Новости за 23.03.2016

Playing in the minefield of developing countries which have entirely different standards of corporate behaviour is risky.

Competition tsar Rod Sims is up for a reappointment for a second term as Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chief, after Cabinet agreed to put his name forward to the states for consideration.

It's getting nasty between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Their spouses are being brought into the fray.

With the iron ore rout continuing, the billionaire says Fortescue may expand into renewables or the recycling of nuclear waste.

Local shares are poised to open lower, following overnight falls in commodities. The $A has shed more than 1%.

Children's hospital stops admissions to cardiac ward over norovirus.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis president James Bullard said policy makers should consider raising interest rates at their next meeting.

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Oil traded in New York extended declines after a report showed US crude supplies climbed to the highest level in more than eight decades as imports surged.

The most alone I have ever felt was standing on my front porch on a chilly February evening. My sister had taped a note to the front door that said "Eleni, if you're the first one here don't go in the basement. Just call 911. I don't want you to see me like this. I love you! Love, Aletha."

One of the attackers in the Brussels suicide bombings was deported last year from Turkey, and Belgium subsequently ignored a warning that the man was a militant, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.

When Belgian police revealed two of the men who carried out the suicide attacks in Brussels were brothers, they confirmed a disturbing trend of male siblings carrying out terrorist attacks together.

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Phife Dawg, one of the founding members of the influential hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, has passed away at the age of 45, according to reports from within the hip hop community and confirmed by Rolling Stone magazine.

The record volume of steel exports from China will probably drop after prices surged, boosting the attractiveness for mills of local sales, according to Noble Group.

BHP Billiton is close to signing a lease for a new London office which would be about half the size of its current premises, according to two people familiar with the matter.

A Brisbane-based theatre company behind a Fawlty Towers-inspired dinner-theatre show is in the legal crosshairs.

Could investors' love of dividends be derailing the much-hyped move towards a more "innovative" economy?

Malaysia has said it will send a team to retrieve a piece of debris found along the southern coast of South Africa to check whether it could belong to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The lessons of attacks on Paris, London and Madrid have not been learned. A similar strike at the heart of Europe's free trade, democratic and military bureaucracy was always probable.

Police have a fresh lead in their investigation of the Brussels terror attacks: a computer belonging to one of the suicide bombers, containing a message described as a 'will'.

A year after Mike Baird won the state election, he says he is prepared to lose popularity to make the right decisions in the long-term interests of NSW.

Yet again we have seen a bombing of innocent people by Islamic State. And yes, it could happen here. The common factors in every country that has suffered terrorist attacks from within are high youth unemployment and a rise of the right-wing political ideologies.

England beat Afghanistan by 15 runs in a World Twenty20 Group One match at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium on Wednesday.

Banned pitt bulls could be back on the streets of Melbourne soon after a parliamentary report found they were no more dangerous than other dogs.