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In the first of our "Sliding Doors" cricket summer series, Greg Dyer recalls the day his life changed, and the good and bad that came from it.

After about as wild a year as you could hope for in the Australian Public Service, let us reflect on a few highlights.

Spare a thought this Christmas for some 200 families who will spend this Christmas in hospital because of high-risk pregnancies or with their premature or sick, new born-babies.

I've had this cracker of an idea about, well, Christmas crackers.

Police are urging a man who alerted emergency services that a seriously injured man desperately needed help to contact them.

A man has died after he was struck by a four-wheel-drive in a factory car park on Christmas Eve.

The Iron Man and Avengers star served two years, 8 months for drug-related crimes.

US stocks halted a three-day advance, while the greenback headed for its longest slide since April. Oil gained.

US oil edged further above $US38 a barrel in New York before retreating, remaining within sight of an 11-year low.

Plenty to tempt Canberra bargain hunters on Boxing Day.

Owners and builder work to resolve leaky building disputes

Izzy LaPeruta accidently knocked over her Elf on the Shelf days before Christmas. Fearing it's magic would disappear, she called the people she had been taught to contact in an emergency.

Jamaica may bring to mind rum daiquiris and Bob Marley but its stock market had a better year than any other.

Anglo American said it would sell its majority interest in the Dartbrook coal mine in a deal worth up to $50 million.

Shanghai steel futures rose for a fifth session out of six on Thursday, supported by a short-term tightening of supplies.

European equities slipped amid low volume and shut markets on Christmas eve.

Janet Yellen doesn't need to worry about the lack of foreign inflation in 2016 if Goldman is right.

The severe, springlike system spun off more than a dozen tornadoes Wednesday, according to the Storm Prediction Centre - "but it was a single twister that did most of the damage," CNN reported

China's stocks fell the most in two weeks as health-care and property companies slumped.

Australian actress Eliza Szonert who snatched her son in Malaysia has been released from the local jail where she had been locked up for refusing to reveal the boy's whereabouts.

Cricket Australia has the headache that they have been longing for.

South Africa's spearhead is a gentleman off the field, but with a ball in his hand it is very different.

Indonesian police have seized a suicide bomb and a model of an Indonesian government building that terrorists were allegedly planning to target as the number of suspected terrorists arrested in the lead up to Christmas jumped to 11.

A Melbourne lighting designer and biomedical engineering student who fell to her death in New Zealand is being remembered as an intelligent, talented maverick and much loved friend.

It's fair to say that the West Indies touring squad isn't brimming with household names. Hopefully these player profiles will shed some light on who exactly the modern-day Calypso Kings are.