International rescue teams in Sumatra are to head home as Indonesian authorities scale back their search for earthquake survivors. Local rescue coordinators admit there is almost no chance of finding any more survivors. The emphasis now is on providi...
Aid workers in earthquake-hit Sumatra say its unlikely they'll find survivors under the rubble. Rain is starting to hamper the rescue efforts. About 800 people are known to have died, but another 3,000 are said to be missing. The spread of disease ha...
Hello, Kirsty Heenan with the National Weather. Cloud over eastern New South Wales and Victoria in cool onshore winds is bringing widespread rain mainly near the coast. Patchy cloud over the northern tropics is causing isolated showers while cloud ov...
The latest economic data shows unemployment in the US is worse than expected. The jobless rate surged to 9.8 percent last month. A total of 263,000 jobs were lost, much more than the 175,000 analysts had expected. Economists say the figures could hur...
Rescue efforts for earthquake survivors in Indonesia are being hampered by damaged lines of communication and transport blockages. But work has still continued through the night to try and free people buried under tons of rubble. The government in Ja...
More than a thousand people are now feared dead and thousands more trapped under rubble after another major earthquake hit the Asia-Pacific region. It struck last night near the city of Padang on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and measured 7.6 on t...
A tsunami in American Samoa has reportedly killed about 40 people, flattened houses and swept away cars. The wave was caused by an 8.3-magnitude earthquake which struck 200 kilometers off the Samoan coast this morning. New Zealands Foreign Ministry s...
The Federal Government has won praise for its handling of the economy. The Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens says stimulus measures have helped keep Australia out of a recession and hes rejected calls to wind back the stimulus, saying the level of...
The Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens says the Australian economy is in recovery mode. At a Senate committee hearing in Sydney, he has described the recent economic downturn as mild. Mr. Stevens also says the government's 42-billion-dollar stimulus...
Australias push for a permanent seat at the top table has paid off. World leaders have announced the G20 will supersede the G8 as the worlds premier financial governance body. It's a win for the prime minister who has been arguing for months the G20...
The Prime Minister has arrived for a working dinner with world leaders in the US city of Pittsburgh, ahead of the G20 Summit of leading world economies. He says the Summit is a historic opportunity for countries to agree on a coordinated plan for sus...
Well, the weather is battering the country with gale force winds, dust storms and flood warnings. Large parts of New South Wales are shrouded in dust, causing floods to be diverted and ferries to be grounded. Gale force winds of up to 100 kilometers...
A west Australian man who won the right to starve himself to death has died in a Perth nursing home. Quadriplegic Christian Rossiter was confined to a wheelchair, breathed through a tube and was fed artificially. He told his cares he wanted to die, a...
Hello, Mellissa Hamilton with the National Weather. Checking the satellite image first and you can see cloud over the interior in a trough. Thats causing a few showers and storms inland. A streaky band of cloud is extending all along the South Austra...
The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has welcomed the death of terrorist leader Noordin Mohammed Top. Indonesian police killed Asias most wanted man in a shootout in central Java yesterday. Mr. Rudd thanked the Indonesian Security Agencies, but hes warned a...
