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Bernard Tomic downs world number 13 Fabio Fognini to take the Chengdu Open and put a year of drama — including allegations of tanking and an ill-advised reality tv appearance — behind him.

Cooper Cronk plays the NRL grand final with a broken scapula, helping to inspire the Sydney Roosters to a 21-6 win over the Melbourne Storm to claim the premiership.

The rural community of Kununurra is left devastated after firebugs torched the town's only high school causing an estimated $2 million worth of damage.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she will wait for an expert panel's recommendations on music festival safety, following the arrests of 159 people attending the Listen Out Festival in Sydney this weekend for drug offences.

The Roosters win their first NRL premiership in five years, as they defeat the Storm 21-6 in the grand final. Relive all the action as it happened in our blog.

Shops have been flooded and streets blanketed white with hail after a short but severe storm tore through Childers in south-east Queensland on Sunday afternoon.

The toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia soars, as rescuers grapple to get aid to outlying communities cut off from communications and help.

A woman's body is found by police in the Parramatta River, near the Queens Wharf Reserve. The cause of the death is yet to be determined.

Thousands of jubilant West Coast Eagles fans gather on the Perth foreshore to celebrate the team's victory in the 2018 grand final.

Family and friends of missing Sydney woman Lynette Dawson commemorate her life on Sydney's northern beaches, and praise the world-famous Teacher's Pet podcast which has reinvigorated the cold case.

Authorities investigate the cause of three fires that burnt out at least 1,000 hectares at Darwin River on Sunday, but warn there could be more to come with an extreme fire danger forecast in place for parts of the Top End.

Koalas without chlamydia in south-western Sydney will be given their own national park along Georges River, NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has promised if elected.

The Brisbane Broncos beat the Sydney Roosters 34-12 in a dominant NRLW Grand Final, with five-eight Kimiora Nati claiming a sensational hat-trick.

North Korea's Foreign Minister tells the United Nations there is no way the country would give up its nuclear weapons unilaterally while sanctions remain in place, while Donald Trump tells his supporters he "fell in love" with Kim Jong-un during their meeting.

A 24-year-old man from Pooraka has his car impounded after being caught doing a burnout on a section of Adelaide's new north-south motorway just minutes after it was officially opened to public traffic.

In this update, at least 420 people are confirmed to have died from Friday's earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi; the Federal Opposition has stepped up its call for the Prime Minister to extend the banking royal commission; a man has been charged with manslaughter following a fatal crash in Sydney's west; and in the NRL, the Sydney Roosters and Melbourne Storm are going through their final preparations before the grand final tonight in Sydney.

Hikers were forced to run for their lives to escape an out-of-control bushfire in the Blackdown Tableland National Park at Rainbow Falls west of Rockhampton on Sunday.

Renters will be free to have pets and hang photos on walls, under impending changes to rental codes aimed at making it easier to obtain accommodation as increasing numbers of people find home ownership out of reach.

The head of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority, David Sharpe, will launch a new frontier in the fight against doping in sports, recruiting parents to help educate their children.