Ecuador says it's hoping to grant asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He's been sheltering in Ecuador's embassy in London for two months. The Ecuador foreign minister says the UK government has threatened to enter Ecuador's London embassy to...
National Australia Bank has reported a flat profit for the third quarter. The country's fourth largest lender by market capitalization has posted an unaudited cash profit of 1.4 billion dollars in the three months to the end of June. That's in line w...
The Federal Government will introduce legislation today to end the political deadlock over asylum seekers. It will reinstate offshore processing on Nauru and Manus Island. Immigration spokesman Scott Morrison has told News Breakfast his party will su...
The Federal Government's expert panel on asylum seekers will release its report today. The political deadlock over asylum seekers is set to dominate when Federal Parliament resumes this week, but there is still no sign of compromise from the Oppositi...
China's trade surplus narrowed unexpectedly in July, increasing speculation that Beijing may boost stimulus spending. Chinese export growth dropped sharply with exports rising one per cent over the year to July. Imports rose at an annual rate of 4.7...
Let's take a look at the satellite, a deep low over the Tasman Sea is bringing damaging winds, dangerous surf conditions and showers onto the New South Wales coast, a large high over the Bight is directing scatterred showers over Victoria. Looking ar...
Jamaica's Usain Bolt has sprinted into the history books again this morning. He's added to his 100-metre gold by winning the 200 metres as well. It's the first time a man has won both events at two consecutive Olympic Games. Meanwhile, Australia has...
The Federal Opposition says it's a failure, but the government says the National Broadband Network is a visionary project that is still on track, it's been confirmed that the N-B-N will cost more and take longer to complete than expected, the estimat...
Go to finance, and new figures show Italy's recession is deepening, the country's economy shrank for the fourth quarter in a row, tough austerity measures are continuing to bite, affecting everything from manufacturing to consumer spending, but some...
Australia has won the second gold medal on day 10 of the Olympics, world champion sailor Tom Slingsby comfortably dominated the men's laser class final of Weymouth, it's the first individual gold medal of the game for Australia, and meanwhile, the Au...
The US president Barack Obama says he is deeply saddened by the another mass shooting in the United States, the government has opened fire at a Sikh Temple just outside of Milwaukee, in Wisconsin, at least seven people are dead including the gunman,...
And the US has got too many people looking for work according to US President Barack Obama.He was reacting to the latest job figures which show the unemployment rate rose to 8.3 per cent from 8.2 per cent in June.July's hiring was the best since Febr...
Let us take a look at satellite . A cold fronting is cliping southwest tip western Australia causing isolated showers,another fronting is criping Tasmania and Victoria bring showers and X snow .A brood rage of high pressure keeping central and Easter...
Leading the news this morning. Syria's peace envoy Kofi Annan has given up on diplomacy and will resign at the end of the month, he says he is frustrated by the UN security council's failure to agree on sanctions against president Assad, Australia's...
Leading the news this morning. Two more swimming medals for Australia. James Magnussen has won silver in the 100 meters freestyle. Now he came in just one one hundreth of a second behind America's Nathan Adrian. And despite intense pressure as the fa...
