Hundreds of Vic firefighters kept busy

VICTORIAN firefighters have been kept busy battling two major fires in the state's east and a number of smaller blazes closer to Melbourne. A control centre spokesman said 195 firefighters battled the 81,000-hectare Aberfeldy fire in Gippsland...

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Third death linked to Vic cheese company

A THIRD person has died following a listeria outbreak linked to soft cheeses produced in Victoria. Victoria's acting chief health officer, Dr Michael Ackland, has confirmed the death of a 68-year-old New South Wales man in late January was linked...

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Australia and NZ cement ties in Queenstown

THIRTY years of close economic ties between Australia and New Zealand have been cemented with a series of new agreements, but NZ's prime minister is the first to admit they're not on an even footing. Prime Minister Julia Gillard took part in bilateral...

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Assad reshuffles cabinet as jets strike

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has reshuffled his cabinet as his warplanes raided rebel areas. Syria is in the depths of an unprecedented economic recession because of the violence gripping the country for nearly two years, and the government...

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House arrest for Russian opposition leader

A TOP Russian opposition figure has been placed under house arrest for two months, a move that also bans him from using most forms of communication, including the internet, telephone and mail. A Moscow court imposed the restrictions on Saturday...

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India rape outrage spreads to South Africa

THE chime sounds every four minutes on the radio station, reminding listeners that statistically yet another child or woman in South Africa is being raped. It's also a call to arms for citizens outraged over the gang-rape of a teenager who was...

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Pakistani schoolgirl leaves hospital

PAKISTANI schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai has been discharged from a British hospital where she had been for nearly four months after being shot in the head by the Taliban. The 15-year-old underwent skull-reconstruction and cochlear-implant surgery...

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US stocks open higher on trade data

US stocks have opened higher following an unexpected drop in the trade deficit and strong trade data out of China. Five minutes into trade on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 23.42 points (0.17 per cent) at 13,967.47. The S&P...

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Thousands farewell slain Tunisia critic

A SEA of mourners, some wailing in grief as others angrily denounced the government, have followed the coffin of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid, whose funeral became a mass protest against Tunisia's ruling Islamists. From early on Friday...

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European stocks rise on upbeat data

EUROPEAN stock markets have closed higher as investors took heart from upbeat Chinese and US economic data and EU leaders adopted a seven-year budget for the 27-member union. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies rose 0.78 per cent to 6,276.98...

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Pilot rescued as Tas fire threat lowered

A PILOT has been rescued after his helicopter crashed while fighting a bushfire in Tasmania, where emergency bushfire warnings have been downgraded. Strong wind gusts earlier fanned a fire burning at Molesworth in the Derwent Valley, with the...

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Union wants risky mothers-to-be locked up

THE Queensland police union is calling for tougher laws to send risk-taking pregnant women into safe houses in an effort to monitor their behaviour. In a submission to the Queensland Child Protection Inquiry, the union says the rights of an...

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ICC demands Libya hand over Gaddafi ex-spy

INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court judges have demanded Libya hand over Muammar Gaddafi's former spy chief Abdullah Senoussi to face charges of crimes against humanity. The latest broadside in the legal tug-of-war between The Hague-based ICC and Tripoli...

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Man charged over NSW south coast shooting

A MAN has been charged after he allegedly shot into a home on the NSW south coast. The 26-year-old man was arrested at a house in Nowra on Thursday, after he allegedly fired several rounds into a home on McKay Street, Nowra in December last...

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US stocks open slightly lower

US stocks have opened slightly lower as the market takes a breather from the aggressive buying that has characterised most of 2013 so far. Five minutes into trade on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 14.86 points, or 0.11 per cent,...

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Woman business chief gets plum cabinet job

PRESIDENT Barack Obama will seek to add another woman to his cabinet by picking business executive Sally Jewell to head the vast Interior Department, a White House official says. Obama has been criticised for naming middle-aged white men to...

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US Post to end Saturday letter service

THE US Postal Service (USPS) has announced that it will halt letter delivery services on Saturday in an attempt to reduce costs that left it $US15.9 billion ($A15.36 billion) in the red in 2012. USPS chief Tom Donahoe, the US postmaster general,...

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Australian workers confident of pay rises

AUSTRALIAN workers are more confident than any other employees around the world about receiving a pay rise in 2013. The latest Randstad Workmonitor report says three-quarters of Australian workers are confident of a pay rise this year, a dramatic...

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Giant komodo dragon mauls two

A PARK official says two people have been hospitalised after being attacked by a giant komodo dragon that wandered into the office of a wildlife park in eastern Indonesia. An official at Komodo National Park, Heru Rudiharto, said on Wednesday...

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Leading UK Aussies meet royal couple

AUSTRALIA'S first indigenous Rhodes scholar didn't have time to get nervous before meeting Prince Charles and his wife Camilla in London. One minute Rebecca Richards was chatting with Australian high commissioner Mike Rann and the next she was...

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Happy Waitanga Day from the US

US president Barack Obama and new secretary of state, John Kerry, have wished New Zealanders a happy Waitangi Day. Kerry, who took up the job this week following Hillary Clinton's retirement, said the US and New Zealand share a strong and enduring...

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West Australians getting to know McGowan

THE decision to officially launch the West Australian Labor election campaign 10 days before the Liberals may well prove to be a masterstroke, but will it be enough to elevate leader Mark McGowan to premier? After a flurry of big-spending announcements,...

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Grylls fighting for his political life

IN the past four years, Brendon Grylls has brought royalties by the billions to the regions, while almost single-handedly reviving the power and glory of the Nationals Party in Western Australia. In the next four weeks, the Nationals WA leader...

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Play fighting over as WA campaign begins

WHEN is an election campaign not an election campaign? When Western Australia's Premier Colin Barnett says so. Despite the state's Labor opposition making more than $2 billion in rail promises, planning a new circular freeway, pledging to recruit...

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Boom state emperor digs in for long haul

THERE'S a clear irony that Australia's longest-serving Liberal premier, Colin Barnett, seems set to stay in politics for the long haul after planning to retire in 2004. The development-minded economist recently told reporters he'd consider another...

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Spain bank clean-up at 'advanced stage'

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Spain's reforms under its financial sector support program are close to being complete and the clean-up of its weakest banks is well advanced. "The program remains on track: the clean-up of undercapitalised...

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Cambodia mourns as king cremated

CAMBODIANS have bid goodbye with tears, chanting and fireworks to former King Norodom Sihanouk, their revered King-Father who led them through half a century of political tumult that took them into the abyss of genocidal Khmer Rouge rule and back...

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S Africa hikes farm worker pay by 52%

SOUTH Africa has raised farm workers' basic salary by more than 50 per cent after violent strikes in the fruit-growing Cape region in the south, the labour minister has announced. Mildred Oliphant announced the new minimum daily wage will "be...

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Kashmir cleric says girl band 'un-Islamic'

INDIAN Kashmir's most senior Muslim cleric has called for the plug to be pulled on an all-girl rock group, calling the band "un-Islamic" and accusing them of "indecent" behaviour. Pragaash (First Light) sprang to prominence last December when...

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Sri Lanka leader rules out Tamil autonomy

SRI Lanka's president has ruled out giving Tamils greater political autonomy, appearing to back away from his long-stalled promise to empower the ethnic minority as part of the country's reconciliation process following a bloody civil war. President...

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Gillard's new ministers to be sworn in

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard is wasting no time getting her new ministers straight into the job with the official swearing-in by the governor-general to be held in Canberra on Monday. With last week's surprise resignations of Senator Chris Evans...

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Poor light halts search for missing plane

A SEARCH will resume on Monday morning for an ultralight aircraft and its pilot missing north of Brisbane. Police said the aircraft, piloted by a woman in her 50s, left Caboolture around 9.15am Sunday on a trip to the Glass House Mountains....

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Libyan TV crew 'assaulted' in parliament

SECURITY guards at Libya's parliament have beaten up a crew of Alassema, an independent television network, the channel says. "A team from (Alassema TV) went to cover a meeting of the national assembly on Friday, entering as they were permitted...

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UK police use stun gun on man at palace

A MAN waving large knives outside Buckingham Palace in the presence of tourists has been shocked with a Taser stun gun and arrested, police say. The Queen and Prince Philip were at one of their weekend retreats, in Sandringham, eastern England,...

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Man charged over fatal shooting of ex-SEAL

A 25-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with murder over the deaths of former Navy SEAL and American Sniper author Chris Kyle and another man at a Texas gun range, the Texas Department of Public Safety says. Sergeant Lonny Haschel said in a news release...

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