Sydney news

Champions Chelsea are involved in the relegation battle this season, manager Guus Hiddink has admitted ahead of his side's Premier League clash with Everton.

Crews work to restore power to about 5,000 homes and businesses that were disconnected after a storm on Thursday brought down powerlines and trees across Sydney's south, up to the Central Coast and Hunter region.

Of all the stats that flew by him in the second one-day international against Australia at the Gabba, only one concerned Indian captain MS Dhoni.

He had just picked some tomatoes. Now he's 'stressed out to the max'.

India opener Rohit Sharma is on track to set some impressive touring records in Australia, writes Geoff Lemon.

What do you do when there's a driveway sitting right where you want to build your house extension?

Perth's street art scene may finally be "catching up" to famous urban cities like Melbourne and Berlin, with an interactive map of where to spot Perth's best murals topping 500 locations and growing by the day.

Police shut down a party of 150 young people who had gathered at a house in Berserker, Rockhampton on Friday night.

A man is arrested following an altercation between three men at Prospect, which left one man fighting for his life in the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

The Starman bought an apartment in Elizabeth Bay in 1983 and for the next decade was a star sighting in the city, enjoying a drink at the Evening Star hotel, turning up at the Bondi Lifesaver and filming his landmark Let's Dance video on location here.

Like the way of the corner office, neat white lines on top of brokers' notes and the 5am party binges synonymous with wired traders are nearing their expiry date.

Firefighters cut into a factory in Melbourne's north overnight to prevent a large blaze reaching dry-cleaning chemicals.

Firefighters hope to make inroads on more than 40 bushfires burning in remote areas on Tasmania's west coast after establishing an incident management centre at Burnie.

A moon base is a key step if humans are ever to fly to Mars and is achievable by 2030, the head of the European Space Age says.

Metro has blocked V/Line trains from running on Melbourne's metropolitan rail network after a V/Line train failed to trigger boom gates at a highway level crossing near Dandenong on Friday.

Protection of public sector workers which has meant they cannot be fired regardless of productivity or performance will be eased.

A Federal senate inquiry has described "disgraceful" treatment of children with a disability at school.

Aaron Finch is in support of pink-ball trials in one-day internationals after Australia again reeled in a 300-plus target set by India.

Asylum seekers have swallowed insect repellent, bashed their heads on walls and doused their bodies with boiling water in a culture of self-harm in Australian detention centres that appears to have reached crisis point.

Australian assets were dragged sharply lower overnight as a rout in global markets accelerated. In New York, the Dow shed almost 400 points.

A body believed to be that of missing man Dale McCauley has been found in scrubland at Second Valley, police say.

Banksy artworks have been known to sell for seven-figure sums, and now art collectors have the opportunity to score a Victorian property with the deal. 

A crackdown on under quoting by real estate agents following the passage of new laws to deter the practice has detected 176 breaches, with most occurring in Sydney's west.

The New South Wales Environment Protection Authority is investigating another dam wall collapse at a Hunter Valley mine.

Australian Toby Price is poised to become Australia's first Dakar Rally champion after extending his already dominant lead in the motorbike category heading into the final day's racing.

A 20-year-old male passenger died when a car smashed into a fence and then a tree in Brisbane's west.

Hunter Valley motorbike rider Toby Price is close to becoming the first Australian to win the prestigious Dakar Rally and his dad could not be prouder.

Newcastle coach Scott Miller says the Jets will make the most of their homeground advantage when they clash with the Wellington Phoenix tomorrow afternoon.

Grand, sweeping properties with jaw-droppingly stylish interiors are already making their mark in 2016.

John Robinson said that although he did not feel well, he bought the ticket at Naifeh's Food Mart in the Memphis suburb of Munford at his wife's request on Wednesday night, just hours before the drawing.

The recent Hunter floods and storms have sent deadly snakes slithering, seeking refuge in places they are not wanted.

Mining shares are facing the biggest back-to-back weekly losses in four years. Copper hit a fresh 6-1/2 year low.

With the exit of NSW general-secretary Jamie Clements, Luke Foley has lost a key backer. That, along with poor polling, means the state Labor leaderis increasingly vulnerable to an attack from the Right, writes Sean Nicholls.

Last year's revealing memoir Body Lengths has already caused a tidal wave of controversy throughout Australia's Olympic swimming ranks, but retired swimmer turned author Leisel Jones has also been airing some of the most personal aspects of her private life in public this week.

Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn on Friday rejected Mexico's claim that his secret meeting with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was crucial to the drug kingpin's recapture, saying officials were trying to put him in the cross-hairs of the feared cartel.

A rise in brutal assaults is turning hospitals into battle grounds.

The heads of the Christian churches are close to sealing a deal to fix the date of Easter, the Archbishop of Canterbury has revealed, ending more than a thousand years of confusion and debate.

Figures on retail sales and manufacturing Friday showed the world's largest economy ended the year on a weak note, and the start of 2016 wasn't any better.

Nick Abboud's departure from Dick Smith ends a tumultuous chapter for the long-time retailer.

The man in charge of overseeing the April 2015 super storm recovery effort says it is not acceptable that small NSW communities, such as Torryburn in the Hunter region, are cut off by floodwaters for weeks.

Oil will turn into a new bull market before the year is out as the price rout shuts down sufficient production to erode the global glut, according to Goldman.

Australia chased down 308 to go two-up in the series but much of the talk will be around another DRS controversy, this one assisting the Indians.

It's official. After the worst ever start to the year for European stocks, they have now entered bear market territory.

Oil dropped to a new 12-year low below $30 a barrel in New York, while the discount on global benchmark Brent reached a five-year high.

Citigroup tumbled as much as 7.2 per cent after reporting fourth-quarter revenue gains that some analysts said came from too many one- time items.

NSW Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi says she was racially profiled at Los Angles airport after she was detained and interrogated by immigration officials for an hour before being permitted to enter the country. 

It's business as usual in Indonesian capital after Thursdays terror attacks.

Two Marine helicopters collided off the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, according to reports.

Over the past decade Australia bet hundreds of billions of dollars that the rest of the world wasn't serious about tackling climate change. It looks like we lost.

A third quarter bonanza was enough to help the Perth Wildcats end a three-game losing streak defeating the Sydney Kings 95-68 at Perth Arena on Friday.