Новости за 28.10.2015

A South Carolina sheriff said Wednesday that he had fired a white deputy who was caught on video grabbing an African-American student, flipping her backward as she sat at her desk, then dragging and throwing her across the floor as he tried to remove her from the classroom.

A sighting of an abandoned ute in dense bushland and a missing person report in Sydney were the two key developments that led police to Gino and Mark Stocco's final hideout.

Fugitive father and son have been charged with a string of offences including murder following their capture after eight years on the run.

​If anyone doubted the magnitude of the crisis facing the world's largest steel industry, listening to Zhu Jimin would put them right, fast.

Iron ore sank back below $US50 a metric ton on speculation that a global glut will persist.

Homicide squad detectives have charged a man with the murder and rape of 11-year-old Wangaratta girl, Zoe Buttigieg.

Peak-hour overcrowding on trains has got significantly worse this year, new data reveals, with the biggest crowd crushes mostly being felt on lines in Melbourne's north and west.

Two of Australia's leading Catholic priests say they are "appalled, ashamed and offended" that Tony Abbott would cite the bible on the world stage to argue for global anti-immigration measures.

Decades of a one child policy and a preference for boy children have led to a crisis of unmarried men in China. But one economist's proposal has angered large sections of the public.

Former Goldman Sachs heavyweight, Alastair Walton, will be looking for new digs next month but harbour views will not be on the agenda. Walton will be flying out to Houston, Texas next week to take up his new gig as Australia's Consul-General.

Australia is looking at trialling passport-less travel in a move Foreign Minister Julie Bishop predicts will go global.

The caretaker found dead on the property where father and son fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco were arrested was believed to have past organised crime links.

For the past 10 years Peter Stocco feared the worst about his fugitive son and grandson as they left a trail of destruction and anger behind them across half of Australia.

​It was a wild ride across the countryside that went for thousands of kilometres from the heart of the NSW Riverina, to Kelly country and beyond.

After plans for a coal mine at  Mt Penny, in which the Obeids had a secret stake worth at least $30 million, were scuttled by an ICAC inquiry, the Obeid family has found itself in the worst of all worlds.

A Brisbane woman has been found dead on a New Zealand highway, and police believe she may have been killed before being struck by a car.

The son of a man slain in a Thomastown drive-by shooting has paid tribute to his father, as his four-year-old brother recovers in hospital.

Nearly 200 victims of poor financial advice are owed $16.6 million – and they may never see a cent of it.

Australian officials who paid people smugglers to return a boat of asylum seekers to Indonesia committed a transnational crime and put dozens of lives at risk: report

Refugees are not raped on Nauru and would riot for the cameras if Australian journalists were allowed onto the Pacific island, the Nauruan government claims.

Malcolm Turnbull has left open the prospect of a ground-to-ground nuclear industry cycle in Australia with uranium mined and processed in Australia, converted to fuel rods for use abroad in reactors, and then returned to Australia for safe storage.

A pregnant Somali refugee who says she was raped on Nauru will return to Australia to discuss an abortion and her mental health with medical experts, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says.

Muslims in Sydney are more likely to be targeted by negative public sentiment than in any other Australian city, with Melbourne most positively disposed towards Islam.

The Nine Network is set to launch a new lifestyle-focused free-to-air television channel next month called 9Life.

The state's wildlife service is pursuing criminal cases against several hunters, while some are considering lawsuits against opponents who threatened and harassed them online.