Новости за 10.09.2015

Spot iron ore prices scaled a 10-week high and rallying China futures on Thursday suggest further gains amid limited availability of cargoes for immediate shipment.

Top big-wave surfer Shawn Dollar has broken his neck while surfing in dangerous conditions off the central coast of California and remained hospitalised on Wednesday, his management company said.

China's stocks dropped for the first time in three days, led by commodity producers, on renewed concern about a deeper economic slowdown.

'It is bullsh-t to dig him up again now,' says one Berliner. Another says: 'Lenin to rise again? That doesn't work. History is over.'

If you've lived for any length of time in the Sydney beach suburbs of Bondi or Cronulla, you'd know Yooka and Curly Symonds were as much a part of the lore and landscape as salt water and hot chips eaten watching the surf.

Nic Naitanui is struggling to eat and sleep. He thought he knew the meaning of pain, but has a new reference point for that now. A broken heart hurts like no ailment he has had before.

Former members of R.E.M. have reacted angrily to the news presidential hopeful Donald Trump is using their apocalyptic anthem It's The End of the World as a campaign tune.

Road contractors painted over the remains of a dead animal as they created a fresh white divider line on the Mt Lindesay Highway south of Brisbane, the Jimboomba Times reports.

Bones unearthed in West Timor two years ago have been laid to rest at the exquisitely manicured Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Ambon.

The claims ranged from Ned Mannoun's father allegedly receiving apartments from developers to references to a mysterious fire.

Doctors at a NSW hospital are reusing diseased kidneys from cancer patients and transplanting them into dialysis patients in a controversial trial that highlights the shortage of organ donations.

And Cambodia might take some more refugees off our hands, maybe, one day. Your news of the day, reduced to a snarky rant.

An international investigation into the importation of 300 kilograms of cocaine, money laundering and a suitcase of $700,000 in a Sydney hotel culminated in dramatic arrests in Australia and the US on Thursday.

Defence Minister Kevin Andrews has acknowledged the West needs "a clearer strategy" for the war-torn Middle East and indicated there is no immediate prospect of defeating the Islamic State group in Syria.

Police suspect foul play after 29 delegates at an alternative medicine seminar in Germany started staggering suffering from violent convulsions, delusions and hallucinations

There's trouble brewing on the eve of the NRL finals.

For an election in which one party always wins, there has been a lot of excitement on the streets of Singapore before the parliamentary vote on Friday.

Over the past decade, Tim Cahill has played in front of some of Australia's best ever midfielders, but he  believes that a man who has barely pulled on the national team shirt could go on to be as good as one of the greats of the golden generation, Mark Bresciano.

Lebanon's government has agreed on a plan to resolve a garbage disposal crisis, ending a dispute that has caused piles of rubbish to fester on Beirut's streets for weeks and triggered a wave of popular protests.

The United States plans to raise the number of refugees it takes in by 5000 next year to 75,000, including an unspecified number from Syria, senior US officials have revealed, and congressional aides said the total may go significantly higher.

As the West grapples with the most serious refugee crisis since World War II, there is deepening concern over the failure of oil-rich Gulf Arab states to open their doors to asylum seekers.

Syrians and Libyans fleeing to Europe are committing sin by exposing their children to atheism, drugs, alcohol and sexual permissiveness, according to a magazine published by Islamic State insurgents.

The extremist group has identified a Chinese and a Norwegian national as hostages in online ransom demands.

The three-time Dally M winner has made it clear he will consider giving up an almost certain fourth medal if the financial demands of he and his fellow players are not met.

When Jared Waerea-Hargreaves was injured, Roosters coach Trent Robinson told his players he would get on with life - and so would they.