Editors' Picks

News FORMER Labor foreign minister Bob Carr has argued Australia should join the United States' air strikes over Syria to stop mass atrocities against civilians.

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News A MAN who claimed he'd killed his parents and threatened to kill himself and police sparked a lockdown at apartments near a Brisbane university overnight.

News GOLF-ball sized hail was reported in Goondiwindi and almost 1000 lightning strikes were recorded during severe storms on Monday night.

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News IT’S what the wife of every truck driver dreads – an unidentified phone call late at night.

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News AN ICE user shot her brother in the stomach with a shotgun because she believed he was going to kill her.

News THE Lockyer Valley communities refuse to give up hope of a miracle that Jayde Kendall will return.

News OLYMPIAN Benny Pike has apologised and is seeking medical help after being charged with drink driving after a late night out in Maroochydore.

News KOONGAL’S Trent Hill knows just how it feels to be on the receiving end of someone wired on methamphetamine.

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News ANGRY Maleny High students and parents have signed a petition against the school’s plans to scrap its Vocational Education Training Wednesday from next year.

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News THE Chinese stock market crash and the reverberations it set off across the globe have hit Australian retirement funds hard.

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Offbeat It's called Fat Water and it's better than real water because it is infused with tiny droplets of fat extracted from coconut oil that improve fat burning.

Crime A WOMAN has been busted allegedly driving almost six times over the legal limit near Goondiwindi.

News THE Sunshine Coast is in the grips of its worst flu season in years – and the strain causing havoc is one your general flu needle wouldn’t have covered.

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News JENNY Cameron from Reptrix Reptiles has warned Rockhampton residents not to come between mating coastal taipans.

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News A NECK gauged open, living in filth, forced to eat their own faeces.

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News MAROOCHYDORE Catholic priest Joe Duffy has backed the Muslim community’s appeal to remove restrictive hours of worship and visitor numbers.

Technology BLOWN away. It’s the only way to describe the zoom power of Nikon Coolpix P900.

Celebrity AUSSIE actor Mel Gibson has reportedly lashed out at a Sydney photographer, spitting on her and telling her she was 'going to hell' in an expletive-laden tirade.

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News A FAMILY of four has been left with suspected spinal injuries and deep lacerations after their campervan overturned in Agnes Water yesterday.

News A BODYBOARDER has suffered serious injuries following a suspected shark attack at Lighthouse Beach in Port Macquarie on Saturday afternoon.