It’s still one of the worst accidents in Central Coast history — the night in 1936 when two cars hurtled off the end of a Davistown jetty in a fog and sunk into the darkness. Rescuers rushed to help as sharks circled.
The wall is breached. It’s the single most significant event in the drama-laden Game of Thrones. And its fallout will chart the course of the show’s final season.
When the French tightrope walker Jean Francois Gravelet, who called himself Blondin, walked a tightrope across Niagara Falls on June 30, 1859, he stunned the world.
Mixing four different cultures into one, Saada Abdikarim shares why her fried rice bridges the distance between her Australian born children and Somali born mother, bringing back old memories and creating new ones.
AMERICA has stumbled in its ‘pivot’ to Asia, with China’s modernised military posing a challenge in all aspects of warfare — air, sea, land, space and cyberspace.
THEY’RE the blazing swords of Star Wars, wielded by Jedi knights and the Sith. With The Last Jedi set to debut, will science turn this screen dream into reality?
A GENERATION of Queenslanders is at risk of being lost to an ice epidemic that is outpacing all efforts to stop its insidious spread through the state. GRAPHIC IMAGES: HOW ICE DESTROYS PEOPLE
THEY’RE too young to know. Just little preps walking in for their first day of school. But the chilling grip of ice has already got them in its claws.
FROM paramilitary raids to harsher laws, Asian police are going after the Australian-led Outlaw Motor Cycle Gangs that have been chased out of Australia.
SPECIAL REPORT: An excursion to Wet ‘n’ Wild should have been an end-of-year treat for 14 and 15-year-olds a northern beaches high school. But, in a sign of our social media-saturated times, some girls missed out because they did not feel confident enough in a swimsuit. JULIE CROSS reports.
THERE is only a handful of people free to use expletives abundantly around Bob Hawke, kiss the old master of politics on the cheek and ask him about his love affairs. Bondi surf journalist Derek Rielly is one of them.
WHILE the future of the Castle Hill Showground station precinct remains in limbo, Bella Vista and Kellyville can forge ahead. The suburbs will house two new schools, 8400 more dwellings and more than 10,000 new jobs writes Jake McCallum.
MATTHEW Gregory has spent five hours travelling to and from work every day for the past three decades. He is part of a growing number of commuters who are fed up with Sydney’s congestion, which is turning us all into zombies. See how your route to work compares with some of the worst in the city.
CULT leader Charles Manson, who has died aged 83, rose from humble beginnings to become the most infamous convicted killer of all time. Here’s how he brought others under his evil spell.
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