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This is a time of undoubted risk for markets but it is also positive that the world's biggest economy is lifting.

Two Victorian dog breeders who docked the tails and cropped the ears of their dogs fined more than $40,000 for animal cruelty.

Sydneysiders can expect much calmer weather conditions in coming days as the massive clean-up operation continues in the city's southern suburbs, which were battered by destructive winds of up to 213km/h on Wednesday.

Body found west of Townsville believe to be that of missing man.

David Cassidy, who correctly told investors to shun Australian mining stocks in 2015, says the worst is yet to come for the industry as China's economy decelerates.

Being home to the Wahhabi school of Islam and fighting proxy wars against Shiite Iran, Riyadh is questionable as a foe of terrorism.

The man from Baghdad showed up unannounced this month in a state office building in Salem, Oregon, with a piece of paper in his hand that he said was worth $US6.4 million.

Manly have officially confirmed the signing of Dylan Walker from South Sydney with the NSW representative inking a four-year contract with the NRL club.

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A television station in the US state of Iowa was doing a live update on a Minnesota bank robbery when police say the suspect returned to rob it a second time.

The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time in nine years, in an historic decision that officially marks the end of the global financial crisis.

The intense storm cell that snuck up on Sydney from the south was formed in favourable conditions in a low-pressure trough fed by warm, moist air from

The US Fed lifts rates for the first time in almost a decade.

President Xi Jinping has defended his government's broad censorship of the internet, in a high-profile speech underscoring China's increasingly emphatic attempts to justify its strict online control.

JJ Abrams has made a fine film of a certain sort. But there is one thing missing.

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There was also no evidence Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were part of an organised terrorist cell, the FBI director said.

​Copper rose, recovering from a one-week low as metals investors covered short positions

An armed group of about 100 gunmen driving dozens of pickup trucks kidnapped at least 26 Qatari hunters from their camp, officials said.

US housing starts in November rebounded from a seven-month low and permits surged to a five-month high.

Investors pushed European stocks higher for a second day, though equities pared gains in the last hour of trading. Both BHP and Rio advanced.

From the new villain Kylo Ren to the healthy dose of nostalgia, here's what we loved (and didn't love) in the new film.

Oil tumbled after US crude inventories climbed to the highest level for this time of year since 1930.

Explorers have long searched for a train carrying an untold fortune in Nazi loot: gold, jewels, art, maybe even weapons confiscated from Polish citizens and sent into the interior as the German regime began to crumble.

JJ Abrams takes George Lucas' original and pumps it full steroids - it ticks every box, rifles every memory and renovates much-loved characters without damaging the brand heritage.