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.

BY all accounts, Sarah Ristevski was incredibly close to her mother Karen and the pain of loss is written all over the young woman’s face.

DONALD Trump is set to change his stance on climate change, according to a former US Republican congressman.

DONALD Trump is set to change his stance on climate change, according to a former US Republican congressman.

WHEN Liberty Collins was lying on the change table as a newborn, her father looked into her eyes and noticed they were wide open, even as the sun shone directly into them.

IN THE digital age, police investigating a murder have even more tools available to them.

AUSTRALIAN politicians pushing for marriage equality have welcomed new research which shows legalising same sex marriage could reduce suicide rates among young people.

THE Sydney lonely hearts fraudster who swindled about $2 million from lonely men she’d met through dating services has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years behind bars.

THE Western Sydney Wanderers have escaped a points deduction, with Football Federation Australia fining the club $20,000 after being found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute.

IN A sad twist to an already mysterious case, Egg, the 14-week-old pug who sparked a frantic Sydney-wide search, has died.

POLICE have confirmed that missing pug Egg was never missing but died at his owner’s home on February 9.

A WOMAN who works at Spotlight in Campbelltown and stands to lose $80 a week out of her $600 pay, had some powerful words for the Prime Minister about the loss of her penalty rates.

FAMILY and friends are paying tribute to Amir Ammari, the 16-year-old boy who died after falling 15m and striking his head on a submerged rock at a popular swimming hole in Sydney’s south.

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GERARD Baden-Clay has been barred from accessing any part of the almost $1 million dollar estate of the wife he murdered in 2012.

AUSTRALIAN politicians are stuck in political trenches hurling insults rather than tending to the nation, bank chairman and former Treasury chief Ken Henry said today in a blistering review of Parliament.