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 2010-03-11 23:43     ABC News Online    BA worker fronts court over bomb plot
A British Airways computer expert has appeared in a British court accused of planning suicide bombings and his own martyrdom....

 2010-03-11 23:43     ABC News Online    Income management harms health: Doctors
The Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association has called for a halt to compulsory welfare quarantining for Indigenous people in the Northern Territory....

 2010-03-11 23:28     Radio Australia    UN to quiz NZ on stun guns
 2010-03-11 23:13     ABC News Online    Ex-cop's case against Nine goes belly up
A former Sydney police officer has lost her legal battle to preview the latest series of Underbelly so she could she if she had been legally defamed....

 2010-03-11 23:13     Radio Australia    55,000 in poverty in French Polynesia, says study
 2010-03-11 22:58     ABC News Online    Japan arrests anti-whaling activist
Japanese police have arrested New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune on his arrival in Tokyo....

 2010-03-11 22:43     ABC News Online    Floods have stretched Qld 's resources: Bligh
Premier Anna Bligh says record flooding in parts of regional Queensland has stretched the state's resources....

 2010-03-11 22:28     ABC News Online    Council brothel inspector jailed over bribes
A western Sydney council brothel inspector has been jailed for at least 15 months for corruption....

 2010-03-11 22:13     ABC News Online    Driving hoon pretended to be cop, court told
A court is told a driver who crashed into parked cars told a witness he was a police officer, then fled....

 2010-03-11 21:58     ABC News Online    Top US senator's wife, daughter hurt in car crash
The wife of Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid has suffered a broken back and broken neck, and his daughter a neck injury and facial cuts in a car accident in Washington....

 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....


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