Police have found the body of the man who held a woman and her teenage daughter hostage for more than five hours in Brisbane's north. Earlier, police rescued the pair who'd been shackled in a bathroom of the house in Banyo. The man's body was found in an upstairs room last night. 

 

A search will resume this morning for a canoeist missing in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. Three men were thrown into the water when they canoe overturned in a dam in Crookwell last night. Two of them managed to make it to shore and raise the alarm. 

 

Convicted Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby has had her Indonesian jail sentence cut by two months. That's part of an annual Christmas remission program. Corby was sentenced to 20 years in jail in 2005 for smuggling more than four kilograms of Marijuana into Bali. 

 

The passengers and crew onboard a ship stuck in Antarctic ice since Christmas hope to be freed later today. The first of three ice-breaking ships is expected to reach it this afternoon. The ship had been retracing Sir Douglas Mawson's Antartic expedition and doing scientific research.