Новости за 17.08.2015

A huge bomb ripped through a shrine in the Thai capital, killing 27 people and injuring at least 67 others, according to Thai media reports.

The deputy mayor of Auburn and his new bride Aysha were "the couple willing to face the entire world, determined to cross all lines", according to their extravagant pre-wedding video for their now-infamous nuptials.

A woman in her 70s has died from a suspected snake bite south of Fremantle after the warmest August day in 17 years brought the reptiles out of their torpor.

Ordinary Australians have unrealistic expectations about the lifestyle they will be able to afford in retirement, and are reluctant to seek out professional advice.

When Aussie Farmers Direct launched 10 years ago this month, it could not have been into a more favourable environment.

NAB has allied with fintech startup app Simply Wall Street, in a bid to entice back dormant investment customers.

Here are some fun facts about Australia's newest major winner Jason Day

Melbourne hold Cronulla tryless to win 30-2 and end the Sharks' late-season purple patch.

If Melbourne are allowed to wrestle as they did against his team they will go close to winning the competition, Cronulla skipper Paul Gallen said on Monday night.

A good looking real estate agent can fetch their vendor up to $23,000 more in the sale of the average home, academics have found.

As rescue crews raced against the clock to avert further explosions in China's port city of Tiajin on Monday, senior leaders in Beijing tried a yawning trust deficit laid bare by festering public anger and mistrust over perceived lack of transparency.

How do you stop onions making you cry? It's a simple question that has two young Queensland girls heading to Sydney for the chance to win Australia's top science communication award.

Dyson Heydon should either step down as head of the trade union corruption inquiry, or argue the case to stay. Either way, Abbott owes him an apology.

Hostile or supportive? That's what the Local Government Minister wants to find out by circulating a draft council merger plan.

A Ngunnawal house was well alight as fire crews battled a fire that broke out on Monday night.

Thousands of cars have spent years at risk of car-hacking, according to research that Volkswagen has spent two years trying to suppress in the courts.

Newcrest Mining chief executive Sandeep Biswas wants to grow the gold miner from the ground up, and will target distressed juniors and undeveloped deposits rather than expensive acquisitions of existing mines.

Mitch Marsh's strengthening of his claims for a fifth-Test recall and Pat Cummins' pluck with both ball and bat were virtually all Australian selectors had to savour from their team's practice-match against lowly Northamptonshire.

While the Western Bulldogs are one of the hottest sides in the AFL right now, club president Peter Gordon says he is disappointed with attendances at matches.

Hawthorn could lose premiership defender Matthew Suckling for nothing should he take up a lucrative offer to join Brisbane at the end of the season.

An Aboriginal media identity and cultural ambassador has lashed out at Qantas for refusing to let him carry his ceremonial boomerangs on a flight from Brisbane.

Tony Abbott's handpicked royal commissioner into trade union corruption, Dyson Heydon, will rule on Friday on whether an application from unions to disqualify him, should it be made, has merit.

Simon Corbell's announcement over a year out from the next election of not running again was an unusual one.

The worst combination of extreme weather patterns in the Indian and Pacific Oceans will likely rise by four-fold this century if greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trajectory, leading researchers estimate.

Queensland's regional politicians are driving thousands of kilometres each week, in some cases the equivalent of two and a half return trips between Brisbane and Sydney, as they struggle to adequately cover electorates twice the size of Victoria.