Новости за 11.09.2015

US stocks fluctuated amid light volume, with equities on track for their best weekly gain since July.

Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson is hopeful his side's performance in Friday night's qualifying final defeat was an "aberration,' as the Hawks brace for three straight knockout finals if they wish to claim third consecutive premiership.

Former pop star Jessica Simpson has revealed her biggest regret about her marriage to Nick Lachey, which was immortalised in the TV show Newlyweds.

Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum has slammed Immigration Minister Peter Dutton for joking that rising seas will swamp low-lying Pacific islands, inviting him to watch waves that pound his home and terrify his grandchildren.

Things were looking up for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, then BOOM.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says Syria is a "very bad situation getting worse" and suggested Australia may increase its emergency refugee intake, as those displaced from the war-ravaged nation continue to spill into Europe.

Liverpool's mayor says the "highly defamatory lies" lodged against him in parliament come from an MP whose son works for a union locked in a dispute with the council.

Parents of students at Sydney school Cranbrook fear that the career of their headmaster may be over after damaging revelations at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Andrew Hastie gets jesuitical and fails to answer questions about creationism

This follows two years of high prices growth and the introduction of investor lending restrictions designed to take the steam out of the surging property market.

British Prime Minister David Cameron described the situation in Northern Ireland as "extremely worrying".

Does being a high-profile athlete like Lance Franklin make you more susceptible to mental illness?

Craig Bellamy wouldn't want to admit it, but there was a stat that would have had him banging coaching box walls and desks a little more than usual in the twilight of his glittering career. Now he can put it to bed.

Will West Australian football crowds boo Adam Goodes or treat him decently?

"The day will come, when the players become aware of their industrial muscle if they get organised," a rugby league supremo once acknowledged to me, "but we just need to put off that day as long as possible."

The Roosters coach has some tough questions ahead for the rest of the finals series.

The sudden death of the sitting Liberal Don Randall has turned next Saturday's Canning by-election into a referendum on the Prime Minister.

It was, say politicians and refugee advocates alike, the image of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler lifeless and alone on a Turkish beach, that did it.

For the hundreds of thousands of Australians touched by mental illness and suicide, it remains so very hard to talk about.

The Daughter is a remarkably accomplished first film, peopled with some of Australia's best actors.

West Coast's remarkable season continued into a preliminary final after they recorded a breathtaking 32-point win over Hawthorn at Domain Stadium on Friday night.

For a bloke who is charming, friendly and a natural people-person, Mick Gatto certainly has more than his fair share of enemies.

Tony Abbott's hold on the prime ministership is under mounting pressure, with another leadership challenge seen by a growing number of MPs as likely and growing anger within the ministry after a hit-list of Howard-era ministers reportedly in line to be demoted was published.

Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea has signed a new four-year contract, the club said on Friday, a week after a proposed transfer to Real Madrid collapsed.

Coach Philippe Saint-Andre urged French rugby supporters to cast aside their doubts about him and rally behind his squad as they head to England this weekend for the rugby World Cup.