Новости за 10.10.2015

Graphic ad campaign warns of toxic fat build-up from sugary drinks

As well as a call for tracking animals, the world's peak lobby group for greyhounds has asked NSW government to ban the $144 million a year greyhound racing industry.

Constant gardener David Bath faces court after housing department says his greenery is an "illegal structure".

A woman who tried to help a young boy after he was swept off rocks on the NSW north coast has died.

Five security guards shown in video viciously kicking and elbowing two Australian tourists on the Thai resort island of Phuket will escape punishment because the victims have returned home without making police statements.

Puzzling road-related offences, excessive council regulations and outdoor dining laws that border on the bizarre. Eventually, you will fall prey.

Reality is hitting home for many Sydney vendors whose hopes of big prices at auction are fading.

Former Wallaby forward Steve Hoiles described Sunday's historic hybrid game between the tradition-steeped Randwick rugby team and the Western Suburbs Magpies league side as something supporters from both codes have craved.

She sang with INXS, Prince and Paul McCartney, now Jenny Morris has lost her voice for good.

Ping-Pong-a-Thon started with a bunch of mates hoping to raise some money for a rent-boy rescue charity in Thailand. Five years later, it's a nation-wide event.

When two sides with grandiose expectations go head-to-head, it's always worth tuning in for.

Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel-prize-winning economist, said the Federal Reserve should hold interest rates unchanged through 2015.

A woman who tried to help a young boy after he was swept off rocks on the NSW north coast has been taken to hospital in a critical condition.

A woman has been arrested after her mother was fatally stabbed in NSW's Lake Macquarie region.

Prime Minister should back bill legalising medical marijuana to ensure it passes, the Greens say.

Labor is set to oppose a key element of the government's crackdown on foreign investment, likening it to the White Australia policy.

The Law Reform Commission is to consider whether the law should be updated to allow people to leave legally binding instructions about disposal of their bodies.

Anonymous gift cards were used to pay the dues of hundreds of ALP members at the core of Bill Shorten's local power base as part of one of the biggest-ever branch-stacking scams to hit the Victorian Labor party.

Future prime minister's bawdy ballad won him the Henry Lawson Prize for Poetry and the disapproval of his mother.

While Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold was disappointed not to win their season-opening clash against Melbourne City, he feels they were "75 per cent better" than in the corresponding fixture last season.

The nose of the downed flight MH17 was peppered with shrapnel from a missile, investigators say.

Dozens of people are dead and even more wounded in two explosions outside the main train station in the Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday, the Turkish Interior Ministry said.

The Baird Government's great property sell off is leaving taxpayers footing the bill for higher rent costs for public servants.

Almost all of the school-aged jihadists and students who have been radicalised in Australia have come from state-run public schools and not religious schools.

Israel Folau and Bernard Foley face the prospect of almost two years of non-stop rugby and will walk the fine line between burnout and maximising their earning potential when they juggle Wallabies, Super Rugby and Japanese duties at the same time.