Новости за 05.10.2015

Pacific trade ministers reach a deal on the most sweeping trade liberalisation pact in a generation.

Torrential rainfall that South Carolina's governor called a once-in-a-millennium downpour triggered flooding in the southeastern US state on Sunday, causing at least nine deaths in the Carolinas.

A bushfire destroyed a home south-west of Geelong on Monday night and threatened other homes before being brought under control by firefighters.

When Ridley Scott was making The Martian, the new science-heavy film that has Matt Damon stranded on Mars, he did what few film directors ever get the chance to do: He called NASA.

Four Northern California high school students have been arrested in connection with what law enforcement officials called a highly detailed plan to shoot and kill fellow students and teachers, just days after a mass shooting on a community college campus in rural Oregon.

Workers at 7Eleven stores may have been shockingly exploited, but at least they were being paid a wage. It has now common for university graduates and students to expect no salary at all as they try to break into the job market.

The Nauruan government intends to process the refugee claims of 600 asylum seekers within a week, saying it has flung open the doors of the controversial camp and the era of detention "has ended".

Cannes still picking up the pieces as world's biggest TV program market opens its doors for business.

One in nine motorists tested for illicit drugs over the grand final long weekend returned a positive result.

Parents say Australian babies are being "kept captive" and cannot come home after a ban on commercial surrogacy in Nepal.

RICHARD RAINWATER

It was a cab ride that epitomised the discrimination of people with mental illness in Australia.

The health district that oversees the Broken Hill Base Hospital has defended its handling of bullying and harassment claims made by healthcare workers against management, blaming a recent "culture change" for "disrupting" staff.

The Wallabies could be without vice-captain Michael Hooper for the crunch Rugby World Cup match with Wales after the key forward was cited for alleged foul play in Saturday's victory over England.

Private school parents set higher goals for their children than those with kids at state and Catholic schools, new research says.

Bill Shorten has offered one of the more startling defences of penalty rates advanced by a Labor leader, elevating private education as the dream of Australian workers.

It was a horror night for Broncos fans but many are already looking forward to going one better in 2016.

A country community is laying the foundations for an emissions-free future as locally-owned solar and wind farms expand across Australia.

How one lecture from Josep Gombau freed Tarek Elrich from the pressure, unleashing the international footballer within.

Police visited the western Sydney mosque where teen gunman Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar prayed several months before the radicalised school boy shot dead a NSW police employee.

Sydney faces another scorching day in the west on Tuesday as a big high pressure system steers unusually warm winds over the city.

A growing skills shortage is threatening to cripple economic growth in Western Sydney leaving seven out of 10 businesses without the qualified workers they need at the same time the region experiences booming population growth, a new audit has found.

Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer has fired back at his detractors in a bizarre stage-managed interview complete with speaking lectern and dutiful wife standing by his side.

Police will probe links to bikies in their investigation into a bashing of a construction foreman and subsequent arson attack that gutted a newly renovated South Melbourne hotel part-owned by Collingwood star Dane Swan.

Fire has destroyed a police car after a traffic stop gone wrong west of Brisbane.