Новости за 21.11.2015

The AFL has added another new concept to this year's draft - "hidden" picks.

A grass fire on the Gold Coast has sparked the evacuation of one of the area's most popular theme parks.

A newlywed sentenced to 30 years' jail for pushing her husband to his death at Glacier National Park has failed in her bid for a new trial or a shorter sentence.

Paralympians training for the games in Rio next year have had their disability pensions cut under a new Centrelink policy.

Argentinians face a choice between a sharp turn toward free markets and extending a 12-year run of interventionist policies.

The peculiar sport of curling is beset by an arms war among broom manufacturers. And with Olympic qualifying tournaments underway this month, the stakes are high.

Melbourne United forward Daniel Kickert knows a repeat of his club's last two performances will see them thumped by the New Zealand Breakers when they play in Auckland on Sunday.

A man has died and a 14-year-old boy has been critically injured in a sky diving accident near Goulburn Airport.

Brace yourself – summer is coming.

Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was released on Friday after 30 years in an American prison but he will stay in the United States under strict parole conditions in a case that strained relations between the two allies for decades.

For five years they lived like any other couple. Then one day, the man disappeared.

Seven people, including the pilot, have been killed after a helicopter crashed on Fox Glacier on New Zealand's South Island.

More viewers want to grab a beer with Jimmy Fallon than any other - so what makes him so popular?

Three members of a family in Liberia have contracted Ebola, two months after the country was declared free of the virus for the second time, health officials said on Friday.

The inherent beauty of football in that there is no one way, everyone resonates with a different approach, just as in life.

A Sierra Leonean footballer who used to play in Britain's top league has revealed he was trafficked as a teenager, taken to Britain by a man who tried to force him into the sex trade.

Bullying is affecting patient safety, ruining doctors' careers and impacting their mental health, health practitioners have said ahead of a summit to combat bullying, discrimination and harassment in the medical profession.

By comparing maps of projected deforestation with data collected in the forest, researchers have determined the status of more than 15,000 Amazonian trees species.

They played each many times, but Matt Burke never quite worked out how to stop the freight train that was Jonah Lomu. Then again, neither did anyone else.

Three time Melbourne Cup runner up and Australian crowd favourite Red Cadeaux has been euthanised.

Namibian cricket is mourning the death of Raymond Van Schoor, who played for the African nation on more than 200 occasions, after he passed away in hospital five days after collapsing during a match.

Australians travelling to France and Belgium have been told to exercise a "high degree of caution" with authorities upping the travel warning after the Paris terrorist attacks and Belgium arrests.

The trouble with being a seven-foot American basketballer contracted by an AFL club and being picked to play your first game is not, as you might imagine, worrying about fluffing a kick of the oval ball. It is working out where the bloody hell Bendigo is.

The Inter Dominion returns to its traditional home and tradition format when it starts at Gloucester Park on Friday night and Perth is set to make a bid to make it the permanent home for the series.

Throwing away the vestiges of their mandated education for a week of fun in the sun in the nation's playground may have left Schoolies with a reputation for cutting loose, but it wasn't the school leavers causing hassle for police on their first day of celebrations.