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Andrew Koubaridis is a reporter with News Corp’s National News Network. He has specialised in police and court reporting during 19 years in the media, covering crime in Sydney and New Zealand. He has also worked for News Corp in Melbourne and in London, where he was Europe Correspondent, which meant covering everything from the royals to politics.

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News

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TV reporter stubbed in face with lit cigarette

UPDATE: Footage has emerged of the moment a woman stubs a lit cigarette into a journalist’s face as her friend appears in court charged with murder.

National

Party boat hit by second drugs scandal

A Sydney-based party boat company has had a second event marred by drug use after two men were left fighting for life yesterday after an alleged overdose.

Sport

A fan, who was accidentally hit in the head with a broken bat by Boston Red Sox's Xander Bogaerts, is helped from the stands during a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics at Fenway Park in Boston, Friday, June 5, 2015. The game stopped and the woman was wheeled down to the first base line to be transported to a local hospital. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Baseball fan’s worst nightmare

A BASEBALL fan was sitting with her young son when a broken bat hit her in the head, leaving her with life-threatening injuries.

World

How not to steal an ambulance

INCREDIBLE dash-cam footage has been released of a Chicago man stealing an ambulance and then spectacularly crashing it. But the drama didn’t end there.

Online

drink spiking generics photo - Andrew Lee

Why you need to watch your drink

A SOCIAL experiment has sent a strong warning to look after your drinks after a one man reveals just how easy it is to spike them.

Real Life

Hillsong drops ‘penis houses’ pastor

UPDATE: Hillsong founder Brian Houston has decided to drop shamed pastor Mark Driscoll from his scheduled appearance from Australia’s Hillsong National Conference.

National

Sink hole in Harris Park with buildings indanger of collapsing.

The sinkhole that just keeps sucking

A GROUP of Sydney residents forced out of their homes by a sinkhole thought things couldn’t get any worse. That was until they returned to their properties and made a shocking discovery.

Work

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‘I keep seeing dead people’

WARNING: Graphic content. Al’s nightmares are vivid, terrifying and endless. People like him are suffering in silence among us.

Illness

Elizabeth (Elly) Edmonds leaves Belmont Court House after an AVO court appearance. Picture by Peter Lorimer.

Fake illness that ‘wrecked my life’

THIS may just be the murkiest love story ever told. He says he spent months nursing his ex, believing she was dying of cancer. She says he knew the whole thing was a lie.

Football

The man who brought down FIFA

ANDREW Jennings calls it ‘the best day of all’. After a decade on the trail of Sepp Blatter and FIFA corruption, the FBI finally knocked on his door.

Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/journalists/andrew-koubaridis/page/177