THE son of a woman killed in a house fire in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire this morning desperately tried to save her.

TELSTRA has been hit by another network outage, leaving some corporate customers in NSW without phone and internet services for a few hours.

THE pilot of the plane which today crashed into a major shopping outlet in Melbourne and killed all five people on-board was involved in a near midair collision less than two years ago.

STUDENTS will once again learn traditional spelling and grammar skills at school after an overhaul of the NSW teaching curriculum — but would you pass the revamped HSC?

THE Australian dollar could hit 80 US cents, according to a Deutsche Bank Chief Economist who says there is a logical explanation for it.

AMBER Harrison vowed to destroy her “idiot” ex-lover and former boss Tim Worner and said she was “out to get” the Seven West Media boss in a series of emails to his assistant, a Sydney court has heard.

SHE was lying in a Hungry Jack’s bathroom in Melbourne, a syringe sticking out of her leg.

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives Wednesday to be welcomed by government figures who have been distant admirers.

The case to dismiss newly elected councillor and renowned Sydney architect Philip Thalis over an alleged conflict of interest will continue in court this week.

A TURNBULL government MP who is helping shape Australia’s future policy on housing affordability, has said the first step to buying a house is to get a “highly paid” job.

ONE of the group of friends who died in the Melbourne plane crash posted on Facebook about his love for the city just hours before the tragic incident.

VOLKSWAGEN Australia has been accused of pressuring owners of its “dirty diesel” cars to sign waivers and providing them with false information, according to documents filed in a Federal Court case management hearing today.

THE announcement by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last September was a surprise — Australia would help the US by taking refugees from Costa Rica.

NUDITY, hysterics, shock smooches, weird sibling love, politics ... the Oscars certainly isn’t a dull show

A TEENAGE farmer from regional NSW has spoken out after he received death threats online including one that stated it would be good if he’d died from AIDS.

THE behaviour of some of Karen Ristevski’s closest family members has raised eyebrows from the moment she went missing in June last year to the discovery of her badly decomposed body in Victorian bushland on Monday.

THE ex-mistress of Channel Seven CEO Tim Worner will continue to be gagged by the court from speaking about her affair after a Supreme Court Justice said she had threatened to “destroy” his career and reputation out of “revenge.”

KAREN Ristevski’s husband Borce is the chief suspect in his wife’s murder, his own lawyer conceded on Wednesday.

THE crash that killed all five of the male passengers onboard a small plane seconds into its flight from Melbourne’s Essendon airport yesterday was caused by “catastrophic engine failure”.

AUSTRALIA must stand up to our allies and show greater leadership on vital global issues.

AUSTRALIA can’t lecture anyone on a solution for the South China Sea until it sorts out its own long-running sea border dispute with East Timor where $40 billion in oil and gas resources is in play.

FORMER Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has accused Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu of “torpedoing” plans for peace in the Middle East.

DETECTIVES have focused their investigation into Karen Ristevski’s killer death around soil samples that may have been collected from a shovel, according to reports.

THE wives of the four American tourists killed in the tragic Melbourne light plane crash on Tuesday found out about the disaster when they heard of traffic delays.

COLES says it’s to deter commuters from taking advantage of parking at their new Brisbane store.