Four men walked up to a car and told a teenage girl to wind down her window before one pushed her head out of the way and pumped 15 bullets into the back seat, killing two women.

A Sydney man has been shot dead in Los Angeles in a ­shocking incident that local ­investigators are treating as a homicide.

Disgraced former NRL star Brett Finch used an online sex chat service to send sick messages about fantasies of having sex with a 12-year-old boy, court documents have ­revealed.

And in sport, fingers are being pointed at Venues NSW over a damaging leak which threatened to derail tense NRL negotiations at the 11th hour, with the Australian Rugby League Commission preparing to “bite the bullet” and make a final call on where the Grand Final will be held.

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