Новости за 20.03.2016

It has been a tale of two cities across Sydney, as parts of the coastal fringe recorded their wettest 24-hour period in months while barely a shower washed over some western suburbs.

Local shares are set to open higher, on a positive lead from Wall Street. Gains could be limited as oil and metals slid on Friday as the US dollar rebounded.

South Sydney Rabbitohs captain Sam Burgess has appeared to escape a serious neck injury after initial scans came back positive.

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Victim allegedly hit head on seat in incident at King George Square.

Richmond are increasingly confident that important duo Shane Edwards and Shaun Grigg have recovered from injury in time to take on Carlton in the AFL season opener on Thursday night.

The prime surviving suspect in the Paris attacks may have been plotting more operations with the help of a weapons cache and a network of associates, says Belgium's foreign minister.

Passenger taken to hospital after crash that killed man.

The 14-year-old daughter of Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf has insisted her father is dead in a report about her "normal" life in Syria with her baby and her four younger siblings.

Roger Agnelli, the Brazilian banker who turned Vale SA into the world's No. 1 iron ore producer, died on Saturday in a plane crash. He was 56.

West Indies brushed aside Sri Lanka by seven wickets in their World Twenty20 Super 10 match on Sunday, with opener Andre Fletcher smashing an unbeaten 84.

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At least 13 people were killed when a bus carrying foreign university students crashed on Sunday between the Spanish cities of Valencia and Barcelona.

A Turkish member of the Islamic State militant group was responsible for Saturday's suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed four people and wounded dozens of others, say Turkish officials.

Two police officers drew their handguns and ordered a man to drop a pistol he had allegedly pointed at passing traffic in Sydney's south-west.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that "professional agitators" bore much of the blame for violence at his rallies as video showed a protester being beaten.

Competitive monetary easing, or the so-called currency wars, remains the most-watched market theme at the moment, and this will not change this week.

Tottenham have closed the gap on leaders Leicester with a 3-0 win over Bournemouth, while Manchester City's outside hopes were effectively ended with a 1-0 home defeat by Manchester United.

If there is one thing Donald Trump seems sure about, it is that the US is getting a raw deal from China. Here's a reality check on his arguments.

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Manchester United have refused to respond to reports that Jose Mourinho has signed a 'pre-contract' to take over from Louis van Gaal at the end of the Premier League season.

The lawyer defending the prime surviving suspect for the November 13 Paris attacks says he will sue a French prosecutor for divulging Salah Abdeslam's private admission that he planned to blow himself up with fellow Islamic State militants.

A Liberal Party campaign director in a marginal seat where the ALP candidate was anonymously smeared as a pederast has been charged with distributing illegal electoral material.

The A-League Plate is theirs to lose, so long as they keep setting up goals on a platter. That's the simple equation Western Sydney coach Tony Popovic laid out for his men, who returned to the A-League summit despite firing blanks in a scoreless draw with Adelaide United on Saturday night.

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg has won an Australian Formula One Grand Prix marred by a terrifying crash involving Spaniard Fernando Alonso.