Pedestrian dies in crash near Townsville

Ethics committee rules on Caltabiano NINE months after Michael Caltabiano was terminated as a director-general for no stated reason, the ethics committee tables its report. QLD News Newman axes committee in CMC stoush NEWMAN Government...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Greece predicts return to growth in 2014

Ethics committee rules on Caltabiano NINE months after Michael Caltabiano was terminated as a director-general for no stated reason, the ethics committee tables its report. QLD News Newman axes committee in CMC stoush NEWMAN Government...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

UK PM 'following' escort agency on Twitter

British Prime Minister David Cameron has been following a high-class escort agency on Twitter. Source: AAP BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has been following the exploits of a high-class escort agency on Twitter. One of the prime...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Cyclone warning issued for southern India

A TROPICAL cyclone over the Bay of Bengal is likely to hit coastal areas of India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh over the next 24 hours, with evacuations set to begin soon, officials said on Thursday. Cyclone Helen is predicted to bring...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Aussie tour a long shot for Python show

MONTY Python haven't ruled out eventually touring their reunion show to Australia although John Cleese has joked it would be easier to travel to another planet. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's quick, easy and free.) Continue...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Ryanair opens new destinations for 2014

Ethics committee rules on Caltabiano NINE months after Michael Caltabiano was terminated as a director-general for no stated reason, the ethics committee tables its report. QLD News Newman axes committee in CMC stoush NEWMAN Government...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

UK women 'held for 30 years'

Ethics committee rules on Caltabiano NINE months after Michael Caltabiano was terminated as a director-general for no stated reason, the ethics committee tables its report. QLD News Newman axes committee in CMC stoush NEWMAN Government...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Mock funeral held for NT education

Several hundred people have staged a mock funeral in Darwin to protest massive school funding costs. Source: AAP SEVERAL hundred schoolkids and their parents have laid flowers on a coffin in front of the Northern Territory parliament at a mock...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Desperate Labor lies on costings: Hockey

SHADOW treasurer Joe Hockey has defended the coalition's $31.6 billion of proposed savings, saying Labor's accusations that they don't add up are "dead wrong". News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's quick, easy and free.)...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Rolf Harris charged with assaulting girls

Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is to be charged with nine courts of indecent assault in the UK. Source: AAP ROLF Harris will appear in a London court next month charged with indecently assaulting two teenage girls in the 1980s and more...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Australians told to leave Syria now

Only ever one choice for Izzy LEAGUE never stood a chance. While Israel Folau had thoughts about returning to the NRL, he wasn't going back even for the most enticing offer. Places selfies should be banned WHO takes a selfie...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Rudd to unveil outer suburbs plan

Only ever one choice for Izzy LEAGUE never stood a chance. While Israel Folau had thoughts about returning to the NRL, he wasn't going back even for the most enticing offer. Places selfies should be banned WHO takes a selfie...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Young women have more IVF success: study

Only ever one choice for Izzy LEAGUE never stood a chance. While Israel Folau had thoughts about returning to the NRL, he wasn't going back even for the most enticing offer. Places selfies should be banned WHO takes a selfie...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Hockney aide killed by acid drink

Only ever one choice for Izzy LEAGUE never stood a chance. While Israel Folau had thoughts about returning to the NRL, he wasn't going back even for the most enticing offer. Places selfies should be banned WHO takes a selfie...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Egypt police say will use live bullets

EGYPT'S interior ministry has instructed police to use live ammunition in dealing with Islamist attacks on government buildings and police forces, the ministry says. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's quick, easy and free.)...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Tourist loses arm in Hawaii shark attack

Hodges in extension talks Peter Badel INJURED Broncos centre Justin Hodges is negotiating with the Broncos to extend his career at Red Hill beyond next season. If Disney princesses had Instagram accounts BLOGGER creates Instagram account...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Egyptian militants kill 4 soldiers

MILITANTS in Egypt's Sinai peninsula have killed four soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint, security officials and medics say. Thursday's attack took place near the northern Sinai town of El-Arish, one of the flashpoints in a semi-insurgency by...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Obama cancels US exercises with Egypt

PRESIDENT Barack Obama says the United States has cancelled military exercises with Egypt to protest the killing of hundreds of protesters. Obama on Thursday urged Egypt's army-installed authorities to lift a state of emergency and allow peaceful...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

US stocks tumble

US stocks have moved sharply lower in early trade as bond yields surged on a solid jobless claims report and disappointing earnings outlooks from Dow components Cisco and Walmart. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's quick,...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

British broadcaster on indecency charges

BRITISH radio presenter Dave Lee Travis has been charged with 11 counts of indecent assault of women and girls as young as 15 and one count of sexual assault, prosecutors said. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's quick, easy...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Rudd goes to WA, Abbott returns to Vic

Hodges in extension talks Peter Badel INJURED Broncos centre Justin Hodges is negotiating with the Broncos to extend his career at Red Hill beyond next season. If Disney princesses had Instagram accounts BLOGGER creates Instagram account...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Portuguese unemployment hits record 17.7%

PORTUGAL'S unemployment rate rose sharply in the first quarter of 2013 to a record high 17.7 per cent from 16.9 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year, data from the national statistics institute INE shows. For the whole of 2013 the government...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Kenya asks UN to drop ICC charges

KENYA has written to the UN Security Council seeking to scrap the international crimes against humanity trials for President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Vice President William Ruto, according to a letter seen on Thursday. Kenyatta, 51, voted into power...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Technology changes how we chat to mum

TECHNOLOGY is changing the way Australians communicate with their mums, with more using social media and video calls to stay in touch, new research suggests. But no matter what method is used, it seems one thing will never change - we still call...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Remote students less likely to reach uni

HIGH school students from remote and disadvantaged Queensland schools are less likely to be accepted into university. Year 12 completion rates are almost universal across the state, with close to 100 per cent of students at most state and Christian...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

US kidnap suspect called himself predator

FOUND inside the house where Ariel Castro allegedly held three women captive for a decade was a note from 2004 in which he called himself "a sexual predator" in need of help, local media reported. Castro, 52, was arraigned on Thursday for the...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Slain Boston bomber suspect finally buried

SLAIN Boston Marathon bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has finally been buried, ending a growing row over what to do with his body, police in the Massachusetts town of Worcester say. "As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Seoul to aid companies shut out of Kaesong

SOUTH Korea's government will provide more than $US270 million ($A263.88 million) in emergency loans to help companies affected by the shutdown of a jointly run factory park in North Korea. The finance ministry said on Thursday the 300 billion...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

China reports 27th death from bird flu

The death toll from the H7N9 bird flu virus in China has risen to 25, state media reports. Source: AAP THE death toll from the H7N9 bird flu virus has risen to 27, state media says, after a man died in central China's Hunan Province. The...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

I'll ditch the NDIS levy: Palmer

Clive Palmer says there is no justification for raising the Medicare Levy to help pay for the NDIS. Source: AAP CLIVE Palmer says his United Australia Party would abolish the increase in the Medicare Levy designed to help pay for the national...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

UN sounds alarm on record Arctic ice melt

THE Arctic's sea ice melted at a record pace in 2012, the ninth-hottest year on record, compounding concerns about climate change underscored by extreme weather such as Hurricane Sandy, the UN weather agency says. In a report on the situation...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Major Australian exhibition in London

THE British are being encouraged to overcome their "shameful ignorance" of Australian art by attending the most extensive exhibition of Australian works ever shown in the United Kingdom. It was revealed on Thursday that the Prince of Wales will...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Nationals WA president stands down

COLIN Holt has stood down as The Nationals' West Australian president because of his increasingly heavy parliamentary workload. Mr Holt, who held the position for four years, was last month appointed parliamentary secretary to the minister for...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

US boy, 5, accidentally shoots sister dead

A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy playing with a rifle given to him as a gift accidentally shot dead his younger sister, officials say, thrusting the issue of US gun violence back into the spotlight. The boy's two-year-old sister was pronounced dead after being...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Legacy donations stolen from NSW RSL club

DONATIONS for the families of defence personnel have been stolen from an RSL club on the NSW south coast in a "shocking" robbery in the early hours of Anzac Day, police say. An unknown number of people broke into the Bomaderry club about 2.20am...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Remains found in missing Vic woman's home

HUMAN remains have been found in the home of an 82-year-old Melbourne woman who has been missing for almost two years. Phyllis Kelly was last seen on August 20, 2011, at the State Theatre, just after 6pm. She had not accessed her bank account...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

40 survivors found in Bangladesh collapse

FORTY people have been found alive in a room inside a collapsed garment factory compound in Bangladesh, the army said in an announcement greeted by loud cheers from waiting relatives. "We've found 40 people alive in a room," an army spokesman...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

UN votes to send peacekeepers to Mali

THE UN Security Council has unanimously backed sending up to 12,600 international troops and police to take over from French and African forces battling Islamist guerrillas in Mali. The United Nations is aiming for a July 1 start by the new...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

US weekly jobless claims drop

NEW claims for US unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level since mid-March, the government says, in a fresh sign of a slowly improving job market. Initial jobless claims totalled 339,000 in the week ending April 20, down from...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Palmer to re-form UAP party for election

BILLIONAIRE miner Clive Palmer has come good on threats to set up his own political party, saying he will personally run for federal parliament. Mr Palmer told ABC TV on Thursday he was re-forming the United Australia Party (UAP), which was dissolved...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Google foretells stock movements: study

GOOGLE Trends, a tool that looks at patterns of searches on the internet, is a potential money-spinner for investors as it provides hints of impending stock movements, a study says. Researchers led by Tobias Preis at Warwick Business School in...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Man charged over bus driver assault

A MAN will face court after he allegedly bashed a bus driver in western Sydney. Police said they charged the man, 42, with assault occasioning actual bodily harm following an incident on a bus at Chester Hill about 11.15am (AEST) on Wednesday....

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Car thieves looking to smartphones

CAR thieves in the near future may need nothing more than a smartphone to steal a vehicle, a security expert says. Chris Vargyas, from British police security initiative Secured by Design, says car thieves are increasingly using sophisticated...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

PM braced for education COAG showdown

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard is bracing for a showdown on education funding when she meets with state and territory leaders in Canberra. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting kicks off from about 9am (AEST) on Friday. The $14.5...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Toyota's hybrid vehicle sales pass 5m

TOYOTA says its global sales of gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles have exceeded five million in a milestone for a technology that was initially greeted with skepticism. Toyota Motor Corp. said on Wednesday it had sold 5.125 million hybrid vehicles...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Twitter to mine people's tweets for ads

TWITTER has begun allowing ads to be targeted at users based on the words written in 'tweets' and messages forwarded to followers at the popular social network. Previously, contents of Twitter messages relied on algorithms that pool the interests...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Swan warns against 'mindless austerity'

TREASURER Wayne Swan has warned major economies against leaning toward "mindless austerity" to repair their balance sheets, as Labor prepares for its own tough budget choices. Mr Swan is in Washington this week for the spring round of top level...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Melb Exhibition Centre upgrade vital: VACC

THE future of motor shows in Victoria hinges on an upgrade of Melbourne's Exhibition Centre, the state's peak automotive industry says. The Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC) is urging the state government to extend and upgrade...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Teachers behind kids with mobile devices

STUDENTS want to use their smart devices to learn, but many of their teachers don't have the smarts to teach them. A doctorate thesis by New Zealand student Kathryn MacCallum found tertiary students were very comfortable using smartphones and...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Prince Harry appoints private secretary

PRINCE Harry has appointed a former army officer to be his first dedicated private secretary. Edward Lane Fox, who served in the prince's regiment, the Household Cavalry's Blues and Royals, before moving into public relations, will take up the...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Clinton to pen 'ultimate book' on world

HILLARY Clinton, whose every move is being scrutinised for signs she might make a 2016 presidential run, has announced she's penning a book outlining her views on the United States' role in the world. The ex-secretary of state's first book since...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Londoners bemused by snow in April

DO snow showers bring May flowers? Londoners had to wonder on Thursday after looking at the calendar and looking out the window. Snow flurries swirled through the British capital, failing to stick but giving residents the sense that winter...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Pakistan acquits Christian on death row

A PAKISTANI court has acquitted a Christian man who was sentenced to death for blasphemy six years ago in the country's second largest city, lawyers say. Younis Masih, 34, a labourer, was arrested in September 2005 in the low-income Qenchi Amar...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

Four million displaced inside Syria: UN

THE UN is hiking its estimates of people trapped in Syria after fleeing their homes, saying some four million are now displaced inside the country and in dire need of international help. The figure, due to be officially released in the coming...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More

China reports fifth H7N9 bird flu death

A NEW strain of bird flu has claimed two more lives in China's business capital of Shanghai, taking the total number of human deaths attributed to the H7N9 virus to five, state media says. Four of the deaths have occurred in the commercial hub,...

23.44 | 0 komentar | Read More