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Children were being kept inside their classrooms today as part of precautionary school lock-downs during the siege by a terrorist in the heart of Sydney’s CBD. With the gunman holding an unconfirmed number of people hostage inside the Lindt café at Martin Place, schools were advised to take extra measures to ensure student safety. As […]

Opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has released a statement regarding the siege on Martin Place.

A hostage situation in a Martin Place is still continuing two and a half hours since it begun. 2GB’s Ray Hadley is reporting raids are being carried out in Lakemba by NSW and Australian Federal police but these are unconfirmed reports. Sources say that 20 police are doing a pre-arranged tour of a Lakemba mosque […]

A young Saudi woman has reportedly been arrested after she disguised herself as a man to sneak into a stadium to watch a football match in the city of Jeddah. While most aspects of daily life involve segregation of some kind, Football stadiums in the Saudi kingdom have very strict male only policies. The woman […]

Staff and customers were standing with their hands up in the windows of the Lindt chocolate café earlier this morning where police officers have their guns drawn outside. Police were called to the popular eatery at about 9.45am this morning. The café is roughly 40 metres from the Channel 7 offices so they have cameras trained […]

Uber hasn’t proven to be a safer alternative to taxis that some female travelers had hoped for. Newsweek reports that a female passenger using the taxi app in London complained to Uber about a driver sexually harassing her. According to Newsweek, the company’s marketing manager followed up the incident with the woman, saying they were investigating […]

Time magazine has awarded its "person of the year" accolade to medical staff treating patients afflicted with the deadly Ebola virus.

A Victorian council has banned circuses with caged wild animals from performing on its land as a sign of progressing with society’s modern views on the treatment of animals. The Surf Coast Shire has passed the motion banning the containment of animals for “entertainment purposes” at a council meeting in Winchelsea on Tuesday night after […]

The search for toddler with autism in Perth has turned to tragedy today after police discovered a body in a lake close to the missing boy's home

Mark Latham. Melbourne author and columnist Kasey Edwards has launched a Change.org petition calling on the Australian Financial Review (AFR) to cease publishing the “offensive and derogatory” columns of former Labor leader and columnist Mark Latham