12:15AM AS NSW considers new marine management, a report by a former World Bank economist says recreational fishing can be just as damaging as commercial.
12:15AM WITH just a small number of the intelligence documents from Edward Snowden in the public arena, there could be more damaging revelations still to come.
11:20PM UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Syria's warring sides will finally meet for the long-elusive Geneva II peace negotiations.
11:13PM THE exiled second most wanted student leader from the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests has been stopped from returning home.
10:56PM GREENPEACE claims there is no logical reason for an Australian activist to remain detained in Russia while others have been granted bail.
10:41PM THE head of a Chinese state-owned enterprise battling Clive Palmer in court says the mining magnate has engaged in "obstructive" behaviour.
10:41PM A US sailor will appear in court in Darwin in relation to an alleged sexual assault in September.
10:30PM A SUICIDE car bomb and another bombing near Baghdad have killed five members of Iraq's security forces.
9:41PM THE federal government has relisted a number of terror groups and terrorist financiers for another three years.
9:17PM A WATER skier remains in a critical condition in a Sydney hospital after falling off during a race and sustaining critical injuries.
9:16PM A IMMINENT threat order in place since a fatal shark attack on Saturday has been lifted as WA authorities say there have been no further shark sightings.
9:15PM A MAN charged with attempting to murder a woman by hiring a hitman to kill her offered a witness $30,000 to do the deed, a WA court has heard.
9:13PM LATEST: A Korean woman murdered in the Brisbane CBD has been named as Eunji Ban.
8:18PM ALMOST one in 10 Indonesians support military action against Australia in response to recent spying revelations.
8:09PM SIX new eruptions have sent lava and searing gas tumbling up to 1.5 kilometres down the slopes of Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra.
8:04PM AN Australian Defence scientists has won the Minister's achievement award for his work on stealth technology for vehicles and warships.
7:50PM FORMER paparazzo and UK Big Brother contestant Darryn Lyons has comfortably won the election to become Geelong's mayor.
7:48PM DEMONSTRATORS intent on ousting Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Sinawatra have stormed the finance ministry and threatened to seize other buildings.
7:45PM LAWYERS will argue in a Brisbane court on Tuesday to stop a newborn baby and his family being sent to Nauru.
7:39PM IN a discovery that could improve IVF processes, Monash University scientists have discovered the early success factors of the embryo.
7:39PM INDONESIAN hackers have targeted Australian government websites as a protest against claims that Australian intelligence monitored their president's phone.
7:06PM THE former registrar of a NSW Anglican diocese has quit the clergy because he thinks some church members are re-writing history.
7:02PM A FORMER Australian Army member who allegedly sent offensive emails as part of the 'Jedi Council' will clear his name in court, his lawyer says.
7:00PM PRO-WESTERN Ukrainians are planning to blockade the seat of government in Kiev, hoping to force an historic pact with the EU.
6:55PM BIG Day Out co-owner and director AJ Maddah says they will still put on the 'best show possible' despite co-headliners Blur pulling out of the festival.
6:51PM FRIENDS of a 23-year-old Perth man missing since embarking on a solo 10-day trek in Nepal are refusing to give up hope that he will be found alive.
6:48PM TAYLOR Swift has been voted American Music Awards artist of the year for a third time as fans celebrated the women of pop music.
6:43PM A MOTHER and son have pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice during an investigation into the murder of Senior Constable David Rixon.
6:43PM THE Hunger Games: Catching Fire, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth, has taken the No.1 spot at the Australian box office.
6:05PM STORMY seas have caused two ships to sink off China's east coast. Twenty five crew are missing in total and one has been found dead.
5:49PM TWO of the first alleged outlaw motorcycle gang members arrested under Queensland's new anti-association laws are expected to apply for bail this week.
5:38PM A 24-YEAR-OLD Perth man will face court, after an 18-month analysis of his computer allegedly found child pornography.
5:38PM SOUTH Australian police are set to resume an outback search for the body of a teenager thought killed in 1990.
5:26PM CHRISTOPHER Pyne's pledge to go back to the drawing board on schools funding reforms has states worried about the future of their agreements.
5:25PM SEVEN Group has appointed Woodside executive Jarvas Croome as new Westrac WA chief executive as it cuts 1000 jobs
5:25PM A NEW Zealand scientist has for the first time discovered a lamprey spawning site in the southern hemisphere.
5:13PM AN operation given to hundreds of young Australian heart patients is much longer-lasting than previously thought, according to a new study.
5:13PM ONE of WA's top judges has been called on to resolve a bitter feud between a mother and her dead son's partner over who should have his ashes.
5:13PM SOUTH Australia is to get its first school specifically for children with autism disorders.
5:13PM FORMER federal Labor MP Yvette D'Ath will seek preselection for Labor in the seat of Redcliffe, vacated by disgraced MP Scott Driscoll.
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