Новости за 20.07.2015

Greece reopened its banks and started the process of paying off billions of euros owed to international creditors on Monday in the first signs of a return to normalcy.

This is horrifying. Not Mick Fanning shark punch up horrifying. This is worse. Hip hop is now old people music.

Two of the country's most senior office bearers are on probation.

While most Australian racing enthusiasts are spending time, money and effort importing racehorses in the hope of a major race success, the chairman of Racing Victoria and a group of his friends may have discovered an easier and unique way.

It may appear like another case of "boys and their toys", but for Brisbane's Chad Nowak there was a little more at stake.

Bronwyn Bishop's love affair with charter flights began nearly two decades ago when she was a junior minister in the Howard government, with the now Speaker amassing a near $140,000 bill over four years.

Racing Victoria's senior talent scout Leigh Jordon maintains that this year's Melbourne and Caulfield Cup contenders from Europe will be a new crop of stayers with 2015 being a "renaissance" year for the Spring Carnival.

Jan Stirling will be inducted to the FIBA hall of fame on September 19.

This year's Voices in the Forest will be the fifth. To mark the occasion, and because opera is a romantic idiom. artistic director Christopher Latham said he would be making a concerted effort to make it as romantic as possible.

Australian Feliks Zemdegs has taken the Rubik's Cube world title for the second straight time at the 2015 World Championship finals, which reunited the world's meanest "speedcubers" in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Abandoned packages containing Blind Sports Australia fundraising material brought a Civic block to a close for several hours on Monday night.

A commercial bakery in Canberra will have to spend more than $140,000 on an overhaul of its safety procedures after a customer was hit by a semi-trailer as she picked up stale bread.

Researchers from the University of Canberra are turning their focus to the morning school run, in an effort to make the daily juggling act a little easier for parents.

Nine banking on a disgraced radio DJ, the 'most hated man in Australia' and Gabi Grecko to fire up the fight for reality ratings.

Canberra's thriving specialty coffee culture has brought world-class blends to the capital but residents still fork out less than most Australians for a mug of brew.

Australia and China's beef agreement illustrates that while the global market for hard commodities is collapsing, demand for food is rising.

Greater Western Sydney will have a new coach in their ranks for the rest of the AFL season via injured ruckman Shane Mumford.

A woman demanded her ex-partner give her their house and $90,000 at the time she falsely accused him of bashing and raping her, a court has heard.

Manly were out for revenge after Gavin Cooper's 79th minute try sunk them in round 12,

Victims of crime have felt powerless and risked being re-traumatised by having their personal health records aired in Canberra's courts, a report has found.

Governments must raise extra revenue to pay for health, says Andrew Barr, not ruling out an increase in the GST

Matt Bullock, the founder and owner of Australia's biggest online merchant payments gateway eWay, will wade into the physical world on Tuesday with a new mobile payment device.

And everything's fine on Nauru after all, it turns out! Your news of the day, reduced to a snarky rant.

Can the Sea Eagles continue their late-season surge towards the finals against the Cowboys?

Malaysian authorities have blocked access to a website critical of Prime Minister Najib Razak's government, saying the British-based news portal had violated a local internet law in a move condemned by opposition lawmakers.