Новости за 22.06.2015

A woman and a child were killed and dozens of others were injured when a Taliban suicide bomber and gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday.

The uncle of the seven-year-old girl at the centre of the brawl at child's birthday party in Sydney's west has described the events leading up to the alarming show of violence.

The first hard evidence has emerged of Australian property prices being inflated as real estate is used as a safe haven or money laundering hub by corrupt foreign nationals.

Greece may have staved off a plunge into new financial crisis and a forced exit from the Eurozone – for now – as a package of new taxes and reforms received a grudging welcome in Brussels.

What's happening in Canberra's literary world

On paper at least, Monday's night's outing looked eminently miss-able in terms of lacking major star power and political heft. Unless Grahame Morris floats your boat, Married At First Sight over on Nine might have seemed a better option. But then, on it came. And then off it went, like a demented Catherine wheel, showering bits of panellist and points-of-view so far and wide it was hard to know where to look.

US security analysts believe China regards the sea as a future "bastion" for its nuclear submarines.

'I think that's a comment we are going to rule totally out of order,' the Q&A host said after comments from the first Australian to be charged under counter-terrorism laws.

A birthday means a special privilege during a day of hard labour on fiddly little pastries for MasterChef contender Rose.

Victim walking along Goodna street when teen struck him: police.

Count Ben S. Bernanke among the ranks of Alexander Hamilton supporters.

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​Greece has presented new reform proposals that euro zone finance ministers cautiously welcomed as a possible basis for an agreement in the coming days to avert a looming default.

"When Australia had a mass killing, I think it was in Tasmania about 25 years ago, it was just so shocking to the system, the entire country said, 'We're going to completely change our gun laws'."

A prominent Al Jazeera journalist was released in Germany on Monday, the television network and German authorities said, two days after he was detained at Berlin airport at Egypt's request.

Julia Gillard was aware Bill Shorten was prepared to desert her and switch support to Kevin Rudd up to two weeks before she lost the leadership on June 26, 2013.

The Greek government submitted proposals to its creditors early Monday aimed at breaking the deadlock over a debt crisis that has imperiled Athens' continuing membership in the eurozone.

Free public education has existed for more than a century in Australia, and Abbott and Pyne know they cannot change that. So what are they really planning?

Laying blame on both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, the investigation found 'serious violations of international humanitarian law' during last summer’s battles.

The long paddock - those 50- to 300-metre strips of land running alongside rural roads - is under threat from climate change, and the humble drover along with it.

Climate change will significantly affect food production. Here's how the food on your plate may change.

NAB boss Andrew Thorburn can't be accused of taking advantage of the hicks and hayseeds who have piled into Great Western Bank since October last year as the Aussie bank exits the US market.

Ignoring the opportunity to set a world example in renewable power, the Abbott government will do as little as it can get away with in the global effort to calm global warming.

The Federal Court has thrown out a legal action brought by the corporate watchdog against three former Mariner Corporation directors, including Darren Olney-Fraser and the former managing director of Equity Trustees Don Christie.