Buildings destroyed in Sydney fire

AN overnight fire in Sydney's south west has caused $2 million worth of damage after burning down a mobile phone tower. The blaze in Lansvale also destroyed two communications rooms. Firefighters and police were called to the fire, near Hollywood...

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US senators want Libya video declassified

US Republican senators are demanding that the Obama administration make public the surveillance video taken during last month's deadly attack on the US consulate in Libya. The US ambassador and three other staff members were killed in the attack....

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Shot Malala's family arrive in UK

RELATIVES of teenager Malala Yousufzai, who was shot and wounded by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan, are reported to have arrived in the UK to be with her as she recovers. Ziauddin Yousufzai, her father, is believed to be among those who have arrived...

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Newman must release Caltabiano's CV: Labor

THE Queensland premier must release the CV of a senior bureaucrat accused of misleading a parliamentary committee, the Labor opposition says. Michael Caltabiano on Thursday stood down on full pay from his $500,000 a year post as transport and...

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Renewable energy target succeeding: report

AUSTRALIA'S renewable energy target (RET) has driven $18.5 billion of investment in clean power and eroded wholesale energy prices since it was introduced a decade ago, a new report suggests. The Clean Energy Council analysis released on Thursday...

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Seniors jump in Australian skydiving first

A 74-YEAR-OLD Queensland man has leapt out of a plane with 12 other seniors in an Australian skydiving first. The group, aged 60 to 74, accomplished the first sequential formation skydive by people over 60, succeeding 14,000 feet above the town...

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Cancer patient set Taiwan fire: prosecutor

AN elderly man has been arrested and detained in Taiwan on suspicion of starting a fire at a hospital that killed 12 people and injured 60. The blaze erupted before dawn on Tuesday at Beimen nursing facility in southern Tainan city, whose 115...

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Ex-defence boss backs govt's subs plan

A FORMER defence force chief has backed the federal government's plans to stick with conventional-powered submarines, saying they better serve the strategic interests of Australia's allies. General Peter Cosgrove, now the Defence SA advisory board...

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Man raped five women in their homes: crown

FIVE women were raped at knifepoint in their own homes by a man who disguised his face before blindfolding and tying them up, an Adelaide jury has been told. One woman was tied up on her bed after hearing the man open the door to the room where...

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New medical research centre for Sydney

A MEDICAL research centre in Sydney's southwest could lead to groundbreaking new treatments for cancer and other diseases, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says. At the official opening of the Ingham Institute's new home at Liverpool Hospital on...

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Govt forced to find $16.4bn in savings

THE federal government has been forced to find an extra $16.4 billion of budget savings over the next four years to keep its surpluses intact, after a troubled global economy took a further toll on tax receipts. Treasurer Wayne Swan's mid-year...

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Japan island protests against US rapists

THE legislature of the Japanese island of Okinawa has passed a protest resolution after the arrest of two US sailors on rape charges, and says US bases should be shrunk or returned. The resolution approved on Monday demands proper punishment...

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Missing Tassie devil returns to WA zoo

ONE of three Tasmanian devils on the loose in rural Western Australia has been found. The four-month-old male devils - Itchy, Scratchy and Genghis - escaped from Peel Zoo, on the outskirts of Pinjarra, south of Perth, after a tree smashed their...

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Aust stocks set to open one per cent lower

THE Australian sharemarket is expected to open about one per cent lower on Monday following falls in Europe and the US on Friday. Markets plunged in the US, with the Nasdaq pulled down by more than two per cent by a tech stock rout led by Apple...

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