Новости за 05.08.2015

Hundreds of migrants are feared drowned off the coast of Libya after another overcrowded vessel capsized in the dangerous waters of the Mediterranean.

Seelmakers in China may be ramping output, bolstering iron ore, ahead of a government ordered production cut, UBS says.

NBA star Joe Ingles will use his break from the hardwood for the Utah Jazz to sit in the bleachers and cheer on his fiance - and respected member of the Australian team - Renae Hallinan in the Netball World Cup when it starts in Sydney on Friday night.

Nowhere is safe from Sydney developers, it seems. Even the former James Hardie asbestos factory is being eyed for high-rise apartments.

Julie Bishop and her Indonesian counterpart also avoided the thorny issue of boat turn-backs.

The Press Council has decided its Standards of Practice were not breached by reporting on a “person of interest” in a missing child investigation.

One of Australia's leading public health professors has delivered a scathing assessment of anti-windfarm activists, comparing them to people who believe in aliens, reincarnation and other "irrational ...nonsense or faith-based beliefs".

The NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione will be headline act at the annual fundraising dinner for the Christian Democratic Party this month.

Working as a photojournalist at the 75th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing back in 1990, Vedat Acikalin was most struck by the "tender moments" and "respectful friendships" shared by ageing Turkish and Australian veterans.

On the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima a survivor who lives in Sydney feels compelled to tell her story as new research shows the lasting devastating health effects.

It was no laughing matter when "Australia's friendliest comedian" delivered some of the best lines to help keep a pensioner from prison for growing a large marijuana crop.

​Almost 2000 criminal matters are awaiting trial dates due in part to a shortage of judges following retirements and funding cuts as the judicial system reaches a "state of crisis".

A "disaster," if we lose this fourth Test, and the Ashes with it? No, a disaster was what happened at Gallipoli's Lone Pine, 100 years ago on Thursday, to the day, when in the course of that battle, we suffered 2200 Australian casualties, a quarter of them killed.

As those boardroom leather chairs get a good workout, we give you a run-down of the companies to watch this reporting season. This week-by-week guide will get you through the month.

The rush to convert offices into apartments has led to a decline in vacancy rates for skyscapers across the two largest cities in the country.

New Zealand's new-look Silver Ferns have vowed to offset inevitable mistakes with fearlessness and insist they're enjoying their rare underdog status for the Netball World Cup.

Kana Miyoshi thought she knew her grandmother well: they were close throughout Kana's childhood in Hiroshima. Yet there was one question she had never asked her: what was it like when the bomb exploded?

The sharemarket has given Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group a very clear message: sell assets in order to survive the iron ore price rout.

A gunman opened fire on former Pakistani cricket captain Wasim Akram's car in the city of Karachi on Wednesday an apparent incident of road-rage in a metropolis beset by violence.

The new road known as Jakar Street is a rough dirt expanse that Hamas bulldozers cleared parallel to the fence separating this restive Palestinian strip from Israel. Jakar comes from a slang Arabic term that suggests provocation, stubbornness, an effort to vex or annoy or irritate.

The guide who led a Minnesota dentist on Cecil the lion's hunt has defended his actions, a day before he was scheduled to stand trial in Zimbabwe.

'China has stopped. China has stopped. You want to see? Take a plane and see who is still building,' foreign minister tells ASEAN.

Australia's nearest neighbour could be on the brink of a Greek-style fiscal crisis following one of the most spectacular budget blow-outs in regional history.

Between 1999 and 2013, there were 317 mass shootings in the US, with 1554 victims. And the rate at which they happen is rising.

The gobsmacking extent of tycoon Donald Trump's dominance over his rivals was the real surprise when Fox News announced its line-up for an eagerly awaited debate.