A bid by the Commonwealth Bank to deal with its financial planning scandal has failed to stop calls for a Royal commission. The bank has apologized to customers who lost millions of dollars and announced a new compensation scheme. The managing chair of the Senate inquiry of the scandal says many of those responsible are still there at the bank. 

 

Not only do we know they haven't gone, we know that they have remained in the bank, that they've been the subject of review, they've been the subject of promotion. 

 

At least one person is dead after another pass collapsed in Brazil. The bridge in the World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte was under construction when it fell on a busy highway. Aerial footage shows what of a Priestley school bus crashed under part of the bridge. 

 

Police have charged a woman with racially abusing passengers while travelling on a train in Sydney. The incident happened on a peak-hour train and was filmed by a fellow passenger. The lady will face court later this month. 

 

And euthanasia advocate Phillip Nitschke is unrepentant about his contact with a suicidal man who he knew wasn't terminally ill or elderly. Forty-five-year old Perth man Nigel Braily later committed suicide