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2015 welcomed with spectacular fireworks displays in Australia and New Zealand

In New Zealand, one of the first countries to greet the New Year, fireworks were set off from the top of the Auckland Sky Tower

31/12/2014

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The Wild Oats supremacy

Sydney to Hobart: Wild Oats XI takes line honours for a record-breaking eighth time

28/12/2014

Sport

Freeman's Olympic body suit turns up after 14 years

The body suit worn by Cathy Freeman during the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics may have turned up 14 years after going missing. Freeman

23/12/2014

World News

Memorial services held in Sydney for cafe siege victims

Hundreds of mourners gathered at a Sydney church this morning for the funeral of 34-year-old cafe manager, Tori Johnson. Johnson was killed while

23/12/2014

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Families of Sydney cafe siege victims visit the scene

There have been emotional scenes in Australia, as the families of the hostages killed in the Sydney cafe siege visited the field of flowers laid out

18/12/2014

World News

Australia security laws probed as inquiry begins into Sydney hostage tragedy

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has launched an official investigation into the deadly hostage drama in a Sydney café, as questions are asked as to why the hostage-taker was free on bail.

17/12/2014

World News

Sydney siege shrine grows

People are still laying floral tributes to the victims of the Sydney siege. The Martin Place shrine has now spread to a second site nearby to

17/12/2014

World News

Australia police probe Sydney siege suspect motives

Australian police are investigating the motives of Man Haron Monis, the suspected gunman who died after the 16 hour hostage standoff. The self-styled

16/12/2014

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Australia mourns the victims of the Sydney Siege

A country in mourning – Australia pays tribute to the victims of siege in Sydney. Two of the 17 hostages died alongside the gunman when heavily armed

16/12/2014

World News

Flags fly at half-mast across Sydney after the violent end to a cafe siege

The people of Sydney woke up on Tuesday morning to the news that heavily armed police stormed a cafe overnight ending a siege in a coffee shop. Two

16/12/2014

World News

Two hostages and gunman dead after police storm Sydney café where 17 were held hostage

A hostage crisis in Australia has come to a dramatic and tragic end, 16 hours after it first began

15/12/2014

World News

Australia: two hostages and gunman killed as police storm Sydney siege café

A hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia, has come to a dramatic and tragic end, 16 hours after it first began

15/12/2014

World News

Sydney siege: "This guy appears to be a lone actor" says terrorism expert

Australian police have released the identity of the suspected gunman at the centre of the siege in a Sydney cafe as Man Haron Monis. An Iranian

15/12/2014

World News

Sydney siege: Australians react to the hostage drama

With the siege in Sydney still underway, heavily armed police surround the Lindt cafe in Martin Place. The area will remain in lockdown until

15/12/2014

World News

Australia: two hostages and gunman dead after police storm Sydney siege café

A hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia, has come to a dramatic and tragic end, 16 hours after it first began

15/12/2014

World News

Sydney siege: Five hostages run from cafe

Five people have run out of the cafe at the centre of a siege in Sydney several hours after the incident began. Two women and three men were seen

15/12/2014

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Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes dies two days after being hit by ball

27/11/2014