santos share price to 2017 highs.

Takeover-fuelled rally may nobble any Santos deal

Cole Latimer

Why universities should never get to set their own fees

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

ASIC probes buy now, pay later schemes including Afterpay

Clancy Yeates

Lendlease says it faces safety, engineering challenges

Simon Johanson

Goodman Group tips 60pc growth in online sales

Carolyn Cummins

Reverend Fred Nile voted to oppose the voluntary assisted dying bill

Religious groups doomed assisted dying bill

COMMENT
Sarah Edelman

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the media after the result of the same-sex marriage postal survey was announced.

Turnbull should put reactionaries to the sword

COMMENT
Catherine McGregor

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is fiercely proud of her Armenian heritage.

Dual citizenship laws are a tangle of contradictions for NSW MPs

COMMENT
Sean Nicholls

The global popularity of gin was sealed by sea voyages.

Gin is in: 11 new-wave gins you should be drinking right now

Fine Drinks
James Atkinson

The elaborate Chairman's Villa has sweeping views over Perth.

$25,000 a night: Inside Australia's most lavish hotel room

Business Travel

From little things, big things grow.

New Acorns investment product for kids

Noel Whittaker

Europe and the US de-leveraged after 2008, but Australia has not.

We've more household debt than pre-GFC US. Should we worry?

COMMENT
Catherine Robson

Naomi Simson says the devil is in the detail for business.

'Details can often get you': Red Balloon cops ACCC fine

Cara Waters

Brandon Evertz has listed BigUnlimited on the ASX.

How a 23-year-old built a $575m business and is taking it to the US

Cara Waters

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'Adani is destroying everything'

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Three Sydney drug labs shut down by raids

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Trump authorises elephant trophy hunting

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Hohns: Paine 'the best gloveman in the country'

A cliff rescue at "Jacob's Ladder" at Watsons Bay, Sydney on 28 April 1950. SMH NEWS Picture by WINTON IRVING Rescue ...

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Michelle Dockery is good at being bad - Good Behavior now streaming only on Stan

How to multi-task like a boss

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Why Canada is a must-visit in 2018

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Don't let the sun go down on Kochie today.

Is the sun setting for Kochie on the Sunrise couch?

Andrew Hornery

The Good Doctor stars Freddie Highmore as Dr Shaun Murphy.

Does The Good Doctor live up to all the hype?

Michael Idato

Patrick Brammall as Detective Nick Cullen in the US remake of Australian comedy No Activity.

Yo, Activity: The little Aussie comedy that could

Karl Quinn

The shower scene from <i>Woodpeckers</i>.

Meet the man who spent a year inside prison to make a movie

Karl Quinn

Jeffrey Tambor in Transparent's fourth season.

Second person accuses Jeffrey Tambor of harassment

Broede Carmody

London's Old Vic said it received 20 separate allegations of inappropriate conduct by Kevin Spacey from 20 men who came ...

Old Vic says 20 men made allegations against Kevin Spacey

Estelle Shirbon

David Wenham as television presenter Jago.

First look at controversial Stan series Romper Stomper

Karl Quinn

James Corben goes in for the hug at the end of Amy Shark's performance

Amy Shark dazzles on The Late Show with James Corden

Nathanael Cooper

Grace hotel pianist Michael Roh: "I want other pianists to have the same opportunity I am having."

From the Beatles to Brahms, Michael's a human jukebox

Nick Galvin

Silent Night: A present best left unwrapped.

Half-baked Christmas turkey is unappealing and stale

Jason Blake

Louis Theroux (left) meets Nate Walsh, a heroin user who lives in a tent on an Ohio riverbank, in Louis Theroux: Heroin Town.

Exploitation filmmaker turns his geeky gaze on addicts

Jake Wilson

Serena Williams and her partner Alexis Ohanian.

Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian marry: reports

Mary Ward
1 hr ago

Model Gigi Hadid poses for photographers upon arrival at the Gigi Maybelline Party, in London, Tuesday, November 7, 2017.

Is this why Gigi pulled out of next week's Victoria's Secret Show?

Mary Ward
1 hr ago

Why are men so afraid of exercise that women like?

Why are men so afraid of 'feminine' exercise?

COMMENT
Clem Bastow

Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce, right, and Stefano Gabbana pose on the red carpet of The Foundation for AIDS ...

Fashion designer is very anti-political correctness, pro beauty

Annie Brown
1 hr ago

Can't sleep? Don't stress.

Worrying about insomnia may be worse than lack of sleep

Evelyn Lewin

SEXPOL - NOVEMBER 13: Mary Hoang, Stefan and Sam Ali creators of the 'We Are All Going To Die Festival' at the COMMUNE ...

Festival about death wants people to fear less, live more

Jenny Noyes

Comedian Louis C.K. performs at the David Lynch Foundation Benefit for Veterans with PTSD at New York City Center on ...

Why do male exhibitionists force women to watch?

Lisa Bonos

Selena Gomez, left, and Justin Bieber at the 39th Annual American Music Awards on Sunday, November 20, 2011 in Los Angeles.

Jelena appear to confirm romance with public kiss

Mary Ward

A flying boat taking off from Rose Bay, circa 1938.

The era of the Qantas Flying Boat is making a comeback

Mark Chipperfield

Should flight attendants force passengers to pay more attention during safety briefings?

Letters: Get off your phone and pay attention to the safety briefing

A1 60163 'Tornado' passes Putney with The Belmond British Pullman on 6th November 2015

On board London's luxury steam train

Annie Dang

Thank you for telling her she matters.

What the 'yes' vote means to my gay 13-year-old daughter

Children as young as 12 can and should learn CPR, finds a new study.

Kids as young as 12 should learn CPR

The "myths of motherhood" still need challenging.

What I learnt about motherhood and PND on the psych ward

Porchetta, charred scallions.

Mascot's Dirty Italian Disco breaks all the restaurant rules

Lady Gaga performs during a hurricanes relief concert in College Station, Texas.

What Lady Gaga taught me about cooking

Headwear for sale.

Small bar pioneer opens hat bar in Surry Hills

People who like each other can continue to chat.

Spota is Tinder 'minus the sleaze-factor'

Apple Watch users can simply tap on and off the gym equipment to sync data.

Aussie gym world's first to let Apple in

Battle dragons dressed as Link — or not — in Skyrim on Switch.

Switch's big week: Four massive games hit Nintendo's system

SMS Broadcast's Lee Gaywood, with his fiance Gemma Cooper.

SMS firm's $500k gift boosted 'Yes' campaign

EXCLUSIVE

Google's Pixel Buds have adjustable loops to keep them in your ears, rather than a selection of differently-sized tips.

Translating on the fly with Google's Pixel Buds

Review

Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro.

New Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro to be faster than F1 car

Alex Rae

2018 Jaguar E-Pace.

Full details: The most affordable new Jaguar

Andrew Maclean

Tesla has revealed its electric truck

Tesla reveals radical electric truck

Andrew Maclean

The new Land Rover Discovery and Range Rover Velar try to knock the Audi Q7 off its perch,

2017 Drive Car of the Year: Best Luxury SUV Over $80k

Stephen Ottley

Nissan's new Pathfinder SUV video review

David McCowen

Pope Francis and Lamborghini will auction off a one-off Huracan RWD for charity.

Pope receives one-of-a-kind Lamborghini

Dom Tripolone

Unstoppable: Valentine Holmes races away for one of his record five tries against Samoa.

Holmes bags record five tries as Roos crush Samoa in quarter-final

Steve Mascord
1 hr ago

England bowler Chris Woakes dismisses Cricket Australia XI batsman Ryan Gibson.

'Australia look confused': England have upper hand, says Warne

Chris Barrett

Breakthrough: Australia celebrate their win over England in the first Women's Ashes T20 match at North Sydney Oval.

Mooney strikes winning blow as Australia land Ashes with T20 win

James Buckley

Socceroos

Socceroos, Wallabies, green and gold: It's biblical

Peter FitzSimons

Vote of faith: Shaun Marsh (left) has been recalled despite not compiling a hundred so far this season.

Marsh's contentious recall spells end of bold adventure with youth

Chris Barrett

Shocking: Dylan Caboche punches his mount, She's Reneldasgirl.

Rogue jockey's horse punch has potential to cruel a whole sport

Darren Kane

Brazil's Neymar takes the ball forward against England.

World Cup: How the Socceroos rank among the finalists

Michael Lynch

On song: Pat Cummins dismisses Cameron Bancroft of WA for the NSW Blues.

How Lillee saved Cummins and turned him into an Ashes weapon

Andrew Webster

cap

RLWC: Growing pains, and how to relieve them

Steve Mascord

On the charge: Jason Taumalolo has been a devastating force for the Tongans.

Kiwis seek to rebound while Tonga, England eye semis

Phil Lutton

Cathy Neap, Captain PNG Orchids is in Sydney for Rugby league world cup 14th November 2017 Photo by Louise Kennerley SMH ...

The team where the majority are single mums and unemployed

James Buckley

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