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It's the charity that literally puts children back together again.

A range of insurance claims that the Commonwealth Bank has rejected over the past five years will be reviewed by external experts.

Sam Ismaili has seen no less than eight premiers come and go.

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NEW DELHI: India routinely uses outdated and loosely worded laws to crack down on dissent, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday, urging the government to repeal or amend legislation used to stifle free speech. A new report from the group details the use of colonial-era laws such as sedition and criminal defamation to clamp down on government critics in the...

A suicide bomber who targeted a hospital in a Syrian coastal city the previous day killed 43 people, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, as an activist group raised the overall death toll from the day's unprecedented wave of attacks on government strongholds to 161.

The World Health Organization says a suicide attack at a hospital in Syria's coastal city of Jableh the previous day has killed 43 people.

Victoria's struggling dairy farmers have been given $11.4 million in funding to help cope with falling farmgate milk prices.

A KILLER housemate stashed his victim in their bath and diligently washed him regularly for a week while deciding what to do with his body, it has been alleged.

Millennials and Baby Boomers are tied for the very first time with 31 percent of the voting population, but numbers at the polls tell a different story.

State senator charged with sex assaults seeks re-election (AP) — A state senator accused of multiple sexual assaults has filed his intent to seek re-election in Franklin County.

Two members of David Jones' executive committee have left the business.

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss attorney general's office said Tuesday that it has opened criminal proceedings against Swiss bank BSI SA in connection with a probe into suspected embezzlement of a Malaysian state investment fund. Separately, Singaporean authorities said they were ordering the bank's local branch to shut down, citing "serious breaches of anti-money laundering requirements," poor management oversight and gross misconduct by some staff. The investigation so far "suggests that the offenses... Читать дальше...

The Docklands urban renewal precinct is set to get its own cinema and supermarket.

In “The Morning They Came for Us,” Janine di Giovanni describes the horror and terror Syrians have endured in the five years since a government crackdown on protests erupted into a civil war.

Kerala Chief Minister-designate Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday celebrated his birthday with the media by distributing sweets.

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LAKE MEAD, Nev., May 24 (UPI) -- The water in the largest U.S. reservoir has sunk to a record low, due to the severe drought in the American Southwest.

Rolling coverage of the biggest music news stories from around the world.

The Absa Premiership Young Player of the Season award might not be a poisoned chalice after all, says Mazola Molefe.

The president makes the pitch a day after meeting with Vietnamese leaders.

Woman felt "like dirt" as she was turned away from Queensland's Parliament House for wearing her people's flag on a T-shirt.

He started for Australia this month, but Scott Sattler believes Josh Papalii should have to wait before he does likewise for his state.

With the cost of debt for an A-grade Australian company down 50 basis points since March, it's an ideal opportunity for them to repurchase shares, the bank says.

The Greens have marched into the Nationals heartland of rural New South Wales and they're going straight for top dog Barnaby Joyce, accusing the "sell out" Deputy Prime Minister of forsaking the interests of farmers by denying climate change.