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With storm clouds gathering over his leadership, only one man can save Prime Minister Tony Abbott now.

Hawthorn's hopes of a top-two finish. and the resultant benefits of this through the finals, have been dealt a crippling blow, and could be compounded by a controversial third-term incident involving skipper Luke Hodge.

Molly Shattuck, the former Baltimore socialite and Ravens cheerleader who pleaded guilty in June to fourth-degree rape after an incident involving a 15-year-old boy, was sentenced to 48 weekends in jail on Friday afternoon in Delaware.

Can we be gentle? Right at the moment that a bloke the calibre of Michael Clarke is bowing out, one doesn't want be heard blowing raspberries from the stands, but . . .

Four critically endangered birds have been accidentally shot dead after hunters mistook them for a pest species that was being culled in New Zealand.

First they called in the US military — and Canadian firefighting support. But with the nation still at wildfire preparedness Level 5 — the highest there is — and spending $150 million ($203 million) per week fighting fires, it still hasn't been enough.

What you need to know about Sydney's newest foreshore park.

The head of the royal commission into trade union corruption Dyson Heydon will ponder his own fate over the weekend before delivering his final judgement on whether he will disqualify himself from the inquiry as early as Tuesday.

"Blockies'' from Sydney and Canberra are making it harder for young farmers to buy a farm.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the government will not rush a decision on whether to join air strikes over Syria but the consolidation of a terrorist state in Syria and Iraq "would be a disaster for Australia".

Blustery conditions might not be ideal for one's immaculately coiffed bouffant, but it was the best news a sailor could receive on the high seas of this year's Audi Hamilton Island Race Week

The teenager whose fatal shooting by St Louis police on Wednesday sparked protests in that city was shot in the back, police said.

Is life getting better in Australia? Cabinet leaks and fake twitter accounts aside, isn't that really what it's all about?

Qantas has surged back into the black under the leadership of Alan Joyce, overshadowing John Borghetti's Virgin Australia.

It was a heart-warming beginning to an extraordinary judicial hearing, where a lion of the Australian law was excoriated by legal counsel for Australia's trade unions as unfit to preside over a royal commission.

The life of a modern darts pro is far removed from the stereotype of the beer-swilling barfly.

​A shocked Kevin Moses will fight a 12-month ban for presenting a horse to race with cobalt in its system.

The 2008 bashing murder of Australian backpacker Doujon Zammit in Greece left two families bound by flesh and blood after a Greek-Australian received Doujon's heart. It was just the start of a series of extraordinary events.

Michael Clarke's bold move to turn to spin after just five overs of the new ball was rewarded as Nathan Lyon struck early as England pursued Australia's first-innings total of 481 in the final Ashes Test.

The former SAS soldier standing as the Liberal Party's prize recruit in a key federal by-election was the officer in command of a troop that is being investigated for chopping the hands off dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

It should not have been a shock to anyone what armed bandit Stephen Jamieson was going to attempt at Goulburn jail.

A sixth of Syriza's parliamentary group walks out after Alexis Tsipras resigned as prime minister.

Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson has defended his skipper Luke Hodge over a high bump in the third quarter of Hawthorn's loss to Port Adelaide on Friday night.

French Island has emerged as one of the hotspots of adulterous activity in greater Melbourne, with 25 Ashley Madison accounts registered there, despite having a population of just 116.

The law abounds with fictional people: constructs through which lawyers assess how people would think, and act, in the world outside their chambers.