Canadian police have released CCTV footage of the gunman during yesterday's attack. They've confirmed the gunman acted alone when he shot dead a soldier and stormed the nation's parliament. Canada's politicians are now back to work. They get a standi...
As Paul mentioned Canada's capital Ottawa is being locked down after shootings in three locations. A soldier has been shot dead at the National War Memorial. A gunman then ran into the nearby Parliament Building where he exchanged fire with police. A...
The repeal of the carbon tax is expected to have a positive impact on inflation. Official figures out today are predicted to show a sharp fall in the Consumer Price Index. Now world economists are predicting a slight rise in the September quarter. Th...
A track has clogged with several cars causing traffic chaos in the Sydney's Deep South suburb of D. Y. Emergency crews are trying to free those trapped in the wreckage and fuel is leaking from one of the cars. Motorists are being asked to avoid that...
A deal has been reached to send Australian Special Forces into Iraq. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has been in Baghdad where she has reached a legal agreement with the Iraqi government. Australian force has been on standby in the United Arab Emirates...
The US Federal Reserve should delay the end of its bond purchase program according to St. Louis Federal Reserve chairman James Bullard. Mr. Bullard says the end of the quantitative easing program should be delayed to halt a decline in inflation expec...
A broad region of low pressure is triggering widespread showers and thunderstorms about Western Australia. Moist southerly winds pushing up the east coast are generating the odd thundery shower about northeast New South Wales and southeast Queensland...
Australia's chief medical officers will meet today to discuss the country's preparedness to deal with any potential case of Ebola. The World Health Organization is warning time is running out to get the Ebola outbreak in West Africa under control. Ba...
A second Texas health worker has now fallen ill with Ebola. The women took a domestic flight a day before she was diagnosed. Health authorities are now trying to track down all 132 people who were on the flight with her. The woman and a fellow nurse...
The treasurer Joe Hockey is in London where he is being heading talks with his British counterpart and the head of the Bank of England in the lead-up to next month's G20 meeting in Brisbane. Now Mr. Hockey is also taking the opportunity to meet poten...
Leading the news this morning, Tony Abbott has set up confrontation with Russias President Vladimir Putin at next-month G20 leaders meeting in Brisbane. The Prime Ministers promise to / Mr. Putin over the MH 17 disaster has attracted worldwide headli...
An inquiry is underway into how a Texas health worker has become the first person to be infected with Ebola in the United States. The unmanned woman treated Ebola victim Thomas Duncan before he died and had been wearing protective clothing. Authoriti...
The Australian share market suffered its biggest one-day fall since February, 2013 today on fears that global growth is slowing. The All Ords and the ASX 200 dropped 2% matching the fall that we saw on Wall Street overnight where the Dow Jones closed...
Yes, now on several conditions developing through the inland parts of New South Wales and Queensland and that seems to surface in upper-level trough combining. But because of that upper-level trough sitting through the southern parts of Queensland an...
A Cairns nurse is under observation in hospital over fears that she may have the Ebola virus. Fifty-seven-year-old Sue Ellen Kovack recently returned from Sierra Leone where she had been working as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Medical authorities s...
