A high school has banned “early marks” while teachers have been told to crack down on students vaping in the classroom “and exhaling out the windows” amid a 771 per cent increase in e-cigarette incidents in schools.

Home-seekers will need to earn nearly $200,000 a year to be able to afford the typical Sydney house following another explosion in property prices last year.

A woman who claims to have handed her baby son to a woman in a Sydney convenience store has been ­jailed for six months after ­refusing to reveal the whereabouts of the boy. 

And heavyweight global broadcasters who have paid tens of billions of dollars for the rights to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games are dramatically scaling back news coverage of sensitive Chinese issues, amid a nervousness about the safety of staff on the ground.

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