The Department of Buildings is taking action to prevent catastrophic collapses like the one at 1915 Billingsley Terrace from happening again.

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President Bashar al-Assad has left Syria behind, fleeing to Russia with his family and leaving his once-impenetrable Damascus ...

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Mount Everest is considered as the highest mountain in the world. It is located in the Himalayas and was first climbed by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.

The government’s plan to increase the tax on superannuation balances over $3 million has officially been abandoned, at least for this year. At first believed to have been left out of a group of bills ...