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There are 155,000 pregnant women in Gaza. The remaining maternity hospital has stopped taking patients.

Bruce Lehrmann ordered to pay almost all of Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson's legal costs.

Paralympian Vanessa Low lost her legs in a train accident. Her biggest adversity became her 'biggest opportunity'.

A 39-year-old woman was stabbed at a Sydney gym this week. Her alleged attacker had breached an AVO.

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Brianna was searching job ads. She came across one only hiring white people.

'You were my angel': A Bondi survivor has reunited with the veteran who saved her.

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