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To hear the Dalai Lama laugh, it is easy to forget the cascade of disasters endured by the Tibetan Buddhist movement over the course of his life.

Greece's future lay in the balance as the polls closed in its historic referendum on a financial rescue package.

The situation in Greece is so dire that it no longer really matters whether the vote was "yes" or "no" in the national referendum on how to respond to its mountainous debt obligations.

Britain's Princess Charlotte, the baby daughter of Prince William and his wife, Kate, has been christened in the family's first public outing together since her birth in May.

The most revealing comparison in the July Fairfax Ipsos National Poll is not between Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten, but between both leaders and those who went before them.

German Andre Greipel won a chaotic second stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, a rain-soaked 166 kilometres from Utrecht to Zélande.

A former Western Australian mayor is allegedly running a Calabrian mafia cell in Perth and answers to a mafia godfather in Italy, according to explosive court files.

When the phone vibrated in my pocket in September 2007, I had no idea the incoming call would plunge me into the middle of Australia's biggest mafia investigation in decades.

Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor and Australian police are warning that the massive diversion of law enforcement resources to combat terrorism is eroding the fight against the Mafia and other serious organised crime groups.

Barnaby Joyce has withdrawn from a scheduled appearance on the ABC's Q&A, citing a decree from Tony Abbott that his frontbenchers are to boycott the program.

Australia's iron ore junior producers have worked hard to cut costs in the face of the plummeting price, but will it be enough?

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton has held off a Williams threat and late rain to win his British home grand prix a third time.

Victorian Labor party delegate and Moreland councillor Michael Teti allegedly supplied a gun to a Mafia henchman which was then used to threaten a woman, and has repeatedly moved funds on behalf of convicted crime boss Frank Madafferi.

Former Newcastle Knight Alex McKinnon has unleashed on Melbourne Storm skipper Cameron Smith in an interview on 60 Minutes.

Air New Zealand wants the competition regulator to stop Qantas and American Airlines from their planned trans-Pacific capacity additions occurring in the peak season of December.

Former Gold Coast Suns player Karmichael Hunt has denied there is a drug culture at the club.

Melbourne artist Megan Cope has won the prestigious 2015 Western Australian Indigenous Art Award, worth $50,000.

The Muslim community are angry about being stabbed in the back and then invited to dinner.

Two autobiographical works from Singaporean-born playwrights are showing at Theatre Works where they can be enjoyed individually or as part of a double bill.

Kermit,' the name of the very green and much loved Muppet character secured the top spot in an RACQ survey of most popular car names chosen by Queensland young drivers.

​The declaration that marriage equality is a 20th-order government issue was as welcome as a plate of cold haggis to someone about to fly for 24 hours to be at a wedding of friends from Sydney held in Scotland.

China has frozen new share listings and announced it will set up a fund to stabilise its nose-diving sharemarkets in the latest raft of urgent moves indicating the growing concern over the potential for the country's stock panic to spread and threaten the world's second-largest economy.

A man has died on his way to hospital after being stabbed in Werribee, in Melbourne's west.

The competitive eating landscape has a new king, after Californian Matt Stonie beat eight-time winner Joey Chestnut to win the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest at Coney Island, New York.

What's been good, bad and bizarre about this weekend in Queensland sport.