Новости за 01.09.2015

Anchorage: As stage sets go, Alaska is a spectacular one: craggy mountain ranges, picturesque coastlines and iconic glaciers. President Obama arrived here Monday to use that backdrop for his message that climate change is not just a thing of the future but something well underway in the nation's largest state.

Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews' batting heroics went in vain as India beat the home team by 117 runs in the final Test on Tuesday to win the three-match series 2-1.

The centimetre or so that separated Lachie Hunter's head from a brain-rattling impact was also the gap between Shaun Atley and an AFL suspension.

Poland is set to send military explosives experts to inspect the area of a possible buried German Nazi train that local legend says is laden with gold, other loot and potentially booby traps.

Armed with 100 rounds of ammunition, the 19-year-old armed walked into his family's home and allegedly shot his mother, stepfather and grandmother. Then his grandfather shot him.

Looming byelections in safe Liberal seats are the perfect opportunity for more women to enter the party's parliamentary ranks, senior party members say.

Joey Rovero was just five months from graduation. It was December of 2009 and the healthy, handsome, athletic Arizona State University senior had finished his second-to-last semester. It was time to blow off some steam.

Leading online gambling agency Betfair is being used by underworld figure Horty Mokbel as an online bank and suspected money laundering vehicle for millions of dollars, raising serious integrity concerns.

The rrisis finally sees investors shedding the herd mentality and analysing markets on a case-by-case basis.

Farmers are calling on dairy processors to maintain the current prices they pay for milk, saying slashing farm cheques would threaten Australia's dairy production and in some cases force farmers of the land.

Canberra has been forced into a fresh review of the Interactive Gambling Act because outdated laws have been rendered too ambiguous for new forms of controversial sports betting via smart phones and online poker services.

Myer will target fashion-conscious women with the brands they desire, improve its change rooms and ramp-up digital sales in a $600 million ploy to turn the company's fortunes around.

"If you don't drive, you are at the mercy of others."

A new economic comparison tool, the "Stateometer", shows NSW is in an enviable position.

The Vatican said on Tuesday that Pope Francis will expand access to confession for abortion, but it was not immediately clear if the pope's comments were symbolic or a change in Catholic Church practice.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says government MPs have "a fair idea who is leaking" information about divisions in cabinet as another minister blasted leakers, calling on them to quit or be sacked.

Billionaire Russell Withers could face a grilling by a Senate inquiry following explosive revelations the convenience store chain has covered up wage abuse across its network of stores.

The Presbyterian minister who led an attack on the screening of a film about children with gay parents at a Sydney high school had his scripture classes at the school dramatically slashed last year.

An emotionally wrought Kevin Rudd actively sought out the solace of the world's most powerful government in the days after his removal at the hands of colleagues in 2010.

NSW emergency departments are facing huge increases in the number of seriously ill patients, with doctors saying the system cannot cope without more beds and more money.

A Turkish court on Monday formally charged three employees of Vice News with having links to a terrorist organisation, the online news channel said, days after they were detained while reporting from the mainly Kurdish southeast.

Husband, mother and her teenage son had performed together in musical trio.

A fragile truce between Ukraine forces and pro-Russian separatists appeared to hold on Tuesday as two more guardsman died from wounds sustained in violent protests.

Eminent US Judge Jed Rakoff is in Australia to deliver the keynote speech for the Maurice Blackburn and Business Day class action symposium.

The back-rower doesn't want to be seen as an enforcer but may just be headed down that path if he continues to flatten opponents in the manner that he did to Manly's Justin Horo.