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Weather THE Bureau of Meteorology has released its seven-day forecasts, which now include the weather predictions for the big three days of Christmas.

News AT least 27 people are dead and dozens injured after a giant explosion ripped through a market in Mexico.

News A THREE month whirlwind-build has seen owners of Coast homes destroyed by a mini-tornado six months ago return home for Christmas.

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News TRAGEDY has devastated a Queensland family after a man was crushed to death by two marble slabs at his own workplace.

News INSIDE Margot Robbie’s wedding: Coco Pops and hay bales.

News AN OUTBACK cop who pulled his gun and threatened to shoot a driver during a roadside intercept has been found guilty of assault and deprivation of liberty.

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Health THOSE who rely on codeine-based painkillers will have to see their GP for a prescription before being able to buy them.

News A SUSPECT has been detained by German police after a truck was deliberately driven into a packed Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people.

Smarter Shopping THE dual-lens camera in the iPhone 7 Plus is a game changer and the MacBook Pro touch bar is cool, but Apple’s best product of the year is the Apple AirPods.

News DREAMWORLD has reopened two of the park’s major thrill rides, almost two months after four people died in an horrific accident on the Thunder River Rapids.

Crime RUSSIA’S ambassador to Turkey has been shot dead at an art exhibition opening in Ankara by an off-duty police officer shouting slogans about Syria’s civil war.

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News ESSENTIAL Energy's senior managers have received generous salaries, but hundreds of jobs have been sacked.

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Offbeat A WOMAN travelling in business class from Sydney to Brisbane on a Qantas flight last Friday was greeted with an amusing sight when her meal arrived.

News SENATOR Rod Culleton has stormed out of a Federal Court hearing over a broken land deal debt in the latest bizarre episode for the WA farmer.

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Breaking Shocking footage has emerged on Dash Cam Owner's Australia's Facebook page of two near miss incidents along Bribie Island Rd

Business TREASURER Scott Morrison is sticking to his plan to return the nation’s finances to surplus by 2021, even as the bottom line falls apart.

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Crime A THREE-year-old boy being taken on a Christmas shopping trip by his grandmother was shot dead when a motorist opened fire on her car.

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Politics PAULINE Hanson says she knows when the state government will call the next election.

Offbeat IT WAS the perfect time to panic, but somehow the woman who discovered this tiger snake deep in the Christmas spirit somehow remained calm.

News A FREE watch handed out by a shopping centre is being urgently recalled amid warnings that design problems could choke or even kill children.

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