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Gaming can boost students' school performance and should be incorporated into classroom activities.

Feeling overwhelmed by the barrage of Donald Trump news may in fact be part of the strategy for the candidate's campaign.

Australia's champion kayaker, London Olympic silver medallist Jessica Fox advanced to the semi finals with the second quickest time of the heats in the K1 at the Rio Olympics.

Did somebody say Olympic spirit? Umm, no. Instead, a squabble between Olympic swimmers has a whole lot of people in China saying a whole lot of other, not-so-podium-worthy things.

For Australian backstrokers Mitch Larkin and Emily Seebohm, the climax of four years of work will unfold within the space of 10 minutes.

Not only is it the first time Australia have beaten Serbia at an Olympic Games, it's also the first time the Boomers have opened their campaign with back-to-back wins.

Australia's John Coterill skimmed the ball under Hungary goalkeeper Attila Decker with 26 seconds left to earn Australia a draw in a torrid match.

On his Australian Olympic team profile Brisbane's Grant Irvine cites Michael Phelps' haul of eight gold medals in Beijing as the sporting performance that inspires him the most.

Some of Mr Trump's economic ideas stray from conservative orthodoxy, but despite his populist proposals, he also seems ready to take cues from Wall Street.

Thanks Australian Bureau of Statistics, you've ruined everything.

The Namibian Olympic team flag bearer is the second athlete to be arrested at the Rio Olympics Athletes Village accused of sexual assault of a housemaid.

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Australian track cycling star Mel Hoskins has left Rio's velodrome in an ambulance after a group fall of the world champion team pursuit team during training.

One of Brisbane's main inner-city streets to close before Christmas.

A manhunt is under way for a driver who fled the scene of a fatal car crash in Sydney's west, leaving a "funny, beautiful" mother-of-two dying in the passenger seat. 

The Queensland Government will conduct a "thorough examination" of the state's parole system in the wake of the death of Elizabeth Kippen, who was found stabbed to death in her home.

A Chinese tourist who tried to report a stolen wallet during a visit to Germany unwittingly signed an asylum application that left him stranded as a refugee for two weeks.

Three Australian-built satellites weighing just 2 kilograms each will be launched from the International Space Station next year as part of global research into the Earth's mysterious thermosphere.

It is the largest water slide in the world, taller than Niagara Falls and named after the German word for "insane."

Guide Dogs Tasmania says it is deeply saddened by the theft of name tags from its Garden of Memories in Hobart, which honours the service of guide dogs in the state.

North Korea is a deeply troubling rogue state, but we already knew that. The new and disturbing source of regional bullying is a much bigger and more serious power - China.

Oil rose to a two-week high after OPEC's president said the group plans informal talks next month.

Mark Horton is an IT worker from Watford, a town north-west of London.

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The sluggish 2016 market for initial public offerings is poised to turn hot, according to JPMorgan.

Welcome to our live coverage of day three of competition at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

In what could be music to the ears of many parents, teenagers who regularly play online games are more likely to get better school scores, an Australian study suggests.

The US is about as familiar with fencing as it is with universal healthcare, but the American media were out in force to watch Ibtihaj Muhammad make history.

The half-time entertainment at the Olympic women's hockey is what everyone needs in Brazil: a samba lesson. To the soundtrack of Sergio Mendes's "Mas Que Nada!" (literally, "Yeah, right!" or "Whatever!"), the lesson emphasises the correct placement of the "pe", or foot, without which the best intentions can become a pile-up.

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Australia has flatly rejected calls for an apology over swimmer Mack Horton's controversial comments about Chinese swimmer Sun Yang.

A stray bullet that hit a tent housing a media contingent at the Olympic equestrian venue on Saturday came from a nearby favela and was aimed at a police blimp, Brazilian authorities said.

The doping saga has boiled over at the Rio Olympics.

Rio officials apologise after Chinese flag mix-up.

Goldman is telling clients to buy the US dollar as the market underprices the odds of a rate hike.

Australian rower Lucy Stephan says she had to wipe the smile from her face as the women's eight took to the water for their first race in Rio after their late Olympic call-up.

Australia are under early pressure in Olympic women's hockey with a 2-1 loss to the United States.

They are extraordinarily talented female athletes who have climbed to the pinnacle of their sport.

A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 63 people and wounded dozens more in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta,

Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore's campaign against proposed densities around Waterloo and the central corridor has not cut the city out of the planning process.

Police are searching for a man in bushland in the Hawkesbury area after he went missing from a camping party on Sunday night.

A lengthy rooftop stand-off at a western Sydney youth detention centre appears to have begun with an "impulsive act".

Former foreign minister Bob Carr has branded US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump "a very angry man" and expressed concerns for Australian forces who would serve alongside Americans if Trump became the US Commander-in-chief.

Electoral reform may weaken Clover Moore's grip on power at Town Hall.

A rescue dog belonging to an elderly lady has died after a random attacker wrapped its entire head with duct tape in a shocking case of animal cruelty.

Just one point now separates four teams vying for the top eight after the Panthers' 20-point win over the Roosters.

So impressive was teenager Nathan Cleary's role in Penrith Panthers 38-18 win over Sydney Roosters that rival players and coaches were left in awe and running out of superlatives following the youngster's performance on Monday night. 

A long winter federal election campaign that clashed with school holidays has resulted in the biggest voter no-show since compulsory voting began in 1925.

In almost every debate about the gender pay gap, the blame tends to fall on the nation's male employers, but there is often one overlooked factor.

Mack Horton seems to be from the same mould as Shane Warne.