| News By Topic » |
| Business » |
| Forum Watch » |
| Technology » |
| Top Wires » |
| Region Editions » |
| Africa » |
| Asia: East » |
| Asia: South East » |
| Asia: South » |
| Europe » |
| Middle East » |
| Oceania » |
| Australia » |
| Canada » |
| New Zealand » |
| South Africa » |
| United Kingdom » |
| United States » |
| News Services » |
| News Feeds » |
| Site Info. » |
| About » |
| Contact » |
| FAQ » |
| Site Submission » |
| User Menu » |
| Set Timezone » [ UTC -4 ] |
[ Auto updated [7] minutes ago ]
| 2010-03-11 21:43 | ABC News Online | Ex-Idol wins $30k music prize Former Australian idol contestant Lisa Mitchell has won the Australian Music Prize for 2009.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 21:28 | ABC News Online | East Timor bones affair 'embarrassing' for Australia East Timor says it is embarrassing for Australia that NT police took five years to test remains believed to be those of the country's first prime minister.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 21:13 | ABC News Online | Students severely burnt in science lab explosion Two students at a high school in Sydney's west have been taken to hospital with third degree burns after an accident in a science lab.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 21:13 | ABC News Online | Dragun inquest hears drug side effects under reported An inquest into the death of a newsreader on anti-depressants has heard there is an 'under reporting' of the side effects of prescription drugs in Australia.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 21:13 | ABC News Online | Day-to-day random searches 'not planned' The Police Minister, Rob Johnson, has dismissed criticism by a senior federal Liberal MP of the state's proposed stop and search powers.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 21:13 | Radio Australia | Fiji braces for new cyclone | ||
| 2010-03-11 20:58 | ABC News Online | Murder accused wife weeps in court An Adelaide woman weeps in court, denying she murdered her husband by setting his genitals alight.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 20:58 | ABC News Online | Scientology insider details 'nightmare' childhood A former Scientologist who says she was a "child slave" and alleges she saw a six-year-old boy chained up in a ship's hold, is disappointed the Senate has blocked a full inquiry into the religious organisation.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 20:43 | ABC News Online | Antarctica once had tropical climate, scientists say An international team of scientists who have arrived back in Hobart from Antarctica say they have evidence the icy continent once had a tropical climate.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 20:43 | ABC News Online | Appeal for man missing from mental health unit Police are hoping the public can help them find a man who has absconded from a mental health facility at Randwick in Sydney's east.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 20:28 | ABC News Online | Business bears brunt of interest margin increase A Reserve Bank report estimates the major banks have enjoyed a 20 to 25 basis point increase in interest margins during the financial crisis.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 20:13 | ABC News Online | Rudd woos Keneally on hospitals, tax New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally says her meeting with the Prime Minister over his planned federal hospitals funding takeover this morning has allayed her concerns about the impact of the yet-to-be released Henry tax review.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 19:58 | ABC News Online | Pet death prompts axe-wielding outburst Worse than a bull in a china shop, a man whose bird died goes back to a pet shop with an axe.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 19:58 | ABC News Online | Case against Geelong star 'weak and tenuous' A court has been told drug charges against Geelong footballer Mathew Stokes are weak and tenuous and should be dropped.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 19:43 | ABC News Online | Woman runs over husband twice A New Zealand man is recovering from injuries after being run over by his wife - twice.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 19:43 | ABC News Online | Expense scandal MPs invoke 320-year-old law Four British lawmakers have told a judge they will use a 320-year-old law as a defence against prosecution over allegations they dishonestly claimed parliamentary expenses.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 19:43 | ABC News Online | $2m on offer for V8 grand slam The V8 Supercars bosses have upped the stakes for drivers, introducing a grand slam incentive.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 19:28 | ABC News Online | Navy intercepts another asylum boat The 23rd asylum-seekers' boat to arrive in Australian waters this year has been intercepted by the Australian Navy.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 19:28 | ABC News Online | HMAS Success sailors in public sex act, inquiry told An inquiry has heard allegations that sailors from HMAS Success were involved in a public sex act which was witnessed by several of their colleagues.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 19:28 | ABC News Online | Baby elephant shuffles along path to recovery Taronga Zoo's new infant Asian elephant has had a restful night in the elephant barn and zoo keepers continue to be amazed by its progress.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 19:13 | ABC News Online | Toddlers' alleged chilli attacker out of hospital A Sydney court has decided not to release a man accused of attacking children in prams with chilli powder.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 19:13 | The Age (World) | Atom smasher to be shut GENEVA The Large Hadron Collider is to close for a year to repair mistakes made in construction.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:58 | ABC News Online | Crew from asylum boats transferred to Darwin Crew members from asylum seeker boats at Christmas Island are being transferred to a detention centre in Darwin.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:43 | ABC News Online | 5 dead in Pakistan shootings Pakistani authorities say unidentified gunmen killed five people, including the head of a hardline religious organisation, in two separate shooting incidents in Karachi.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:43 | ABC News Online | Sea Shepherd activist facing arrest in Japan A New Zealand anti-whaling activist being held on a Japanese harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month is likely to be arrested when he arrives in Tokyo harbour today.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:43 | ABC News Online | Toddler dies after being run over by taxi 22-month-old girl dies in hospital after being run over by a taxi van in the driveway of a house.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:28 | ABC News Online | Australia on internet enemy watchlist A top media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report published on countries that pose a threat of internet censorship.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:28 | ABC News Online | US weighs black boxes for cars US safety regulators are considering whether to make "black boxes" mandatory for all new vehicles in response to recent unintended acceleration problems in Toyota vehicles.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:28 | ABC News Online | Rail disaster escape system stalls An emergency system to allow train passengers to escape from a crash has been delayed.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:28 | ABC News Online | Obama gives Nobel prize money to charity US president Barack Obama will give his $US1.4 million ($1.5m) Nobel Peace Prize award money to 10 charities, including groups working on Haiti relief and supporting military families.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:28 | ABC News Online | Illegal immigrant accused of $1m theft An alleged illegal immigrant from Indonesia will today face more than 130 charges in court, after being accused of laundering more than $1 million worth of stolen cheques in Sydney.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:28 | ABC News Online | Australian companies missing out Australian engineers say they are missing out on the booming Liquefied Natural Gas industry because design contracts are being given to overseas firms.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:28 | ABC News Online | Concern over missing waste dump documents The Greens say newly released documents prove the assessment of sites for a proposed nuclear waste dump in the NT is incomplete.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 18:28 | ABC News Online | Individual liberties under threat: Hockey Federal Opposition frontbencher Joe Hockey has hit out at a push by state and territory governments to increase police powers, saying it threatens individual liberty.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 17:43 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | ACCC slams price gouging at Sydney Airport ANDREW WEST AND MATT O'SULLIVAN FOR the fourth year in a row Sydney Airport has been rated the country's worst large airport, charging the highest average prices per passenger, a report from the competition watchdog reveals.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 17:43 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Cut rail fares for flyers: report ANDREW WEST RAIL travel to Sydney Airport would soar by 1.1 million journeys a year if the private operators of the airport train stations agreed to slash fares, a consultant's report has found.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 17:28 | ABC News Online | Abbott says no plans for new taxes Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he does not intend to promise any more new taxes.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 17:13 | ABC News Online | General strike sparks violence in Athens Police in Greece have clashed with demonstrators protesting against government plans to solve the country's debt crisis with tax increases and spending cuts.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 17:13 | ABC News Online | US sushi chef charged with serving whale A California sushi chef and the restaurant in which he worked have been charged with illegally serving meat from an endangered sei whale, the US Justice Department said.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 17:13 | ABC News Online | Neo-Nazi to be extradited over Auschwitz heist A court in Sweden has ruled that one of its citizens can be extradited to Poland in connection with the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the former Auschwitz concentration camp.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 17:13 | ABC News Online | World's oldest dram unveiled in Scotland A Scottish whisky firm has unveiled bottles of what it claims is the oldest single malt whisky in the world.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 16:58 | ABC News Online | Two dead in Pacific Highway crash Two people are dead following a head-on crash on the Pacific Highway.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 16:58 | ABC News Online | Opposition slams 'objectionable' land acquisition proposal Sweeping powers to acquire land are being considered for a new authority to drive urban renewal in Sydney.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 16:43 | ABC News Online | Security guards allowed high-powered guns The New South Wales Greens have raised concerns about new gun laws which mean security guards can now carry high-powered firearms.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 16:28 | ABC News Online | Rainy season brings new threat to Haiti The International Red Cross is warning of a new humanitarian crisis in Haiti, with the approaching rainy season set to wreak havoc in overcrowded 'tent cities'.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 16:28 | ABC News Online | Sri Lanka's former army chief to face trial The Sri Lankan military has announced it will put defeated presidential candidate and former army chief General Sarath Fonseka on trial next week.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 16:13 | ABC News Online | Biden moves to salvage Middle East peace talks The US vice-president has sought to salvage peace talks between Israel and Palestinian leaders, despite an ongoing row over new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 16:13 | ABC News Online | Woman's skull fractured after being hit by golf ball Victoria Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was hit in the temple by a golf ball through the open window of her taxi.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 16:13 | ABC News Online | Fighter jet program faces budget blowout There has been more criticism of the Joint Strike Fighter program in the US, with concerns raised about budget blowouts and delays.... |
||
| 2010-03-11 16:13 | ABC News Online | Insulation fault suspected in latest house fire Fire investigators will sift through the ruins of a family home in western Sydney this morning, amid suspicions faulty insulation could have set it on fire.... |
