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A 37-year-old man has been charged after an under 15s junior rugby league grand final turned ugly, amid reports that the referee and a player were assaulted by a spectator.

London deemed Uber unfit to run a taxi service on Friday and stripped it of its licence to operate from the end of next week in a major blow to the US firm and 3.5 million users in one of the world's wealthiest cities.

Kylie Jenner is pregnant, according to reports.

Built-in furniture is not only space efficient, it can enhance the overall aesthetics of a room.

Meet Australia's Forrest Gump: Dane Waites. Inspired by the Hollywood film where Tom Hanks' characterran across America, this 43-year-old autistic man has run more than a marathon a day, with a smile all the way, across Australia.

A day after Commonwealth Bank announced the sale of its life insurance arm and flagged the potential spinoff its global asset management business, speculation is rife that it will put up the flag on its financial planning businesses Count Financial and Financial Wisdom.

Fairfax is set to give birth to a digital property group, Domain, weighing in with net equity of $1.7 billion and an enterprise value of $1.85 billion.

The soaring price of electricity is testament to the disastrous failure of a major item on the 1990s agenda of micro-economic reform, establishing a national electricity market.

Did you endure a bad date last night? If so, you're not alone.

Beaches on the north coast of NSW have reopened despite an 18-tonne humpback whale carcass decomposing nearby.

In her final days, Dawn Weston kept rubbing her left leg and crying.

Those close to Dr G Yunupingu speak candidly about why the world-famous musician spent some of his final days sleeping out in the open on a Darwin beach.

Not got a ticket? There are plenty of places in Tigerland where you can watch Saturday's big game.

Julie McCrossin was 13 when she first felt the creeping sensations of shame, fear and dread when she realised she was a lesbian, some 20 years before she was swept up in the "explosion" of gay rights activism.

One of Mexico's most beloved rescuers wears wide protective goggles, a harness and two pairs of boots.

​Nikki Haley's prominence at Trump's side through four days of meetings at the annual UN General Assembly this week continued a rapid and remarkable rise.

The celebrity chef, a terror to his employees and customers alike, has a softer, philosophical side.

Angela Merkel looks set to cruise to victory in this weekend's German election. But what really matters now is which party ends up in third place.

Wil Anderson will replace Mick Molloy on Triple M's breakfast show next month.

A clip from Kath & Kim has been doing the rounds: Kath, rigged up for the footy in her Richmond Tigers gear, is preaching tolerance and communication as the secret to a relationship, but when Kel emerges in Sydney Swans colours, Kath turns nasty. 'Get out!' she growls. 'Get out of my house!'

Guidance backed by coercion isn't mere guidance.

An 18-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and possessing explosives over the Parsons Green Tube terrorist attack in London.

There has been no one team to beat this season, but there is now. This was one of those Adelaide nights, like Boogie Nights, but G-rated.And the Crows are in the grand final.

Melbourne's class of 2017 is a step away from being confirmed as one of the game's greatest teams after reaching a second consecutive grand final.

The Storm have earned a place in the NRL grand final with a win over Brisbane Broncos at AAMI Park.

Adelaide livewire Charlie Cameron kicked five goals in a 61-point belting of Geelong in Friday night’s AFL preliminary final at the Adelaide Oval.

The window of opportunity against Melbourne doesn't present itself very often. When it does, it's only open for a limited period.

Brisbane's Lord Mayor says his idea of businesses working out of the CBD is "left-field" but something the city really needs to think about.

It won't be a very Merry Christmas for father of four Shaun Toby, or thousands of other injured workers who will lose their workers compensation.

Luke Keary is sick of talking about the night he took on Russell Crowe. His Roosters teammates, bless them, won't let him forget it.

The Adelaide Crows are off to the 2017 AFL grand final, putting on a serious show to beat the Cats by 61 points in front of a record crowd at Adelaide Oval.

Barnaby Joyce's political nemesis, ex-MP Tony Windsor, has hired the former government lawyer who spectacularly fell out with Attorney-General George Brandis to fight the deputy Prime Minister in the High Court.

Sydney's most exclusive harbourside mansions including in Malcolm Turnbull's Point Piper suburb have had their rents for jetties and boat houses slashed by up to $15,000 a year, while the government collects more rent from south-western suburbs such as Peakhurst, internal government documents show.

Wests Group chief executive Phil Gardner will juggle two of the biggest jobs in Newcastle after stepping in to replace Matt Gidley as CEO of the Knights.

The Melbourne Storm reach a second-straight grand final with a demolition of Brisbane, with AAMI Park waving goodbye to a victorious Cooper Cronk.

Secret agent Walter Dicketts was the real deal: a teenage shell-shocked survivor of the First World War trenches, a womanising, cheating charmer who travelled the world as a confidence trickster, bouncing cheques and breaking hearts.

Minor Premiers Melbourne host the Broncos with the winning heading to the big game next Sunday.

Overlooking the Brindabellas, tucked away in Kambah, a new early learning centre has opened.

Ten Canberra community groups have joined to lobby for better care for young children.

Those Rohingyas who have turned to militancy counted on a harsh crackdown from the Myanmar government, says one analyst, and the global anger that would result.

A terrorist plot will be uncovered tomorrow morning. Two young Muslim men - one in Sydney and one in Melbourne - will be charged. Then their paths will diverge.

The Agriculture Department official used his government connections to drum up business on the side.

Unbeaten champion Black Caviar had her fourth foal in the Hunter Valley on Friday and the More Than Ready filly is doing well.

The Adelaide Crows coach has been nominated for the AFL's football woman of the year award.

The promise of a free lunch can be mightily alluring.

Pay rises for the ACT government's top senior executives have not been keeping pace with lower-level staff.

There'll be 95,000 booing GWS but Phil Davis says the good thing is they only have to beat 22.

A year ago, Shaun Fensom couldn't get a run for the Canberra Raiders in their NRL preliminary final.

Canberra product Mac Wright will use the short format to launch his first class ambitions.

Vikings hooker Folau Faingaa will face Henry Clunies-Ross after crashing at his parent's place for the past month.