Новости за 17.09.2015

Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic asked the army on Thursday to be ready, if necessary, to protect national borders from illegal migration, the state news agency Hina reported.

If it wasn't so serious it would read like the plot of a Damon Runyan story.

China's stocks sank in the last 30 minutes of trading in thin volumes as traders tested the limits of state support.

Marlon Williams and Courtney Barnett, along with Victorian hip-hop artist Briggs, rising star Harts and some of Australia's best emerging singers, will play live on the same stage when The Age Music Victoria Awards celebrates its 10th year on November 11.

Last year, the ex-music venue's century-old interiors were stripped. Now it will reopen as a store - and some have seen skips of material being removed.

From '80s mania with Paul Young to all-star action in Everest ​and annual artfest Art & About, we have your weekend covered.

Rejecting Sri Lanka's planned truth and reconciliation commission, the UN has called for a special hybrid court to investigate "horrific" abuses committed by both sides.

About 1000 avid UFC fans crammed into the State Theatre on Thursday to get a glimpse of one of the most successful but controversial female athletes in the world.

The Wallabies built their last World Cup triumph on "cutting-edge defence" and Stephen Larkham wants to add unpredictability to their bag of tricks to get back to the top of international rugby.

The uncertainty surrounding his long term future left Sydney Roosters winger Daniel Tupou "rattled" as he struggled to focus on football.

Two years after his sacking by the Raiders, Blake Ferguson believes it is now safe to say that he has turned his life around.

Mozambique declared itself free of landmines on Thursday, ending two decades of work to rid the country of a legacy of war that killed or maimed thousands of people, many of them civilians.

Vodafone's response to unauthorised access of a journalist's phone records labelled "offensively inadequate".

A Long Bay prison inmate "reeled in" the accused murderer Robert Xie, a court has heard, by drawing out "admissions" as they chatted.

For years, he's traded off the life-changing experience of fleeing the World Trade Centre towers just before they collapsed. Now this sitcom star has been forced to admit it never happened.

West Coast defender Sharrod Wellingham says the team isn't getting carried away with the premiership hype surrounding the AFL club.

It hasn't yet got quite the cachet of the FFA Cup, but its still a title that all teams outside the A-League are desperate to add to their honour roll when it gets underway this weekend.

Half of Victoria's 6506 prison population comes from just six suburbs or towns: Broadmeadows, Corio, Doveton, Frankston North, Maryborough and Morwell.

The banning of former star financial planner Alfie Chong for five years marks the first head to roll in an investigation into the multibillion-dollar wealth arm of National Australia Bank.

Teenage girls, stay-at-home dads, ardent lefties: everyone is obsessed with The Bachelor. Why?

With its surging techno soundtrack and trippy visuals, mischievous humour and physical mastery, Luminous is bound to be one of the highlights at this year's Fringe.

It was the buoy flashing under the Lake Macquarie surface that first got Jeff Adams' attention.

Police are appealing for information after a report that a 15-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted by three teenage boys at a party in Sydney's west.

In a year of turmoil for Carlton, Patrick Cripps was one of the Blues' few feel-good stories. That was reinforced on Thursday night when he became one of the youngest players in the club's history to claim the best and fairest.

Starting in a shop in St Kilda in the 1970s, Swisse has now been sold for more than $1.5 billion.