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The Australian government has pledged more than $10 million to assist rescue efforts in the Philippines after super Typhoon Haiyan hit the nation.

Fire services were called to a Vodafone shop in Canberra after a new iPad air exploded.

Qantas says it's committed to doing most of it's maintenance in Australia, despite closing its Avalon facility and send the work offshore.

Australian actor Liam Hemsworth told Jay Leno how his mother, Leonie Hemsworth, was his sex education teacher in high school.

An Australian woman found in Dublin a month ago is free to leave state care after a ruling from Ireland's High Court.

Australia is experiencing record low death rates, as the average life expectancy cracks the 82-year mark for the first time.

The British supermodel and the Australian Prime Minister do not appear to have a lot in common. One is about to pose nude for the 60th anniversary of Playboy. The other is Tony Abbott. But the unlikely pair share similar mind-sets when it comes to talking, or rather not talking,...

2Day FM has lost a legal bid to prevent the media authority from finding it broke the law by broadcasting a royal prank call.

According to new statistics there are more Australians leaving Australia compared to overseas visitors arriving.

Former prime minister John Howard has savaged Ed Miliband after the British Labour leader suggested Lynton Crosby was employing dog-whistle politics.

There is mounting pressure for Prime Minister Tony Abbott to call Vladimir Putin and obtain the release of an Australian Greenpeace activist being detained in a Russian prison.

Plans for a sculpture of Tony Abbott’s head, to be displayed with other Prime Minister’s heads, are being finalised.

The ballot to attend the 2015 dawn service at Gallipoli, marking 100 years since the campaign, has been delayed, and will now open in mid November.

Adelaide, has been named as ‘a top 10 city to visit in 2014’ by Lonely Planet.

People smugglers in Indonesia have formed a “super syndicate” as Australia’s new resettlement policy sees demand for their services from asylum seekers plummet.

I'll get a large quarter pounder meal, six nuggets, an apple pie, and all your money. A man convicted of the armed robbery of a KFC in Darwin has been extradited to SA to face similar charges.

In terms of ease of doing business in the world, one year Australia’s ahead, the next it’s the UK. But one thing is pretty clear, if you’re a business man or woman probably don’t go to Chad.

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People smugglers are reported to be offering to put asylum seekers in shipping containers to get them to Australia or New Zealand.

Australian Federal Police are warning the public about a scam where consumers ‘win’ an all expenses paid holiday, unaware they are being used as drug mules.

Gale force winds of up 130km/ph are predicted to hit England and Wales in the coming hours. Travel services are telling commuters to expect considerable disruptions.

Popular menswear brand Industrie has opened its first shop outside Australia in Covent Garden and are offering any Australians who comes into the store a special discount.

Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr and her British actor husband Orlando Bloom have split after six years together.

A new report has revealed six out of ten Australia adults are too fat to be healthy, and even the slimmest area in Australia has weight problems.

UK audiences have a lot to look forward to, after the first episode of Chris Lilley's new show Ja'mie: Private School Girl screens in Australia.

A triumphant Fire Commissioner has said strategic planning and aggressive back burning has paid off, and the major fire threat authorities had anticipated in the Blue Mountains has been averted.

The chairman of the media company behind 2Day FM’s royal prank call has brushed off the incident to shareholders saying “Sh*t happens”.

Doctors have expressed concerns over the increasing rates of Aboriginal people in remote indigenous communities contracting sexually transmitted diseases.

The federal opposition has questioned a directive that immigration staff refer to boat people as “illegal” arrivals.

What should Scotland do? Ahead of a historic independence vote in September 2014, we take a trip down memory lane, and revisit what Australia decided in the republic referendum.

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Three top-level emergency warnings have been declared in NSW affecting residents in the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands.

Queensland police have apologised to a man after questioning him over a t-shirt featuring the insignia of a fictitious TV bikie gang.

With energy efficiency and rising costs of utilities at the forefront of many minds, it’s no wonder people all over the country are taking a look at their habits and seeing what changes can be made for the benefit of the environment and their pockets.

One man has died and hundreds of homes have been feared lost as firefighters labour to control some of the worst blazes NSW has ever seen.

Hundreds of properties are feared lost in bushfires around NSW, and it will be a miracle if no lives are lost says Premier.

Former Attorney-General Nicola Roxon is not to be messed with. She has delivered a scathing attack on Kevin Rudd, calling him a "bastard" and asking him to resign from parliament for the sake of the Labor Party.

British Porsche racer Sean Edwards has been killed in a horrific crash on a raceway in Queensland.

Crime figure turned author Mark 'Chopper' Read has been remembered as a family man at a small private funeral in Melbourne.

Labor’s shadow frontbench includes 11 women and six new faces as Opposition Leader Bill Shorten seek a new direction for his party.

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Labor will need Tanya Plibersek’s skills as a communicator and her popularity with colleagues as it tries to unite after a devastating election loss.

Disposing of dead bodies is not typical dinner time conversation, but when your guest is one of Australia’s most notorious criminals, it’s best just to shut up and smile. Best-selling author LANA PENROSE can attest to that, when she shared a meal with the late Mark ‘Chopper’ Read.

The NSW Government are loving themselves at the moment, as Sydney is voted the second best city in the world, ahead of New York, Rome, Toronto and...Melbourne. Awkward.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says The Fifth Estate starring Benedict Cumberbatch is “a geriatric snoozefest that only the US government could love”.

Australian crime figure, Mark ‘Chopper’ Read, has died in Melbourne after a long battle with liver cancer.

Australian victims of the terror attacks in New York, London, and Bali are finally set to be compensated.

A beer-swilling pig who made worldwide headlines with his drunken antics in Western Australia has been found dead after being hit by a truck.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott will persevere with controversial measures aimed at stopping the flow of asylum seeker boats to Australia

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