Новости за 12.10.2015

Iron ore will extend its slide on rising supplies from the world's largest miners, weak China demand and a stronger US dollar.

US stocks were little changed as investors awaited further indications on the strength of the world's biggest economy.

"I think he's handled himself very well, to get in there in the first year of rugby union is pretty outstanding to be honest. I'm proud of him" says Tom Burgess.

China's stocks rallied amid speculation the government will take more steps to bolster economic growth.

Princeton professor wins for research into how people rich and poor make decisions about what to buy and how much to save.

Dell agreed to buy EMC for about $US67 billion in the largest technology acquisition ever, creating a corporate-computing giant.

Walter Palmer, a lifelong big-game hunter from Minnesota, stoked a global controversy when he killed Cecil, but the Zimbabwe government says his papers were in order.

ISIS is the focus of investigations into a twin suicide bombing that killed at least 97 people in the Turkish capital Ankara, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, but the group has made no claim to it.

Nick Kyrgios counts an improved attitude as the positive legacy of his recent period of turbulence, believing the emotional benefits gained from his brief break from competition have been apparent in the Asian tournaments he has contested since his return.

London police say the round-the-clock guard around the embassy where the Wikileaks founder has taken refuge is "no longer proportionate".

Muslim parents are terrified their young sons will become unwitting victims of radicalisation "paranoia", an Islamic chaplain has revealed just hours after the federal government announced plans to target children as young as 14-years-old with new counter-terrorism laws.

Former National Museum Australia director Andrew Sayers has died.

A Sydney Ugg boot retailer has been fined more than $10,000 for paying a young overseas worker just $8 an hour instead of the standard $22 rate to which she was legally entitled.

Never before has two men sitting on a small couch been more hotly anticipated. What would Tony and Joe do on the backbench?

Falsifying invoices is serious, potentially a criminal offence for those that engaged in it or were aware it had occurred. And it is the falsifying of invoices that is central to the scandal involving the $300,000 in payments to Bill Shorten's old union from construction joint venture Thiess John Holland.

It seems like only yesterday that the biggest threat to the Australian economy was slowing growth in China, by far our largest trading partner, and the related decline in mining-related investment and commodity prices.

The State's corruption watchdog has the Queensland Police Service in its sights, particularly how it deals with allegations involving excessive use of force.

When Michael Li said no to spying on the Falun Gong movement in Sydney he had no idea of the consequences that would follow.

A police officer has died after taking her own life at work on Monday.

Is life in Sydney getting better? For home owners with a secure job its a resounding yes. For others the answer isn't so clear.

Part of the cost of free trade deals is standardisation – in this case it means adopting US practices.

France coach Philippe Saint Andre urged the television match officials to do their job after Ireland flanker Sean O'Brien allegedly punched lock Pascal Pape in their Pool D decider at the Rugby World Cup on Sunday.

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin may soon have another hit TV show under his belt with the HBO-owned Cinemax ordering a pilot script of a novella he wrote in the 80s.

When you are trying to boost your membership and grow your supporter base it helps to have home games at the start of the new season - when hope springs eternal and results have yet to impact, for good or ill, on fans' emotions.

A bushfire that has destroyed four homes and more than 3100 hectares of land in central Victoria has been contained.