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Debra loves being the first to know information which makes it easy for her to respond to breaking news quickly for news.com.au. Debra has 17 years’ experience in the national and international press and online media, with almost half of that spent working overseas. Debra spent six years in the UK working for the Mirror Group, including the Mail Online.

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1997 - Ford Predator./motor car types/exhaust pipe

Man caught in sex act with car

THIS was not your average police call out. Officers were forced to respond by unusual means after man allegedly wouldn’t follow police commands.

Leaders

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 03, 2018 US President Donald Trump speaks at the National Day of Prayer ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump on Thursday admitted he reimbursed his lawyer for a $130,000 payment to a porn star, ending months of White House denial. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

How Trump is getting away with it

DONALD Trump has just been rocked by a revelation that would end other political careers. And yet, it will probably do nothing to hurt him.

Leaders

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 1: French President Emmanuel Macron (centre) meets with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his wife Lucy Turnbull at the Sydney Opera House on May 1, 2018 in Sydney, Australia. President Macron is on a three-day visit to Australia to discuss Australia and France's enhanced strategic partnership along with the Future Submarine Program - a partnership between France and Australia to build in Australia the world's most advanced submarines for the Australian Navy. (Photo by Mick Tsikas-Pool/Getty Images)

Lucy responds to ‘delicious’ comment

THE French President made headlines with his description of Lucy Turnbull. Here’s what she really thought about it.

School Life

This was one of the modesty ponchos the Michigan High School was offering girls whose dresses were too short. Picture: Screengrab/ABC News

Modesty poncho for girls sparks backlash

A HIGH school offered to hand out modesty ponchos at a school dance. The move did not go down well with students.

Environment

Parts of southeast Australia are set to shiver through colder temperatures with rain, damaging winds and even snow forecast. Picture: Sky News Weather

Wild weather: Icy cold front set to hit

PARTS of Australia have been relishing in warm sunny weather, but that’s about to change. Fast. Rain, damaging winds and snow are forecast.

Leaders

French President Emmanuel Macron holds a press conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at Kirribilli House in Sydney. Picture: Toby Zerna

Macron’s creepy compliment to PM’s wife

IT was all going so well. The French President bizarrely ended an otherwise straightforward press conference in Sydney with an odd comment about Mrs Turnbull.

Leaders

(FILES): This file photo taken on January 23, 2018 shows US President Donald Trump speaking after signing Section 201 actions to impose tariffs from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Russia investigation special counsel Robert Mueller last year but later reversed course, The New York Times reported January 25, 2018. Mueller is leading the probe into allegations of collusion between the US president's campaign team and Russia in the 2016 election, which Trump has repeatedly criticized and views as an attack on the legitimacy of his presidency. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON

Trump ‘bombshell’ hiding in plain sight

BURIED in a leaked list of questions investigators want to ask Donald Trump is a clue that the president is in serious danger.

Leaders

FILE - In this April 27, 2018 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in raise their hands after signing a joint statement at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. Despite its feel-good emphasis on relationship-building, the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade left a lot of question marks around the biggest and most contentious agenda item of them all: denuclearization. And that puts the ball squarely in the court of President Donald Trump, whose much anticipated sit-down with Kim is expected to be just weeks away. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)

How Kim Jong-un manipulated all of us

NORTH Korea’s leader was ridiculed as the “Little Rocket Man”, but after a masterstroke, he’s suddenly the one laughing.

North America

TIJUANA, MEXICO - APRIL 29: Members of a caravan of Central Americans who spent weeks traveling across Mexico walk from Mexico to the U.S. side of the border to ask authorities for asylum on April 29, 2018 in Tijuana, Baja California Norte, Mexico. More than 300 immigrants, the remnants of a caravan of Central Americans that journeyed across Mexico to ask for asylum in the United States, have reached the border to apply for legal entry. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Showdown looming on US border

HUNDREDS of migrants have arrived at the US border with authorities warning they can’t let anymore people in.

Leaders

This picture taken on April 27, 2018 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 29, 2018 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (R) posing during a signing ceremony near the end of their historic summit at the truce village of Panmunjom. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / - South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. /

Why Trump doesn’t deserve the credit

DONALD Trump’s supporters insist he was the X-factor in getting the two Koreas to talk, but an influential expert says this is way off base.

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