Economic growth in Europe has faltered despite governments spending billions of dollars in stimulus. New figures show that in the final quarter of last year, growth in the 16 eurozone countries was 0.1%. Spain is in its 6th quarter of negative growth...
The former US President Bill Clinton has been taken to hospital in New York, he was admitted suffering from chest pains and has already undergone surgery to unblock two arteries. In 2004, President Clinton had a quadruple bypass operation. The Federa...
Australian citizen Stern Hu and three other Rio Tinto employees will stand trial in China charged with stealing commercial secrets and accepting bribes. It's alleged they used improper means to obtain secrets and bribes from several Chinese steel fir...
Toyota is in damage control after it was forced to recall more than 400,000 Hybrid cars because of braking problems. The global recall includes 2,500 Prius vehicles in Australia. And the Japanese carmaker is facing another investigation in the US wit...
Prosecutors have charged Michael Jackson's doctor with involuntary manslaughter. Michael Jackson's family arrived at the LA court to see Conrad Murray charged over the singer's death. Dr. Murray is accused of acting without caution when he administer...
Rescuers are still searching for survivors of a massive explosion at a power plant in the US state of Connecticut. Up to 50 people were reportedly feared dead and dozens more have been injured. It's believed the explosion was caused by a ruptured gas...
Hello, Kirsty Heenan with the National Weather. Checking the satellite picture first and a cloud across much of the east is generating showers and storms in Queensland and flooding in eastern New South Wales. Cloud across the interior and south is tr...
US President Barack Obama says new jobs figures show the United States is climbing out of a huge hole created by the recession. But he has also cautioned the figures are not cause for celebration. The jobless rate fell to 9.7% in January from 10% in...
Thereve been chaotic scenes outside a Port-au-Prince court where 10 Americans have been charged with child abduction. The five men and five women were arrested nearly a week ago, after trying to take a busload of Haitian children out of the country....
The Federal Communications Minister has rejected criticism of his handling of plans for a National Broadband Network. An Auditors-General report says an initial tender process aborted by the government in April last year cost taxpayers 17 million dol...
