A meeting between the French and German leaders to discuss Europes debt crisis has failed to calm nerves on world markets. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are pushing for closer economic coordination in the eurozo...
Two people are dead and a woman is critically injured after a light plane crashed in western Victoria overnight. A 43-year-old woman has been flown to hospital in Melbourne, suffering from serious head, chest and abdominal injuries. A 69-year-old man...
A man will face a Brisbane court today charged with the murder of Queensland schoolboy Daniel Morcombe. Police are continuing to search rugged bushland near the Glass House Mountains for his body. The boy disappeared almost eight years ago while wait...
The weather satellite image shows there is a strong cold front surging into western Australia, spreading strong winds, rain and a few scoreless storms through the west. Mild and fresh northerly winds are pushing into eastern WA and South Australia ah...
All stock markets across the globe haveended a tumultuous week with gains. In the United States, markets ended thesession stronger for a second day in a row partly thanks to positive salesfigures. The Dow is up 126 points; the Nasdaq has risen 15 poi...
The long-running Mr Men book series turns 40 this week. The very first Mr Men character was Mr Tickle. The long-armed bright orange character was created by author Roger Hargreaves in 1971. He got the idea when his six-year-old son asked what does a...
Marshall Grant from Johnny Cash's band, the Tennessee Two, has died. He was the bass player in the band, playing here on the left from 1954 until 1980. Marshall Grant was in Arkansas for a Johnny Cash Festival when he suffered an aneurysm and stroke....
The cult classic '80s movie Dirty Dancing is getting remade. Film studio Lionsgate has confirmed it will produce a new version of the popular coming-of-age movie which starred the late Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. Dirty Dancing won Oscars for be...
There have been dramatic scenes in London overnight with riots extending into a third day. The area of Croydon in the city's south was cordoned off as a building there was set alight. The Prime Minister David Cameron is reportedly boarding a plane to...
A collection of Bruce Lee memorabilia has gone under the hammer in Hong Kong nearly 40 years after the Kung Fu star's death. Thirteen items from a private collection were auctioned off, netting just over 200,000 Australian dollars for the owner. The...
A band of clouds stretching from southern Queensland through to New South Wales will bring stormy showers. Patchy cloud over South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania will generate scattered showers. Some isolated showers about the Quee...
Instability remains on global stock markets despite better-than-expected jobs figures in the United States. The US economy generated 117,000 jobs last month, cutting the unemployment rate to 9.1 percent. The data caused US and European markets to ral...
The phone hacking scandal engulfing the UK media has attracted another high-profile name. Heather Mills, the ex-wife of Beatle Paul McCartney, says a senior journalist from the Mirror admitted to hacking into her phone and listening to her voicemail...
After more than 30 years at the helm, Edmund Capon is stepping down as head of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He oversaw a period of transformation, boosting the gallery's profile. He hit the headlines three years ago when he purchased a $16 mil...
It was a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious evening at the Helpmann Awards in Sydneys Opera House last night. Mary Poppins scored a record eight awards from 12 nominations including best musical and best male and female actors in the musical. It also...
