Alberto Contador has been stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title and banned for two years after courts found the Spanish cyclist guilty of...

A WOMAN who says she was the teenage mistress of John F. Kennedy has written a memoir describing how he both abused and confided in her during an 18-month affair which ended only with his death. ...

Photo: Dean Sewell MUSLIM Lakembaroos are free to wear the hijab when they take to the soccer field in club competitions in Sydney every week. The only thing they need to watch is that their...

Culture not conflict … members of the Lakembaroos football team, from left Shaza Rifi, Sue Rifi, Malak Farhat and Zeinab Farhat, can play while wearing a hijab - unlike international...

Sixty years and going strong … the Queen and Prince Philip join a clergyman at the church of St Peter and St Paul at West Newton, eastern England, on Sunday. Photo: AP/Chris...

Photo: Reuters KEVIN RUDD has been accused of meeting a factional powerbroker in South Australia to explore ways to win support from MPs in a state that has long been a weak spot for him. Mr...

Photo: AFR THE gaming giant Tabcorp was warned of an alleged culture of drug and alcohol abuse among senior management at The Star casino, and was advised to swab offices and introduce...

A FIERY crash on the Great Western Highway on Saturday evening was just the beginning. At first it appeared to be a tragic accident - a 52-year-old male motorbike rider veered onto the wrong side of...

QANTAS'S chief executive, Alan Joyce, has argued that proposed law changes aimed at limiting the ability to hire foreign-based flight crews will force its budget offshoot, Jetstar, to pull out...

The six-week-old marmoset was abandoned when her mother could no longer produce enough milk and is now fed and cared for around-the-clock by a carer at Western Sydney's Wild Animal Encounters....

THEY'RE marooned on an island, their yard is a swamp infested with snakes and their only transport is the tiny tinnie tied to the back...

AN appeal for public assistance has been made to find a man who has been missing from a nursing home in Sydney's inner west for four...

Mr Joyce delivered the blunt warning to politicians from all sides in Canberra yesterday, urging them not to pass draft laws - put forward by South Australian Independent Nick Xenophon and Greens...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released December's retail figures yesterday, showing a seasonally adjusted 0.1 per cent decrease in consumer spending for the month. Australian National...

RESIDENTS in more than 2000 homes north of Sydney have been urged to boil water and sponge-bath their children after E.coli was found in the water...

Whether it's a weekend trip away or a short stay in a luxury hotel, Australians are expected to splurge $422.2 million on romantic getaways - up 5.9 per cent on last year and about half the...

A MIDWIFE was bashed to death and her battered body placed in a refrigerator, before her male friend deliberately rode his motorbike into the path of a semi-trailer, police said...

A VIRGIN Australia pilot is suing the budget airline for more than $1 million in lost earnings and medical expenses because he had to carry flight charts instead of having them provided digitally on...

HE abandoned his party to sit on the Speaker's throne - now Liberal turncoat Peter Slipper wants to wear the plush gown and other regalia that goes with...

Less than two years after Tahu sensationally quit a NSW team camp after racial comments made by Andrew Johns, the now 31-year-old Tahu has revealed his dream to be a Blue again. What's more,...

SOUTH Sydney superstar Greg Inglis will be sidelined for up to six weeks with an ankle injury, which robs him of an emotional return to...

This Friday, the premiers get on a plane bound for the UK - and a showdown with Leeds for the right to be crowned the World Club champions.Yesterday Toovey named his squad for the February 17 clash...

, funded with help from the City of Sydney's local community grants program, explores the challenges and hostility Chinese migrants faced on the goldfields of south west NSW in the 1860s, which...

THE bomb squad has been called in after a person discovered what may be an old artillery device at a property in Sydney's south...

An Ambulance spokeswoman said they responded to reports of a man, believed to be in his 30s, being struck in the head with an excavator bucket at Riverside Drive, Airds about 2.50pm.A WorkCover NSW...

SOUTH Sydney centre Greg Inglis will miss the opening round of the NRL season with scans confirming a minor fracture and sprained ligaments in his left...

NRL premiers Manly will have a serious crack at winning this month's World Club Challenge title, the club naming a full-strength squad for the clash with...

2011 Walter Boas Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics. Professor Eggleton will receive his medal at an awards ceremony in March 2012 in...

NRL premiers Manly will have a serious crack at winning this month's World Club Challenge title, the club naming a full-strength squad for the clash with...

FLOOD victims in Queensland and NSW will be given additional financial assistance courtesy of the Federal Government, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced...

The Westpac Rescue Helicopter is scheduled to do a final flyover at low tide about 2.40pm before two Marine Area Command police boats return to their base.Inspector Stephen Eggleton said Wyong Shire...

Photo: Chris Seabrook, Western Advocate First a motorcycle rider dies in a horrific head-on crash with a semitrailer on a highway near Bathurst. Then police discover a woman's body in a fridge...

A HARASSMENT case against rugby league identity John Elias has been thrown out after the alleged victim said he couldn't remember ever receiving the offensive...

Photo: AP The social worker called her supervisors to report that she could smell gas, and moments later the home exploded. What's left of the house was still smoking on Sunday afternoon, and...

Video settings Police are waiting to speak to a driver who crashed and flipped his car after leaving an accident just 50 metres away in Sydney's eastern suburbs this morning. The driver, a...

Photo: Alex Ellinghausen The Greens leader Bob Brown has declared the "unrelenting criticism" of Prime Minister Julia Gillard is sexist and said male media commentators were the biggest...

Police divers were expected to enter the water about 9am to assist lifeguards, water police and two helicopters but high winds and heavy seas have meant they have had to stand down.The boy, his...

A WOMAN'S body found inside a freezer in a Chatswood unit is believed to be linked to a fatal motorbike accident near...

A HARASSMENT case against rugby league identity John Elias has been thrown out after the alleged victim said he couldn't remember ever receiving the offensive...