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Australian satirist Leslie Nassar, 43, was killed by a 20-year-old man on Saturday morning around 7:30 a.m. in Nampa, Idaho, US. Nassar's daughters were both injured in the hit-and-run crash. 

An iPhone 7 has burst into flames and set a car on fire in Australia, leading tech giant Apple to investigate yet another case of smartphone combustion.

A 24-second video of Australian hostage Craig Bruce McAllister has been released on the Internet after his abduction last month in Yemen. In the video, he has begged the government to pay the ransom that his captors have been asking for his release.

As Donald Trump stubbornly declared that he would only accept the US election results if he won, the Internet has unearthed a months-old Instagram post from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton that should teach Trump how to gracefully accept lost. The post was a 1993 letter from then-outgoing US President George H.W. Bush to his successor, Bill Clinton.

The 29-year-old Sydney Entrepreneur, Adam Brimo, has launched Openlearning.com to provide free vocational courses to students who cannot afford to pay for their education. It is the solution to the non-completion of government-funded VET courses.

The Turnbull government has quietly withdrawn its gag order for doctors working in the Australian offshore detention centres. On Friday, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection posted on its website an amendment that removed the ban on health professionals to disclose abuses on asylum seeker and refugees.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has revealed that a total of 1551 Australians were arrested overseas in 2015-2016 for offences including drugs, fraud and assault.  The figures indicated that there was an increase of 23 percent from the department's previous records.

Saudi Arabia has executed a royal family member for killing another man during a brawl. Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir was found guilty of murdering a young Saudi man during a group fight in Riyadh more than three years ago.

New South Wales police found two cylinders outside Fernando Manrique’s home on Sir Thomas Mitchell Drive in Davidson, NSW, on Monday. The cylinders led the police to uncover the elaborate system of gas chamber that could be the cause of death of Manrique and his family.

An 11-month-old girl was found unconscious on the floor at her home in Lithgow. Triple-0 receive a call that the baby girl fell from a cot. Paramedics treated her before she was flown to the Lithgow hospital. Then she was transferred through an airlift to the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, where she received a surgery.

Australian ex-prime minister Tony Abbott has defended Donald Trump, saying the US presidential candidate’s policies  are “reasonable enough.” The former Liberal Party leader has also referred to Trump’s supporters as “decent,” as opposed to the “deplorables” that Hillary Clinton previously called them.

Playboy magazine is now available digitally on iTunes and Google Play nude-free as it targets social media consumers.

The award-winning author is claiming that Adolf Hitler's risky decisions during the latter part of WWII were due to his dependency on a heroin-like drug, Eukodol.

Here is what Hillary Clinton's side has to say about the issue.

A recent report has indicated the amount of donations that the Clinton Foundation has received, a large amount of which are from people that Hillary Clinton met with during her stint as Secretary of State.

Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, visits Germany for the second time to attend a historical event in Düsseldorf.

Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe has put to rest commuters’ anxiety over a possible fare increase to raise funding for the $5.2 billion Cross River Rail project. During a budget hearing Tuesday , Hinchliffe ruled out fare hike as among the potential sources of funding for the construction of a 10.2-kilometre rail that links Dutton Park to Bowen Hills in Brisbane.

The Queensland government has fast-tracked deliberation on the regulation of ride-hailing service Uber as a response to mounting public and industry pressure. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the final review of the “Opportunities for Personalised Transport” report will be done before the month ends.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was unbelievably impressed over Michelle Obama’s recent speech, in which the US First Lady strongly endorsed the presidential bid of his rival, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Sonia Kruger wants Muslims banned in Australia. “The Voice Australia” presenter has ignited debate on migration on Monday after she appeared to have echoed US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s controversial stance on closing the country’s borders from Muslims.

ALDI is recalling its Bakers Life Hot Dog Rolls in its NSW and ACT stores after the product was suspected to contain metal shavings. The discount supermarket has urged customers to return the bread buns to where they have purchased them.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal Party claimed victory on Sunday. Eight days after the Australian federal election, some winners have been declared, with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten offering to seek common ground.

While Pope Francis is fine with divorced and remarried couples in the Catholic Church, a US archbishop has placed strict guidelines on them, saying they may only receive the Holy Communion if they refrain from having sex. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has issued a new set of pastoral guidelines that also instruct same-sex couples, unmarried couples and other “irregular” relationships to avoid sex.

Oscar Pistorius has been handed a six years’ sentence for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The disgraced South African spring runner was immediately taken back to the Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria on Wednesday.

Telstra customers have been hit with an email phishing scam. The email impersonates an official Telstra email bill very well, and which has link to page that can allow cyber criminals to access customers’ sensitive personal and banking information, like home address and credit card details.

Donald Trump has been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl more than 20 years ago. The US Republican frontrunner allegedly forced himself on an underage girl on four occasions in 1994, according to legal documents filed in June.

When the feared president of Belarus issued a statement, it’s imperative everyone follows it, even if he told everyone to get naked. President Alexander Lukashenko appeared to have ordered the people to “get undressed and work,” which Belarusians have dutifully followed.

Dozens of expensive wines have vanished from New South Wales Hunter region. Police are appealing for information on the missing prestigious wine collections, which include Penfolds Grange and other vintage brands, worth more than $5 million.

Reports of hate crime in the United Kingdom have increased 57 percent following the win of Brexit votes in the EU referendum, according to the National Police Chiefs’ Council. Incidents of racial abuse and xenophobia have surged, with people reporting experiencing first-hand how badly others have treated them after the UK’s decision to leave the European Union.