A May day might be the form for the spring and beyond

There were plenty of runs out of Saturday's Randwick meeting that will make it a great form reference well into the spring.

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Get 'em while they're young: Opera's plan for a new generation

Stuffy and elitist? For these young students, opera is anything but.

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Waratahs have plenty to fight for, says Beale

The futures of a number of NSW players are up in the air or lie elsewhere, making recent results even tougher to swallow.

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'I wanted to give up': Woman speaks of miraculous rescue after being lost in a Hawaii forest 17 days

"But the only option I had was life or death," Eller, 35, said from her hospital bed.

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Rabbitohs clear Reynolds with Doueihi on cusp of return

NRL ladder leaders South Sydney received a double dose of good news on the injury front as they struggle to fill a 21-man squad for the second week in a row.

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Swifts take top spot as they hand Vixens their first loss of the season

On the final day of auditions for Australia’s World Cup team, the NSW Swifts put on a show of their own.

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Panthers injury crisis set to bring DWZ issue to a head

Penrith's crippling injury crisis could force coach Ivan Cleary to recall Dallin Watene-Zelezniak despite him being told he could negotiate with rival clubs.

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Lawyers for Noah's Ark theme park are suing its insurance company for rain damage

Heavy rains, not quite for 40 days and 40 nights, did severe damage to the grounds of the fundamentalist Christian attraction.

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Bombers' midfield was outworked, says Parish

Essendon midfielder concedes the Bombers midfield was outworked against Richmond as they prepare to take on Carlton with a growing injury list.

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Myth busted: CSIRO says Australia's snakes are not the world's deadliest

Dr Somaweera said there were an estimated one million venomous snake bites globally every year.In India alone, about 10,000 people die.

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Maggie Rogers summons visions of Kate Bush and Stevie NIcks

There were visions of Kate Bush, as Maggie Rogers commanded the Festival Hall stage for the Melbourne leg of her tour.

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A vocal journey through art brought to life

Rarely performed Rossini opera 'Il Viaggio a Reims' is an exercise in vocally showing off.

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Valencia knock Barca off Copa throne

Valencia have beaten Barcelona 2-1 to win the Copa del Rey, ending the Spanish champions' four-year winning streak in the competition and denying them a domestic double.

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And when they Hamer: The Proclaimers still have it, three decades on

The Proclaimers’ alchemy has never really changed: they still have lungs of steel and harmonies of pure silver.

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Wacky South Korean film takes out top prize at Cannes

Bong Joon-ho has become the first Korean ever to win the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or – the top film prize in the world – for his film Parasites,

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Thousands pour through gates to ride Sydney's first driverless trains

Train spotters of all ages descended on stations along the new 36km line on Sunday after Premier Gladys Berejiklian cut the ribbon on the $7.3 billion proiect.

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PNG turmoil as prime minister Peter O'Neill resigns

O'Neill has quit suddenly after ruling Papua New Guinea for seven years.

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Iconic brewer shouts free beer at 13 pubs in Perth to toast end of election

Victoria Bitter's new campaign proves it is still very much Australian, with free beers on tap across 13 Perth pubs this Sunday afternoon.

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Mandate rid nation of dynasty politics: Amit Shah

BJP president Amit Shah said the massive mandate underlined that governments will be elected on the basis of their performance, not dynasty, caste or appeasement politics. Shah also said the surgical strike and the Balakot air strikes proved that India has a leader who could target terrorists in their own backyard.

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Many leaders put sons above party interest: Rahul

During the CWC meeting, Rahul Gandhi pointed out that Congress had done badly in states where it was in power. He said chief ministers - Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan and Kamal Nath of MP - insisted on tickets for their sons even when he was not in favour of accepting their requests. He also mentioned P Chidambaram’s name in this context.

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