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A man undergoes emergency surgery and another is arrested after a stand-off with police following an alleged stabbing in Adelaide's northern suburbs.

A five-year-old boy sitting inside a car when it is stolen from a driveway in Wyndham Vale, in Melbourne's west, is found in Geelong.

Young Mining, based in the New South Wales Riverina, has been warned about the unpaid environmental rehabilitation security deposits since 2013, the NSW Government says.

Unlike the parasitic worms he spends much of his time researching, Dr Paul Giacomin is not one to shy away from the spotlight.

Dairy farmers in the NSW Hunter Valley are facing an uncertain future as the milk crisis continues.

Hundreds of firefighters were battling a wildfire raging out of control in drought-stricken Southern California on Wednesday .

Queensland MP raises concerns over "threat of Islamic terrorism".

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South Australian senator Nick Xenophon signals he will not support the Federal Government's "budget repair measures" unless further support is given to struggling steelmaker Arrium.

An elderly man dies and a woman is taken to hospital after a house fire in Melbourne's south-east overnight, after neighbours try unsuccessfully to get inside.

Welcome to our live coverage of day 12 of competition at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland says he looks forward to a full report on why Steve Smith's team limped through the Test series in Sri Lanka. It won't be easy reading.

Flummoxed Australian captain Steve Smith says a 3-0 series defeat to Sri Lanka is a "hard one to grasp", blaming the batsmen and spinners for the shock result.

Fourteen seconds. That was all it took for Brazil to feel good about itself again.

The defection, the latest in a string of high-profile escapes, constitutes an embarrassing blow to North Korea's authoritarian.leadership

It's a far cry from the romantic impression created by sweeping gowns, extravagant dates and a hunky bloke. Former contestant Megan Marx describes appearing on The Bachelor Australia as 'super, super weird'.

When a 1974 MBW 750 and a 1984 Harley Shovelhead aren't enough, design your own extreme experience.

Nickel's rally is only just getting started, so says China's biggest producer of the refined metal.

Parents to have to give permission for kids to attend.

Aston Villa have signed Socceroos skipper Mile Jedinak from Crystal Palace on a three-year contract.

The Tasmanian Government is responsible for managing asbestos removal at the Royal Hobart Hospital redevelopment, it is revealed, despite the Health Minister maintaining the responsibility falls to the contractors.

It already has a valuation higher than 80 per cent of the companies in the S&P 500, and a finance professor at New York University says Uber Technologies has no more room to run when it comes to market value

Drones are revolutionising environmental science. Four scientists explain how they are using drones, what challenges they face and how the technology is changing our understanding of the world around us.

On the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, veterans reflect on the events and legacy of that fateful day.

The Boomers are just one win away from creating history and winning their first Olympic medal after crushing Lithuania in Wednesday's quarter-final - but they won't be content without a gold medal.

Researchers are working on a new generation of games could help improve the social development of children with autism.

The 'great migration' into emerging-markets assets should be seen for what it is - a yield grab.

A judge in Brazil has issued an order to prevent US swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen from leaving the country on the grounds they gave conflicting accounts of a robbery.

​Ni Xialian helped the Chinese team win a gold medal at the world championships of table tennis in 1983. But even that was not enough to convince her coaches that she could forge a career alongside the best players in her country. So she left.

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IF you have a 14-year-old daughter, there's about a one in three chance that she has stripped off, posed for a selfie, and passed it onto someone else.

Lawmakers had anticipated this decree "because the prisons are very full."

"We will never know." After hours of questioning at the Lindt cafe inquest on Wednesday, this was the essence of Commissioner Andrew Scipione's many (and at times convoluted) answers to one of the key questions which has hung over this inquiry since its inception.

Giving casual workers an "absolute right" to become permanent after six months will jeopardise tens of thousands of jobs and increase outsourcing, employers have warned.

A passionate debate over mobility scooter safety is brewing across the country after the wife of Senator John Williams was hit while walking out of her office in a small New South Wales town.

Malcolm Turnbull would do well to remember most urgent advice drummed into children about looking right and left because when he steps off the kerb in the 45th parliament, he's as likely to get cleaned up by the Karma bus as he is to get safely to the other side.

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Patrick Hickey, an Irish member of the International Olympic Committee, has been arrested in connection with a ticketing scam in Rio.

Some voting Fed policymakers expect that a US interest rate increase will be needed soon.

Australian javelin thrower Kim Mickle has had her dislocated shoulder popped back into place while under sedation in a Rio hospital.

For Abbey D'Agostino, who helped symbolise Olympic sportsmanship when she fell during a 5000m heat, the Olympics are over.

Youths have spent hours on a roof at the Parkville Youth Justice Centre, causing lengthy lockdowns for the second time this year.

They have also seized cannabis plants and equipment from a clandestine laboratory at a home in Kings Park.

Caster Semenya has qualified for the semi-final of the 800m. She is the best-known and best-performed intersex athlete in the world and the woman most likely to win Olympic gold in the 800m.

Australian Brett Robinson is through to the final of the 5000m and another shot at taking on Mo Farah. He wants to be in the foreground of the picture this time.

Defeats in sports dominated by China at previous Olympics have left the country in an unfamiliar third place on the medals table, with some predicting that Rio 2016 could witness the lowest haul in two decades.

JK Rowling announces three new Harry Potter books, but don't expect to put them on your bookshelf.

Trump's new campaign CEO has been dubbed "the most dangerous political operative in America."

Six years on, there has been no "era of dominance". The picture at Collingwood is of change pushed too swiftly.

If the 2017 IKEA catalogue is an accurate look into the future, then the future is bleak.