Новости за 04.03.2016

A resident of a western Sydney street heard someone's piercing screams before finding a man with stab wounds to his across his body.

Sebastian Vettel isn't taking a gearbox failure in Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes as a sign his main opponents are in trouble.

After two weeks of testing in Spain,  Daniel Ricciardo believes he's in a better position than last year to push for a good result at the Australian Grand Prix - and the wheel spin he dropped in the pit lane on his last lap suggests he's still having fun.

Now there, a reader tells me, is a legal case worth watching, as Greg Norman issued writs in Palm Beach County Circuit Court to sue his longtime corporate lawyer Jack Schneider, claiming the attorney "stole trade secrets before he was fired on February 8."

So, the shock, horror economic news of the week was something good.

The Australian dollar climbed to a more than seven-month high v the greenback as a retreat in market volatility bolstered higher-yielding assets.

A former bikie associate who set a Tinder trap and lured a victim expecting sex to an empty car park so he could be robbed has also been convicted of firing a shotgun at a witness during a bungled ATM theft.

Shares in BHP Billiton advanced 9.1% and Rio Tinto added 5.9% amid a surge in prices for base metals.

A former TAFE manager could face criminal charges after procuring more than $1.7 million from his employer for his own business.

Child sex abuse survivors who flew to Rome to hear Cardinal George Pell give evidence to a royal commission say their request to meet the Pope was never received.

Rupert Murdoch has married former supermodel Jerry Hall in a low-key ceremony in central London, the fourth marriage for the media mogul.

Malaysia's prime minister Najib Razak has lashed out at political enemies who have come together to call for a national movement to remove him from office.

A record number of homeless people are sleeping rough on inner Sydney streets, in what lord mayor Clover Moore has described as a tragedy requiring urgent action.

Stress-related absence from work is on the rise, corporate psychologists have warned.

US stocks rose as investors shook off earlier reticence over a decline in wages to focus on a surge in hiring that bolstered optimism about the economy.

It was one of the country's most infamous crimes. Now Bernie Whelan has died without ever knowing what really happened.

When It's A Dundeel swept past the winning post to claim the $4 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes – the richest race ever run on a Sydney track – the owners, who included John Messara and broadcaster Alan Jones, were jubilant.

Football Federation Australia has announced it has severed ties with Olyroos coach and Socceroos assistant Aurelio Vidmar.

Iron ore exports from Australia's Port Hedland climbed last month, rebounding after a cyclone disrupted shipments in January, and as a cargo-tracking report said that Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill project had dispatched its first cargo of 2016.

Employers added more workers in February than projected but average hourly earnings dropped by 0.1 per cent from the prior month.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised the exercise of newly developed multiple rocket launchers and has ordered his country to be ready to use nuclear weapons "at any time".

It was a running-away-from-home nightmare for the age of global terrorism. Marilyn Nevalainen, a pregnant teenager, decided to follow her boyfriend last year when he set out to wage jihad, leaving Sweden for life under the Islamic State.

A new book contains explosive revelations about the inner workings of the Abbott Government.

Cardinal George Pell was punctilious in his responses.  Occasionally his irritation surfaced, the response of a man who doesn't answer to earthly authorities given he has a direct line to God.

If Hollywood wants to know what on-screen diversity might actually look like, it only needs to turn on the television.