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Israel arrested a senior Hamas leader Hassan Yousef in the West Bank on Tuesday, accusing him of inciting violence by encouraging attacks against Israelis.

France's far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen said the government was persecuting her for comparing Muslim street prayers to Nazi occupation.

Prosecutors plan to present the head of Cecil the lion in court next month as part of court proceedings against a hunter charged with failing to stop the killing.

Chinese stocks rose after economic data showed faster growth in the services sector.

Iron ore is at risk of being knocked out of a trading range that has held for more than three months, says Westpac's Justin Smirk.

Republican candidate Jeb Bush has accused rival Donald Trump of stirring up controversy over the September 11 attacks for personal gain.

Victorian detectives have joined a manhunt for father and son fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco after the pair were spotted at a regional Victorian service station on Monday evening.

The sharemarket moved lower on Tuesday, led by energy and resources stocks, which fell as commodity prices reacted to weaker Chinese data.

The chairman of the financial system inquiry, David Murray, is "very pleased" with the government's decision to immediately start work on a plan to dismantle the Fair Work Commission's role in overseeing how employers and unions negotiate employees' default superannuation fund.

The University of NSW will position itself as Australia's global university and one of the best 50 institutions in the world under a new strategy.

After an astonishing appearance on national television on Monday night defending his partner, former union heavyweight Kathy Jackson, it can now be revealed that Michael Lawler, is pushing NSW police to prosecute News Corp journalists.

It's not the Aussie way to boast about how much tax you pay, but perhaps we'd be better off if it was.

As the anger grows over the Bacchus Marsh baby deaths, so too does the need to seek answers and bring those responsible to account. Invariably, attention has focused on Surinder Parhar.

Fairfax Media journalists have dominated the finalists list for this years Walkley Business Journalism Award.

It what may signal a breakthrough in negotiations to bring peace to Syria, Turkey is ready to accept a political transition in which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stays in power for six months before leaving office.

The federal government's response to the financial system inquiry was always going to be about protecting consumers – and juggling competing vested interests – but it has squibbed it on the hard calls in some key areas.

Slovenia has raised the possibility of setting up physical barriers along its south-eastern border if the numbers of migrants increases.

Just one month after Australia found a 'daddy' Malcolm Turnbull, has Canada elected its own 'mon Papa'?

Liberal senator Bill Heffernan claims he has a police list which names 28 prominent people, including a former prime minister, as suspected pedophiles.

Some Victorian hospitals have alarmingly high infant death rates that are on par with or worse than Bacchus Marsh, government data shows.

"No great country has the monarch of another country as their head of state," said former Prime Minister Paul Keating, firmly raising the call for a republic in conversation with journalist Kerry O'Brien on Tuesday evening.

Lots of copper cable purchased at a cost of $14 million to make fibre-to-the-node network work.

Deep down they felt the news was coming but that still doesn't make it any easier to swallow.

Plenty of debuts are memorable for a variety of reasons but few will match the number of highs and lows chalked up by Westen Sydney Wanderers' midfielder Andreu against Adelaide last Friday.

Australia are growing in confidence that they will be back to full-strength for Sunday's Rugby World Cup semi-final against Argentina after getting better news on their injured players.