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President Donald Trump called House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday to ask about a Politico report that the Wisconsin Republican will step down from his leadership position after 2018, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.

The US Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape.

Live coverage of the 2017 VCE and ATAR results.

Four children were killed and seven seriously injured after a train smashed into a school bus, splitting it in two, outside the town of Perpignan in southwestern France on Thursday, the interior ministry said.

A Gaza eatery is offering massive discounts to North Korean diners but there is just one problem - there are no North Koreans in Gaza.

Morgan Spurlock has submitted a Hollywood confessional, revealing his own tales of sexual misconduct in the workplace - and outside of it.

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Trivia and word buffs: test your knowledge with today's superquiz and Target.

Walt Disney Co on Thursday agreed to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc

Despite a deal with Disney, the Murdochs aren't retreating from news

Walt Disney Co on Thursday agreed to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc

Rangers finals hopes hang by a thread, but the Flames remain in the hunt for a top four finish.

The District Court in Brisbane on Wednesday heard allegations the man behind Alfred & Constance owed $510,000 over his 2008 development of Limes Hotel.

A developer and Liberal Party donor, who has collected millions of dollars from foreign investors by selling apartments in a resort he no longer controlled, boasted of “one-on-one” meetings with senior ministers in the Abbott government just prior to receiving Foreign Investment Review Board approval to market the project.

An enormous collection featuring animals, DNA, and fossils - vital for preserving Queensland's heritage and for research - was last valued at $461 million.

Test cricket at the WACA is going down all guns blazing with its famous pitch rediscovering the fire from its halcyon days for its last hurrah.

A person with measles at Blacktown Hospital was likely infectious while on two commercial flights.

As it usually does, the first day of the WACA Test match produced an action-packed spectacle. But it'll be the last one.

Because flying with twins isn't always easy.

Cutting penalty rates across the country has failed to create any extra jobs or give workers more hours, new research has found.

A Canberra university student accused of trying to murder his tutor and classmates felt he had a "higher purpose" to hurt people, a court heard on Thursday.

Hundreds of youths have allegedly bashed and robbed beachgoers in a wild brawl on St Kilda's foreshore in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Australia's 13-strong team has declared its intention to dominate the medal haul at the Gold Coast.

The first lesson to draw from the London Sun's exposé of match-fixing is that it is one of those occasional journalistic exercises that by the fact of its publication guarantees that the story will not come true.