Новости за 10.11.2015

The teenage son of musician Nick Cave fell to his death after taking the hallucinogenic drug LSD, an inquest in England has heard.

The number of "faceless men" running the NSW ALP is set to be slashed by as many as half under a proposed overhaul of the party's governance.

A welter of economic indicators set for release on Wednesday may determine the next move for China's central bank.

Euro-area government bonds rose after ECB Governing Council member Erkki Liikanen said risks to the region's outlook were to the downside.

A woman has accused Qantas of "blatant homophobia" after staff twice asked her female partner to change seats so that an elderly married couple could sit together.

Helmut Schmidt, the former West German chancellor who steered his country through the world economic crisis of the 1970s and took an uncompromising line against domestic terrorism, died Tuesday. He was 96.

The Turnbull government is standing in the way of the US and Japan as they try to dramatically reduce the ability of rich countries to fund coal plants in the developing world.

At least 23 people were killed and 40 wounded in two explosions in the Syrian city of Latakia on Tuesday in one of the bloodiest attacks on President Bashar al-Assad's coastal stronghold.

Former National Union of Workers NSW secretary Derrick Belan has admitted to using a union credit card to pay for a tattoo of his mother and father on his leg.

Florence Welch was in her natural habitat on Tuesday night at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

When My Fair Lady made its debut on Broadway on March 15, 1956, its previews at a small Connecticut theatre had all ready put its young star through the mill.

A man has been attacked by a shark at East Ballina off Lighthouse Beach.

The Turnbull government is considering breaking up its family payments legislation in order to get some savings through the Parliament, with Labor opposing most of the package and support from the crossbench looking shaky.

A massive refurbishment of Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena will include a new eastern entrance and loading bay to drastically cut down on loading times between concerts.

Fund managers have brushed off concerns about Atlassian's proposed structure and welcomed news it will head to an initial public offering in America.

Britain's intelligence agencies will be given funding for 1000 extra spies to work on fighting terrorist plots, the government announced on Monday.

The University of Missouri's president has stepped down on and its chancellor moved aside after protests by the school's football team and other students over what they saw as soft handling of reports of racial abuse on campus.

The popular world sport of rugby union has found a home in the football-crazed United States. Beginning in April, the high-intensity sport will get its own professional league, USARugby.org announced on its website on Monday.

More than 40 years after the notorious killings, a renewed murder investigation has made its first arrest.

Even modest changes to sex industry regulation in NSW are opposed by the industry's advocates.

Police are investigating after a man was stabbed at a house in Melbourne's eastern suburbs on Tuesday night.

The Kremlin has dismissed a report by the World Anti-Doping Agency that Russian authorities oversaw a program to conceal positive test results.

The Palaszczuk Government may lead the nation on gender parity when it comes to its Cabinet, but an audit of staffers within the ministerial offices show there is still work to be done.

World Rugby chairman Bernard Lapasset has voiced his backing for Japan's inclusion in the Southern Hemisphere Rugby Championship competition alongside New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Argentina.

Wealthy pilot-photographer Richard Green, killed when his helicopter crashed near Cessnock, had been embroiled a bitter, decade-long battle with air safety watchdogs.