Новости за 17.12.2019

What happened overnight and what's ahead for the ASX.

Australia coach Justin Langer reckons Matthew Wade is crazy, and he wouldn't want it any other way.

The US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Democrats in a furious six-page letter, labelling his looming impeachment as an illegal attempted coup.

A hot spell sweeping Victoria this week is expected to break decades-old temperature records, fuel bushfires and strain emergency departments.

Boeing is expected to continue burning cash despite pausing production of its 737 MAX jet.

The critics include George Conway, the husband of US President Donald Trump's own chief adviser Kellyanne Conway.

The sentence came despite what the judge described as Gates' "extraordinary" cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

The National Weather Service tweeted more than 240 tornado warnings for the region over a roughly 21-hour period.

The experience of childbirth is arguably life at its messiest and most unpredictable.

Peter Hartcher has so well described the movement to populist right-wing governments we are observing overseas, that he could just as well be describing what we are helplessly watching happen in Australian politics.

The director of the Australian Museum Research Institute has been appointed to the role of chief scientist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Prime Minister Holt missing, Mr Adler’s tip for immigrants and the Chevrolet Comaro experience

40 years ago, Sydney's Northern Suburbs were threatened by a fierce bushfire that had spread out of the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park.

Expenditure on dinners, desserts, cheese platters, booze and snacks for meetings last year was $94,836 — bursting the council’s total $65,000 catering budget.

An unbeaten 73 from captain Callum Ferguson and some tight spin bowling has helped the Sydney Thunder begin their Big Bash season in winning fashion.

Our talented team of artists, illustrators and cartoonists give us their very own humorous version of the news of the day.

South-east Queensland's draft Koala Conservation Strategy will not prevent the deaths of hundreds of koalas to cars and dogs each year, a leading researcher says.

The Queensland government has knocked back calls for two-term limits to be imposed on councillors and mayors in a bid to curb local government corruption.

A new clinic attached to Brisbane's PA Hospital seeks to detect cancer in women at high risk of an aggressive form of breast cancer before the cancer forms.

New health data shows how much each electorate pays to see a doctor, with Australians now paying an average $83 to see a specialist.

Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has warned the erosion of the WTO's dispute-settlement function takes the world closer to a "might is right" trade system.

Jocelin Shing-Yan Hon is one of only 46 students - 16 of them girls - across the state to get the highest possible ATAR of 99.95 this year.

Killer Instinct and Rocha Clock have both shown signs of huge promise as they prepare for Wednesday's race at Randwick.

Sydney's midweek meeting is a seven-race program on the Kenso track.

While a comic enterprise rides the rails.