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The first formal meeting of this weekend's G20 event, hosted by Joe Hockey, got under way with a gathering of world business leaders with the B20 business forum focussing on jobs and growth.

Kylie Minogue urges Simon Cowell to put Dannii Minogue back on X Factor UK judging panel.

Facebook's decision to pay $17bn for WhatsApp is truly staggering, but the deal was brokered in fairly ordinary circumstances.

The federal opposition is critical over reports that Iran has summoned the Australian envoy to complain about the death of an Iranian asylum seeker in PNG.

An Australian Christian missionary being held by North Korean police faces questioning over religious material he carried.

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Australian Federal Police have raided Channel Seven's inner-Sydney offices searching for evidence of a lucrative interview with Schapelle Corby.

Shane Warne has been seen unloading his luggage at Liz Hurley's London residence, according to reports

Cate Blanchett has dedicated her third BAFTA win to her late friend, Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Illegal downloading of films is a form of theft and new measures to cut the rate of online piracy need to be implemented, according to Australia's attorney-general.

Despite the Aussie jobless figure rising to its highest level in a decade, Prime Minister Tony Abbott believes if the government is allowed to get on with its job, unemployment could turn around quickly.

Australian music and sports fans have complained to a parliamentary inquiry about ticket scalping (touting), but the entertainment and ticketing industry says it isn't a major problem.

Schapelle Corby secretly married in jail a year ago? Since her release Schapelle Corby has not spoken to media, although reports have emerged she has tied the knot.

Toyota's decision to follow Holden and Ford out of car-making in Australia by the end of 2017 will change the face of the nation's industry forever, the federal government says.

Prison boss Farid Junaedi said Schapelle Corby was a little nervous and wondered why there were so many people and reporters waiting for her release.

A large, fast-moving grassfire burning on Melbourne's northern fringe still poses a threat to homes in new suburbs and regional towns.

This is probably Schapelle Corby's final weekend in a Bali jail, after Indonesian authorities granted her parole request.

Former PM Kevin Rudd is to chair the National Apology Foundation, which he has established to honour the 2008 apology to Indigenous Australians.

Schapelle Corby's former lawyer has suggested the convicted drug smuggler will smoke a joint to celebrate, but says she was only joking.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has suggested the ABC apologise for airing allegations of asylum seeker abuse, but the broadcaster isn't budging.

Prime Minister Tabby Abbott? It looks like new levels of cattiness have been reached at Parliament House.

While on a visit to London, ALP Leader Bill Shorten urged expat voters to send a message to the Abbott government.

Schapelle Corby will know within days whether she will be released on parole from a Bali jail.

Fire-starters should be classed as "urban terrorists", according to WA's emergency services minister

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says it is not the role of government to prop up private industry.

Just over 50 per cent of households are struggling to save money and many have less than $5000 to fall back on in an emergency.

The Seven Network has decided to dump the Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane editions of its troubled current affairs program Today Tonight.

Five-time Olympic gold medallist Ian Thorpe has reportedly checked out of a Sydney rehab centre after battling depression and alcohol abuse

Killing sharks in WA waters to protect beachgoers will dent tourism says billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson.

Acclaimed author Thomas Keneally says the federal government's treatment of asylum seekers makes Australia look like buffoons from the colonial era.

A crowd-funded billboard in Sydney featuring Bananas in Pyjamas is pleading with Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull to protect the ABC from funding cuts.

A royal commission into child sex abuse has heard how boys at a Salvation Army Training Farm in Queensland lived in constant fear.

Paris and London are on the itinerary for Bill Shorten's first trip as opposition leader.

Liberal MP Andrew Laming says he has no regrets about standing on his head and drinking a beer - and his boss isn't too concerned either.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott oversaw the oaths for 24 people becoming Australian citizens in sunny Canberra on Sunday.

London mayor Boris Johnson has been named an honorary Aussie as part of Australia Day celebrations in the UK.

Anti Australia Day graffiti has been sprayed along an 8km stretch of Sydney's Botany Bay foreshore.

Ricky Gervais has put his celebrity weight behind the campaign against WA's shark kill policy.

Human Rights Watch has slammed Australia's treatment of asylum seekers in its annual report.

Superstar Brad Pitt has landed in Sydney after taking part in the awards season in Hollywood.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is in talks with the federal government to get more immigrants and refugees to settle in regional areas.

Sydney Airport finished 2013 strongly with December recording a record high number of passengers passing through to help it achieve its busiest ever year.

South Australia's five-day heatwave is drawing to a close with cooler temperatures forecast for the weekend.

Indonesia has warned Australia over a series of breaches of its territorial waters and demanded the government stop turning boats back.

The Australian Federal Police have helped crack a crime ring which streamed live internet videos of child sex abuse from the Philippines.

Australian entertainer Rolf Harris has pleaded not guilty to 12 charges of indecent assault dating back to the 1960s.

Nowhere has been spared from the start of Victoria's record-breaking heatwave, with some residents enduring 46C.

Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is expected to appear in a London court on Tuesday ahead of his April trial for multiple sexual offences.

Two British boys have been saved from a rip at a southern NSW beach, but their father drowned while attempting the rescue.

Police in Australia are investigating a series of incidents involving men with very little clothing terrorising members of the public.