Новости за 09.07.2015

'This is the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation,' the UN says.

Melbourne Storm hope Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk and Will Chambers will all play against New Zealand Warriors this Sunday.

Is it ballet? Do I have to be a dancer to do it? Will everyone be wearing those little wrap skirts and make me feel like an elephant? Or is it actually the kind of bar that serves tequila shots?

Nine boss, David Gyngell, probably doesn't need reminding that he is more than $500,000 better off after selling some of his Nine shares weeks ahead of the May downgrade.

The United States-led war on the self-declared Sunni extremist Islamic State is faltering badly ... IS evidently has an elaborate strategy of action but the same cannot be said about the US and its allies.

A third top Islamic State commander in Afghanistan was killed in a US drone strike in the country's east this week, the Afghan intelligence agency said on Thursday.

Federal politicians spent over half a million dollars on Australian flags in the second half of 2014, coinciding with a rise in the national terror alert level.

A slew of teenage girls have been left traumatised after discovering the man they thought was a handsome, 20-something blonde university student was a 46-year-old builder and father-of-two.

Bill Shorten has been warned that his credibility as a witness is at risk, by royal commissioner Dyson Heydon, who chastised the Labor leader for using the inquiry into trade unions as a political platform.

A Sydney transgender woman who was bashed at a Newtown pub has confronted her alleged attackers outside court.

The Health Services Union wants to hand over reams of evidence unearthed during its civil case against ex-secretary Kathy Jackson to police and the trade union royal commission.​

The government needs to solve the housing affordability crisis, says Greens MP Jenny Leong.

Mitchell Johnson has a long and storied relationship with crowds in this corner of the world and their special bond has shown no signs of cooling in this Ashes series.

NRL chairman John Grant believes Alex McKinnon's has lost some of the support of the rugby league community following his public stoush with Queensland captain Cameron Smith.

Some beef cuts have spiked by as much as 50 per cent in the past six months.

He wrote the book, literally, on the cases that shaped the nation. Now the Sydney silk assisting the Royal Commission into trade unions is supplying the hearing room drama.

A hoon driver has had his brand new luxury car impounded after being caught speeding at almost double the legal limit in Melbourne's west.

The Australian Workers Union under Bill Shorten's stewardship cut a controversial enterprise deal with a company that had no employees run by the man whose $40,000 election campaign donation Mr Shorten forgot to record for eight years.

Former champion boxer turned promoter, Barry Michael could be the first to face scrutiny under new powers to be vested in Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton, following an ugly brawl at a recent boxing event in Carlton.

An inner-city council is looking to lock three floors of new developments for commercial use despite having the highest retail vacancy rates in a decade.

Temperatures in southern Queensland are set to plummet from Saturday night onwards, as dual Antarctic fronts sweep across Australia's south-east.

At the age of 77, Diana Douglas wrote a candid memoir calling her ex-husband, Kirk Douglas, a drug-addicted and sexually voracious "bird of prey". Understandably peeved, Kirk Douglas threatened to boycott the wedding of their son Michael to the British actress Catherine Zeta-Jones if his ex-wife attended, calling Diana a "blabbermouth".

Adam Pengilly previews round 17 of the NRL.

For all their cuddly, postcard-selling, tourist-attracting brilliance, we really don't know very much about how koalas live.

Cricket Australia is adamant the Sheffield Shield final date is set in stone despite the AFL's request to have it changed to avoid a potential Easter weekend MCG collision course.