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Off-market deals are favoured by home buyers who want to get ahead of the game, and those who can read Chinese may now have an edge.

He was credited with saving, through his personal initiative, the lives of at least 669 boys and girls of Czechoslovakia from the Nazis. For decades after the war, he kept his work secret.

In my more than 30 years writing about politics, I have never before witnessed such sustained, self-righteous, ruinous and dissembling incompetence - and I'm not talking about Alexis Tsipras and Syriza.

Bernard Tomic has set up a date with world No.1 Novak Djokovic in the third round, four years after the pair met in the Wimbledon quarter finals.

Prosecutor says woman told investigators she acted in the hope doctors would change their treatment approach.

The decision to head back to her Florida home after the French Open to refresh seems to have paid dividends for Sam Stosur, who has reached the third round at Wimbledon for just the third time in her career.

Nick Kyrgios has continued his Wimbledon feud with the chair umpires after an attempt to belittle an official, who he later accused of thinking "he was top dog".

A top secret draft of the official report into the cause of the crash of flight MH17 in Ukraine was handed to the Australian government experts almost one month ago, it has emerged.

The US dollar climbed to a three-week high before a government jobs report that may support Federal Reserve moves toward higher interest rates.

Public service bosses warned to hold on to what they've got as a "retirement tsunami" looms

A round-up of what's happening in the Canberra arts scene for the week beginning July 4.

Leg-spinner Adil Rashid and fast bowler Steven Finn were included in England's 13-man squad on Wednesday for next week's first Ashes test against Australia.

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A US woman says she fought off bees, started a fire and survived on apples - all after giving birth in a lonely stretch of Northern California forest.

The death toll from the crash of an Indonesian air force plane packed with military personnel and their families has risen to 142, as witnesses described people fleeing the disaster zone covered in blood and with their clothes alight.

​Oil fell the most since April as US crude supplies rose for the first time in nine weeks and OPEC production increased, signalling a global glut will persist.

The family of a Tararua teenager who was killed in a car crash, then moved into the driver's seat to take the blame, say the driver's punishment is too weak.

Militants launch a wave of attacks that kills more than 100 people, one of the biggest militant strikes in Egypt's modern history.

The Swedish furniture giant known for its maze-like hypermarkets plans to more than double its presence in Australia.

Joints lit up at midnight on the streets of Portland as marijuana became legal in the fourth western US state.

​European shares extended gains on Wednesday after a report that Greece was ready to accept most conditions from its international creditors to clinch a debt deal.

The Kookaburras have overcome a scrappy Ireland to march into the semi-finals of the Hockey World League in Antwerp, Belgium.

A US flag could fly over a Havana embassy as soon as July 20, as Obama announces another major achievement.

The bassinet looks like any other, but it is not.

A 17-year-old boy has died from Ebola in Liberia: the first confirmed case in the country since it was declared free of the virus seven weeks ago.