Новости за 09.03.2017

Women who were born years apart and developed great friendships tell Evelyn Lewin how they have stood the test of time.

Nine dead. Thousands fighting to breathe. One evening in Melbourne last spring, a storm turned into a freak health emergency.

A man has been shot dead inside an apartment block in Sydney's inner west, police say.

Washington state said it would renew its request to block the executive order.

A wildflower superbloom is underway in a Californian desert after seven inches of winter rain.

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Speedy cyclists, Barton Highway crashes and our citizen of the year.

Plans for a free trade agreement between Australia and the European Union have hit another big delay, which trade minister Steven Ciobo has blamed on the EU.

There has been a stunning overnight twist in Australia and India's bitter feud with both nations calling a cease fire, narrowly averting a major cricket crisis.

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Oil dropped below $US50 in New York for the first time since December on concerns about the resilience of a global glut.

Mr Trump's updated policy, which limits entry for citizens of six Muslim majority countries, is incompatible with regulations for tournament hosts, according to Gianni Infantino, president of soccer's governing body FIFA.

​Iron ore and steel futures in China fell to one-month lows. Spot iron ore slid below $U87 a tonne.

Air strikes killed 23 civilians, including eight children, on Thursday in countryside around the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, a war monitoring group said.

Shyam Acharya allegedly assumed the identity of a doctor in India, before he migrated to Australia and gained employment with NSW Health in 2003.

Over the past three years, almost all of the world's reefs have experienced summertime heat stress.

Migrants are making risky journeys in the cold as they flee from the US to Canada in increasing numbers to escape a crackdown on undocumented immigrants by the Trump administration.

You know what happened the last time the Roosters finished in the bottom four? They won it all the next. Everyone rolled out the near worst-to-first headlines, the comebacks, revival stories. There's every chance they might be ready to do it again.

He could be the buy of the season and won man of the match honours, but it didn't stop Luke Keary from being caught in Roosters coach Trent Robinson's crosshairs after the Tricolours recorded their best ever start under the premiership-winning coach.

The Premier has refused to tell parliament what she was advised about the budget blowout

Pauline Hanson acknowledged there was no test for vaccine allergies, as she had claimed on the ABC.

​A parliamentary review has found that the system of handling injured workers' complaints is 'dysfunctional'.

The Nationals have called for a ban on political donations to exempt any individuals or entities with "a genuine involvement" in Australia and the national interest.

West Coast start fast and hold off a spirited Demons fightback to claim a 25-point win.

Number 50 Marcus Clarke Street has reportedly sold to an international investment group for a record-breaking price.