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It took 25 dogs, a former world champion tandem surfer and an oversize stand up paddle board to break a rather peculiar world record.

Lorraine Baff thought things couldn't get worse after "losing" her 56-year-old husband Jim to Alzheimer's diseasethen she learned he was being abused by a man who meant to be caring for him.

Geelong ends a three-match losing run with a gritty 23-point victory over AFL premiers Western Bulldogs at Kardinia Park on Friday night.

Johnathan Thurston is set to finish his NRL career with the North Queensland Cowboys after he signs a one-year contract extension.

The Broncos keep the Tigers scoreless in a 36-0 thrashing, while the Dragons celebrate a 30-14 win over the Warriors in New Zealand. Look back at all the scores and stats that mattered with our ScoreCentre.

A 10,000-litre spill in the North West Shelf in April 2016 went on for two months, but was only disclosed this week.

The Queensland Government rules out switching suppliers for its problem-plagued multi-billion-dollar new train fleet amid concerns about the same manufacturer on overseas projects.

Documents leaked to the ABC show senior bureaucrats were warned early last year about inappropriate care at the disgraced Oakden nursing home in Adelaide's north-eastern suburbs.

Boat owners raise concerns after testing confirms the presence of asbestos in rubble on a groyne near the Fremantle Sailing Club.

Take a look at the main players alleged to be behind a conspiracy to defraud the Australian Tax Office of $165 million.

Geelong is playing host to the Western Bulldogs as round nine of the 2017 AFL season gets underway. Get your scores, stats and streams in our live ScoreCentre.

Socceroos striker Jamie Maclaren has ended months of speculation surrounding his future after signing with German club Darmstadt. 

Gold Coast lacked preparation for their first and potentially last international game of football.

A man has been jailed for breaking into a house, where he helped himself to liquor before falling asleep.

A century-old technique that involves flushing a woman's fallopian tubes can help infertile couples get pregnant without the need for expensive IVF treatments, new research suggests.

Police are hunting for three people after shots were fired from a stolen vehicle that later crashed into parked cars on Lygon Street on Friday afternoon.

WA's peak medical body warns parents considering joining a no-vaccination playgroup advertised on social media that the consequences of a disease outbreak could be severe for their kids and the community.

Unpaid Canberra IT contractors didn't know their problems were a sub-plot in a scandal to hit the Tax Office.

The Rebels board and management issued a statement on Friday night to say the ARU must end speculation over the club's future.

A 31-year-old father, who threw petrol on a man, held up a lighter and threatened to kill him in Perth's south-east, has been sentenced to 16 months in jail.

The Aquaculture Stewardship council has given Tassal three months to make changes to keep its accreditation. Certification from the council is a voluntary process that allows companies to market their product as sustainable. In a statement Tassal says its been working to address the problems since January.

Labor senator Sam Dastyari has raised concerns that there are links between the Russian government and a private equity firm stalking Fairfax Media.

Family hold grave fears for a missing Springvale woman who has not been seen since neighbours called police after hearing a disturbance at her home on May 15.

Many farmers in the West Australia's Great Southern region celebrate the arrival of season breaking rain.

A single teen mother was unwittingly lured into a $165 million tax fraud syndicate, believing she was helping a man hide thousands of dollars from his estranged wife after an ugly divorce. 

Vincent O'Dempsey has chosen not to give evidence in his trial for the alleged Brisbane cold case murders of Barbara McCulkin and her two daughters.

A woman felt she was "looking into the eyes of Satan" when she was raped and bashed by her former partner, and says she now lives "as a corpse with no future", an ACT court hears.

The principal of an exclusive Sydney girls' school says it is a relief a student who was allegedly lured to the United States to meet an older man for sex is home again with her family.

A year ago, no one had heard of Amy Shark.

Man brutally and repeatedly raped his former partner in her home in an ice-fuelled rage.

A message to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady: do you really want to continue getting regular concussions into your 40s?

Buboy Fernandez has been in the Filipino boxing champion's corner for more than two decades.

George Cross has lost more than 90 per cent of his 100 games for Easts, but he plays for love not wins.

Part of the land inhabited by some of the early Australians is now submerged, but details of their life are revealed in an excavation on an island off Western Australia.

If you're Liverpool FC, one of the most iconic brands in world football — especially among the 40-plus generation — why wouldn't you keep coming back to Australia to squeeze the lemon. The question is how much juice is there left to squeeze?

A 19-year-old man who planned a plot that led to the death of Sydney police accountant Curtis Cheng in 2015 pleads guilty to committing a terrorist act.

The Western Bulldogs can play the role of serious party-poopers by inflicting Geelong's fourth straight loss on the night they unveil their new Brownlow Stand.

Combat sports inspector Paul Toweel says boxer David Browne appeared OK before the final punch that killed the father of two, but he asks himself every day if he should have done something differently.

The Queensland government will create a new offence criminalising negligence causing death in the workplace in the wake of last year's Dreamworld and Eagle Farm tragedies.

The ships - which cost $1.5 billion each - may have been struck by fundamental design flaws, navy chiefs reveal.

School students in far west NSW give faded Aboriginal rock art new life with colour.

A lift in commodity prices failed to offset steep losses in the banks, as investors grappled with the escalating controversies surrounding the US president.

Mr McGowan said on Friday that he had deliberately left Mr Barnett alone since the election, but the former premier's speech showed "an element of bitterness and lack of reality" that the member for Cottesloe had not dealt with.

Stephen Larkham has five games left in his immediate Super Rugby career, but will he get a fitting farewell?

Follow full live coverage of New Zealand Warriors vs St George Illawarra Dragons.

The iconic 90s TV show is getting the big-screen treatment, and its stars talk about why the movie is a fun diversion from current times.

Queensland Investment Corp is seeking close to $1 billion in damages over claimed misrepresentations by power utility EnergyAustralia with the sale of the Iona underground gas facility

Some Labor MPs question what motivated an "utterly confusing" speech given by senior frontbencher Anthony Albanese which appeared to take aim at his leader Bill Shorten.

Police are reporting two men have been taken into custody over the chase and carjacking of a South Korean man in Brisbane on Thursday night.

The WA Police Bomb Squad remain at the scene of a chemical incident near Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.