Convincing win for WA Lib/Nats emerging

EARLY results from the West Australian election point to a convincing win for the Liberal/National coalition. ABC election analyst Antony Green called the result in favour of the incumbents, as polling predicted, about one hour after counting...

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Ebullient mood at WA Liberal gathering

PIZZAS by the hundreds were ordered, the balloons were standing proudly to attention, and the mood at the Sea View Golf Club in Colin Barnett's heartland of Cottesloe was a combination of New Year's Eve and a raucous 70th birthday party. With...

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Three men drown at Victorian beaches

TWO fathers have drowned trying to rescue their sons, while a third man has also died while snorkelling with friends at separate unpatrolled beaches across Victoria. Paramedics were first called to a beach at Lorne, on the Great Ocean Road, about...

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Egypt Football Association HQ set ablaze

THE headquarters of the Egyptian Football Association were set ablaze, minutes after a police officers' club was torched following sentencing over a deadly football riot last year. Firefighters were working to put out the fire on Saturday, which...

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Sombre mood at WA Labor HQ

IT was such a somber mood among the WA Labor camp on election night that one of the only cheers from the crowd came when an image of the party's leader appeared on the television. Less than 100 people gathered in Mark McGowan's electorate of...

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Syria rebels won't budge over hostages

The UN says it is still trying to negotiate the release of 21 peacekeepers abducted in Syria. Source: AAP UN efforts to secure the release of 21 peacekeepers abducted in the Golan dragged on into a third day as Manila said rebels holding the...

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Screaming crowds greet Kim on Korean front

NORTH Korean television broadcast emotional scenes of cheering soldiers and their young families greeting leader Kim Jong-Un as he visited a frontline unit that shelled the South in 2010. With tensions surging on the Korean peninsula, Kim said...

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Japanese man drowns on Gold Coast beach

A JAPANESE man has drowned on a Gold Coast beach. Police say the 34-year-old man was unconscious when he was rescued from the water at Northcliffe Beach in Surfers Paradise about 10.30am (AEST) on Friday. He was taken to Gold Coast Hospital,...

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Japan clones 26 generations from a mouse

JAPANESE scientists have produced 26 generations of clones from a single mouse, the lead researcher said, possibly paving the way for the mass replication of valuable livestock. The team have so far produced 598 mice that are genetic copies of...

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UN agency to feed 2.5 million Syrians

THE World Food Program says it aims to feed 2.5 million Syrians next month, up from 1.7 million now, because of rising needs as more Syrians are displaced by the civil war. The UN estimates that nearly 4 million of Syria's 22 million people...

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No Srebrenica charges for peacekeeper

DUTCH prosecutors say they won't prosecute the retired general who commanded Dutch peacekeepers in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica when Bosnian Serb fighters overran the town and massacred some 8,000 Muslim men and boys. Relatives of three...

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Berlusconi sentenced over wiretaps

A MILAN court has convicted former Premier Silvio Berlusconi for the illegal publication of transcripts of wiretapped conversations in a newspaper owned by his media empire. The court on Thursday sentenced him to one year in jail, although he...

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60 dead in Borneo stand-off

CLASHES between Filipino militants and security forces in Borneo have left 60 people dead, including 52 of the armed intruders, according to Malaysian police. Malaysia's police chief Ismail Omar told reporters on Thursday that since 3pm local time...

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More gang rapes reported in India

TWO women have been kidnapped and gang-raped near Delhi, in two separate incidents that highlight the persistent risk of sexual assault in India. In one case, three men abducted and attacked a 19-year-old woman, who hailed an auto rickshaw carrying...

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Morrison stands by refugee comments

Scott Morrison has explained the behavioural protocol he thinks asylum seekers should live by. Source: AAP OPPOSITION immigration spokesman Scott Morrison has explained the kind of behavioural protocol he thinks asylum seekers should live by...

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Backbencher criticises Victorian premier

VICTORIA'S new, unelected premier Denis Napthine will be furiously trying to lure MP Geoff Shaw back into the Liberal fold after he quit and threw the coalition's ability to govern into doubt. Dr Napthine, who turned 61 on Wednesday, was gifted...

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PM wishes Baillieu well after resignation

Former Victorian premier Ted Baillieu is a man of integrity, opposition leader Tony Abbott says. Source: AAP PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has wished former Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu well and pledged to work with his replacement Denis Napthine....

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Police face Philippines murder charges

PHILIPPINE investigators will file a murder case against 35 police officers and soldiers for allegedly executing 13 people at a checkpoint, the justice secretary says. An investigation ordered by President Benigno Aquino III into the killings...

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Eurozone ended 2012 deeper in recession

THE 17-nation eurozone sank further into recession in the last three months of 2012 as the debt crisis continued to exact a heavy price, official data shows. The eurozone economy shrank 0.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with...

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WA Labor's promises 'would increase debt'

ELECTION commitments by the West Australian opposition would increase state debt by $1.7 billion, an independent analysis by Treasury shows. The report on Labor's aggregated net expenditure - not dissecting its individual commitments - released...

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Cigarettes worth $200,000 seized in Vic

Police have seized illegally imported cigarettes from a truck in Victoria's northeast. Source: AAP MORE than 1000 cartons of cigarettes worth $200,000 have been seized from a truck in Victoria's northeast. The cigarettes, believed to...

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Premier set to add to PM's problems

UNBACKABLE: Premier Colin Barnett, a firm favourite to win the state election, will give the federal Labor leadership another headache. Source: The Sunday Times AS if the polls, the carbon tax, the mining tax, the lack of a budget surplus and...

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Asian rebounds, Shanghai leads gains

ASIAN markets have climbed following a big sell-off, with Shanghai leading the rebound as China's annual parliamentary gathering kicked off. Traders also took heart from a rally on Wall Street that saw the Dow close within sight of a record high....

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North Korea vows to cancel ceasefire

NORTH Korea has vowed to cancel the 1953 ceasefire that ended the Korean War, citing a US-led push for UN sanctions over its recent nuclear test and ongoing US-South Korean military drills. North Korea's Korean People's Army Supreme Command...

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Australian health shines, UK's slumps

BRITONS are among the unhealthiest people in Western Europe, says a UK study which has ranked Australia as the highest performer in two health categories. Using data collected for the Global Burden of Diseases project, international researchers...

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US, Saudi united on Syria, Iran

THE United States and Saudi Arabia have warned Syrian President Bashar Assad they will boost support to rebels fighting to oust him unless he steps down. The two are also putting Iran's leadership on notice that time is running out for a diplomatic...

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Malik Obama campaigns for change in Kenya

MALIK Obama, who is running for office in western Kenya, on Monday said his half-brother, US President Barack Obama, had promised to visit if elections were free and fair. The 54-year-old accountant said the theme for his campaign in the race...

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Hostage families urge France to negotiate

THE families of four hostages being held by al-Qaeda's north African branch have urged the French government to seek negotiations with the militant group in the hope of securing their relatives' release. The call was issued on Monday against...

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Dad dies sheltering girl in Japan blizzard

Eight people have been killed on Hokkaido island after heavy snow fell in northern Japan. Source: AAP A FATHER has frozen to death while sheltering his nine-year-old daughter during severe blizzards which swept northern Japan at the weekend....

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Papal tailors prepare for all sizes

NOBODY knows what the measurements of the next pope will be so Gammarelli - tailors to the papacy since the 18th century - have produced vestments in small, medium and large just in case. "We have prepared three vestments in white wool, a stole,...

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Sydney woman abducted and gang raped

A YOUNG woman has been abducted and sexually assaulted by a gang of men after leaving a house party in Sydney's northwest. Police say the 18-year-old woman left the party on Merindah Road at Baulkham Hills at 1am (AEDT) on Sunday when a green...

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UN urges end to illegal wildlife trade

Thailand has been forced onto the defensive over the rampant smuggling of ivory. Source: AAP THE world must clamp down hard on the illegal global wildlife trade, the head of the United Nations environment agency has warned, calling it a multibillion-dollar...

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Attacks in Iraq kill four

THREE separate attacks in Shi'ite-dominated areas on Sunday in central Iraq have killed at least four people and injured 14, officials said. The deadliest was in the Husseiniya area northeast of Baghdad, where three roadside bombs went off simultaneously,...

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Karzai condemns NATO killing of boys

Two children, have been accidentally killed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, authorities say. Source: AAP AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai has condemned a NATO helicopter strike in which two brothers, both under seven years old, were shot...

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Gabriel wants to talk with animals online

Musician Peter Gabriel believes an interspecies internet could help animals communicate with humans. Source: AAP PETER Gabriel has joined one of the internet's founding fathers in launching an "interspecies internet" for animals to communicate...

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