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  1. Bungling Los Angeles officials ignored warnings for months before vicious coyote savaged a 16-month-old toddler

    The predator bit the toddler in the family's backyard and even followed the child and his mother inside their house on Friday.

  2. Investors nab 99-year lease for historic post office, plan retail and office space

    Australia Post asked for expressions of interest in leasing one of the oldest buildings in Brisbane.

  3. Investors nab 99-year lease for historic post office, plan retail and office space

    Australia Post asked for expressions of interest in leasing one of the oldest buildings in Brisbane.

  4. The most incredible survival story you'll read today: How Ukrainian fighter had to chop off his own LEG before becoming first man ever airlifted off a battlefield by drone...having spent 70 straight weeks stranded and injured in the killzone

    Ukrainian infantryman Kostiantyn Vlasenko endured 491 days in the killzone, hiding in a cramped concrete pipeline and later in a cast iron furnace before he was evacuated by drone.

  5. Lamarre-Condon visited sushi restaurant, hospital after alleged double murder

    CCTV footage played in the ex-police officer’s trial shows him meeting a friend the day after he allegedly shot Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.

  6. Platina stakes claim on massive NT tin system

    Platina Resources has applied for a vast NT tin tenement package, uncovering four intriguing magnetic targets that could hold the key to a decades-old geological mystery.

  7. Victorian premier forgets to pay for fuel

    Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has admitted he forgot to pay for his fuel after visiting a petrol station on Monday.

  8. Pencil case to blame for premier’s petrol station blunder

    Premier Ben Carroll has admitted to forgetting to pay for his petrol before driving off from a service station, but says the slip-up shows politicians are “human beings”.

  9. Could a 164-year-old Swiss giant quit Switzerland?

    With financial behemoth UBS and the Swiss government at loggerheads, an unthinkable scenario is being spoken about out loud.