Новости за 28.07.2015

The cocaine-and-prostitutes scandal that led to the resignation on Tuesday of Lord Sewel from the House of Lords has stirred up new calls for reform of the UK's upper house.

On a cold winter's night, Damon Albarn started by splashing the Rod Laver crowd with water. Soon his laddish antics began to make more sense.

Frontbencher Kelly O'Dwyer has called for targets to increase female representation in the Liberal Party.

As a child growing up in a strict Jehovah's Witness household she was taught to obey her father as head of the family and warned that outsiders were "worldly people" who served Satan.

American Apparel, the store famous for its plain t-shirts and raunchy advertisements and which has defined millennial style for years, is facing slumping sales in Australian stores, giving the strongest sign yet the oft-maligned 'hipster' could be a dying breed.

When Kim Vuga called Reza Berati a 'troublemaker', detention centre whistleblower Nicole Judge started yelling. 'You have no idea who Rezae Berati is. I knew him; I played soccer with him.'

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop will make a last ditch appeal for Russia to abstain, rather than veto, a United Nations push to establish an international tribunal to prosecute the people who shot down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.

The Swans star has confided to teammates that he might end his career to stop the abuse.

Wests Tigers captain Robbie Farah is set to return after overcoming a fractured hand having missed four weeks of football.

When Mitchell Pearce steps out on to the field against the Bulldogs on Friday night for his 200th game, it might be a record that will never ben beaten.

Adam Goodes' mother has spoken out about the "heart-wrenching" effect of the endless taunts and booing that has dogged her son for months.

A chorus of Aboriginal and political leaders have urged Indigenous AFL players to show solidarity with Adam Goodes on the football field, following sustained abuse against the Sydney Swans star and former Australian of the Year.

Diversified exposure could mean BHP Billiton will be one of the earlier stocks to pick up when commodity prices recover, analyst says.

China Eastern's planned capacity increases between Sydney and Shanghai, designed to ease ACCC concerns over its proposed Qantas joint venture, will for now occur only on a seasonal basis.

Lebanon is suffering from a crisis that has left huge mounds of garbage piling up across Beirut and elsewhere. Many Lebanese see it as a new, more pungent manifestation of the country's often impotent politics.

A Libyan court has sentenced Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, to death for war crimes and acts to crush peaceful protests during the country's 2011 revolution.

She probably has the hardest job in US politics - keeping Donald Trump on-message.

Prime Minister Najib Razak has dumped his deputy and attorney-general amid the fallout from a graft scandal at state investment fund 1MDB.

Liberal donors appear to have used special fundraising clubs to avoid disclosure for millions of dollars in contributions to the party over the past decade.

A review of Australia's complex web of political donations rules now looks likely as politicians across the spectrum acknowledge a system where politicians are seen to sell access, and large donations have remained hidden until months or years after they were made.

The Australian Workers Union failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars reaped from employers in repeated breaches of notoriously weak political donations laws.

The trans-Pacific partnership deal is likely to hinge on old-style trade questions such as tariffs and quotas, but the main game is freeing up the flow of data across borders.

Telstra is taking on Apple and Google with a new device that hosts streaming video services such as Netflix and marks the completion of its media strategy.

England want to bounce back from a disastrous showing at Lord's by playing well enough to get a special Edgbaston crowd on their side in the third Ashes test against Australia, said captain Alastair Cook.

Hawthorn midfielder Will Langford is battling a knee injury and could be sidelined for the rest of the home-and-away season.