5% emissions reduction possible: expert

THE government can achieve its target five per cent emissions reduction through its direct action scheme at a cost of $7-10 billion, an economist says. Danny Price, managing director of Frontier Economics Australia, said on Tuesday the task...

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Drones may fly in to help SA farmers

UNMANNED aerial drones could soon be used in the early detection of pests and disease in South Australian crops. Drones are among a number of new technologies being considered as options to reduce losses and safeguard the biosecurity of the...

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Surprise as UK inflation falls to 2.2%

INFLATION in Britain has fallen to its lowest level in more than a year. The sharper-than-expected drop in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rate from 2.7 per cent in September to 2.2 per cent in October is being seen as easing pressure on the...

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Industry calls for swift carbon tax repeal

AN alliance of industry groups is urging the Australian parliament not to stand in the way of the Abbott government quickly repealing the carbon tax. The federal government on Wednesday will introduce its carbon tax repeal legislation to the...

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Biometrics means world without passwords

YOU may never need to memorise another password. That's the goal of researchers at Purdue University's International Center for Biometrics Research. Stephen Elliott is the director of international biometric research at Purdue University in...

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UNESCO leader re-elected

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova has been elected to a second four-year term as head of the UN's cultural agency. Speaking after her re-election on Tuesday by UNESCO's general conference, the native of Sofia, Bulgaria, said she was working...

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Abbott, Shorten face first question time

TONY Abbott is facing his first full day of parliament and his first question time as prime minister. In one of his first acts in the new parliament on Wednesday, Mr Abbott will introduce the coalition's legislation to repeal Labor's carbon...

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Hope for action on Vic abuse report

VICTORIA'S parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse should support the national work of the royal commission but must not wait for its findings to act, the state's child safety commissioner says. Bernie Geary, who used his inquiry submission...

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Midsection of plane recovered in Laos

INVESTIGATORS in Laos say they have retrieved the midsection of a Lao Airlines passenger plane that crashed into the Mekong River a week ago, killing all 49 people on board, including six Australians. The turboprop plane crashed last Wednesday...

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Girl taken from gypsy family in Ireland

Alleged arsonist, thieves sickening AFTER a night in custody, the boy accused of lighting fires made his feelings known, while the hunt goes on for looters. Child's eye view of a paedophile THIS creepy drawing of a convicted child sex...

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US employers add 148,000 jobs

THE US economy added just 148,000 jobs in September, suggesting that employers held back on hiring before a 16-day partial government shutdown began October 1. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's quick, easy and free.) Continue...

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12 Months for bomb hoax bridegroom

A PANICKED English groom who staged a bomb hoax on his wedding day so his bride would not find out he bungled the booking has been jailed in Liverpool for 12 months. Neil McArdle had forgotten to fill in the forms to marry the "love of his life"...

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Aung San Suu Kyi collects rights prize

FREEDOM of thought is yet to become the birthright of every Myanmar citizen, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said as she collected a European Union democracy prize awarded 23 years ago when she was under house arrest. The Sakharov Prize...

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China defends record at UN rights inquiry

CHINA has defended its human rights record to the UN, insisting it has undertaken sweeping reforms as Tibetan activists say more must be done to hold Beijing to account. China's special envoy Wu Hailong told the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday...

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US employers add 148,000 jobs

THE US economy added just 148,000 jobs in September, suggesting that employers held back on hiring before a 16-day partial government shutdown began October 1. Still, hiring was strong enough to lower the unemployment rate. The Labor Department...

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Blue Mountains brace for dangerous day

RESIDENTS in the Blue Mountains who have not prepared for a day of extreme fire danger have been urged to leave the area as early as possible. The stern warning comes as firefighters brace for the worst fire conditions since the NSW bushfire...

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Jessica Mauboy adds to Deadlys haul

JESSICA Mauboy has done it again taking home two more gongs at the 19th Deadly Awards at the Sydney Opera House. The pop sweetheart won Female Artist of the Year and Single Release of the Year for Something's Got A Hold on Me, bringing her total...

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"Albo4Leader" campaign under way

A SOCIAL media campaign is underway backing Anthony Albanese as the next federal Labor leader, with supporters convinced he would defeat powerbroker Bill Shorten if the choice goes to party members. A day after being launched, the "Anthony Albanese...

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Fake products may be dangerous: CHOICE

AUSTRALIAN customs last year seized more than 700,000 items of fake merchandise worth about $48.5 million, it has been revealed. The haul was part of the $272 billion annual global trade in potentially dangerous bogus goods. And it's not just...

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Le Vell cleared in UK child sex case

ONE of Britain's top soap stars, Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell, has been cleared of 12 charges of child sex abuse, including five counts of rape. The 48-year-old, who has played car mechanic Kevin Webster for three decades in the ITV...

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Conditions ease but NSW fires might flare

HIGH temperatures and warm winds across northwest Sydney where bushfires are burning have eased, but authorities are preparing for possible flare-ups on Wednesday. Earlier on Tuesday a significant part of the city's northwest was under threat...

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Violent dog shot by police in Canberra

A DOG has been shot and injured by a police officer after it violently attacked three people in a Canberra suburb. Police were called to Dunlop on the city's outskirts on Tuesday to reports a tan-coloured dog had set upon a group of people....

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Housing key to retail recovery: Deloitte

THE performance of the Australian housing sector will play a key role in any recovery in consumer spending and retail sales growth, an independent economic forecaster says. Deloitte Access Economics believes the election of a majority government...

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Mourners urged to don colour for Tweddle

King hit robbed dad of proud moment THE proudest moment of teenager Adam Taiba's life has been stolen after his father was punched into a coma at a nightclub. NSW Model Elyse Taylor is pregnant THE pitter patter of little feet could soon...

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US stocks rise on earnings, overseas gains

US stocks have opened higher in the wake of solid corporate earnings reports and stronger overseas markets. Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 32.55 (0.22 per cent) to 15,001.44. The broad-based S&P 500 added...

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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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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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Physicists zoom in on antimatter behaviour

PHYSICISTS have announced a breakthrough in their quest to answer one of science's great questions: do the same laws of gravity apply to antimatter - the obscure counterpart of matter as we know it? Though antimatter is thought to have existed...

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Obama defends FBI over Boston suspect

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has defended the FBI from suggestions it might have prevented the Boston marathon bombing by acting on warnings about one of the suspects. Russia had advised US authorities about ethnic Chechen Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011...

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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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UN atomic agency, Iran to meet May 15

THE UN atomic agency says it will hold a new round of talks with Iran on May 15 in Vienna on suspected nuclear bomb-making efforts by Tehran. "The Agency and Iran have agreed to hold further talks in Vienna on 15 May," International Atomic Energy...

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Inflation expected to stay benign

INFLATION figures to be released on Wednesday are expected to be low enough to allow for more interest rate cuts. The consumer price index, the key measure of inflation, is expected to rise by 0.6 per cent in the first three months of 2013 for...

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Iran quake kills 34 in Pakistan: officials

A POWERFUL earthquake in Iran has hit hundreds of homes in Pakistan, killing more than 30 people in a remote community close to the desert border, officials say. The quake damaged mud houses in the town of Mashkail in Pakistan's Baluchistan...

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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 cuts world growth forecast

THE IMF has cut its world growth forecast for 2013 as the eurozone recession continues to drag, but predicts growth overall will pick up in the second half of the year. In its newest assessment of the global economy, the International Monetary...

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Police took photos of Pistorius on mobiles

EVEN police officers clamoured to get photos of Oscar Pistorius on their mobile phones after the famed Olympic athlete was arrested for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, South Africa's police minister says. The former lead...

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Australians escape injury in Boston bombs

AS the Australian contingent in Boston prepares to leave the shell-shocked city, the global hunt for the terrorist, or terrorists, responsible for detonating the two bombs packed with nails, pellets and other sharp objects at the marathon finish line...

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