Новости за 28.09.2015

Brumbies to get a chance to avenge 2015 finals exit - and play their biggest rivals.

Television has lost its sense of surprise, says writer-producer John Rogers. Ditto its grasp of pulp heroes and high concept action. "Remember The X-Files, when you didn't know what the show was going to be every week? I just want you to be surprised," he says.

The Cardinals won 47-7 in Arizona on Sunday, with the 49ers' biggest play coming from Hayne who caught a punt and, with the help of blockers, slashed his way for a 37-yard return.

Sydney recorded its lowest clearance rate of the year with the result falling below the 70 per cent benchmark.

AFL fans will be able to travel free from the city to the MCG by tram in the lead up to the Grand Final.

Bank of America sees pale signs of an economic recovery in Russia with the magnitude of a slowdown in capital investment easing, while corporate profits increase.

Chris Isaak has spoken about his struggle with fellow X Factor judges James Blunt, Dannii Minogue and Guy Sebastian over their reluctance to include classic rock and roll musicians in the Seven show.

China's benchmark stock index fell for a second day after a report showing industrial companies' profits dropped the most in at least four years added to concern the economic slowdown is deepening.

Any potency as satire was undercut by Of Thee I Sing's treatment of women, which invited every bit as much excoriation as the political debauchery it parodies.

AFL umpires boss Wayne Campbell has conceded that the umpires' work in the weekend's preliminary finals "wasn't our best performance," but thought that the commentary surrounding the way games finals were adjudicated was "irrational".

A 34-year-old woman who allegedly stole a children's charity tin from a Sunbury hotel in mid-September has been charged.