The English actress Googie Withers has died at her home in Sydney aged 94. The stage and screen actress starred in many productions in the UK before continuing her career in Australia. In 1980, she become (口误，应为became) the first non-Austral...
A trough over Queensland is generating widespread cloud, rain and storms across the central western highlands. A high is keeping much of the southeast Australia clear while sending showery onshore winds into eastern New South Wales. A cold front is b...
Eight out of 90 European banks have failed stress tests designed to ensure they can withstand another financial crisis. The European Banking Authority carried out the health check and says another 16 banks are in a dangerous zone. Five Spanish banks...
The Italian Senate has approved a $68 billion austerity budget. The four-year package aims to balance the budget by 2014. It passed by 161 votes to 135. The package now moves to the Lower House where its expected to be approved tomorrow. Italy is the...
Thick cloud is pushing across the country with patchy rain. It's falling mainly across the interior. And cold southwesterly winds continue to push showers over Tasmania and southern Victoria. A low pressure trough is shifting the rain from the Northe...
The Prime Minister says a massive takeover deal for a Queensland coal company is proof the carbon tax will not cripple the coal industry. The US company, Peabody Energy, has tabled an offer for Macarthur Coal, valuing it at just under $5 billion. The...
A new poll has taken the wind out of Julia Gillard's sails as the Prime Minister continues to try and sell her carbon tax. The latest Newspoll published in The Australian and taken just before the carbon tax announcement shows Labor's primary vote ha...
Now Rupert Murdoch has arrived in London to be greeted by a political storm over the phone hacking scandal. The last edition of the News of the World has hit the streets, but its done nothing to calm the crisis. Britains Labour leader is calling on M...
The satellite picture shows a ridge over Queensland and New South Wales keeping skies mostly clear. A cloud band is moving over northern New South Wales. Cloud over western Tasmania and WA is causing some rain. Taking a look around the states tomorro...
Well as we've heard jobs growth ground to a halt in the United States last month according to the latest unemployment figures, the US economy generated a paltry 18,000 jobs in June, much lower than expected. The fall in new jobs pushed the overall un...
Rupert Murdoch is closing down the News of the World newspaper because of the phone hacking scandal. The paper will put out its final edition this Sunday. Now its widely believed in the UK that the Murdochs Sun newspaper will now become a seven-day-a...
Tiger Airways' future in Australia remains unclear because the air safety regulator is asking the Federal Court today to extend the ban on the airline's domestic flights until the end of the month. The airline's CEO Crawford Rix resigned within hours...
Tobacco companies that breach the Governments planned plain packaging laws could face fines of up to $1 million. The Government will introduce the bill to Parliament today. And the tobacco industry is nonetheless threatening several legal challenges...
An Australian man accused of helping a people smuggler in Indonesia says he has done nothing wrong. Indonesian police have arrested the Iraqi refugee who now lives in western Sydney; claim he helped a known people smuggler to send 32 people to Christ...
The Greens are officially taking over the balance of power in the Senate today. The Governor-General Quentin Bryce has been swearing in the new Senators in Canberra this morning. The new parliamentarians include four Greens and the Democratic Labor P...
