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Coalition still pondering legal challenge over Bradfield defeatWith the count in the seat of Bradfield finalised, where the difference in the result came down to 26…

My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained access to the team building the…

A Canadian infant who was born prematurely and had measles has died, officials said on Thursday without confirming a cause of death, raising heightened concern about…

Tesla Although Tesla has received federal contracts over the years, these have mostly been rather small, considering the company’s size—less than $42 million between 2008 and…

Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy awards for playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a behind-the-lines surgical unit during the Korean war on…

President John Tyler, circa 1860-1865. His last surviving grandchild, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, died on Sunday. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hulton Archive/Getty Images The…

Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who gained international recognition for his leading role in the 2005 film Tsotsi, which won South Africa’s first ever Oscar…

Marcel Ophuls, the Oscar-winning French film-maker whose documentary The Sorrow and the Pity uncovered the truth of the Vichy government’s collaboration with Nazi Germany during the…

Professional boxer Georgia O’Connor has died aged 25.The Durham native announced earlier this year she had been diagnosed with cancer after previously battling ulcerative colitis.O’Connor was…

George Wendt, the actor best known for playing Norm in long-running sitcom Cheers, has died at 76.His death was confirmed by his publicist in a statement.“George…