Новости за 18.10.2015

It started out as a sunny day at Twickenham but ended like that infamous rain-soaked night in Newcastle in 2012, but with a crucial twist.

At least four Israeli cities have temporarily banned Arab labourers from their schools as they struggle to calm public fears fuelled by the worst surge of Palestinian street attacks in years

Lamar Odom's family have declined to comment on his condition, a day after the former basketball star regained consciousness after being found in a critical condition at a Nevada brothel.

Follow our live coverage as a depleted Ireland take on a fired-up Argentina.

Argentina stunned an injury-depleted Ireland with an early onslaught and finished at a canter to secure a 43-20 victory that sent them into the Rugby World Cup semi-finals.

When the communist forces pushed into Saigon in the final days of the Vietnam War, Vo Phien sensed that his country's past was about to be erased. Books would be burned, history lessons rewritten, entire cities stripped of their names. He resolved to collect and preserve literary treasures, essays that had appeared in newspapers and magazines, books, even diaries that might soon be banned.

Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose. Melbourne City have yet to pull themselves out of last year's fug.

A television interview with the founders of Reclaim Australia, once a group on society's fringe, was followed by a fiery response on social media on Sunday.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two motorcyclists in separate weekend crashes.

New world No.18 Bernard Tomic believes he is already playing top-eight-standard tennis as he enters the three-event home stretch of his most consistent season, starting with a first-round bye as the fourth seed at this week's Stockholm Open.

Terry Campese reckons the similarities between the Canberra Raiders and Hull KR are eerily similar.

ACT Comets all-rounder Blake Dean gave Big Bash League teams a glimpse of his immense talent with a devastating batting display in the Sydney Twenty20 competition.

The draft master plan for the riverside Bulimba Barracks site will be released on Monday, with Brisbane City Council hailing it as a win for a local community that feared high-density development on the property.

On the evidence of today's Fairfax-Ipsos poll, Malcolm Turnbull has transformed Australian politics. But there are risks: just ask Kevin Rudd.

Labor says it will support the Turnbull government's new laws cracking down on multinational corporations, even though they "fail to address" the practice of companies loading debt into Australia to artificially inflate their tax deductions, according to shadow assistant treasurer Andrew Leigh.

Agriculture Minister Bill Byrne has taken complete responsibility for sending disgraced former Labor MP Billy Gordon to events in his place, admitting "it was a bridge too far".

Now in its fifth year, the Garage Sale Trail will feature more than 10,000 garage sales across Australia.

A steady stream of families explored the Australian National Botanic Gardens in full bloom on Sunday as part of the landmark site's 45th birthday.

Support for the ALP has tanked, with voters flocking back to a rejuvenated Coalition government under Malcolm Turnbull's new leadership just one month after he replaced Tony Abbott as Prime Minister.

More apartments and fewer jobs equal lower rents in Canberra.

Health professionals have urged the ACT Government to let expert advice, not unions, decide policy for a prison needle and syringe program at Canberra jail.

Bendigo Spirit beat Perth Lynx 81-65 at Bendigo Stadium on Sunday.

Schools are preparing to slash or severely wind back VET courses and work experience programs from next year, as the Andrews government abandons a key youth workplace initiative.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has admitted she "changed her language" around domestic violence after hearing of the men it impacted.

An undermanned Canberra United paid the price for a couple of uncharacteristic errors in a 2-1 loss to the Roar.