News Archive

NSW Health is using generous Commonwealth tax concessions on dining out to assist in the recruitment of staff.October 17, 2009, 12:59 pm

Trainer Darren Weir has predicted a bright future for three-year-old filly Sublimity, winner of the opening race on Caulfield Cup Day...October 17, 2009, 12:53 pm

A top aide of ousted President Manuel Zelaya says talks to resolve the Honduran political crisis have collapsed.October 17, 2009, 12:52 pm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Epic swindler Bernard Madoff's former beach home off the eastern-most point of New York's Long Island sold for $9.41 million (5.75 million pounds), money that will go towards a fund for defrauded investors, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Friday.October 17, 2009, 12:52 pm

The Maori Party plans to have 18 seats in Parliament by 2017, which will include all the Maori seats, its president told a group of Maori Party supporters today.October 17, 2009, 12:52 pm

New Zealand golfer Brad Iles is right in the mix despite being forced from the course early in the $US625,000 ($NZ853,360) Miccosukee Championship on the Nationwide Tour in the United States today.October 17, 2009, 12:39 pm

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Talks to resolve a post-coup crisis in Honduras hit a deadlock on Friday, as de facto leader Roberto Micheletti resisted international pressure to reinstate toppled President Manuel Zelaya.October 17, 2009, 12:33 pm

Severe weather is forecast in central and lower parts of the North Island this afternoon.October 17, 2009, 12:28 pm

After narrowly missing out on a world championship medal in London, Australian gymnast Lauren Mitchell has vowed to be back stronger.October 17, 2009, 12:28 pm

MALLORCA (Reuters) - Members of Irish boy band Boyzone were on the Spanish Island of Mallorca Friday to take the body of bandmate Stephen Gately back to Dublin where he will be buried Saturday, band member Ronan Keating said.October 17, 2009, 12:25 pm

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Best known for leading the alt-country rock bands Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, Jay Farrar teamed with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard for his latest project, an album with lyrics based on the prose from Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel "Big Sur."October 17, 2009, 12:24 pm

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Best known for leading the alt-country rock bands Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, Jay Farrar teamed with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard for his latest project, an album with lyrics based on the prose from Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel "Big Sur."October 17, 2009, 12:24 pm

A woman who had been expected to be sentenced to life in prison for murdering her four daughters could instead be freed.October 17, 2009, 12:22 pm

Police in the Waikato want to hear from a driver who left the scene of a serious smash.October 17, 2009, 12:19 pm

Once boasting WA's most ostentatious and famous house, Rose Porteous' Prix D'Amour, a carved-up parcel of Mosman Park land is set to reclaim the title as Perth's most exclusive address, with the centrepiece a sprawling mansion that could be worth up to $30 million.October 17, 2009, 12:19 pm

Top seeds Flavia Pennetta and Agnieszka Radwanska advanced to the semi-finals of the WTA event in Linz on Friday.October 17, 2009, 12:16 pm

Ghana held on with 10 men to beat Brazil in a penalty shootout to become the first African team to win the FIFA Under-20 World Cup.October 17, 2009, 12:16 pm

Warren Mead's bid to resurrect his career as a restaurateur has been short-lived after resigning from a Bali resort eatery he was managing for just a few months.October 17, 2009, 12:15 pm

The years have passed and with them some of the sharper memories of war. Yesterday, a small piece of military history was passed from an Australian soldier to the Consulate-General of Japan to begin its journey back from whence it came.October 17, 2009, 12:14 pm

The New Zealand under-17 soccer team stepped up preparations for this month's World Cup in Nigeria with a 3-2 win over the Gippsland men's team in Morwell, Australia, last night.October 17, 2009, 12:02 pm

MALLORCA (Reuters) - Members of Irish boy band Boyzone were on the Spanish Island of Mallorca Friday to take the body of bandmate Stephen Gately back to Dublin where he will be buried Saturday, band member Ronan Keating said.October 17, 2009, 12:01 pm