Новости за 20.04.2016

Look at the failure of the inner city bike path.

A protein that helps brains to develop could hold the key to stopping the growth of brain tumours, a Queensland study has found.

Australia's financial sector will pay more than $300 million a year in new charges as corporate regulator ASIC moves to a full user pays model, delivering a budget saving of more than $1 billion in the four years from 2018-19.

Insects and other invertebrates possess the most basic form of consciousness – an awareness of things around them.

By beefing up the banking industry watchdog on the eve of an election, the Turnbull government has married smart politics to sound policy.

Melbourne Rebels' Tamati Ellison has his fourth child due any day and a crunch home game due Friday night.

A report from the first National Family Violence Summit held in Canberra in March has singled out primary school education, men's behavioural change programs and dedicated family violence courts as the most urgent reforms.

Representatives of UN member states, human rights groups and academia gathered at the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, last week for the third Informal Meeting of Experts regarding Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, otherwise known as artificially intelligent "killer robots".

Rihanna has edged ahead of the Beatles on the weeks at number one list in America.

Sexism in big Hollywood movies is no revelation, but a new study of scripts shows who gets to talk.

Their mum is so torn about who to support that she's spent the week making almost 50 "Team Alaalatoa" shirts with a makeshift logo for a Super Rugby blockbuster.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Ecuador on Wednesday, just days after a major quake hit the country killing nearly 500 people.

Woollahra Council has accused the Baird government of failing to conduct a proper inquiry into the merger of Waverley, Woollahra and Randwick earlier this year.

Fraudsters have become better at parting Australians with their money, even as people become more savvy about responding to scams, a survey from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals

Three seasons in, Gogglebox makes you squirm and laugh: French movie Father Of My Children is a masterpiece.

Obituary: Giovanni Carsaniga was a life-long writer of letters to the newspapers.

Nine in 10 of us say face-to-face meetings are the best - so why isn't this happening?

Drug taskforce detectives have uncovered thousands of ecstasy pills, methamphetamine and cash during separate raids on two Melbourne dance clubs that led to serious trafficking charges against an owner and other staff.

Big business, particularly the financial services sector, will bear the brunt of ASIC's new user-pays budget.

Wallabies outside centre Tevita Kuridrani says the sight of Israel Folau wearing the No. 13 jersey will drive him to greater heights as he prepares for a fight to keep his Test spot.

Susan and Isaac Wakil, owners of many decaying buildings across the CBD, have donated almost $46 million to the university in a year.

The scores are tied. The game has finished but it won't end. The siren won't sound.

The Boundary Street Markets will be held for the final time on Saturday night to make way for a new high-rise development on the Absoe site, but the local Greens councillor says the fight is not yet lost.

​​Imagine Derryn Hinch, not a Senate contender, without anyone to flick the switch to "off" when he decides to name and shame.

It may have been a box-office failure, but this political thriller is no dud.