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Hundreds of families in Melbourne's inner-west celebrated Christmas Day with presents and lunch at the 20th Man Youth Fund's Christmas For Our Kids event in Sunshine.

Just two weeks remain before PGA Tour players have to adapt to a ban by golf's rulemakers on long putters being anchored to the body and Tim Clark is among those who expect "some challenges along the way".

Police have swooped on a house north of Brisbane after reports of gunshots being heard inside the home during a disturbance.

Somehow, the West Indies coaches, the leadership group and, particularly, the senior players have to start realising that they will only do well individually once they start doing well as a team, and to be a team you have to start sacrificing for the team.

San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Tomsula has left open the possibility of promoting Jarryd Hayne to play in this weekend's clash with the Detroit Lions.

What two things do Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini, Nick Kyrgios, Bernard Tomic, Dusty Martin, Mark Kavanagh and Danny O'Brien have in common?

A school lunch worker in Idaho who said she was fired for giving a free hot lunch to a hungry student can now have her job back, thanks to the power of international social media, but she's not sure she wants it.

Chelsea could have to pay Jose Mourinho while he manages Premier League rivals Manchester United.

It looked as though a giant subterranean garbage eater had an upset tummy. A parade of human refuse: branded plastics bags, polystyrene cups, special purpose strips of white paper ... price tags on human prosperity. We were sailing up the western side of Hong Kong Island, heading to the starting line for the Hong Kong to Vietnam race. On the island itself, you needed a chain saw to carve out chunks of air to breath. It was stinky and solid, so a lungs-pissed-off hacking cough arose and dominated proceedings until we got out to sea. Читать дальше...

Thank you, Nicholas Stuart, for explaining the unpalatable realities of Australia's intervention in Afghanistan.

Spare a thought this Christmas and New Year for Melbourne Victory coach Kevin Muscat and his Brisbane Roar counterpart John Aloisi. It is hardly likely to be an easy start to 2016 for either of them.

A succession of high-wattage thefts in New York has uncovered a bizarre pattern involving women who target wealthy men at nightclubs, accompany them home and then disappear with tens of thousands of dollars in cash and jewellery.

Christian leaders have used their Christmas Day sermons to convey a message of compassion and hope.

For Mark Richards, the mental scar of American raider Comanche's lightening start in last year's Sydney to Hobart remains.

A snorkeller has gone missing in a southeast Queensland creek.

Five people have died on NSW roads since double demerits came into effect on December 18, as police catch high range drink driving offenders taking dangerous risks over the holiday period.

Hot and windy conditions pushed an out-of-control grassfire into acreages on Melbourne's outer northern fringe with emergency warnings sending residents fleeing get togethers.

When the players run out on the MCG on Saturday it will mark 15 years since one of Australia's most unlikely and unconventional Test cricketers of the past two decades, Colin ''Funky'' Miller, made his sole appearance in a home Boxing Day Test.

With Jim Cassidy gone from the saddle, the red-and-green having lost Issac Luke and the Swans missing Adam Goodes, 2016 could well be a gap year.

Summer time in Australia makes for the ideal barbecue setting, but it also increases the chances of food poisoning.

Victorian fire fighters were counting on a weather change due around 7pm to bring cooler temperatures and light rain, after bushfires forced the evacuation of several towns along the Great Ocean Road.

Some things surrounding the future of the NRL, we can engineer. Others appear to be pre-ordained, dictated by the imperatives that affect all professional sports when they pass certain maturity milestones. One of the latter appears to be the increasing tendency to buy and trade players like horse meat.

When a Canberra Cavalry player is billeted by ground announcer Matt Percy and his family, the unofficial initiation is usually a big spoonful of Vegemite.

From church-run charities to individual acts of kindness, Sydney cares for its most disadvantaged on Christmas Day.