Morsi supporters hold fresh Cairo protests

SUPPORTERS of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi have protested outside several ministries in further defiance of a government ultimatum to dismantle their sprawling Cairo protest camps. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue....

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Dame Kiri happy to be Downton diva

DAME Kiri Te Kanawa says she is so happy to land the role of famed opera singer Dame Nellie Melba in Downton Abbey she has named her new pet dog after the hit show. The star said she "couldn't say yes fast enough" when she was offered the guest...

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Woman charged over soldier death clips

A WOMAN has been charged with terror offences over video clips about the London murder of soldier Lee Rigby. Rebekah Dawson, 21, from Hackney, east London, is accused of dissemination of terrorist publications and encouragement of terrorism,...

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Woman's nose 'bitten off' at holiday camp

Roos the man to replace Voss Jon Ralph, Greg Davis PAUL Roos has confirmed he had spoken to Brisbane about their coaching position a month ago, as Michael Voss was left reeling from his sudden sacking. US grounds $12 billion airline merger...

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Norway bars Apple from taking aerial shots

Roos the man to replace Voss Jon Ralph, Greg Davis PAUL Roos has confirmed he had spoken to Brisbane about their coaching position a month ago, as Michael Voss was left reeling from his sudden sacking. US grounds $12 billion airline merger...

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Canada train crash firm loses licence

CANADA'S transportation agency says a US-based rail company whose runaway oil train caused a fire and explosion that killed 47 people in a Quebec town has lost its operating licence. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's quick,...

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Scientists grow human heart tissue

SCIENTISTS say they have used stem cells to grow human heart tissue that contracted spontaneously in a petri dish - marking progress in the quest to manufacture transplant organs. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's quick,...

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IMF downgrades world growth outlook

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its 2014 growth forecast for China, Australia's number one trading partner. Updating its April World Economic Outlook on Tuesday, the IMF downgraded its world growth forecast for this year and...

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'United Stasi of America' on US embassy

A GERMAN artist has projected the message "United Stasi of America" onto the US embassy in Berlin, likening reported sweeping Internet surveillance by Washington to spying by the former East German secret police. A US embassy spokesperson told...

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Snowden agrees to asylum in Venezuela

US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, who has been holed up in a Moscow airport for more than two weeks, has agreed to an offer of political asylum from Venezuela, a top pro-Kremlin MP says. "As was expected, Snowden agreed to (Venezuelan President...

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US stocks rise on earnings optimism

US stocks have opened higher on optimism about corporate earnings, even as the International Monetary Fund slashed its global economic growth forecast. Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 69.40 (0.46 per cent) to 15,294.09....

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Carr talks tough on boat arrivals

BOAT arrivals with a genuine fear of persecution shouldn't be burning their passports and reciting identical stories, Foreign Minister Bob Carr says. Senator Carr said asylum seeker numbers had spiked and 20 per cent of Australia's immigrants...

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UK Labour leader to reform trade unions

BRITISH opposition leader Ed Miliband has proposed to overhaul his Labour party's historic relationship with the trade unions, risking millions of pounds in political donations. The unions helped found Labour in 1900 but Miliband vowed to end...

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French diet guru Dukan sanctioned for drug

FRANCE'S medical order has sanctioned nutritionist Pierre Dukan, whose high-protein diet has seen him sell millions of books and win over a slew of famous followers, for having prescribed a slimming drug linked to hundreds of deaths. Dukan,...

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Reggae star stabbed himself - jury

REGGAE star Smiley Culture died from a self-inflicted stab wound to the chest during a police raid at his home, an inquest jury has found. Surrey Coroner Richard Travers said he would make a report to the Metropolitan Police on changes or improvements...

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Court orders relocation of Mandela remains

A SOUTH African court has ordered the return of the remains of three of Nelson Mandela's children to his ancestral village, following a bitter family feud linked to the eventual burial site of the ailing anti-apartheid hero. A judge in the southern...

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70-year-old charged over child sex offence

A FORMER member of the Catholic church has been charged over child sex offences from the 1970s and 1980s. The 70-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday afternoon in connection with child sex offences allegedly committed on the NSW south coast...

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US auto sales accelerate in June

US auto sales accelerated in June with General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and Toyota posting strong gains as analysts forecast more growth in the months to come. Toyota led the pack with a 14 per cent gain to 195,235 vehicles in June. Sales for the...

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Countries reject Snowden asylum bids

SEVERAL countries have rushed to reject asylum requests from fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden after he sought safe haven in 21 nations in a bid to win protection from American authorities. Most European countries either flatly...

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Person dead after crash near Rockhampton

Two more years for Voss at Lions Andrew Hamilton POLL: HAVE YOUR SAY BRISBANE will beef up its football spending, paving the way for Michael Voss to be offered a new two-year deal. The bubbles that could save lives MICROBUBBLES are one...

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Six children dead in Indon mosque collapse

SIX children have been killed and 14 others trapped after a mosque in Indonesia collapsed on Tuesday during a Koran reading session when a powerful earthquake struck, an official says. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's...

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Top ETA operatives arreted in France

THE arrests of six ETA suspects in France has broken up the Basque armed separatist group's "logistical core" and made its total dissolution inevitable, Spain's interior minister says. "The logistical core of ETA has been detained today," with...

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Low earners struggling to feed families

PEOPLE on low incomes in NSW and the ACT are struggling to regularly provide food for their families, a new study shows. Anglicare and the Samaritans Foundation on Wednesday released the research, based on surveys of those who use emergency relief...

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Woman indecently assaulted on NSW train

POLICE are looking for a man who indecently assaulted a woman on a train on the NSW Central Coast. About 6pm (AEST) on Tuesday a 20-year-old woman was indecently assaulted on a train near Gosford, police say. She was then followed by the man...

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Libya minister rescinds resignation

LIBYA'S defence minister resigned but then changed his mind and the army chief of staff was sacked, as a political crisis deepened over gunmen besieging government ministries. "I find myself compelled, despite opposition from my colleagues in...

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Ireland pardons WWII soldiers who deserted

THOUSANDS of Irish soldiers who deserted their neutral nation's military to fight with the Allies in World War II will be officially pardoned under a new law. About 5,000 deserters were court martialled or dismissed from the Irish defence forces...

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Thick-skulled fossil cuts dino theory down

THE discovery of a new thick-skulled dinosaur the size of a large dog may challenge our image of a pre-historic Earth dominated by supersized lizards, a study says. The planet may, in fact, have been inhabited by many more types of small dinosaur...

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4 UN peacekeepers seized in Golan Heights

AN armed group has abducted four UN peacekeepers from the Philippines in the Golan Heights, which has been hit by mounting spillover from the Syrian civil war, the United Nations says. The four were patrolling near the Al Jamlah locality in...

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First ever web page is restored 20 yrs on

THE world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said it had begun recreating the website...

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Police probe Prague gas blast

CZECH police say they will open an investigation into a powerful gas blast that injured 43 people when it ripped through a four-storey building in Prague's historic centre. "Investigators have not yet been able to make it to the scene of the...

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Lives at risk, Vic paramedics say

VICTORIAN paramedics say emergency response times are blowing out and putting lives at risk. The paramedics, who are in the middle of negotiating a new enterprise bargaining agreement with Ambulance Victoria, say Premier Denis Napthine's refusal...

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US consumer confidence rebounds in April

US consumer confidence picked up in April after falling the prior month, the Conference Board has reported. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose to 68.1 points from a revised 61.9 in March. Consumers' expectations about the...

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Russia art museums feud over revival plan

RUSSIA'S two greatest art museums are engaged in an unsightly public feud over an idea to revive a Moscow museum of Western art that was shut down by Stalin in the late 1940s. The State Museum of New Western Art gathered the impressionist and...

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Tymoshenko jailing unlawful: court

THE European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Ukraine's detention of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is unlawful, in a decision the opposition leader's camp saw as a key step towards her release. Tymoshenko herself said she hoped the...

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Peru finds hot air balloon pilot's body

PERUVIAN rescuers have found the body of the pilot of a hot air balloon that plunged into the Pacific, but another person remains missing, police say. Five women were rescued from the sea as they clung to pieces of the balloon after it went...

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Housing prices rising, but not a boom

NEW figures show housing prices are on the rise. Australian Property Monitors said on Wednesday in its quarterly housing report that the median price of a house rose by 3.2 per cent over the year to March. Over the same time, the price of a home...

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Four UK soldiers reinterred 96 years on

FOUR British soldiers have been laid to rest with full military honours in northern France, nearly a century after they were killed in action in World War I. The soldiers were interred in the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) Cemetery at Ecoust-Saint-Mein...

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UK fails again to deport radical cleric

THE British government has suffered a fresh setback in its long-running legal battle to deport radical preacher Abu Qatada, but insists it will not give up trying to send him to Jordan. The Court of Appeal refused ministers permission to challenge...

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Sydney protest over uni Dalai Lama snub

STUDENTS will protest at Sydney University on Wednesday over what they claim is the uni's withdrawal of support for a talk by the Dalai Lama. The university says it did not receive any official request for an appearance by the Tibetan spiritual...

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China bird flu spreads to new province

CHINA says the H7N9 bird flu has spread to a new area as it confirmed the first case in the eastern province of Shandong in an outbreak which has so far killed 22 people. Since China announced on March 31 that the virus had been discovered in...

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EU plan to buy rebel oil aggressive: Syria

A EUROPEAN Union plan to buy oil from rebel-held areas of Syria is illegal and an "act of aggression," the Syrian foreign ministry has warned in letters to the United Nations. "In an unprecedented decision that contradicts international law and...

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Two Iraq ministers quit after deadly clash

TWO Sunni members of the Iraqi cabinet have resigned after security forces moved in against Sunni protesters in the north of the country, sparking clashes that left dozens dead, officials say. "The minister of education, Mohammed Ali Tamim,...

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Swedish band ordered to pay pop rivals

ONE of Sweden's most successful rock bands, The Hives, has to pay 18.5 million kronor ($A2.80 million) to Swedish pop group The Cardigans, a court has ruled. The dispute is one of several lawsuits embroiling Tambourine Studios, a recording studio...

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Protesters turn backs on Thatcher coffin

LONDON police are bracing for protests at Margaret Thatcher's funeral, with opponents vowing to pelt her coffin with eggs, coal or milk if they can get close enough - or simply turn their backs on the passing procession. More than 800 people have...

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Mt Isa locals free to leave homes: police

MOUNT Isa residents are being told they can leave their houses after a warning was issued for locals to stay indoors due to a blast at an acid plant. A chemical tank exploded at an Incitec Pivot facility near the Mount Isa mine at about 6.30pm...

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Mum and dad equally good at baby's cry ID

FRENCH researchers have dealt a blow to folklore that says mothers are better than fathers in recognising their baby's cry. The "maternal instinct" notion gained scientific backing more than three decades ago through two experiments, one of which...

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Terror wins if runners alter plans: Howard

FORMER prime minister John Howard says Australians shouldn't be deterred from running in the London marathon following terror blasts in Boston. Two bombs exploded at the Boston marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding more...

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Obama: Boston attacks act of terror

US President Barack Obama has branded the Boston bombings a "cowardly" act of terror, but says it is still unclear if a foreign or domestic group or individual was behind the attacks. "This was a heinous and cowardly act," Obama said at the...

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Boston victims suffer amputations

THE victims of the Boston Marathon bombings were peppered with nails and pellets, doctors say, adding that the most severely wounded required amputation. The twin blasts near the finish line in the northeastern US city on Monday claimed three...

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IMF warns central banks to watch inflation

THE International Monetary Fund has warned central banks to keep an eye on inflation and resist political pressure to focus policy only on lowering unemployment. With many governments desperate to find ways to generate jobs, the IMF said on Tuesday,...

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SAfrican feather thieves target ostriches

SOUTH African thieves are invading ostrich farms and poaching feathers from the giant birds, in a crime that has baffled local farmers, an industry chief says. "This started during the last six weeks," said Piet Kleyn, the chief of the South...

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One screen not enough for US viewers

AMERICAN television viewers are increasingly finding that one screen won't do: almost all have a second-screen device and 87 per cent use it while watching shows, a survey shows. The NPD survey said multi-tasking consumers were splitting their...

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Quake near Iran nuclear plant kills 20

A POWERFUL earthquake has struck near Iran's Gulf port city of Bushehr, killing at least 20 people and injuring 650 but leaving Iran's only nuclear power plant intact, officials say. Shocks from the quake were felt across the Gulf in Bahrain,...

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US nun admits taking $125K from churches

A ROMAN Catholic nun with a gambling addiction has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $US130,000 ($A125,430) from two parishes in rural western New York state. The Daily News of Batavia reports 68-year-old Sister Mary Anne Rapp pleaded guilty...

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Killer mum on her way back to Sydney

KILLER mum Allyson McConnell is set to touch down in Sydney this morning, leaving behind shattered lives and a political firestorm in Canada. McConnell, 34, who was sentenced to six years' jail for drowning her two young sons in a bathtub in her...

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Reagan-Thatcher: allies but often at odds

WHEN US president Ronald Reagan ordered the 1983 invasion of the small Caribbean island of Grenada after a coup, he got an earful from an angry world leader: his closest ally, Britain's Margaret Thatcher. Friends with her fellow conservative confidante...

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N. Korea crisis already gone too far: Ban

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says tensions have already soared too high on the Korean peninsula and has warned Pyongyang against making nuclear threats. "I am deeply troubled.... The current crisis has already gone too far," Ban said at...

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