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A man in his 20s was rushed to hospital with injuries.

A young girl has died after being struck by a falling palm tree while playing in a yard in the Northern Territory.

A man has been shot dead by police after he advanced on officers armed with a machete and a knife.

BEN HARVEY: Murdoch either didn’t believe in God or didn’t fear his judgment because he was prepared to deny Falconio’s family any closure.

Another driver was rushed to hospital in a serious condition.

A mother has been identified as the ringleader of a massive drug smuggling operation after using her children as ‘mules’ before being taken down by police.

One witness told 7NEWS he saw two men jump out of a car behind the victim’s vehicle.

A search and recovery party that set out to locate the wreckage of a small plane after it crashed in the NSW Snowy Mountains has discovered the body of the pilot.

The pilot of a crashed plane is believed to have died after the discovery of wreckage ‘you wouldn't recognise’ as an aeroplane, NSW police say.

Police say the bodies appear to have been there for ‘a considerable amount of time’.

A senior police officer has been arrested in Sydney, charged with serious offences including misconduct in public office and possession of child abuse and bestiality material.

There’s an update after a 17-year-old boy allegedly attempted to hijack a plane at one of Australia's major regional airports.

The father of murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio has made an impassioned plea in the hope his killer will disclose the whereabouts of his son’s remains before he dies.

German backpacker Carolina Wilga was found by a member of the public injured and ravaged by mosquitoes but, miraculously, alive after 12 days missing in the outback.

WATCH: A man has tried to evade police after crashing the van he was driving, before being run over by an unmarked police car. WARNING GRAPHIC VISION.