French police seize 7.5 tons of marijuana

FRENCH police say they have seized 7.5 tonnes of marijuana along the border with Spain, reportedly their biggest haul this year. The drugs were found hidden in trucks transporting fruit and vegetables in the coastal resort of Hendaye, south of Biarritz,...

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Sarkozy top gift giver to Obama family

Documents show ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy (R) was the top gift-giver to the Obamas in 2011. Source: AAP FORMER French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife Carla Bruni were clearly taken with President Barack Obama and...

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Adelaide man shot in Vic hunting accident

A MAN has been shot in a hunting accident in southwest Victoria. The 55-year-old man from Adelaide suffered wounds to his upper body at Casterton about 2pm (AEST) on Saturday. An Ambulance Victoria spokesman said he was being taken to Hamilton...

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UK PR guru Max Clifford vows to clear name

UK prosecutors have charged celebrity publicist Max Clifford with 11 counts of indecent assault. Source: AAP PR guru Max Clifford has vowed to clear his name in court as he was charged with 11 historic counts of indecent assault against teenage...

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Veterans march with young in Sydney

THE ranks of World War II veterans are thinning, but thousands of younger men and women stepped up to carry on the Anzac tradition as Sydney marked the Gallipoli landing of exactly 98 years ago. After a solemn dawn service at the Cenotaph in Sydney's...

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Bangladesh building collapse toll hits 175

The death toll from a building collapse in Bangladesh reached 113, as rescuers search for survivors. Source: AAP A GARMENT factory building in Bangladesh that collapsed, killing at least 175 people, had been ordered to be evacuated due to deep...

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Police seek man over Sydney murders

POLICE have named a man they want to question about the murder of a mother and daughter at a western Sydney home. Officers are looking for Hong Rui Fu, 28, who is described as being of Asian appearance and medium build. Police say there are...

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WWII Limerick wreck given protection

A WORLD War II merchant navy ship sunk by the Japanese off the coast of northern NSW has been given historic protection by the federal government. The cargo ship MV Limerick was part of a coastal wartime convoy travelling from Sydney to Brisbane...

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Marines to march on Anzac Day in Darwin

US Marines and Australian veterans are looking forward to marching alongside each other when Darwin holds Anzac Day commemorations. About 200 US Marines are stationed in Darwin for the dry season for training, and two platoons of Americans,...

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Another two asylum boats intercepted

AUSTRALIAN authorities have intercepted two more suspected asylum seeker boats with 175 people on board. The first, with 107 passengers, was spotted near Cocos (Keeling) Island and the other with 65 aboard was intercepted northeast of Darwin,...

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Killer 'off his face' on ice, court told

THE violence Sean Lee King inflicted on his teenage girlfriend the night he killed her was "light years" away from anything he had ever done before. That was because the now 27-year-old Sydney man was "off his face" on ice when he beat 18-year-old...

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Vic hospital to get $29 million upgrade

MELBOURNE'S Northern Hospital will receive a $29 million state government upgrade to serve a population that will double by 2030. The new three-storey wing with 32 in-patient beds at the Epping site is expected to be completed by 2016, Premier...

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Detainees brawl at Christmas Island

SECURITY staff at the Christmas Island detention centre intervened to break up two brawling groups of detainees, the Department of Immigration has confirmed. The disturbance broke out on Sunday evening in a section of the detention centre that...

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School kids come first, says NSW premier

NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell says the question of where to find $1.76 billion for education funding put him between the "devil and a hard place", but his government ultimately decided to put school kids first. The coalition-led state is the first...

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$A hits six-week low after China data

THE Australian dollar has fallen to its lowest level in six weeks following the release of disappointing Chinese manufacturing figures. Easy Forex currency dealer Tony Darvall said the Australian dollar fell on Tuesday after HSBC's Flash China...

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Baboons killed in 'pointless' NSW study

ANIMAL activists say the "pointless" killing of eight baboons used in a Sydney study highlights the need to end animal experimentation. In the study, reported in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, surgeons from Royal North Shore Hospital...

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Probe ordered into Qld boot camp escape

AN investigation has been ordered into the escape of two teenagers armed with a knife from a boot camp in far north Queensland. The boy, 13, and girl, 14, held a carer at the Kuranda facility for young offenders, near Cairns, at knifepoint before...

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Govt may detain kids in Curtin: report

Brendan O'Connor says no decision has been made to send asylum seekers to Curtin detention centre. Source: AAP THE federal government has yet to decide whether children will be sent to a controversial West Australian detention centre, noted...

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Church culture helped abuse go undetected

A culture of ignoring children helped child sex abuse go undetected, the Anglican Church says. Source: AAP CHILDREN complaining of sex abuse were rarely believed and sometimes punished under a culture in church and community organisations that...

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Training mine lacked cred, inquiry told

A SEASONED government spin doctor has told a corruption inquiry he thought a training mine in the NSW Hunter Valley had as much credibility as scientific whaling. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is probing a coal exploration...

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Mayor wounded, 2 dead in Philippine ambush

COMMUNIST guerrillas have wounded a town mayor and killed two of her aides in a pre-election ambush in the southern Philippines. Ruth Guingona, a member of President Benigno Aquino's Liberal Party whose husband is a former vice president, sustained...

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84 arrested at western Sydney rave

POLICE have made 84 mainly drug-related arrests at a rave in western Sydney. Dance music festival IQON ran most of Saturday at the Sydney International Dragway at Eastern Creek. Officers attached to Operation Charthouse arrested 84 partiers...

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Newman farewells students to Western Front

QUEENSLAND'S premier has recalled his haunting visit to the Western Front while farewelling five students who will follow his steps. The students have won the inaugural Premier's Anzac Prize to visit the Western Front and Gallipoli. Mr Newman,...

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Labor favourite in Vic by-election

Victorian Labor candidate Martin Pakula is expected to win the Lyndhurst by-election on April 27. Source: AAP LABOR faces no real danger of losing the Melbourne electorate of Lyndhurst at next weekend's by-election. Former shadow treasurer...

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