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Hawthorn star Jarryd Roughead says the Hawks would have no fear beginning a finals campaign in Perth, as the Hawks went into damage control over Luke Hodge's head-high bump on Chad Wingard which threatens his finals campaign.

A former SAS soldier running in a Liberal federal by-election says the Defence Force has cleared him of wrongdoing in its investigation into soldiers under his command who chopped the hands off dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

Jarrad Waite credits his new North Melbourne training regime with his most consistent season of football.

European Tour journeyman Andreas Harto stole the show at the Made In Denmark event by proposing to his girlfriend during the tournament in Farso on Friday.

Dr Dre has issued a statement to the New York Times apologising to "the women I've hurt" without specifically acknowledging the reason for the apology.

It's less a sneaker, and more a culture. At least, that's what the people who have queued up for a week to snag themselves a pair of the new Yeezy Boost 350 sneakers will tell you.

North Korea warned Saturday it was prepared to go to "all-out war", further escalating tensions with South Korea as a deadline to meet a Pyongyang-issued ultimatum for Seoul to cease propaganda broadcasts along the border approached.

What transpired at Eden Park last week was as much a wake-up call for the Wallabies as it was an ambush in plain sight. A reality check that New Zealand are still the world's best, but we all knew that.

She only held it for a time, but she held it nonetheless. When Nina Kennedy jumped 4.59 metres in Perth in February no other girl in the world had ever jumped higher.

Although the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data reports a fall in Perth home building approvals over June, underlying activity levels remain solid.

Couple had been married for almost 50 years, when man allegledly lashed out during argument while watching TV.

Anyone who found themselves in Barangaroo Reserve on New Year's Eve would be "very, very happy," Premier Mike Baird said, as he opened the site to the public for the first time in more than a century.

Live coverage of all five games on Saturday including the Collingwood-Richmond clash, and Essendon' s first game post-James Hird.

Hawthorn's shock loss to Port Adelaide on Friday night has left the two West Australian sides in the box seat to finish the season on top of the AFL ladder.

The mother of former Carlton player Lachie Henderson has lashed the Blues and AFL chief Gillon McLachlan in the wake of her son not being allowed to play out the season.

Perth: West Coast coach Adam Simpson is not quite sure what physical or mental state Nic Naitanui will be in on Sunday when the Eagles clash with the Western Bulldogs at Domain Stadium.

Neil Harbisson went to extraordinary links to add colour to his world, allowing a doctor to drill holes in his head and attach a permanent antenna to his skull.

Houston Astros pitcher Mike Fiers fired a no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.

The No. 2 leader of Islamic State was killed in a US drone strike near Mosul, Iraq, this week, CNN reported on Friday.

Nick Phipps is taking time out in the Wallabies players' room at their hotel in Coogee in Sydney.

Firefighters are battling a massive fire at a food factory in Wangara that broke out just after 10am.

Daimler's self-driving 18-wheeler "Inspiration Truck" is already being tested on the open road.

If Vice-President runs he is predicted to portray himself as the rightful heir to Barack Obama's legacy.

An escaped prisoner remains on the run after police captured three others who fled a Perth minimum security jail last night.

Four men have been arrested in two swoops in Melbourne's west for allegedly importing large quantities of the drugs ice, cocaine and ecstasy.