The Federal Government is denying it's doing a trade-off for the US government on asylum seekers. Australia has agreed to take three Guantanamo Bay detainees from the US. The ABC has been told the move is related to the US government's decision to ac...
There are fears that a coal ship stranded on the Great Barrier Reef could break up, spilling more oil. The Chinese ship was off course when it ran aground in a protected area of the reef east of Rockhampton on Saturday. Up to four tonnes of oil has s...
Hello, Nick Dole with the National Weather. Cloud across the south of the continent is generating thunderstorms over the Nullarbor, while cloud over the tropics is also bringing wet weather.There are some light showers on the New South Wales and Vict...
Qantas is promising to cooperate with an investigation into its safety practices. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is stepping up surveillance of Qantas operations and conducting a detailed review of its procedures. It follows two separate inciden...
Good morning. The Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused foreign election observers of fraud during last year's disputed vote. Mr. Karzai says the then deputy head of the UN mission Peter Galbraith had been feeding details to the international med...
Qantas is investigating how a tyre exploded on one of its planes as it landed in Sydney last night. The A380s nose-wheel tyre burst as it hit the tarmac. No one was hurt, but passengers had to wait on board two hours and now face more inconvenience....
Security officials in Russia say theyve made important breakthroughs in the investigation into the metro bombing. They say video surveillance shows the two suspected suicide bombers had accomplices. Local media says there is new evidence that links t...
Mining giant Rio Tinto says the jailing of four employees, including Australian Stern Hu won't affect its relationship with China. Hu and three colleagues were found guilty of commercial spying and bribery yesterday. Stern Hu's received a 10-year sen...
The Federal Government's confirmed that four detainees have escaped Sydney's Villawood detention centre in the last month. All four have since been recaptured and the Government says security is now tighter. Another 90 asylum seekers will move to Vil...
Hello, Nick Lucchinelli with the National Weather. A tropical low and weak monsoon is driving heavy rain and storms over northern parts of the territory in Queensland. Thick cloud over coastal South Australia is bringing rain, mainly to the west. In...
