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Idemitsu Kosan Co., Japan's third- biggest refiner, is looking to lease fuel-storage tanks in Singapore as it expands its trading business in Asia's oil hub.

A teenager who grew up in Longreach says he is feeling excited ahead of representing Australia at world rowing titles.

Bali, once famous for its pristine villages and natural scenery is now embracing a new form of tourism centred around the increasingly popular by-passes and ring roads.

The co-founder of popular sci-fi convention Dragon Con is facing the possibility of life in prison after 'following' a teen girl on Twitter, breaching a plea bargain agreement that has kept him out of prison on child molestation charges.

When the illicit river of gold was discovered, it was believed to be one of Australia's largest tax fraud operations.

The government will do everything it can to ensure Australians don't become radicalised overseas and bring their extremist views back home, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says.

DOMINIC Bird, the Aussie acquitted by a Malaysian court of drug trafficking charges that carried the death penalty, is expected to arrive back home today.

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Just outside the Australian Capital Territory, up a dirt road a couple of kilometres off the Federal Highway to Sydney, sits a shed that Nick O'Leary built himself.

Shocked Australians believed they may have been witnessing a plane explosion as a bright light lit the skies from Sydney to Melbourne.

THE auction market has hit its traditionally quiet time of the year, with fewer properties to go under the hammer this week.

Harrison Roche traveled quite a long way to compete in the buckaroo contest for Clare's Wild West Day.

Bali, once famous for its pristine villages and natural scenery is now embracing a new form of tourism centred around the increasingly popular by-passes and ring roads.

Last we heard from Ed Kramer, the DragonCon co-founder was under house arrest in Duluth as part of a plea deal that ended a long legal battle related to child molestation charges .

CLIVE Palmer has become the wrecking ball of Australian politics, carving a further $10 billion hole out of the federal Budget this week with a series of stunts that senior Coalition members now claim are based on one motive only - to destroy the Abbott government.

MARK COLVIN: South Australia is officially the nation's jobless capital. The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped from 6.9 per cent in June to 7.4, the highest in Australia.

Regulators published on Wednesday details of how the world's top nine insurers will calculate their first global capital buffer from 2019 to ensure policyholders are protected in a crisis.

Security checks on electronic and electrical devices are being ramped up at UK airports, in response to what the US calls a "credible threat" of terrorism.

Australian authorities struggled to rescue a beached baby whale Wednesday and were forced to suspend the operation as fading light hampered efforts to return it to sea.