Новости за 14.03.2016

"I am shocked." ABC recoils at news two of its top journalists will be charged in Malaysia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian military intervention had largely achieved its objectives.

As stage-managed as China's political season is, the flurry of government work reports and official press conferences throws up some valuable insights. What are they?

The single vehicle crash was near the intersection of Fairbairn Avenue and Mount Ainslie Drive, Campbell.

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Like a cat with nine lives, the Dick Smith brand is set to live again – this time as an online-only consumer electronics retailer owned by e-commerce pioneer Ruslan Kogan.

A five-year-old girl has been indecently assaulted in Sydney after a man approached her and four other children playing in a driveway.

In an essay describing the loathing that Ted Cruz's face seems to inspire, the neurologist Richard Cytowic resorts to the German colloquial expression Backpfeifengesicht.

Fortescue Metals Group has had its debt rating cut to two steps below investment grade by Moody's Investors Service.

Morgan Stanley has cut its Treasury yield forecasts for 2016 and said the central bank will wait until December to raise interest rates.

Traders are increasingly betting that Glenn Stevens will sit tight on policy for the final six months of his tenure.

Australia's dollar retreated versus the greenback as fresh signs of a slowdown in China tempered the enthusiasm for higher-yielding assets.

Samarco's bonds rose the most in seven weeks said it would be able to cover debt payments using its own cash.

There is definitely something in the water at Telstra. How else could you explain such harebrained Asia schemes from two chief executives 15 years apart.

Seven years ago, two senior employees from gaming giant Tabcorp flew into Cambodia on a potentially risky but also possibly hugely lucrative mission. The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa was looming and Tabcorp had ambitions to establish an online  platform that could tap millions of gamblers across Asia and around the world – beyond the bureaucratic constraints of Australia.

Australian Stock Exchange chief Elmer Funke Kupper was the CEO of Tabcorp when the gaming giant paid $200,000 to the family of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in a transaction now at the centre of a federal police bribery inquiry.

Young people who self-harm face shocking treatment in emergency departments which would not be tolerated in any other medical setting says a new national report.

Nicole Juniper, 19, started self-harming when she was 13. She is one of almost one quarter of young women and a fifth of young men aged 20-24 years who have self-harmed, according to a recent survey. This is her story, as told to Catherine Armitage.

Try asking a teenager whether they know anyone who self-harms. The answer may surprise you. And a big part of the problem is right there. It's taboo.

Police have arrested seven youths after reports of a brawl in a shopping precinct at South Wharf on Monday evening.

On Earth, methane is a by-product of the chemical processes of animals and some microbes. Might Martian methane have a similar source?

Australia's Ambassador to Turkey was with 12-year-old daughter when a car bomb exploded just 20 metres away in central Ankara on Sunday, killing 37 people and wounding roughly 125.

The former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger once said that Iran needed to decide whether it was "a nation or a cause".

Lord Mayor Graham Quirk's bid for re-election has been thrown into turmoil just days ahead of the Brisbane City Council election, with one of his candidates forced to quit.

Labor says it will remove one of the "biggest barriers" to small businesses trying to challenge large rivals in court for anti-competitive behaviour.