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How well do you know the Bible from the Qu'ran? That's what two Dutch comedians wanted to find out.

ABC South East's resident cricket blogger Rob Courtney swaps his banking clothes for cricket whites and a baggy brown each weekend and writes about the experience.

Police investigate why a car crossed on to the wrong side of the road moments before a head-on collision north of Bendigo that killed two Canberra women.

Australian Marc Leishman has signalled his intentions to turn 2016 into a career year by bolting to a significant victory on the European Tour.

Grammy winner Bruno Mars has sold his Hollywood Regency-style home for

Instead of retirement, one father is working hard to pay off the last three homes for his adult children.

The parents of a Queensland man who has returned home after fighting against the Islamic State group in Syria criticise Australia's foreign fighter laws, saying their son is a "hero in everyone's books".

The commodity price slump and the slowdown in China's economy are crippling developing nations' ability to borrow abroad, even as international debt sales from advanced nations remain at a five-year high.

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A woman is charged with murdering a man and attempting to kill two children at a house in the southern Perth suburb of Leda.

A musical party of enormous charm, The Divorce is unexpected, and most welcome.

President Mario Draghi is confident the measures unveiled will help bring inflation back to the ECB's target.

It is always around this time of year where 'the silly season' tag comes to the fore. However, there is silly and there is downright stupid.

A rise in class action, industry turmoil and new listing laws are acting to reduce the number of companies prepared to offer earnings guidance to investors, according to McGrathNicol.

A woman is charged with murder after a man is discovered dead and two children are found injured at a house in the southern Perth suburb of Leda.

A group of King Island men who work the land by day are turning their talents to making music at night in a bush studio-cum-stage.

A serious back injury could force 24-year-old St George Illawarra centre Dylan Farrell into early retirement.

The swing in ascendancy from bat to ball seen in the pink-ball Test, with a greener-than-usual pitch and a glut of wickets, proved contagious as 16 wickets fell on the opening day of the Sheffield Shield match between Victoria and South Australia.

Wagga Wagga's Mayor is sticking by the need to hit ratepayers with higher rates for five years to improve flood protection.

Former AFL supremo Andrew Demetriou and the plain-speaking Amanda Vanstone are among the 16 members of the council that will drive the push to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the constitution.

Adelaide swelters through its hottest December night in more than a century, dipping to just 30.7 degrees Celsius but spending much of the night above 33C.

Queensland authorities say a staggering number of people were treated for drug overdoses at Stereosonic in Brisbane, despite extra security after two deaths at the festival's Sydney and Adelaide legs.

The Hunter's Primary Health Network is confident there will be substantial funding for new programs to reduce demand for the drug ice and the harm it is causing in the region.

Australian Defence Force reservist Bernard Gaynor, who was sacked for anti-gay comments on social media in 2013, wins a Federal Court battle against his dismissal.

Police search for a 10-year-old Palmwoods girl reported missing after failing to meet up with a friend on Sunday.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull withdraws his planned attendance from a Toowoomba event with Ian Macfarlane following the Federal Member for Groom's indication he wants to switch to the Nationals.

People with a disability have run the rule over cafes, shops and restaurants in Tamworth to determine their level of disabled accessibility.

A woman is taken to hospital after she is found unconscious at an AC/DC concert in Melbourne.

British cycling ace Mark Cavendish confirms he will compete next month at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road race.

David and Judy Elliott spend their days digging in the dusty earth for dinosaur bonessome as old as 95 million years.

Police say 'party drug sourcing' has been a focal point of operations at a music festival at Forbes.

Cutbacks to court sitting days in the western region could see some legal services transferred to local libraries.

Ground crews and the rescue helicopter resume a search for a 75-year-old bushwalker who has been missing for two nights in the Mount Dundas area on the state's west coast.

A man who was stabbed to death in Sydney's west had been involved in a fight with a group of men, police believe.

It is hoped a central west dam will re-open for recreational use within the next month when a major safety upgrade is completed.

A Newcastle man has described his distress at travelling on local trains in a wheelchair and is demanding reform.

It appears the impact of spray drift on Hunter Valley vineyards is more widespread than first thought.

A new charity helping set up homes for those displaced by domestic violence says it has been working tirelessly to keep up with demand in the Hunter.

Some unsung, historic heroes of the Hunter's mining industry are set to finally be recognised for their contribution to the sector.

One of the Hunter's most trusted icons has celebrated 40 years of operation that has seen thousands of lives saved.

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About 20,000 people watch Anthony Giacoppo win the Stan Seijka Cycling Classic in Launceston.

A New South Wales Government body is under scrutiny amid claims it failed to distribute trust money promised to local Indigenous projects in the Upper Hunter and instead gave it to a mining industry body.

Tasmania fought hard but Western Australia took the honours at stumps on day one of the Sheffield Shield match at the WACA Ground.

Adelaide United have taken a handy 1-0 win from their rescheduled match against Perth Glory at a hot Hindmarsh Stadium.

Australia's first import of reprocessed nuclear waste arrives at its temporary storage facility in Lucas Heights, New South Wales, after being repatriated from France.

The family of Stefan Woodward, the young man who died from a suspected drug overdose at the Adelaide Stereosonic music festival on Saturday, pay tribute to a "fun-loving young man whose life had been cut so tragically short".

Matthew Renshaw has become Queensland's youngest ever Sheffield Shield centurion on day one against New South Wales in Mackay.

Gold Coast police are investigating a shooting incident outside a restaurant in Merrimac after a man shot at the passenger of a parked car and then drove off.

Holden's Red Bull Racing Australia has taken out this year's V8 Supercars teams' title, denying Ford rivals Prodrive Racing a double championship win.