Millions of Americans are preparing for the worst as hurricane Sandy bears down on the east coast. It's expected to make landfall later this morning with winds of up to 140 kilometers an hour. Public transport systems have shut down, thousands of fli...
A massive storm is bearing down on the US east coast. New York is going into lockdown. It's shutting the public transport system and schools and almost 400,000 people have been told to evacuate. Schools in Washington are also being closed. The hurric...
Figures released by the US government show the economy grew at an annual rate of two percent in the third quarter. That's only tiny fraction more than most analysts had forecast, but much better than the 1.3 percent growth in the second quarter. Cons...
A trough is generating the occasional storm in western Queensland. A cold front crossing Victoria and Tasmania is bringing isolated showers. And a high is keeping the skies clear in the rest of the country. Looking around the states. There'll be isol...
Nauru is charging a premium for Australia to send asylum-seekers there. It intends to impose a 1,000-dollar-a-month charge on visas for asylum-seekers. That's more than 30 times the amount charged for other refugees. The move could cost the Australia...
The UN's envoy to Syria says the Assad's regime has agreed to a ceasefire during the Muslim holiday of Eid which begins tomorrow. Lakhdar Brahimi says most Opposition groups say they'll also abide by the truce. He says he hopes the holiday ceasefire...
And it's been a rocky year for Fairfax and today's annual general meeting in Melbourne could create even more turbulence. Shareholders are expected to hold a protest vote over the lucrative pay deals given to its bosses. They were paid despite the fa...
A disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has been officially stripped of his seven Tour De France titles by the sport's governing body. The International Cycling Union has accepted the findings of the U.S Anti-doping Agency's investigation. Armstrong rece...
The Treasurer Wayne Swan is expected to announce 4-billion-dollar of cuts and changes to keep the government's budget surplus on track. Mr Swan will release his media economic outlook this morning. It's understood to include cuts to the defense budge...
When the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was down 21 points, while the Dax and Euro were also down 57 and 32 points respectively. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is down 224 points, whil...
A low pressure trough is triggering the odd storm over southern Queensland, warm to hot and dry northeasterly winds have prompted a severe fire danger warning in northeast New South Wales. Another trough is triggering thunderstorms over western Austr...
Australia will sit on the United Nations Security Council again after nearly 30 years. Members of the UN Genearal Assembly have voted to give Australia a temporary seat. A delighted Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr has thanked the African and Pacifi...
Australia's long campiagn to win a seat on the United Security Council is finally reaching its climax. Foreign minister Bob Carr is in New York the moment to rally last minute support, voting starts in the early hours of tomorrow morning. The prime m...
So more finance news and the owner of Channel Nine is expected to meet creditors again this morning to try to determine the future of the debt-ridden company. Nine Entertainment owes its lenders more than 3 billion dollars. Yesterday, Nine boss David...
The Opposition leader Tony Abbott has met the Indonesian president, but didn't raise his key policy of turning back asylum seeker boats. The country's foreign minster says it wasn't mentioned during Mr.Abbott's meeting with president Susilo Bambang Y...
