Friends gather to honour Luca Bennett, lost at North Avoca Beach
Loved ones have expressed concern for keen basketballer and Scots student Luca Bennett, who has been missing since the afternoon of Christmas Eve.
- by Clare Sibthorpe, Billie Eder and Riley Walter
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Water safety
Missing boy swept off rocks identified as search continues on Central Coast
A large-scale sea and air search has resumed after a 15-year-old was swept off a rock shelf on Tuesday.
- by Billie Eder, Riley Walter and Nigel Gladstone
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Water safety
Search for boy missing off Central Coast beach to resume on Christmas Day
A large-scale sea and air search was launched after reports the 15-year-old was swept off a rock shelf at about 3pm on Tuesday.
- by Riley Walter
Sydney swelters before southerly buster provides relief
The mercury hit 32 degrees in Sydney’s CBD and climbed to more than 40 degrees out west.
- by Jessica McSweeney, Riley Walter and Penry Buckley
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Crime
Husband and wife killed in ‘targeted double murder’ over financial debts, police believe
A body believed to be that of Jai-Bao “Rex” Chen has been found in Sydney bushland metres from where his wife’s body was discovered.
- by Riley Walter
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Australians abroad
Mother-daughter dream holiday turns to ‘worst nightmare’
Georgia Sandoe-Simpson and her mother are returning home to Sydney after a suspected alcohol poisoning at a resort in Fiji.
- by Jessica McSweeney, Penry Buckley and Riley Walter
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Traffic
Peak-hour chaos cleared after woman dies in M7 crash
Traffic was banked up for five kilometres after the collision between a ute and an SUV.
- by Riley Walter
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Crime
Teens charged after barbershop sprayed with bullets, car torched
Two 17-year-old boys have been charged with a range of offences after allegedly shooting at the business.
- by Penry Buckley and Riley Walter
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Crime
PM lashes ‘evil’ antisemitic attack as police boost Sydney patrols
Anthony Albanese said attacks like that in Woollahra “diminish us as a nation”, and a “whole of society” effort was needed to stamp them out.
- by Catherine Naylor, Josefine Ganko, Riley Walter, Max Maddison and Penry Buckley
Hidden cameras caught Sydney real estate agent in ‘crime gang’ drug house, court told
A brazen daylight shooting of two men in an inner west barbershop has led to multiple arrests of alleged members of a criminal syndicate involved in large-scale drug trafficking.
- by Riley Walter and Perry Duffin
South Korea martial law as it happened: President lifts declaration as chaos erupts in Seoul
President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday night in a move that stunned South Koreans and triggered a short-lived attempt by troops to enter parliament.
- by Riley Walter
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