澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-10-05（在线收听）

Sydney police are investigating a second death linked to a Taser. A man died when police used a Taser while trying to arrest him in Sydney's west. A day earlier, another man died when police tried to subdue him during a brawl. They denied a witness’s accounts that a Taser was used. And in Western Australia, the state's Crime Commission has found police are misusing Tasers. In one incident, a man was tasered 13 times at a Perth watchhouse.

NATO secretary general is calling for stronger ties with Australia. Anders Fogh Rasmussen has praised Australia’s commitment to Afghanistan during a meeting with the prime minister in Brussels. He's told Julia Gillard he'd like to promote closer ties with Australia at a Lisbon summit next month.

Homeowners are bracing for another interest rate rise today. The Reserve Bank has tipped to increase interest rates by a quarter of one per cent despite the monthly inflation gauge hardly moving in September.

Australian swimmers have won three gold and two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games. The 4x100m relay team capped off a good night in the pool by beating England and defending champion South Africa. The men's artistic gymnastics team also won their first ever gold medal.

A pioneer of IVF has won this year's Nobel Prize for medicine. Eighty-five-year-old British Robert Edwards began working on IVF in the 1950s. In 1978, Louise Brown became the first baby born using the fertility treatment. The Vatican has criticized the award, describing IVF as immoral.