US man has been found years being abducted

A boy who was abducted 19 years ago has been found living in Minnesota under a different name. Source: AAP A MAN who was abducted his paternal grandparents 19 years ago when he was five years old has been found living in Minnesota under a different...

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Iran nuclear talks date set: official

World powers will meet Iranian representatives to discuss the disputed nuclear program in Istanbul. Source: AAP WORLD powers will meet Iranian top representatives to discuss the Islamic state's disputed nuclear program in Istanbul at the...

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Pole embedded in teenager's head

A metal pole has been embedded in a teenager's head during a row at a Sydney birthday party. Source: AAP A SYDNEY teenager is fighting for his life after a metal pole was embedded in his head during a birthday party brawl. Police and...

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Sharp shares soar on profit report

SHARP shares jumped nearly 13 per cent in Tokyo trading on Friday after a Japanese media report said the embattled electronics giant logged an operating profit in the last quarter of 2012. Investors pounced on the mass-circulation Mainichi newspaper...

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Mineral sands miner's shares rise

SHARES in Base Resources have soared 34 per cent after the Australian company convinced the Kenyan government not to enforce new nationalist laws on it requiring local ownership. The mineral sands miner's share price has been decimated in recent...

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Fluorescent mosquitoes on the loose in WA

SCIENTISTS in Perth have revealed an incredible research project to track the movements of metropolitan mosquitoes - by letting them loose covered in fluorescent pink and orange paint. Western Australia's Department of Health are embarking on...

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Tas radio station at centre of healing

A COMMUNITY radio station born out of the Port Arthur massacre hopes to be at the heart of another healing process after the devastating Tasman Peninsula bushfires. Tasman FM was created to help that community recover from the deaths of 35 people...

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Nine killed in spate of Iraq attacks

A SPATE of bombings and shootings in Baghdad and a restive province north of the capital have killed nine people, officials say. In Baghdad, a car bomb at 0500 GMT (1600 AEDT Thursday) killed at least three people and wounded 11 others near...

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Cyclone Narelle nears WA coast

RESOURCES operations in the north of Western Australia are bracing for the arrival of Tropical Cyclone Narelle, which continues to track towards the coastline carrying wind gusts of up to 250km/h at its centre. The category-three cyclone is...

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Palmer Qld refinery at tipping point: WWF

CONSERVATIONISTS are concerned tailing ponds at a north Queensland nickel refinery owned by mining magnate Clive Palmer will burst during the upcoming wet season. WWF Australia spokesman Nick Heath says three ponds containing toxic industrial...

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Hopes rise for fatality-free Tas fires

Authorities warn the bushfire threat in southern Tasmania remains high, despite cooler conditions. Source: AAP CONFIDENCE is rising that the worst bushfires in Tasmania in nearly half a century could be fatality free. Police had held grave...

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Aussie tourist missing in Waikato River

AN Australian tourist is missing after getting into trouble while swimming downstream from a dam near Taupo. The man, in his 20s, went for a swim in the area known as the Full James Rapids, downstream from the Aratiatia Dam on the Waikato River,...

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Bushfire evacuee faces worry, exhaustion

IT'S exhausting work being pregnant and a diabetic as a bushfire bears down on your home town. Tarcutta mother-of-four Lisa Harnett, who is 18 weeks pregnant, frantically piled her kids in the car to spend Tuesday afternoon at the southwest NSW...

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US gay marriage bans before court in March

THE US Supreme Court will hear arguments on March 26 and 27 on the sensitive topic of gay marriage, one of the thorniest social disputes in modern America. Same-sex marriage is currently barred by a federal law, yet legal in nine states and the...

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Fire-weary Boomer Bay man to fight on

THE loss of his home and a decade of work can't make Simon Tully abandon Boomer Bay. Together with his son Tully, Mr Brooks tried in vain to save his house as a bushfire roared across the Tasman Peninsula, in southern Tasmania, on Friday. The...

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Post-smartphone era coming, says expert

THE era of the smartphone is rapidly becoming a post-smartphone era, a key tech industry analyst has said ahead of the opening of the world's biggest technology show in the US. Shawn DuBravac, chief economist at the Consumer Electronics Association,...

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Tas has new fire-front as search continues

THE painstaking search for people still missing in the Tasmanian bushfires is continuing as the state turns its attention to a new fire front. Teams of police, Tasmanian and interstate fire services, SES and army reserves are picking their way...

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Assad plan 'detached from reality': US

The US says Bashar al-Assad's (pic) speech is another attempt to cling to power. Source: AAP SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad's road map to end the civil war ravaging his country is "detached from reality" and he should step down, the US State...

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Police clash with protesters in Bangladesh

A general strike in Bangladesh has shut down schools and shops in the capital Dhaka. Source: AAP POLICE in Bangladesh have fired rubbers bullets and tear gas shells to disperse protesters trying to enforce a general strike called to denounce...

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McChrystal takes blame for article

SPEAKING out for the first time since he resigned, retired General Stanley McChrystal takes the blame for a Rolling Stone article and the unflattering comments attributed to his staff about the Obama administration that ended his Afghanistan command...

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Toyota to suspend new plants: report

JAPAN'S Toyota Motor has decided to halt the construction of new factories for the next three years in a shift from its previous policy of building new plants almost annually, reports say. The company, which hopes to regain top spot in the global...

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