Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in the United Kingdom. The 83-year-old Pontiff was greeted by the Queen in Edinburgh before celebrating Mass for 70,000 Scottish Catholics. He told the crowd that secularism in the UK threatened to damage society and tha...
The Opposition isn't backing Rob Oakeshott's bid to become Speaker. The government is seeking legal advice, but one constitutional expert says there is no legal reason stopping the move. George Williams warns though, it will make the operations of Pa...
Malcolm Turnbull has been given the brief to demolish the government's National Broadband Network. Tony Abbott has appointed the former opposition leader as communications spokesman. While labeling the government's plan a white elephant, Mr Turnbull...
Labor's new frontbench will be sworn in today. In a last-minute change, Julia Gillards reinstated the Indigenous health portfolio. The government had been under fire from Indigenous groups for dumping that portfolio. The Federal Opposition says Kevin...
Complaints have already started about Julia Gillard's new ministry that hasn't even been sworn in. The prime minister has upset universities by splitting education between at least two ministers. They say putting higher education under Senator Chris...
A trough is spreading across WA and is causing areas of rain. Patchy low cloud is clipping southern Victoria and western Tasmania, that's causing the occasional shower. A high in the east is keeping the weather mostly clear. In Queensland, isolated s...
US stocks finished the week with the 7th gain in eight sessions. Improvement in the trade deficit and some better than expected jobs data pushed the Dow up half a per cent. Across the Atalantic, London's FTSE 100 hit a four-month closing high for the...
The US President Barack Obama has joined international condemnation of a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Koran. Mr Obama says the burning would be a recruitment bonanza for Al Qaeda. He's appealing to the congregation's pastor to consider...
A policeman is in critical condition after being shot during a drug raid in Sydney's southwest overnight. Police were searching a Bankstown flat for drugs when it happened. Dozens of riot police descended on the area and residents were ordered to sta...
While the uncertainty is finally over, now the hard work begins. Julia Gillard's first task will be sorting out her ministry after scraping back into government. She needs to find a spot for her predecessor Kevin Rudd, and she's also offered independ...
