Новости за 13.10.2015

The strife-prone Aussie pals played up to the crowd in quite the audition for a vacant Davis Cup doubles spot.

Ukraine has been strongly criticised for not closing the airspace over a region where scores of military aircraft had been shot down in the previous few months.

LONDON: Cricket, rock music and Australian flags – they're all part of Michael Cheika's plan to give the Wallabies a home away from home at a venue which has been a graveyard for their predecessors.

Another 36,000 apartments would be built near train stations on Sydney's Bankstown rail line in the next 20 years, as the Baird government signals its intent to encourage development along another inner west corridor.

Billionairess Gina Rinehart has added volleyball to her sponsorship list alongside swimming and that other wonderful sport that stops the nation, synchronised swimming.

Beginning in 2017, South Korea's middle and high school students will be taught history only from government-issued textbooks, according to much-criticised government plans.

Election commission officials have cited flooding in areas of the country in June and July as the reason for proposing the delay, but Ms Suu Kyi's party said the delay was aimed at thwarting her campaign.

"I'm over trying to find the 'adorable' way to state my opinion and still be likable!"

Jerusalem: Palestinian men armed with knives and a gun killed at least three people and wounded several others in a string of attacks in Jerusalem and near Tel Aviv on Tuesday, police said, on a ''Day of Rage" declared by Palestinian groups.

Local Government minister Paul Toole tells councillors to back reforms or 'deprive your communities of the benefits of change'.

The United States is reportedly talking to allies including Australia about carrying out "freedom of navigation" naval patrols close to artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea in a move that could provoke tensions with Beijing.

I've boarded many flights. I will never forget boarding MH17, 452 days after it was shot from the sky.

A senior construction executive has admitted his company paid bogus invoices issued by Bill Shorten's old union after a workplace deal that "sold out" the 36-hour week for building workers.

The call for attacks in Russia came just before two mortars landed in the perimeter of the Russian Embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus.

For Australia Post, having more female leaders will be good for business.

Melbourne Airport will push for more access rights for international carriers, the continuation of curfew-free operations, and a rail link to the airport under the leadership of its new chief executive, Lyell Strambi.

Too often in economics experts make guesses about an individual will respond to a change in circumstances (such as higher wages or higher prices) and then simply assume that the entire nation of which that individual is a member will behave in the same way.

A serious cloud hangs over Bill Shorten's record as a union leader. He ran a union that took $300,000 from an employer in disguised payments based on fraudulent invoices as part of a deal that hugely benefited that employer.

Specialist police squads will target domestic violence offenders for the first time and perpetrators forced to undergo behaviour change programs as part of a $60 million domestic violence package announced by the Baird government on Wednesday.

About 200,000 seniors are yet to shift over to Opal cards, just over two months from the end of the sale of most paper public transport tickets in NSW.

Roger Federer's Shanghai title defence has been sensationally derailed in the first round by Spanish qualifier Albert Ramos-Vinolas.

Sunshine Coast beachgoers may follow the Gold Coast example and be able to order pizza, hamburgers, ice-cream, tea, coffee and cold drinks right on the beach.

When Robert Simms was growing up in Adelaide, there was one thing the self-confessed "nerd" who loved debating and student politics would never have considered talking about in a speech, let alone his first speech in the Senate.

With the new Australian domestic season now under way, some former A-League stalwarts are fighting for bragging rights - and a place in the knockout stages - in the 2015 Malaysia Cup.

Sometimes the passage of time allows us to see clearly what we did not see before.