US President Barack Obama has cautiously praised the country's latest jobs figures. The unemployment rate remained steady at 9.6 per cent in October, but the government says 151,000 positions were created. The jobless rate matched the expectations, b...
The European Aviation Safety Authority issued a warning in August about Rolls-Royce engines used in some A380 planes, saying that they were potentially unsafe. Now it's not known whether that warning was acted upon, but engine maker Rolls-Royce says...
President Barack Obama says he understands voter discontent with the state of the economy. The Republican Party has had a sweeping victory in the mid-term elections, winning control of the House of Representatives. The Democrats are clinging to a sli...
The Federal Government is working on a plan to improve competition between the banks. It's likely that package will include a number of the Coalition's ideas. The Treasurer Wayne Swan says he'll announce a range of policy changes next month to try an...
Fifty-two people are now known to have died during an operation to free worshippers held by gunmen inside a Baghdad church. One hundred and twenty people were held in the Catholic church for at least four hours. When Iraqi security forces stormed the...
Qatar Airways has admitted that one of the bombs posted from Yemen last week was originally transported on two passenger planes before being seized in Dubai. Two suspected al-Qaeda packages from Yemen were intercepted in Dubai and Britain on Friday....
The number of people killed in the tsunami off west Sumatra is expected to climb to more than 500. Officials in the Mentawai Islands are finding more victims of the tsunami that struck on Monday night. Three hundred and forty people so far are confir...
A band of cloud over the east in a trough is causing heavy rain over Victoria and showers through New South Wales and southern Queensland. Thick cloud over the Northern Territory in moist and stable air is triggering widespread thunderstorms, clear s...
Australian shares have been hit by a steady stream of profit-taking as investors gear up for a raft of local and international economic data due out next week. Both the All Ordinaries Index and the ASX200 have closed down about 0.5%. Shares in Macqua...
Indonesian officials say an early warning system failed to alert locals before a tsunami wiped out about ten villages on the tiny Mentawai Islands. More than 270 people have been killed in the three-metre tsunami with another 400 still missing. Techn...
