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Former Harry Potter stars Emma Watson and Tom Felton are rumoured to be dating.The actors, who played Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise, sparked the rumours after posing in a photo of them holidaying…

The San Diego Humane Society (SDHS) on Saturday, August 17, rescued a dog that had collapsed due to heatstroke on a hiking trail in Descanso, California, and urged dog owners to be extra cautious when exercising with their pets on hot…

Outgoing Knights coach Nathan Brown warned key Knights players Mitchell Pearce and David Klemmer about his imminent departure in advance. As revealed by The Sydney Morning Herald’s Andrew Webster prior to his fateful meeting with Chief…

Today, disgraced Cardinal George Pell will learn his fate when the Supreme Court of Victoria hands down its decision on his appeal.I’m not powerful or an academic expert but I know far more than anyone should about paedophile priests — I…

Kaitlynn Carter’s all in on the Miley-high club.Hours after dropping Slide Away — the American singer’s dewy-eyed ballad presumably about her breakup with her actor husband Liam Hemsworth — Miley Cyrus was “basically having sex” with…

news, latest-news, A small but staunch crowd of supporters got together to have some fun and raise some funds on Saturday for their friend and family member Trista Cashman. The event at Moonshiners Bar featured games, raffles, auctions,…

MAGIC tricks and banter might be a big part of Tim Bates’ approach to customer service, but there’s no smoke and mirrors when it comes to making the perfect cup of coffee.“It’s fun, it’s relaxed. I always tell people I talk smack and I…

Two Hong Kong police officers were arrested after a video emerged of them beating a man on a hospital trolley, heaping further pressure on a force already facing accusations of brutality after tear gas attacks on protesters. The footage,…

Strike Force Radius: The police sting unfolded in May with a series of arrests and raids in Tamworth. Photo: NSW PoliceStrike Force Radius: The police sting unfolded in May with a series of arrests and raids in Tamworth. Photo: Ben…

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on Monday, August 19, raided a Manitoba home and arrested Canadian Army Reserves member accused of recruiting for a neo-Nazi group, according to the Winnipeg Free Press and local residents. In the…

BEARDY’S BAR AND KITCHEN Winning a Forkie for Best Tinder Date Venue was a surprise to Beardy’s Bar and Kitchen owner Lee Willson, but he can understand why the bar took out the gong, even if he’s never used the dating app.“It’s the…

The Queensland government has been accused of “fabricating” claims about climate activists setting booby traps to justify a crackdown on escalating protests, including using images more than 18 months old as evidence of the new…

Supermarket giant Coles has signed a long-term contract to get electricity from three new solar farms, the latest in a series of companies that have turned to renewable energy to lower power bills. It comes as a group of 41 retailers…

The latest James Bond adventure finally has a title. Variety reports that the 25th entry in the action spy series will be named No Time to Die.In what is expected to be hunky actor Daniel Craig’s final outing as Agent 007, James Bond has…

A handful of big irrigators have extracted 86% of the water from the Barwon-Darling river system, pushing the lower Darling into drought three years early, an expert report has found. The NSW Natural Resources Commission released the…

Forkies fever has well and truly spread across the Moreton Bay Region during the past few months, with more than 50 cafes, restaurants and bars rallying locals to get behind their campaign to claim top prize in the inaugural Forkies Eat…

A Rwandan brewery has apologised for printing sexist jokes on its beer labels after its attempt at humour drew a stinging rebuke from some of the country’s top female officials. Skol Brewery Limited also promised to immediately…

14 Weetunga St, Fulham is offered to the market for only the second time in 139 years. It was the former home of the White family who founded Fulham – a suburb in Adelaide’s west. Built for one of Adelaide’s founding families, iconic…

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Tuesday he would resign, lashing out at far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for pursuing his own interests by pulling the plug on the government coalition. “I’m ending this government…

THEY are the houses with kitchens that have been given a grilling by chefs — and passed the culinary test. In Ascot, Michael and Kym Steenberg have been creating unique and handmade cakes from their townhouse kitchen, with the results…

Prince Andrew is willing to speak to police probing the alleged crimes of his late friend and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, it has been claimed.The Duke of York, 59, has strongly denied any allegations of sexual misconduct regarding his…

Netflix has revealed two trailers for one of its most anticipated films of 2019, Marriage Story.It’s the second time the streamer has collaborated with director Noah Baumbach who made his 2017 feature The Meyerowitz Stories at…

An armed man who took dozens of people hostage on a bus in Brazil was shot dead by police following a four-hour standoff on Tuesday, authorities said. All the hostages were freed unharmed during the incident in Rio de Janeiro, state Gov.…

Households will be offered an extra $1000 toward installing a home battery in a deal being announced by AGL on Wednesday.The incentive will be on top of the State Government subsidy, taking the total available to $7000 for concession…

Elsie Killick and partner Ethan Rea of West Hobart who recently purchased a property together. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES TO get a foot in the door of the tight, booming Hobart property market was no easy task for Elsie Killick and…

Battery Point dream home at 68 Napoleon Street. Picture: SUPPLIED TO get a foot in the door at the very tippy top of Hobart’s property market, about $3 million to $4 million-plus is what you will need. When it settles in about one…

16-18 Rowe St, Drysdale sold after auction on Saturday. A SERIOUS man cave with a bar and home gym sealed the deal for the new owners of a Drysdale property sold after auction on Saturday. The converted garage combined with a large…

Duckhee Lee tossed the ball into the air for his first serve in an ATP tournament match, and blasted it past his opponent with a loud pop. The 21-year-old South Korean never heard it. He was born deaf.The tour’s first deaf professional…

The wife of a young police officer who was killed just 28 days after their wedding has paid an emotional tribute to her “brave” and “selfless” husband. “My heart is broken without you my sweetheart,” Lissie Harper wrote of Britain’s…

Steve Smith has been ruled out of the third Ashes Test at Headingley.Australia confirmed Smith, who suffered a delayed concussion after being struck on the neck by brutal Jofra Archer bouncer at Lord’s, will not take the field when the…

Exactly ten years ago poor oilfield practice enabled by lax regulation caused a well blowout and subsequent oil spill at the Montara oil platform in Australian waters of the Timor Sea.Over the next 74 days more than 23 million litres of…

South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for meetings with her Chinese and Japanese counterparts over three-way cooperation and a possible summit among their leaders.Her trip drew keen attention…

SINGAPORE - A maid smacked her employer's five-year-old son in a field in Punggol and deliberately threw him onto the ground twice when he struggled as she tried to carry him. An eyewitness recorded a video of the incident with her…

St Kilda great Nick Riewoldt believes “the facts” show that Fremantle made the wrong call in sacking Ross Lyon as senior coach.The Dockers cut Lyon’s contract a year ahead of schedule in shocking fashion on Tuesday, with a toxic culture…

It’s the taste of Mexico that wowed a New York Times food critic – now restaurant Taco Quetzalcoatl is opening a second outlet, on Unley Rd in Unley. When Besha Rodell found Margarita Galindo’s tiny taqueria in Salisbury she called it…

US President Donald Trump is making light of his own idea of buying Greenland from Denmark, tweeting a doctored photo of Trump Tower looming over a small village in the Arctic territory. Trump jokes on Twitter, “I promise not to do this…

BEIJING - A Beijing skyscraper confiscated from a fugitive Chinese billionaire was sold in an online auction on Tuesday (Aug 20) for 5.18 billion yuan (S$1.02 billion), the latest twist in a salacious saga dating back to before the 2008…

His tribemates called him everything from “beady eyed” to “snake boy” to a “worm” behind his back during his time on Australian Survivor — but Andy Meldrum got the last laugh.Andy had been a cunning and occasionally cringe-worthy player…

Your Asian mum isn't an Asian mum if she hasn't blamed every single one of your physical ailments on your mobile phone. And as it turns out, she's got a point. A boy in Hefei, China, became cross-eyed after spending the majority of his…

Driving down the streets of Ascot in Brisbane, where tree-lined streets shade the suburb’s sprawling heritage mansions and trendy cafes buzz with young, wealthy families, there’s one thing that immediately sticks out — it’s quiet.…

Aussie hopefuls lost in Thames party tragedyRace stopped nation for all the wrong reasonsThe drover sitting writing words on a scrap of paper under a tree seemed perfectly at home in the Australian bush. But when he got talking with…

More migrants have jumped from the Spanish humanitarian rescue ship Open Arms in a bid to reach shore, tantalisingly near after 19 days blocked on board in deteriorating conditions by Italy's refusal to open its ports.Open Arms on…

People could be jailed for two years and fined $25,200 just for using more than $10,000 in cash in one transaction under a new bill being put to the Australian Parliament.An exposure draft of the legislation, called the Currency…

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has told Australians they will need to “get used to” the trade war between the United States and China which may not be resolved anytime soon.The Australian leader gave a downbeat assessment of…

The first show from mega-producer Ryan Murphy’s reportedly $US300 million Netflix deal will drop on September 27.Starring Ben Platt, Zoey Deutsch, Jessica Lange, Lucy Boynton and Gwyneth Paltrow, dark comedy The Politician has launched…

Comedian John Oliver is known for his brutal take-downs of world leaders, but his latest dig at Donald and Melania Trump was next level.The British TV host was recounting the news last week that Mr Trump asked an aide to look into…

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been accused of delaying the passage of an abortion bill to save her own skin after it became apparent the proposed decriminalisation laws won’t pass the NSW upper house this week. While some had hoped the…

Low-paid work “provides dignity” and is an “important first rung of the career ladder”, according to a document distributed to MPs calling for the minimum wage to be scrapped.The parliamentary research brief distributed by conservative…

In what police believe may be the oldest cold case resolution in Australia, Vincent O’Dempsey has faced court accused of murdering a Queensland police informant 55 years ago. Now aged 80, O’Dempsey allegedly killed Vincent Raymond Allen,…

Paul Walker’s daughter Meadow has shared a rare photo of her late father.The 20-year-old shared a sweet image of the Fast and Furious actor swimming with pigs on holiday in the Bahamas, reports The Sun.She captioned the picture with a…