The US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has pulled out of the race to become the country's next secretary of state. She says the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly. US President Barack Obama has confirmed Ms Rice...
The star of Hey, Dad! Robert Hughes has arrived in Australia after his extradition from Britain. Police want to question the 64-year-old over several allegations of child sexual assault in the 1980s. His flight landed at Sydney airport moments ago, i...
And HSBC has confirmed it's to pay a record fine of 1.9 billion dollars in a settlement over a money laundering. A US senate investigation earlier in the year found the bank had been a conduit for drug kingpins and rogue nations. The bank had been ex...
The 2Day FM radio presenters behind the royal phone prank that went tragically wrong says it was not their decision to broadcast the recording. They've apologised to the family of the British nurse who took their call and was later found dead. The ho...
The management of Sydney radio station 2-Day FM says it will cooperate fully with any investigations into a royal prank call that ended in tragedy. The London hospital at the centre of the hoax has officially complained after the nurse who took the c...
When the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was up 13 points. The Dax and Euro were down. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is up. The SP 500 is also up, while the Nasdaq is down 12 points. A...
A trough over Queensland is triggering potentially severe storms in northern Australia. While hot, northerly winds are filtering into South Australia and Vicotria. Finally troughs over WA, South Australia, and in the Northern Territory are triggering...
New South Wales police are mourning the death of a respected colleague who was attacked as he tried to stop a neighbourhood dispute. Detective inspector Bryson Anderson was fatally wounded just moments after arriving at the Oakville property in Sydne...
Philanthropist and meida matriarch dame Elizabeth Murdoch has died. She was 103, she passed away peacefully surrounded by her family at her home outside Melbourne. Dame Elizabeth was a renowned patron of the arts and a tireless charity worker. Violen...
And big four banks haven't revealed whether they'll pass on their interest rate cut in full. The official cash rate is now three percent and it's the lowest it has been since the peak of the financial crisis back in 2008. ING Direct was the first to...
Many economists are predicting the Reserve Bank will deliver an early-Christmas present when it holds its final meeting of the year today. Financial market are betting on a quarter of one percentage point interest rate cut. Latest figures show a slow...
A new CSRIO report warns average temperatures will rise by up to six degrees celsius by the turn of the century, because of increasing air pollution. It says greenhouse gas emissions rose by three percent last year and almost as much as that again th...
And when the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was down. The Dax and Euro was were also down. In the US, trading comes to close shortly and the Dow Jones is down. The SP 500 is down as well. And the Australian dollar i...
A trough is triggering rain and storms over parts of New South Wales, Victoria, South and West Australia and the Northern Territory. Meanwhile hot northwesterly winds are moving into Queensland and New South Wales. There is also the odd shower in sou...
Lord Justice Leveson says the British media has wreaked havoc on the lives of innocent people for decades. After a year long inquiry into that country's press standards, the Leveson report calls for tougher self-regulation of the industry. Now Britis...
