A JAPANESE pro-whaling video using images of the Cronulla race riots and Australian wildlife being slaughtered has been launched on YouTube in a bid to paint Australians as racists.
GOVERNMENTS are being urged to invest in cycling infrastructure after bikes outsold cars in 2007 - for the eighth year in a row - in a national pedal-power boom.
AS Labor sifts through many applications from people wanting to work for PM Kevin Rudd, his predecessor John Howard has been seeking a little help of his own.
STORMS have dashed any hopes of an early respite for communities cut off by floods between the Queensland border and the northern NSW town of Grafton.
ONE of the world's most famous cruise ships - Queen Elizabeth 2 - set sail overnight on its final global voyage before being turned into a floating hotel.
INDIA spinner Harbhajan Singh has been banned for three Tests after being found guilty of allegedly calling black Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds "a monkey".
THE share market opened dramatically lower this morning after market experts yesterday tipped a $30 billion freefall on the back of a Wall Street slump.
MARKET watchers say more volatility is likely this year - at least in the first half - but we are still in for solid, but not spectacular, gains in most asset classes.
FORGET the gambling new-look Las Vegas is all about LOVE, nude bodies bathed in colour and meeting the stars on the Strip, says Barry O’Brien
A NEW book claims Scientologists threatened to blackmail Nicole Kidman if she spoke out against the religion after her failed marriage to Tom Cruise.
THE world's top consumer electronics show is under way in Las Vegas with showcases of smart cars, robotic massages and other innovations.
WOMEN were surrounded by a drunken mob of louts hurling sexual abuse in frightening scenes at a popular car show at the weekend. See the video.
THE state's judiciary is in crisis, under an immense workload and a "mismanaged" Department of Public Prosecutions, says prosecutor Steve Carter.
AAP · 12:20pm: THE daughter of a solo yachtsman from Melbourne missing for seven months after setting sail from Hawaii fears she won't see her father again.
A woman has died and another is in hopsital after a head on crash in Adelaide's south this morning.
IT IS still too risky to reopen the section of the Great Eastern Highway that last week claimed the lives of three drivers, say authorities.
A SURGEON and trauma expert has called for the minimum driving age to be at least 18.
KATHERINE residents were on alert last night as the swollen river continued to rise - threatening to flood the township.
Andrew Olmsted, 37, wanted this to be published if he died in Iraq. Last Thursday he was ambushed - the first US serviceman killed in 2008.
TWO cleaning women who were trapped in a broken lift in Chicago for two days survived the odeal on a diet of two cough drops and six aspirin.
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Date: January 07, 2008 12:42pm AEDT