Leading the news this morning. Australian troops are likely to be withdrawn from Afghanistan a year earlier than planned. The Prime Minister Julia Gillard will outline details of the withdrawal in a speech later today. Australian troops could start l...
Leading the news this morning. The Taliban has launched one of the worst attacks on the Afghan capital, Kabul in more than 10 years of war. Gun battles are continuing across the city. Militants have targeted the Afghan parliament, NATO bases and seve...
lets check business in finance now . went the markets in the closed couple of hours ago .London's FTSE was downed 59 points about one percent ,the DAX in Germany falling about two and half percent . cross the Atlantic in the EU ,the Dow and SP 500...
near Papunya ,cloud across central Australia ,the moment now is mostly high level and then sweep throw new south Wales ,and parts of Victoria on Saturday ,so little bit cloud about the S remain dry in the N, and near the O,there is along the Qu...
The former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett says the COAG meeting has no long term focus. The federal government will try to negotiate a new skills funding arrangement at todays meeting. The Skills Minister Chris Evans says the proposal would see if st...
Leading the news this morning. People in Indonesia and Thailand are returning to their homes after two massive earthquakes struck off the coast of Indonesia. There was a panic as people feard a trsunami fleed for high ground. The US Pacific Trunami W...
Let's go to finance news.An oil and gas company Woodside will take another year to decide on its controversial energy project off the northern WA coast.The WA and federal government have agreed to the extension which will also delay the controversial...
Leading the news this morning.Senior health service's union figures a pushing for the suspended national president Mark Williamson to resign.Union secretary Cathy Jackson has also called for the entire national executive to resign.She says some of th...
The Syrian opposition has dismissed demands that provides writen guarantees to stop fighting and disarm as fighting contiunes around the country,Damascus now says the rebels must agree in writing to end attacks before withdraws from urban areas.The o...
In the United States, claims for the unemployment benefits dropped last week to the lowest level in four years having the recent science health in the US economy. The figures from the US Labor Department show jobless claims fell by 6,000 to 357,000 i...
And the satellite shows a cold front is triggering isolated showers in the southeast. Warm and northly winds are pushing in the New Sales Wales and Queensland head of the front. And trough of low pressure is generating showers in northwest of Austral...
The Australian defence force has been hit by claims of another sexual assault.ACT police have confirmed that the charged 23 year old soldier was alleged sexual offences involving a 21 year old female civilian. Also in the news this morning,the UN sec...
evidence for the public prosecutor. The commonwealth DPP says Fair Works report into the Health Services Union does not constitute a brief of evidence. Five suspected al-Qaeda militants accused of planning the 9/11 terror attacks will be tried by a m...
To finance news. And the former finance minister, Lindsay Tanner, says trying to raise debt is a growing challenge for Australia's mid-sized companies. Mr. Tanner says the weakness of the corporate bond market is a major constraint for companies with...
Police in California say they have arrested the gunman who opened fire at a Christian University in Oakland, killing at least six people and wounding another three. Witnesses say the gunman, believed to be a former student, walked into a building and...