The Australian sharemarket has taken a sharp tumble on Friday morning, after setting another record high on Thursday.

Wayne Swan was hauled before a Senate committee, where he was grilled over the governance failings engulfing the embattled fund.

In 2015, Nikolaos Solomos narrowly escaped an attempted murder when a masked gunman shot at him through his car window outside his Melbourne home.

Donald Trump has made it clear he believes a confrontation between the US and China over trade and technology is inevitable. Beijing has had time to get ready.

They may not be breaking the law, but the taxes multinationals pay are not proportional to the profits they are raking in. That’s something laws passed earlier this week seek to change.