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Australia's Calum Puttergill has been banned for six months by the Tennis Integrity Unit for betting-related offences.

Waterbombing aircraft are filling up in readiness for another day of firefighting in New South Wales bushland, as crews continue to battle an out-of-control blaze in the state's Central West.

Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur says the best way to solve one-day international cricket's problems is to only allow franchises to play Twenty20 cricket, not countries.

Young brothers Miles and Callum Scotson started out riding BMX bikes and are now gearing up to compete in the Tour Down Under.

Aerial efforts to control dust at Port Augusta will take up to 10 days longer than expected, the Environment Protection Authority says.

Scientists mapping a melting glacier in East Antarctica hope to build a picture of climate evolution over hundreds of thousands of years.

US President-elect Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn took a call from the Russian ambassador last month, and discussed setting up a call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin after Trump's inauguration on January 20, a Trump spokesman said on Friday.

Michael Chamberlain, who became a Seventh-day Adventist as a Christchurch university student by investigating why the faith had so attracted his mother, Greta, had been prepared to make changes. 

There was a spa bath in the cabin, the beach close by and a glass of bubbles in hand (soft drink only of course).

Oil is poised for its first weekly decline in more than a month as traders await proof of global production cuts.

It would be easy to miss Joseph Maree if you walked past him on the street.

Some centenarians share their secrets to a long and happy life, as a study finds people aged 100 years and older need less home care than "near centenarians" aged 95 to 99.

Stolen hours after her birth in a Florida hospital 18 years ago, a young woman who came to suspect she didn't belong with the people who raised her has been found in South Carolina, where police charged the woman she long believed was her mother with kidnapping.

Shares in troubled infant milk formula group Bellamy's fell for a third straight day Friday with investor sentiment soured by the difficulties seen in reviving its fortunes.

​Profits at JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America surged last year, as the industry received a boost from a stock market rally.

Introducing a new sport to a country on the brink of collapse in an attempt to provide new hope to an entire generation is an ambitious project, but that's what happened in the Solomon Islands with futsal, and now it is the country's de facto national sport.

Deutsche Bank has banned text messages and communication apps on company phones in an effort to improve compliance standards.

​Copper hit a five-week high on Friday while aluminium climbed to its highest in nearly 20 months.

Yes, yes, yes ... we all know that sport can be a wondrous lover, keeping you warm on cold nights, thrilling you to the very cockles of your soul, and romancing you on lazy summer days.

Any cracks that might have plagued the relationship of Anthony Bell and his model wife Kelly Landry had been smoothed over long ago when it came to their seemingly perfect marriage.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday reprised his election campaign attacks on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, declaring her "guilty as hell" and deriding her supporters' criticism of how the FBI handled an investigation into her emails.

Iron ore imports by China surged to a record last year amid unexpectedly strong steel production and lower local mine output.

Conditions across the southern half of NSW are expected to ease over the weekend but the mercury will likely remain in the low to mid 40s in the state's north.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said the person who wrote reports containing details of compromising material Russia allegedly collected on US President-elect Donald Trump has not worked for the British government for years.

At best it's careless to call anyone a Nazi – but to liken all of the US intelligence agencies to Hitler's goons is to recklessly seek trouble.

When it comes to the all-important China market, the shadow of government regulation looms large.

Where does the time go? This year will mark the 10th anniversary of the onset of the global financial crisis.

President-elect Donald Trump said his administration would produce a full report on hacking within the first 90 days of his presidency and accused "my political opponents and a failed spy" of making "phony allegations" against him.

A woman has told a London court that when she was 12 years old Rolf Harris asked her for a cuddle then put his hand up her skirt and "touched me where no one had touched me before".

Premier Daniel Andrews weighs in over Alcoa stalemate

A three-year-old girl has died and several people taken to hospital after a car struck a tree in Victoria's Goulburn Valley.

Hungarian police have detained two foreign women under European arrest warrants for terrorism-linked activity, police said in a statement posted on their official website on Friday.

The rogue developers behind the illegal demolition of Carlton's Corkman Irish Pub have been fined again, this time by the EPA after failing to meet a statutory deadline.

When the Property Council, the Urban Task Force and the Planning Minister agree that something is in the public interest it's time to get suspicious. When the Daily Telegraph wheels out first-homers Emma and Jeremy from Kellyville as if it's they, the little guys, who'll benefit from ripping away planning red-tape, suspicion should sharpen into scorn.

A lower Blue Mountains power station outage has left over 5500 residents in 40 degree heat without power for the second time this week.

He was once one of the richest men in the country, but on Thursday former property developer Stephen Larkin was taken away in handcuffs after he was jailed for falsely nominating others for 62 traffic offences.

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More than a decade after it was initially proposed, serious works on Melbourne's Metro Tunnel project begin from Monday – including the first tree removals near the Shrine of Remembrance, and two major street closures.

Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Twin Towers have a challenger, with a Chinese consortium winning the right to build a 133 storey, 560 metre pair of skyscrapers in Phnom Penh.

Becoming caretaker of Maatsuyker Island isn't for the faint of heart.

Sydney-born Brit Johanna Konta has completed her homecoming with her second WTA title, bizarrely choosing to celebrate her victory with a ham and cheese toastie and a can of Coke.

It was Friday the 13th and a full moon. Not a night for the superstitious or those of a tender disposition to feel at ease.

The event represents a very busy two weeks of corporate entertainment, deal make and relationship building.

A local tyre shop in Parramatta is currently on fire with multiple fire services desperately trying to control and extinguish the two-storey blaze.

Nicole Kidman saidthat the future of the country depends on citizens following their President.

Supreme Court judge Michael Adams has been nominated as inaugural Chief Commissioner of the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission.

A 21-month-old infant in the care of the Department for Child Protection suffered serious cranial trauma before her death from cardiac arrest in 2012, a coronial inquest in the WA Goldfields town of Kalgoorlie hears.

Chris Lynn failed to fire but Matthew Wade and Glenn Maxwell would pour on timely runs in the opening one-dayer in Brisbane.

For 10 years, Raymond Kataryna's relationship with his bank was clear. Then, the relationship started to blur.

About three in five offenders who evade police on the roads are getting away with the crime, prompting questions over whether the official pursuit policy is working.