A learner driver is believed to have been behind the wheel of a car that crashed into a power pole on the NSW mid-north coast, killing two young passengers.

Oprah Winfrey will host her final talk show in 2011, ending a 25-year run.

Nick Waterlow was defeated by his son's mental illness, an "enemy" that gripped the family for decades, a funeral service for the Sydney art curator has heard.

A country Victorian school teacher who had sex with two of her students has been sentenced jail for more than four years.

Two extra total fire bans for areas of NSW have been issued by the RFS, leaving just three regions free of bans as the state swelters through a heatwave.

Bikie and former boxing champion Edward Yost made videotapes of himself bashing his girlfriend before he finally murdered her.