Новости за 18.09.2015

US stocks slumped as investors speculated the Fed's refusal to raise rates bespeaks larger concerns about the strength of the global economy.

Roosters halfback set to play against the Broncos, but the Bulldogs harshly done by

Who sided with who? Who owes who what? The leadership spill was one gory, glorious production.

Disadvantaged areas of Victoria continue to be over-represented in the state's prison population, an Ombudsman report into the correction system has found.

There is a new woman in football great Andrew Johns' life and she's leaving a few people a little shaken and stirred around town.

Obama and Xi face off in Washington

Warwick Martell wonders why, at 87 and firmly retired, the Victorian government would pay to equip him with computer skills for the workforce of the future?

'This guy has got to go, and it has to happen before Christmas,' Malcolm Turnbull said of Tony Abbott a month ago in conversation with colleagues.

Hurstville Council will be placed into administration after Local Government Minister Paul Toole announced he has lost confidence in the council's ability to conduct itself properly.

Tony Abbott almost had us fooled when he said he was about to say his final farewells to Sydney's prime ministerial pad on Friday afternoon.

A 97-year-old Argentine Supreme Court judge who has clashed with the government over his ability to do his job handed in his resignation this week, but it will only take effect the day after President Cristina Fernandez leaves office.

US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former prisoner of war in Afghanistan held for five years before being swapped in 2014 for five Taliban leaders, deliberately left his post, US military prosecutors said in a preliminary hearing.

The United States has opened the door to possible tactical discussions with Russia about the war in Syria, given Moscow's increasing military build-up in the country.

The Wallabies are unmoved by World Rugby's plans to crackdown on players feigning for penalties and stamp the tactic out with the threat of being sent to the sin-bin.

Timing is everything in politics, although Tony Abbott's has definitely been a little off this week.

At the end of August Telstra revealed it was in talks to help launch a mobile carrier in the Philippines, a move that would see it burn through hundreds of millions of dollars in a distant archipelago.

Victoria is facing a $1.5 billion budget black hole, with bureaucrats from the Department of Treasury resisting pressure to pad out the bottom line with cash handed over by the Abbott government for the now-defunct East West Link.

Football fans are like religionists; they look for signs affirming them as the chosen.

Hawthorn's loss to West Coast at Domain Stadium in the qualifying final would help the team in their showdown against Fremantle next week, coach Alastair Clarkson said on Friday.

Croatian PM says his country is 'stretched far beyond our capabilities'. 'We have a heart, but we also have a brain'.

Marian Henderson was the queen of the Australian folk revival during the 1960s.

An unlikely environmentalist leads the counter-attack to the federal government's war on green groups, writes Anne Davies.

No longer the Oscars' poor cousins, the Emmy Awards are now drawing big stars to television and audiences with them.

Video footage has emerged of Canterbury fans clashing with police during the Bulldogs elimination loss to the Sydney Roosters on Friday night.

Andy Murray drew first blood for Great Britain on Friday, with a merciless straight-sets mauling of Thanasi Kokkinakis in the opening rubber of Australia's Davis Cup semi-final in Glasgow.