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A Triumph motorcycle is impounded by police after it was allegedly clocked travelling over 100km/h ovet the speed limit.

‘Over 100km/h over the speed limit’: Perth learner driver’s expensive start to long weekend

A 17-year-old and a 24-year-old have been arrested and charged by police in separate incidents where they were caught driving at speeds of more than 100km/h in a worrying start to the long weekend.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

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Axel Rudakubana admitted to killing the three girls and stabbing 10 others last July.

‘Sadistic’ killer of young girls sentenced to at least 52 years in prison in UK

Axel Rudakubana searched for details about the attack on Sydney Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel before going on a stabbing spree at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class for children in July.

  • Rob Harris
Second man arrested after alleged attempt to set religious building at Newtown alight – Strike Force Pearl. 23 January 2025. Photo NSW Police

Man Tasered during arrest over Sydney antisemitic attack

A second man has been arrested for the arson and graffiti attack on a synagogue in Newtown.

  • Perry Duffin
Brian Barnes faced court on Thursday accused of murder.

Alleged killer fronts court after burnt body found near cemetery in regional Victoria

Brian Barnes, 67, is charged with the murder of a Quambatook woman believed to be a much-loved local.

  • Erin Pearson
Bruce Lehrmann leaving the Magistrates Court in Toowoomba, Queensland, June 17, 2024.

Lehrmann’s lawyers to seek judge-only trial in Queensland rape case

Bruce Lehrmann was last year committed to stand trial over allegations he raped a woman he met at a Toowoomba nightclub on a drug-fuelled night in 2021.

  • Cloe Read
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, leaves the High Court after giving evidence in London, Tuesday, June 6, 2023.

Murdoch’s British tabloids offer rare apology in legal settlement with Prince Harry

The Murdoch-owned tabloids offered a “full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex” for years of serious intrusion into his private life.

  • Brian Melley
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The 16-year-old boy who it is alleged assaulted a police officer outside Optus Stadium on December 28.

Teen charged with assaulting WA Police officer allegedly asked: ‘Do you want a Liverpool kiss?’

The 16-year-old appeared in Perth Children’s Court on Wednesday where his lawyer indicated he would fight the charges.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
The former home of prominent Jewish Australian Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin was targeted in a firebombing.

Nine arrests, more than a dozen attacks: Sydney’s wave of antisemitic horror

Businesses, homes and synagogues have been defaced with graffiti and set alight, in a series of attacks escalating in frequency and severity.

  • Amber Schultz
A 15-year-old boy accused of a terrifying machete attack and armed robbery in St Kilda

Boy, 15, accused of slashing man with machete in St Kilda shows ‘no sign of slowing down’

A teenager who allegedly slashed a stranger across the head with a machete on a busy St Kilda street to steal a car wants to be freed on bail following an alleged nine-month crime spree.

  • Erin Pearson
Timothy Malcolm Rowland arrives at the Downing Centre District Court for his trial.

Woman ‘disgusted’ after alleged rape by burlesque businessman who claims it was ‘sleep sex’

Timothy Malcolm Rowland argues he was suffering an “episode of sexsomnia” when he allegedly had sex with the woman without her consent.

  • Sarah McPhee

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