Russian President Vladir Putin has told G20 financial leaders that it's vital to charter a clear strategy on borrowing to end the global financial downturn. G20 finance ministers and the central banks are meeting in the Kremlin. The Russian leader ad...
Take a look at the satellite. Troughes over central and eastern Australian are producing showers and the odd thunderstorm. Hot Northerlies are affecting Victoria, South Australia and southern parts of Western Australia. A trough is causing storms ove...
South African police have charged Olympian Oscar Pistorius with murdering his girlfriend. The athlete, known as the blade runner, is due to face court in Pretoria later today. Police found the body of 30-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp at his, her(err...
Firefighters are mourning two colleagues who've been killed in Victoria's Alpine Region. The victims, a man in his thirties and a young woman, were in an emergency vehicle which was struck by a falling tree. They were working to control the huge Harr...
The British bank Barclays has announced it's cutting more than 3,500 jobs in an effort to cut costs. Almost half of the jobs will come at its investment bank. The vast majority of cuts are in Asia. Ninety-hundred jobs will come from its European reta...
Pope Benedict has indeed surprised the world announcing his resigning at the end of the month. He is the first pontiff to step down in almost 600 years, saying he is simply too old and frail to continue in the job. The Vatican says it expects his suc...
Sports scientist Steven Dank has launched a ten-millon-dollar lawsuit against the media. His lawyers say they'll be seeking damages for defamation and loss of income. Dank had worked for Essendon which is one of the AFL clubs being investigated for t...
And when the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was up. The Dax and the Euro were also up. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is up. And the SP 500 is up as well. And the Australian dollar is...
A trough stretching from the nation's interior to southeast NSW is triggering showers, onshore winds are causing showers over eastern Queesland. And a trough over northern WA and the Northern Territory is causing a few thunderstorms. Looking around t...
No one has been named, but a police investigation into sports doping and match-fixing is expected to draw blood in the coming days and weeks. Justice Minister Jason Clare has appealed to anyone who thinks they may be implicated to come forward before...
Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin is stepping up pressure on the Nothern Territory to deal with alcohol abuse in aboriginal communities. She's asked the Northern Territory government to investigate two Alice Spring's hotels that may be contri...
And the US government has begun legal action against StandardPoor's. It's the first time charges have been brought against one of the credit rating agencies, widely blamed for contributing to the global financial crisis. StandardPoor's denies claims...
Leading the news this morning.Prime minister Julia Gillard has warned her colleagues against leaking to the media ahead of today's resumption of federal parliament. The government begins the election year well behind in the polls, Opposition leader T...
The Prime Minister's new frontbencher will be sworn in this morning. The reshuffle was triggered by the resignations of two senior ministers and this parliament prepares to resume for the year. Labor's primary vote has slumped by six points in the la...
And when the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London'sFTSE 100 was up. The Dax and Euro were also higher. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is up, as is the SP 500. And the Australian dollar is worth around...
