Новости за 19.12.2016

Up to 20,000 people are said to have been evacuated so far.

As Presto closes up shop, Foxtel is working to make its streaming options more family-friendly.

A man has been charged by police after a two-year-old girl was found unconscious and critically injured in a car in Sydney's west, police say.

If you don't believe in Santa, how can Santa believe in you? The big man gets lost in the annual culture war over Christmas. Maybe he's hiding, his jolly heart broken. It's odd, I know, to say he's missing when his merchandising imagery and pre-stocktake sale discount signage is everywhere. But Santa lives in our hearts first – his condo at the North Pole is just a residency requirement of the job – and our hearts are increasingly hostile places.

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Police will return to dams and bushland north-west of Melbourne early Tuesday morning to continue their search for missing mother Karen Ristevski.

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If we can agree on one thing, it's that this holiday season is especially stressful. This year it's not just about the crush of shopping, decorating, cooking and traveling, but the whirl of emotions about getting together with friends and family, some of whom may disagree with you on matters more weighty than whose holiday sweater is ugliest. It may be the year to spike the eggnog.

A man has suffered serious head and leg injuries after he fell from a second floor balcony in north-west Sydney early on Tuesday morning.

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Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said economic gains are finally raising living standards for most Americans.

Unparalleled attempt to persuade at least 37 Republican electors to ignore the results of the election and back someone other than Trump is almost sure to fail.

Tops of 31 in the city and 34 in Parramatta.

Iron ore futures in China slumped as stocks of it at the country's ports rose to the most in more than two years.

A woman killed when her bike collided with a car on Sydney's north shore on has been remembered as a promising young doctor who was due to start at Royal North Shore Hospital in a few weeks' time.

Seven-year-old Bana al-Abed, whose Twitter posts whelped draw attention to the plight of civilians, was among those evacuated from the besieged city.

​French judges found IMF chief Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence over a state arbitration payout to a business tycoon.

Poisonings with surrogate alcohol are a regular occurrence in Russia, but the Irkutsk case was one of the deadliest such incidents in years.

Polyunsaturated what? Omega who?

Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was found guilty on Monday of criminal charges linked to the misuse of public funds during her time as France's finance minister, a verdict that could force her out of her post.

British judge praises victims for coming forward and says retired truck driver was 'able to lead your life without being punished for your dreadful acts'.

The conflict between Myanmar and its minority Rohingyas is escalating.

Senator Rod Culleton's resignation from One Nation raises some interesting questions.

The magnitude of the adjustment required of the economy is still not widely understood.

The political disclosure laws in Australia are a joke. They are opaque, tricky and designed to obscure the link between money and political outcomes.