Новости за 04.01.2017

A building linked to disgraced former Labor minister Eddie Obeid's family has been damaged in a suspicious fire, the second blaze at the same Sydney property in eight days.

Motorists can expect delays on Gungahlin Drive south of Ginninderra Drive until Friday due to road resealing works.

Mark Hamill has penned an emotional tribute to his on-screen sister Carrie Fisher, recalling how his friend's vulnerability "sucked you into her world".

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday notched the biggest victory of his campaign to get automakers to keep jobs in the US when Ford cancelled a $US1.6 billion ($2.2 billion) Mexican expansion, saying it would add positions in Michigan instead.

A time-lapse video of smog rolling into Beijing offers a jarring new perspective of the pollution that has been afflicting the Chinese capital in recent months.

Joely Fisher and Tricia Fisher opened up about their final moments with half-sister Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds.

“I wanted nothing more than to go back to my ‘old’ life. Real reality. But I couldn’t,” wrote Simone Lee Brennan, who appeared on the show's second season.

German investigators searched a refugee centre and a flat in Berlin on Tuesday which they believe were homes to associates of Anis Amri.

This writer lives in a wonderful range: almost exactly halfway between the city of Salt Lake and the wild foothills and mountains that surround it. Dogs in the city are walked sedately, on a leash, along the concrete surfaces. In the wilderness of the foothills, they often run free. This gives canines a heart-thumping workout as they scramble up the trails of the resorts, along with their human companions.

Katy Wiley began her struggle with Type 2 diabetes in 1990, when she was pregnant with her second child. The disease progressed, and at eight weeks she started insulin treatment, hoping that once her son was born, the diabetes would disappear. Instead, her condition steadily declined.

They report on the latest trends, but what about their own goals? Nine experts share their plans for 2017.

Australia opener Matt Renshaw is used to saluting father Ian and mum Alison when he celebrates a century.

The local stock market is set to...