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Map: Yennora 2161 A Sydney teenager has been sentenced to at least two years' jail for shooting his friend while playing with a gun. The teenager was 16 when he shot an 18-year-old in a house at Yennora, in Sydney's west in 2008. Police say eight women and children were home, ...

Tonga's Port Authority says the ferry that sank last month had previously been repaired at night to stop locals questioning its seaworthiness.

A 13-year-old boy died after crashing his parents' car into a power pole in Warrnambool in western Victoria this morning.

The federal president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) says improving the life expectancy of Indigenous Australians should be the number one national priority.

A public memorial for Michael Jackson has gotten underway with messages of condolences from former South African president Nelson Mandela and singer Diana Ross.

A Sydney coroner has blamed administrators of a hospital in the New South Wales central west for the death of a woman who died from massive blood loss after giving birth.