And when the markets closed a couple of hours ago in Europe, London's FTSE 100 was closed to 50 points higher. The Dax and the Euro also ended the week on a positive note America's markets have closed with the Dow Jones slightly lower and trading fla...
A monsoon trough is triggering showers and storms across the tropics as a trough in the east is triggering isolated storms in western Queensland and showers in Tasmania and Victoria. Onshore winds are bringing showers to eastern Queensland. Looking a...
Indonesia's government and military are closing ranks(紧密团结） against Australia's policy to turn back asylum-seeker boats. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is making it clear (that) his opposition to the policy hasn't changed. It follows re...
A rememberance service will be held on Queensland's Sunshine Coast today for a mother and daughter who died after falling ill in Bali. Nolene Bischoff and her 14-year-old daughter Yvana died at the weekend. Authorities are yet to determine the cause...
The US trade deficit has fallen to a four-year low. Official figures show the trade gap dropped by almost 13% to just over 34 billion dollars in November. That's the smallest monthly deficits since October, 2009. Imports fell almost 1.5% as a fall in...
Indonesian doctors say it could take up to a fortnight to determine what killed the Queensland mother and daughter who died suddenly in Bali. Media reports say their families requested their bodies be returned to Australia for an autopsy. Forensic do...
And leading the news this morning. Controversial Liberal Senator Cory Bernanke has called for an end to the rising rate of abortions in his new bookthe Conservative Revolution. Senator Bernanke accused some women of using abortion as a harm form of b...
The Australian sharemarket slipped in cautious trade today. The All Ordinaries index has closed a third of a percent lower,as has the ASX 200 index. Gold miners jumped. Woodside fell one and a half percent and the National Australia Bank was the wors...
A broad(not sure),low-pressure trough is triggering showers and thunderstorms over the nation's north. Very hot northwestly winds are filtering into Queensland and the Northern Territory ahead of a trough. Gusty westerly winds in the wake of a cold f...
The Australian Green Peace activist who spent almost three months in a Russian jail is finally home. Colin Russell was one of 30 people charged with hooliganism after a protest at an arctic oil rig in September. Mr. Russell says he has no regrets and...
Fire authorities are on high alert with parts of the country in a grip of a heat wave. South Australia's facing more extreme weather today as ex-tropical cyclone Christine moves into the state. Temperatures in the north are again expected to reach th...
The Austrlian sharemarket has ended today's trade flat. But for the year, the market has gained 15 percent. The All Ord's at 5553. The ASX 200 index adding 703 points for 2013. The major drivers at the markets once again came from the big four banks...
