Новости за 13.07.2015

Europe has tiptoed back from the Grexit precipice, with an in-principle bailout deal that angry Greeks called a coup.

Currency traders are taking Greece's bailout agreement as a green light to sell the euro, with the single currency shedding more than 1 per cent by midday in New York.

Hewson is now the heir apparent to the late Malcolm Fraser: a former leader that makes a better Australian statesman than he perhaps did a Liberal politician.

More than a quarter of requests for sunflower seeds from Victoria were in the names of Frankie and Liam Davison – she aged 54, an accomplished teacher; he aged 57, an award-winning writer.

If your roots are Irish Catholic, you'll be able to decode the contours to the life of Sister Philomene Tiernan – and you might even ask if its neat bookends are a message from God.

"We have to cope in accepting the unacceptable ... losing an 18-year-old child as he is falling in love and planning his future is something I can't understand."

It was an epic and painful journey that ended in frustration for these bereaved parents, but on Saturday Jerzy and Angela Dyczynski took comfort from the simple act of planting a sunflower seed in the hill country east of Perth.

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has refused to back Prime Minister Tony Abbott's ban on frontbenchers appearing on Q&A unless the program is shifted into the ABC's news division.

An Australian woman has been arrested and jailed in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates for 'writing bad words on social media', ABC reports.

"Reverse osmosis water" is the new activated almonds.

Daly Cherry-Evans and Brett Stewart side-by-side, smiling? Rugby league has a funny way of working sometimes. And Manly's star pair were always going to have the last laugh in the "Backflip Bowl".

A frank Daly Cherry-Evans says he is "over" the fallout from reneging on his four-year deal to join the Gold Coast as Manly's $10 million man piled on more misery for his would-be employers on Monday night.

The AFL's chief medical officer thinks the league's illicit drugs policy has got a bad rap.

Armed robbers are holding up to 20 people hostage in a clothes store just outside Paris, local media is reporting.

GWS has re-signed onballer Stephen Coniglio creating pressure to keep star midfielder Adam Treloar.

The architect of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Greg Combet, has challenged the Abbott government's central justification for preventing the $10 billion agency backing wind energy and household solar projects.

Jane Aaron's animated films have been shown in museums around the world but her work found its widest audience on Sesame Street, the groundbreaking children's education TV program first televised in 1969.

Melbourne mentor Paul Roos has bemoaned what he believes is a lack of respect shown to the sanctity of coaching contracts in the AFL.

The chances of more snow falling in Queensland during this week's Antarctic Vortex are slim, forecasters say, with a road trip to NSW the best option for snow chasers.

Mayors of Brisbane's neighbouring councils – Australia's fastest-growing - argue the State Government must invest in Southeast Queensland's growth regions in Tuesday's state budget.

Happy Queensland budget day. Otherwise known as a Treasurer's Christmas.

A grief-stricken mother, crushed family, and injured worker will vouch for the good work of the construction union this week, as the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption holds hearing in Canberra.

Essendon AFL coach James Hird has been severely concussed after a heavy fall from his bicycle while riding home from training.

The Australian Federal Police has cancelled its annual Ramadan dinner after Muslim community leaders vowed to boycott the "tokenistic" event.

You people are soft. First hint of frost on the air and you're all wearing four layers of snuggies.