THE announced shutdown of Ford's manufacturing operations in Geelong, with 510 job losses, has hit the community hard.

FORD'S plant closures have been described as a watershed for Australia's troubled manufacturing sector.

SLUGGISH demand for exports has seen Singapore's economy slow in the first quarter, government data shows.

A METEOROLOGIST predicts most of Australia is in for an unusually wet winter.

FOUR reports published into the 2013 floods shows operators of southeast Queensland's dams were operated in compliance with their manuals.

QUEENSLAND'S opposition will introduce a bill calling for child care centres to be able to ban unvaccinated children, saying it's similar to a NSW plan.

The former NSW Premier resigns as inaugural chairman of Infrastructure NSW.

One minute he was heading to the shops for some fruit. The next, rapper was giving live commentary on a gruesome murder.

Australian shares slump in a broad-based sell-off that has wiped more than $23b off the market's value.

With a final email, RG Dance studio director confirms its closure.

Share losses are accelerating in a broad-based sell-off that has wiped more than $30b off the market's value.

A seven-year-old South Korean girl was killed instantly after being struck by the body of a man as he plunged from his 10th floor apartment in an apparent suicide, a report said Thursday.

The internet has a new list of readily-available chemicals that can be used for terrorism - not in an extremists' instruction manual but rather an Australian Government publication.

Survivors of the killer tornado that ripped through Oklahoma have rolled up their sleeves under a blazing sun and got down to the long, hard task of rebuilding their lives.

Legislation to allow voluntary euthanasia in New South Wales is defeated in the state upper house.

NSW Labor Opposition Leader John Robertson is backpedalling after he told an anti-mining forum that Labor was developing a plan to phase out coal.

The Government and the Greens have leapt on the comments, but Labor says Mr Robertson was tricked into making the statement.

Amnesty International's annual report on global human rights has highlighted the plight of millions of Syrians forced to flee the deadly conflict in their country.

Melissa Ann Waters, 35, has pleaded guilty to causing the death of a baby boy when she crashed her car into his bedroom in suburban Perth.

Australian Test cricketer David Warner has copped a 5750-dollar fine from Cricket Australia for his Twitter rant controversy. Warner had pleaded guilty to unbecoming behaviour after his expletive-laden criticism of senior News Ltd cricket writers Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn for an article by Craddock exposing the sleazy nightlife and alleged corruption within the Indian Premier League ...

Cricket Australia (CA) has said that it hopes for changes in the Citizenship Act by next month that will allow leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed to play his first Ashes Test in England. The Pakistan-born spinner will have to wait for applying for a passport until any legislation change takes place in the four sitting weeks of parliamentary session before the election and the cricket series begins, ...

Cricket Australia (CA) has announced that the country's top female cricketers will now earn up to 80,000 dollars within a year. The women team has won Women's World Cup and the T20 trophy, prompting CA to consider female cricket as professional, News.com.au reports. CA chief executive James Sutherland compared the women's cricket team to the men's cricket club, saying that the association wants ...

Australian opener David Warner is expected to plead guilty before a Cricket Australia (CA) hearing via teleconference from India with regard to a series of hostile tweets that he directed at News Limited journalists Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn while playing for the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Warner could face sanctions ranging from a fine, suspension, reprimand or ...

Australia's opening batsman David Warner was Wednesday found guilty of breaching the Cricket Australia (CA) Code of Behaviour and was fined $5,750 for his twitter rant. Warner, who pleaded guilty, received the maximum financial penalty for a first offence under rule 6 of CA's Code of Behaviour, CA said in a statement. "In hindsight, clearly I let my frustrations get the better of me and posted ...

An Australian man will face attempted murder charges after a horrific hit-and-run incident in Melbourne that left a 27-year-old Indian-origin man hospitalised in a serious condition. Amandeep Singh was hit by a car more than once when he was taking a walk on Chandler Road, Noble Park, in Melbourne Tuesday, local media reported. Shannon Marchant, 21, who was on the wheel of the Holden Commodore, ...

Tasmania's Government has decided to let the state go further into net debt as it prepares for the coming state election.

A Sydney Dance company founded by a man facing numerous sexual assault charges has closed its doors.

A community will hold a daylight candle vigil for a woman who was murdered on her way to work south of Brisbane.

Paramedic Paul Rossington has been remembered by ambulance service colleagues as a brave and honourable man who died trying to save his girlfriend's life.

Essendon chief executive Ian Robson has resigned, becoming the first casualty of the ongoing turmoil within the club over the investigation into the Bombers' supplements program.

A coronial inquest into the death of three people when a brick wall collapsed in Melbourne could be delayed for years because of possible prosecutions.

Labor can defeat Abbott at the next election, Gillard says

A woman who fell from a cliff in southeast Queensland may have tumbled 40 metres.

Halfway through the media launch of Sydney's first connection to the network, it cut out.

British actress Keira Knightley has married singer James Righton in a discreet ceremony in the southern French village of Mazan, according to the mayor.

A fun day at the beach turned sour for a Sydney grandfather and his six-year-old granddaughter after somebody saw the little girl swimming naked and called police.