The latest search into the retail sector reveals that 119,000 jobs will be lost over the next three years.Retailers say many losses will result from increasing online sales.They want the government to shut down a GST exemption for imported goods brought online up to the value of a thousand dollars.

 

The long-awaited report into last year's Queensland floods will be released today.The inquiry reopened last November after allegations were misled over the operation of Brisbane's key Wivenhoe Dam.

 

Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai,has called for international troops to move out of remote areas and return to their bases.His comment follow the killing of 16 civilians by a US soldier on Sunday.The Taliban has suspended peace talks with the US,blaming a shaky,erracic and vogue US position.

 

And some of grieving relatives of the 22 children,killed in the Swiss bus crash,have visited the site of the accident.28 people died,21 of them children from Belgium,when their bus crashed as they were returning from a skiing holiday.Some of the 24 children injured,have begun to leave hospital.