Новости за 23.06.2015

Australia have poked fun at England's pre-Ashes camp in Spain, saying they are focused on retaining the most treasured prize in Test cricket not 'sunbaking'.

Man injured when two cars and truck collided in FNQ.

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More than 700 people have died from a three-day heatwave in southern Pakistan as medics battle to treat victims after a state of emergency was declared in hospitals.

Traffic was halted through the Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France on Tuesday after striking French ferry workers set fire to tyres, while Britain's Foreign Office warned of migrants trying to get into vehicles queuing to enter the tunnel.

The mother-in-law of terrorist Khaled Sharrouf has revealed that his wife is desperate to come home and has made the "mistake of a lifetime" by following the brutal jihadist to the Islamic State war zone.

Authority would give Obama administration the power to finalise the negotiations with 11 other trade partners, including Australia.

Confederate iconography is not responsible for 21st century bigotry, but it certainly provides a vocabulary through which hate groups can give shape to their ideas.

Major US retail chains Wal-Mart and Sears as well as big online retailers Amazon and eBay, said they would stop selling products bearing the Confederate flag, a week after a white gunman shot nine dead at a historically black South Carolina church.

It's kind of weird, to say the least, that Foxtel's new series Banished has been made about the first European colony in Australia without including the original inhabitants.

A new class of clean energy entrepreneurs is emerging in China and creating fabulous wealth -- $US9.13 billion this year alone. Call them the wildcatters of the solar age.

The government has declared a state of emergency in Karachi, Pakistan's largest southern city, after a heatwave killed more than 700 people there and left thousands fighting for their lives at hospitals.

Paul Cox's highly personal Force of Destiny is the opening night film at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.

One year on from when they met for the first time on their wedding day, Married at First Sight couple Alex and Zoe have shared their heartbreaking news.

Zaky Mallah may have had the final word during stoush with a federal MP on ABC's Q&A, but Waleed Aly didn't give him an inch during a combative interview on Channel Ten's The Project Tuesday night.

With solar cells falling in cost by 5 per cent a year and the need to cut carbon emissions, it's just a matter of time before fossil fuels are eclipsed, three generations of Australian-trained researchers say.

Are we honestly surprised? Every year in the US, 500,000 acts of gun violence are committed — including homicide, suicide and injury. Almost 90 people die from guns here every day.

A crucial vote cleared the way for legislation to be on the president’s desk this week.

RSE Ventures is teaming up with Qatar to buy a 35.5 per cent stake in the holding company that owns Formula One in a $US7 billion-$US8 billion deal, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Homes and businesses in the centre of Adelaide will be offered financial incentives to connect battery storage to their solar power systems.

'I cannot support such an agreement,' says one Syriza lawmaker, 'I do not care about the consequences of my decision.'

It could soon pay more to write lengthier books, if you are an author self-publishing on Amazon.com Inc's Kindle ebook platform.

For youngsters there's a form of bad luck that isn't widely recognised by those of us already ensconced in the workforce.

Who stands to benefit from the slander of wind power and other forms of renewable energy?

Ships patrolling the Mediterranean plucked more than 2700 migrants from overcrowded and unsafe boats on Monday and rescue operations are continuing, Italy's coast guard said on Tuesday.