Новости за 15.09.2015

The Kelly brothers are participating in a first-ever experiment to assess the long-term effects of space radiation and microgravity on the human body and mind.

Comment: Now that Malcolm Turnbull is PM, the choice of a replacement Communications Minister is critically important.

Asylum seekers clamouring to enter the European Union were turned back at a razor-wire fence on the Hungarian border on Tuesday, in a crackdown a UN official described as 'really alarming' and right groups said breached international law.

​Security researchers say they have uncovered previously unknown attacks on routers which direct traffic around the internet, allowing hackers to harvest vast amounts of data while going undetected by existing cybersecurity defences.

A teenage girl has been airlifted to hospital in a serious condition after she was run over and trapped under a ute on the grounds of a TAFE in the Southern Highlands.

Australia's top surgeons are pushing to keep 10pm bottle shop closures following a nine per cent drop in assaults across the state since the measures were introduced.

Broadcaster Alan Jones believes Australia is caught in the middle of a "shit sandwich" following Malcolm Turnbull's dramatic toppling of Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Canberra on Monday night.

Julie Bishop's rough trot in front of the cameras continued on Tuesday night as the team on Channel Ten's The Project accused her of failing to warn Tony Abbott as soon as she knew a coup was imminent.

Australian television content is on a "burning platform" and we cannot just stand back and watch it go up in smoke, says the head of ABC.

​At least eight people were confirmed dead and five were missing when flash floods swept through a town in southern Utah, the authorities said on Tuesday.

Grant Hackett believes the "fragmentation" within the Australian swimming team during the 2012 Olympics meant it was always doomed to fail.

While having a quiet drink with a friend in a bar, Bernadette Fitzgibbon came face to face with the warped perception some people have of female scientists.

It was the moment that convinced the staunchest of Tony Abbott supporters that Malcolm Turnbull had the numbers. The sight of Scott Ryan, Liberal Senator for Victoria and parliamentary secretary to Christopher Pyne, lining up behind Malcolm Turnbull for the very public walk to the party room for Monday night's leadership vote.

Prepare for Sam Kasiano versus Kane Evans all over again.

Paul Gallen and the Sharks will need to shut the crowd out if they want to win in Townsville and keep their hopes alive.

Last Friday's loss to the Melbourne Storm now sees the Roosters facing three successive sudden death finals to win the premiership.

Australians were gripped by yesterday's dramatic Libspill - and the TV ratings prove it.

"Yes, there was a real Bush Week, in 1920, which became Country Week in the following years," we're told by Wendy Lowe, of Stanmore (Column 8, Saturday).

Who says the Australian Labor Party is dead: a neoliberal corpse wandering the parliamentary benches in the principleless pursuit of government, hungry for the flesh of desperate or gullible voters?

Athena Swan model represents the biggest single thing we can do to improve the status of women scientists.

North Korea said on Tuesday its main nuclear complex was operating and it was working to improve the 'quality and quantity' of its weapons which it could use against the United States at 'any time'.

Defending his record in what may be one of his last days as Treasurer, Joe Hockey told Parliament on Tuesday that the Australian economy was $68 billion bigger than when it had been entrusted into his care. Without Hockey that result may not have happened.

Labor leader Bill Shorten rushed this week to accuse Malcolm Turnbull of arrogance, but the harsher critique came from a former leader of Turnbull's own party. Brendan Nelson once said to me in an interview that Turnbull suffered from "narcissistic personality disorder".

They've had more leaders than Australia's political parties, but former Test fullback Greg Martin believes the Wallabies have finally "knocked the smart arse" out of the team with their new leadership set up.

Treasurer Joe Hockey has dug in and is so far defying expectations within the pro-Turnbull camp that he would voluntarily stand down once Malcolm Turnbull replaced Tony Abbott as Prime Minister largely on the basis of the government's flawed economic presentation.