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A TURTLE has broken a marine world record by holding its breath under water for more than ten hours.

BIG greenhouse emissions cuts are affordable and achievable, the CSIRO says, contradicting statements from Prime Minister John Howard yesterday that put economic prosperity ahead of reducing emissions.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL Michael Jeffery says the Australian Defence Force should promote its cadet corps to boost recruitment numbers.

A LEADING economist has warned of serious consequences if the federal Government lowers taxes following the release of impressive inflation figures.

Speaking exclusively to www.saabbiopower.co.uk, Sir Richard Branson has revealed why he is such a staunch supporter of new environmentally-friendly fuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel.

Aerospace and defense company Saab AB reported a 38 percent drop in first-quarter earnings Tuesday from a year ago, when the result was flattered by a 170 million kronor capital gain from its sale of a unit.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan shared his fondness for Abhiash when he touched down in India about a month back.

Although, as in all marriages, there might be a few hurdles along the way for Bollywood's coolest couple.

That, at least, is what astrologers predict for Bollywood's coolest couple. Although, there might be a few hurdles along the way.

The Abhiash wedding celebrations had a special guest from across the border Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

That, at least, is what astrologers predict for Bollywood's coolest couple.

Aerospace and defense company Saab AB reported a 38 percent drop in first-quarter earnings Tuesday, when the result was flattered by a 170 million kronor (euro18.5 million, US$25.1 million) capital gain from its sale of a unit.

Aerospace and defense company Saab AB reported a 38 percent drop in first-quarter earnings Tuesday, when the result was flattered by a 170 million kronor capital gain from its sale of a unit.

'Alienation has to be addressed,' says Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister.

Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab AB Tuesday reported a 38 percent fall in first-quarter net profit compared with a year ago, when the result was flattered by a 170 million kronor capital gain from its sale of Saab Metech.

In their journey to stardom both had to endure many heartbreaks. Abhishek and Aishwarya discovered light with each other at the end of individual storms.

Tune into "A Great Night in Harlem" at the Apollo Theater Webcast, Thursday, May 17, 8pm EDT - Remind Me! He’s only released a handful of albums under his own name over the past thirty years, but bassist Jeff Berlin remains a singularly distinctive electric bassist.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden----Saab : Sales SEK 4,917 m. Net income for the period SEK 270 m. Earnings per share SEK 2.39 Operating income SEK 414 m. , income after financial items SEK 380 m.

BROWNLOW medallist Ben Cousins will face non-negotiable conditions before he can return to West Coast, chief executive Trevor Nisbett said today.

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - US SUMMARY: Stocks fall as oil soars on Nigeria worries

SEVERAL Sydney FC stars remain under injury clouds ahead of tomorrow night's must-win Asian Champions League match against Persik Kediri at Parramatta Stadium.

INJURED Everton and Australia midfielder Tim Cahill is targeting a return to action at the Asian Cup finals in July but admits it is still touch and go.

April 23 (Bloomberg) -- The following stocks may rise or fall in European markets. Prices are from the last close.

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Getting a killer, no-haggle deal on a desirable car is wonderful. Snagging the deal, plus getting a chance to bash somebody else's car into snow banks as you careen around frozen lakes in the Arctic Circle is wonderful raised to a whole new level.

THE AFL Tribunal will not sit tonight after Carlton duo Brendan Fevola and Lance Whitnall and Western Bulldogs midfielder Nathan Eagleton all made early guilty pleas and received reprimands.

TWO Australian soldiers were injured when a roadside bomb went off near their armoured vehicle in southern Iraq, the Department of Defence said today. Video: Defence statement on roadside bombing

SOUTH Sydney forward Luke Stuart has been cited for a boot which caught North Queensland fullback Matt Bowen in the head, but he'll escape a suspension.

When he came to Bollywood with dreams of making it big in playback singing, many had felt that he could fill the void created by Md Rafi’s death. Singer Sonu Niigaam’s tryst with Rafi takes a new turn this week. Sonu, who considers Rafi to be one of his biggest inspirations, is proving them right.

SRI Lanka coach Tom Moody claims that unorthodox fast bowler Lasith Malinga has one of the straightest arms in cricket and said it's ridiculous to suggest the 23-year-old's action is illegal.

FLINT - When Hanni Saab talks about what he did last summer, there's not much talk of lounging by a pool or lake. Or relaxing that much at all, for that matter.

Favourite International Personality or Actor - Paul Snr and Paul Jnr Teutul, for American Chopper - Discovery Channel

HOMICIDE detectives are investigating the death of a 51-year-old woman in custody at a regional Victorian police station yesterday morning.

FORMER Wallabies coach Eddie Jones has rubbished moves to recall veteran Matt Burke from England to solve Australia's fullback dilemma.

RURAL Press shares will cease trading on the Australian Securities Exchange today, as the final chance to halt a takeover of the company by Fairfax Media appears to have passed.

A BESPECTACLED political journalist has been named subscription television's most outstanding presenter.

FOSTER'S Australia has appointed advertising agencies Clemenger BBDO and Badjar Ogilvy to handle three of its beer brands, little more than a week after sacking George Patterson Young & Rubicam from the accounts.

BIG Brother's seventh season has been mired in controversy on a number of fronts - one day after the season launch.

US companies wanting to manage market expectations and boost their share prices should release good earnings news as soon as possible but keep bad news under wraps until the last minute, a study says.

BEAR Stearns is planning an aggressive expansion in Europe and Asia as the US investment bank builds on its strong growth at home.

AUSTRALIA'S third-largest property franchise group First National has pulled about 30,000 property listings from the PBL and Microsoft-backed online property classifieds debutant myhome.com.au.

Two Australian soldiers were injured when a roadside bomb went off near their armoured vehicle in southern Iraq, the Department of Defence said today.

A JAPANESE real estate tycoon was today sentenced to life in jail for a series of crimes against women, including the killing of Australian bar hostess Carita Ridgway.

A NATIONAL overhaul of the school curriculum to bring more traditional disciplines to the classroom is a sensible move, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks says.

THE thousands of Australians who will attend Gallipoli to mark Anzac Day have been warned to exercise a high level of caution.

PRIME Minister John Howard says he identifies better with Queensland than Labor leader Kevin Rudd, who was born in the Sunshine State and holds a Brisbane seat.

WHEN I interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev in London last year he came across like a shrewd and kindly grandfather until I asked about Boris Yeltsin. Just for a second he almost sneered, showing a glimpse of real contempt for the man who forced him to sign the Soviet Union out of existence on Christmas Day, 1991.

PROSECUTORS are calling for an immediately jail term for the disgraced former senior prosecutor Patrick Power who has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.

KRYPTONITE, which robbed Superman of his powers, is no longer the stuff of comic books and films.

CLAIMS that the federal Government's Work Choices legislation has enabled employers to sack workers and hire cheaper labour are incorrect, Prime Minister John Howard said today.

A CONTINUAL slide deeper into drug use and the gothic culture ultimately led to a 16-year-old girl savagely murdering her friend, the Perth Children's Court has been told.

With spring officially in bloom -- and exercise on your calendar -- you might be considering buying an MP3 player. But with all the choices out there, how do you choose the right one?

The entry-level Toyota Yaris has maintained the top spot in Gaywheels.com ’s most-researched list for first quarter of 2007. The Saab 9-3 continued its march up the list and replaced the Toyota Camry as the second most-researched new vehicle on Gaywheels.com.

The entry-level Toyota Yaris has maintained the top spot in Gaywheels.com ’s most-researched list for first quarter of 2007. The Saab 9-3 continued its march up the list and replaced the Toyota Camry as the second most-researched new vehicle on Gaywheels.com.

It seems TV star Rohit Roy is determined to prove himself as an on-camera multi-tasker - he is running from one set to another for his films and serials and even ended up shooting 36 hours non-stop for the soap 'Viraasat'.

Prague- Czech air force chief commander Ladislav Minarik has suspended training on 14 Jas-39 Gripens that the Czech Republic has leased from Sweden, over the accident of the same type in Sweden last week, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today.

FORMER Defence Force chief Peter Cosgrove has been nominated for the board of the Australian Rugby Union.

Qantas informed the Australian Stock Exchange in a Friday filing that shareholder acceptances to Airline Partners Australia's offer declined to 27.48% from 28.86% as institutional investors sold off shares held in an Institutional Acceptance Facility.

By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, April 23 : It seems TV star Rohit Roy is determined to prove himself as an on-camera multi-tasker - he is running from one set to another for his films and serials and even ended up shooting 36 hours non-stop for the soap "Viraasat".

Mumbai, April 23 (IANS) It seems TV star Rohit Roy is determined to prove himself as an on-camera multi-tasker - he is running from one set to another for his films and serials and even ended up shooting 36 hours non-stop for the soap Viraasat .

VIRGIN Atlantic chairman Richard Branson has been airbrushed out of the James Bond film Casino Royale in edits of the movie screened on rival airline British Airways.

FRANCE'S Areva Challenge sailed to a second victory in the Louis Vuitton Cup on today by dominating home hope Desafio Espanol, as competitors hoisted their sails after a frustrating six days due to low winds.

THE Australian Fed Cup team has been crushed 4-1 by Austria in a World Group II first round tie.

Note: There is language in this excerpt some readers may find offensive. In place of a closing hymn, there was music. The Who, "Love Reign o'er Me." Rebus recognized it the moment it started, thunderclaps and teeming rain filling the chapel. He was in the front pew; Chrissie had insisted.

A KEY member of the small business lobby has accused former Coalition staffer and big business advocate Peter Hendy of playing favourites with the Government.

LONDON: Charles Simonyi, whose two decades as a software developer at Microsoft made him a billionaire, returned to Earth yesterday, two weeks after blasting off to become the world's fifth space tourist.

THE maverick British designer John Galliano, the creative force behind Christian Dior, has been ordered to pay ?200,000 ($325,000) in damages to William Klein, the celebrated American photographer, for plagiarising his work in an advertising campaign.

ENDANGERED mountain gorillas are making a slow but steady comeback in one of their last strongholds, a genetic census has shown.

GEORGE W. Bush has thanked John Howard for his leadership in the global war on terror as the Australian Government fleshes out its plans for a significantly increased commitment of troops to Afghanistan.

CONSUMERS will pay more for renewable energy, but the cost increases will be kept to a minimum if more energy-saving measures are introduced.

THE US Futures Exchange is 99 years old and male, at least according to its new MySpace page, in what market experts view as the first move by the derivatives sector into the world of social networking.

THE Australian Fair Pay Commission has agreed to publish pay and classification scales relating to every industrial award, bowing to more than six months of pressure from stakeholders.

A KEVIN Rudd government would consider Australian participation in the UN's proposed international peacekeeping force for Sudan's war-ravaged region ofDarfur.

ABOUT 45,000 divorced parents - mainly mothers - have received millions of dollars in outstanding child support payments after a crackdown by the federal Government.

AN executive of Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest memory chip maker, has agreed to plead guilty to an international conspiracy to fix prices of DRAM chips, the US Department of Justice said.

STAN Kroenke has increased his stake in the Arsenal Football Club to 12.2 per cent, putting further pressure on the shareholders determined to block the US billionaire.

McDONALD'S, the world's largest fast food chain, is to sell 1600 restaurants in Latin America and the Caribbean to a franchisee, in a transaction that it says will contribute to focusing management's attention "on the markets with the greatest impact on our results".

PFIZER has cut its profit outlook for this year despite positive first-quarter results as generic drug competition bedevils the world's largest pharmaceutical company.

TWO of the biggest names in the private equity world went head to head on Friday in the battle for Alliance Boots, with rival bids that would make the health and beauty group the first FTSE 100 company to fall to private equity.

AQR Capital Management, one of the world's biggest hedge funds, is strongly considering an initial public offering, people familiar with the matter say.

SHIA death squads returned to the streets of Baghdad in force last week, claiming more than 100 lives, as fury over a spate of Sunni bombings - and the failure of the US troop "surge" to prevent them - led to a sharp rise in the number of murders.

MOBILE phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday underlined its robust performance by reporting strong sales and profit growth for the first quarter of 2007.

THE fate of the $US4 billion ($4.8 billion) fortune of Asia's richest woman appears set to descend into a battle between Nina Wang's family and her feng shui master after the emergence of conflicting wills.

A BUDGET leak from Canberra has made many in the film industry exultant, with a suggestion their proposed new method of financing movies will come to pass - but some want to see the fine print.

TONY Fernandes, chief executive of AirAsia, the leading Asian low-cost airline, is planning return fares for routes between Europe and Malaysia in the range of ?130 to ?170 ($320 to $415), when he launches the world's first low-cost long-haul scheduled carrier since Freddie Laker's ill-fated Skytrain in the late 1970s.

WHEN he was a kid growing up near Sydney's Ku-ring-gai national park, Tim Goodman used to collect cicadas.

ALEXANDER Downer didn't appear to see the irony.

THE head of the nation's biggest energy retailer, AGL Energy, has downplayed any prospect of the nation switching to nuclear in his lifetime, saying the power plants are "uninsurable".

WHAT Big Brother 7 lacks in saucy bits this year with the axing of the late-night Uncut segment, it will make up for in psychological games.

AFTER the two-week Easter hiatus, the Seven Network has picked up where it left off: on top of the ratings.

TENNIS Australia is retooling its marketing from top to bottom in a bid to arrest dwindling player numbers and falling TV ratings that pose a major challenge to the $100 million industry.

THE chief executive of the International Cricket Council, Malcolm Speed, last night admitted the World Cup had been far from perfect but claimed some criticism had been off the mark.

THE new breed of baby Bombers was once again inspirational as Essendon notched its third win of the season to defy the pre-season pundits.

GRANT HACKETT and Craig Stevens could be unwitting beneficiaries if Tunisia's world 800m freestyle champion, Oussama Mellouli, is suspended after giving a positive drug test last November.

JOHN Howard will travel to the federal battleground of southeast Queensland today to make the first in a series of speeches in which he will portray himself as a man of vision who is prepared for the challenges of the 21st century.

FINANCIAL necessity drove Hawthorn to Tasmania, but the Hawks believe Launceston's Aurora Stadium is turning into a fortress that gives them an edge shared by few Victorian clubs.

AN Israeli national has been charged with trying to import $37 million of synthetic drug MDMA into Australia inside three hot water tanks.

AT 2:11am on October 23 last year, Canadian miner Cameco announced its Cigar Lake uranium mine in northwest Canada had flooded after a "rock fall", jeopardising the world's richest undeveloped source of nuclear fuel.

NO charges will be laid over the Beaconsfield gold mine rockfall a year ago which killed one miner and trapped two others.

KERRIN McEvoy has left his mark on two of the main trials to England's classic Guineas - for both sexes - which will be run on the first weekend of May.

FRENCHMAN Raphael Jacquelin captured his second career title at the BMW Asian Open in Shanghai yesterday with a two-shot win in atrocious weather.

THE stalled career of highly rated young Australian golfer Michael Sim appears to be back on track following the third round of the US PGA Tour's New Orleans Classic.

TEAM AUSTRALIA star Will Power will start on pole position in the Grand Prix of Houston, his third pole position in five races in Texas, after qualifying fastest for today's (AEST) race.

SINCE taking up a partnership in auction house Magic Millions Sales, breeder-owner John Singleton has been at war with the Australian stakes race Pattern Committee over the status of the Magic Millions Classic, the annual showcase race linked to the company's major sale on the Gold Coast.

A PUSH by the powerful Breeders' Cup Ltd to gain immediate group I status for three new races on the annual Breeders' Cup day meeting has failed.

HOLDEN's Garth Tander said he was shocked when the final V8 Supercars race, at Pukekohe Park Raceway in New Zealand, was shortened due to television commitments yesterday, potentially costing him the third round.

OFFICERS from Victoria's ethical standards division are investigating the death in custody of a 51-year-old woman.

LYNDEN Park Stud, one of Victoria's foremost breeding nurseries, is to undergo a major change with the retirement of founding owner Jill Ross.

Roland Tiele and Chad Schlegle each had two hits and two RBI to lead the Hawks over rival Allegany in a Maryland JuCo contest. Jacob Darr had three hits and Matt Murray added two hits and an RBI for Hagerstown (18-18, 9-6).

David Shipulski’s Saab 9-5 appears to be just another sedate sedan, the kind you see parked in a suburban driveway or hauling groceries. It’s a genteel black, its only ornamentation a set of slightly oversize wheels. It also happens to be a tire-smoking monster with a gleaming engine that produces nearly 500 horsepower (a typical 9-5 has 260 horses). Meet ...

Here we find the best pics yet of the Next Gen Saab 9-3 convertable. The new front end and tail lamps look to be very aggressive, we can only hope that it will offer Saab's newly pattented XWD to help the perfomance match the looks.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan shared his fondness for Abhiash when he touched down in India about a month back.

Government reveals 63,000 SS numbersWASHINGTON, April 21 (UPI) -- U.S. government officials warn of possible identity theft after the Social Security numbers of 63,000 people were posted on a public Web site.The officials said Friday the U.S. Census Bureau posted the Social Security numbers thousands of recipients of federal farm loans in an apparent violation of federal law, The Washington Post ...

Government reveals 63,000 SS numbers ... Asian conference begins ... Heathrow's new tower may cause delays ... Saab jobs at risk in Sweden ... News from United Press International.

The first win of the year is in the books for the Fordson soccer team and, given where the game was played, you better put it into the history books. The Tractors beat Detroit Western International 3-0 Tuesday on the grounds of Old Fort Wayne.

Union officials expect up to 1,400 jobs to be cut at a Saab car plant in western Sweden, it was reported Saturday.The jobs are to be cut at the Trollhatten plant, despite plans for that plant to build the new Astra, a car designed by Saab's parent company, General Motors, said union official Paul Akerlund.It's clear that there won't be any new jobs in the future, said Akerlund. We will produce ...

Union officials expect up to 1,400 jobs to be cut at a Saab car plant in western Sweden, it was reported Saturday.

Union officials expect up to 1,400 jobs to be cut at a Saab car plant in western Sweden, it was reported Saturday. The jobs are to be cut at the Trollhatten plant, despite plans for that plant to build the new Astra, a car designed by Saab's parent comp

I've only had it 3 weeks, so nothing. We are so pleased with this car. It feels like something far more expensive - you just know it is going to last.

The Dubai Press Club has announced top regional and international speakers and over 1,000 delegates will converge on Dubai for the Arab Media Forum 2007, to map out a blueprint for Arab media under the theme, 'Developing People, Developing Organisations'.

Talented galloper Dracs Back confirmed a trip to Queensland for the Brisbane Cup with an easy win in Saturday's Sandown Country Cup.

Talented galloper Dracs Back confirmed a trip to Queensland for the Brisbane Cup with an easy win in Saturday's Sandown Country Cup.

The title says BioPower and indeed BioPower was written in large letters on the sides of the 9-5 estate that was delivered but, as my nearest E85 fuel pump is some sixty miles away, the car arrived filled with ordinary unleaded fuel.

Colgan Air officials say the airline is on track to begin serving airports in Parkersburg, Clarksburg and Morgantown on May 1. The Manassas, Va.-based airline will offer three non-stop flights each weekday and two flights during the weekend to Pittsburgh International Airport.

University luncheons, departmental chapels and numerous other campus events will have to find a new home in the fall - the Hilton Room will be removed from the McGlothlin Campus Center to make way for a new food court.

Following expiration of the term to file the relevant petitions, the board of directors of the National Electoral Council (CNE) agreed to start recall bids against 13 governors in Venezuela.

RICKY STUART's faith in the men who helped regain the Tri-Nations trophy from New Zealand last season was repaid in full last night, with under-fire Brisbane Broncos trio Karmichael Hunt, Brent Tate and Shaun Berrigan and young Rooster Anthony Tupou among the Kangaroos' best in the dismantling of the Kiwis at Suncorp Stadium.

TONY O'Reilly's Independent News & Media's $1.9 billion offer for APN News & Media, Australia's fourth biggest media company, is at the bottom end of valuations, an expert hired to assess the bid says.

HUNDREDS of workers at Airwave are threatening strike action, claiming that Macquarie, the new owner of the police radio business, misled them when it scrapped their "gold-plated" defined benefit pension scheme.

THE airline involved in Australia's worst commercial aviation accident for almost 40 years could face legal action after authorities yesterday admitted initial claims they were unable to prosecute were wrong.

LAWYERS acting for Alan Jones waited just two hours yesterday before launching an appeal against a criminal conviction for broadcasting the name of a juvenile witness in a murder trial.

AUSTRALIA may have to import food in the face of the worsening drought. But consumers will still face a surge in prices without a change to quarantine rules or extra resources to deal with an influx of foreign food.

NEW YORK: A rare and contentious portrait said to be of esteemed English novelist Jane Austen has failed to sell at a New York auction.

GARUDA Indonesia has accused the US State Department of misleading travellers with a warning that urges them to use airlines from other countries when flying to Indonesia.

EVEN before its first broadcast, Big Brother looks to have secured its first moral and political win.

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates held talks with his top generals and Iraqi leaders in Baghdad last night amid signs that American patience with its Iraqi allies is wearing thin.

IN the past two months Australian property fund managers have poured $3.5 billion into buying assets in Britain.

EXPERTS are sceptical that John Howard's call for Australians to "pray for rain" will be met with much response from the heavens.

LINDSAY Fox's multi-million-dollar three-day birthday festival aims to be Australian in every way - except perhaps understatement.

INDICATIONS that Airline Partners Australia may finalise the deadline for its $11.1 billion Qantas bid next week pushed the airline's share price up yesterday despite news of another fall in the level of acceptances.

ROB WOODHOUSE won an Olympic Games bronze medal swimming the 400m medley for Australia, but now he is part of a bold plan to make athletics Australia's No.1 Olympic sport.

WHAT could you buy in Australia for $200 million? Quite a big CBD office tower, a boutique five-star hotel and probably, a very large slice of Hedges Avenue -- the Gold Coast's most expensive beachfront strip.

AFTER four days without wind, the crews of the 11 syndicates in the running to be this year's America's Cup challenger are getting desperate -- they are running out of yarns.

SACKED Australian Rugby Union director Terry Jackman yesterday called on the entire ARU board to resign so that the embattled code could sidestep weeks of savage infighting and start afresh, hopefully under the leadership of a corporate figure.

QUEENSLAND's Nathan O'Neill finished third in the time trial fourth stage of the Tour of Georgia in Tennessee yesterday.

A GROUP of private Australian investors has joined the hotel boom raging in West Hollywood, the district sandwiched between Hollywood and Beverley Hills.

HOLDEN driver Todd Kelly insists the new VE Commodore is not a superior machine despite the car holding the top four places in the V8 Supercar championship, and Kelly topping practice at Pukekohe Park Raceway yesterday.

WEST COAST may use champion ruckman Dean Cox as an added goal-kicking avenue to its multi-pronged attack.

FORMER Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld will contest a raft of charges - including perjury and perverting the course of justice - arising from his attempts to avoid paying fines for three separate traffic offences.

BRENTON Biggins is counting the days until he has to say goodbye to his labour of love for the past 22 years, a citrus and grape property outside Loxton, in South Australia's Riverland.

RESIDENTS of a Melbourne nursing home hit by a deadly salmonella outbreak have been issued with bottled water as police examine claims the home's water supply has been deliberately tampered with.

A PLAN to pump water from the north of NSW into Queensland would create the same problems now dogging the entire Murray-Darling Basin.

A YACHT has been found drifting off the north Queensland coast with computers running and even food on a table ready to eat - but no crew. Read the police bulletin

DETECTIVES have charged another Aboriginal man with a string of child sex offences as they continue to dismantle an alleged pedophile ring in the remote Kimberley community of Kalumburu.

WINE-GRAPE growers may have to bulldoze vines if zero water allocations are imposed in July and winter and spring remain dry.

What: PenAir Hangar 2 is a 33,000-square-foot hangar that will hold eight regional aircraft, Saab 340s, said Danny Seybert, president of Peninsula Airways.

(Douglas Zimmerman/Special to The Examiner) Attorney Reid Kathrein recently was named head of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP’s San Francisco office, which specializes in class-action lawsuits, antitrust cases and securities fraud. “I really like the David and Goliath thing,” he says.

FREMONT — A $500 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunman who shot two people in front of Irvington High School last week, authorities announced

VICTORIAN Treasurer John Brumby has questioned the honesty and financial viability of a pulp mill development company after it walked away from a $650 million project in Heywood in the state's west.

A former policewoman busted for drunken driving had a blood-alcohol level of 0.47 - six times over the legal limit and the highest ever recorded in Washington state, cops said yesterday.

THE president of the Asian Football Confederation has admitted that his organisation had made a mistake be allowing four countries to host this year's Asian Cup.

THE Socceroos' eagerly-anticipated clash with Argentina at the MCG on June 6 has been postponed following concerns the South Americans couldn't put their best team on the park.

State Patrol troopers arrived at a Woodinville home Thursday afternoon to arrest a now notorious DUI offender. They found 54-year-old Deana Jarrett in a bad state again.

AN inquest into the homicide of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer has been postponed indefinitely because of "recent and significant" developments in the case, the Jamaican government said today.

She is a fledgling Bollywood actress. He is an internationally renowned nonagenarian artist. How did the twain meet? They reveal this in an exclusive interview with Weekend

KANGAROOS coach Dean Laidley has called on the AFL club's shareholders and directors to sort out their disagreements.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden-As part of its 80-year anniversary celebration, Volvo organized a parade of antique and modern vehicles that rolled through Gothenburg city, the marque's hometown. Veteran Sw...

A woman who was pulled over on suspicion of DUI turned out to have a blood-alcohol level that was six times greater than the legal limit, police said. Court documents show that the woman used to be a Seattle police officer.

WATERLOO --- The 7 a.m. flight out of Waterloo Regional Airport is scheduled to resume May 3, airport director Brad Hagen confirmed Wednesday at the airport's board of director's meeting.

Bollywood star Akshay Kumar says that he no longer wants to do the usual 'save heroine from the villian' kind of roles.

ANALYSTS are predicting a rebound for coking coal prices as China becomes a net importer of coal for the first time in its history.

MR Munro might have been out of the dating game for a few months, but his romance drought is nothing compared to that of his two new female friends, Chalky and Milford, who haven't enjoyed the company of a male for more than a decade.

CHINESE retail investors are opening new share-trading accounts faster than ever before, despite increasing signs of a bubble in the mainland market.

JAMES Semmens did not have to surrender any of his employment conditions when he moved from a collective bargaining agreement to an Australian Workplace Agreement last year.

KEVIN Rudd's pledge to create a national industrial relations system was thrown into confusion yesterday as legal experts said workplace laws would continue to be enforced differently by state courts if federal Labor was elected.

CLIMATE change is being treated as a reality by the Government despite its doubt that global warming has caused the unprecedented "dangerous situation" in the Murray-Darling Basin.

CLAIMS for unlawful dismissal have gone up under Work Choices, which removed small business employees' access to unfair dismissal claims.

JPMORGAN Chase shares rose sharply in New York yesterday after the bank announced better than expected first-quarter earnings, including a very strong performance from its investment bank.

FOR Robert Gillson and his mother, a40-year search for answers may beover.

STATE governments have begun a series of measures to soften the blow of the possible cancellation of all irrigation water in the nation's food bowl.

ONE of Australia's most senior stewards has been asked to assist prosecutors in England in the biggest conspiracy-to-defraud case in racing history.

CHINA'S economic growth hit 11.1 per cent in the first quarter, driven by a swelling trade surplus and strong consumption, fuelling concerns that the Government may take further tightening measures to rein in the economy.

LEE FREEDMAN will field a a three-pronged attack in a bid to pull off a hat-trick in the $302,200 Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville tomorrow.

RURAL Press has held what now looks likely to be its last meeting as a public company, with chairman John B.Fairfax making an emotional plea to the group taking it over, Fairfax Media, to "put egos to one side".

THE chief executive of Dow Chemical has defended the abrupt sackings of two senior employees over alleged talks with a potential bidder and tried to quash further speculation of a private equity takeover of the $US43 billion ($52 billion) group.

HISTORY records that the Korean War ended on July 27, 1953, but Australian veterans insist it was on April 19, 1956, that the conflict came to a close.

MOTOROLA hit back for the first time at Carl Icahn, the billionaire Wall Street investor who is seeking a seat on the struggling US mobile phone maker's board by waging a proxy battle.

THIRD-GENERATION dairy farmer Geoff Akers calls this drought "the mother of all mothers".

KENTUCKY-based trainer Kenny McPeek is seen as the most likely to seize the challenge and saddle up the first American runner in a Melbourne Cup if Drilling For Oil wins the Group II San Juan Capistrano Invitational (2800m) at Santa Anita Park in California on Sunday.

ABOUT $60 billion worth of resource projects could be at risk if a Labor government scraps workplace agreements.

AUSTRALIA's cricketers face a battle of attrition next summer with a whopping 20 Tests scheduled, including a disjointed home series.

NEW ZEALAND captain Stephen Fleming yesterday revealed his team had travelled to the end of the emotional spectrum searching for ways to intimidate Australia before deciding not to bother.

TAKEOVER target Orica could make a capital return to shareholders to make better use of its low debt levels and stave off a consortium of private equity predators prepared to pay $10billion to acquire the company.

INTERNET entrepreneurs Adrian Giles and Andrew Barlow have sold Hitwise, the audience measurement firm they started in Melbourne nine years ago, to global data company Experian Group for $US240 million ($288 million).

LISTED digital marketing group BlueFreeway has confirmed its first acquisition since it was formed in December, announcing yesterday that it would buy US internet research company SageMetrics.

DISGRACED grain trader AWB has defended its decision not to tell shareholders about losses its wheat exporting subsidiary suffered on the futures market, saying they would not have a material impact on the company's profits.

THIRTY-FIVE suburbs around the country had no childcare places available for six months last year but Families Minister Mal Brough has declared there is no childcare crisis.

QANTAS workers and the airline's board were in rare agreement yesterday about the need to end the uncertainty caused by the ongoing $11.1 billion bid for the airline.

TELSTRA chief executive Sol Trujillo says talks with the federal Government about reviving its planned $4 billion high-speed broadband network are no closer to agreement.

MACQUARIE Bank has continued its spending spree on British communications assets, adding the $4.8 billion Airwave digital radio business to its recent $6.1 billion acquisition of mobile phone and broadcast towers.

NEWS LIMITED is set to be at war with itself after National Rugby League chief executive David Gallop persuaded the NRL partnership to join Telstra's battle with Fox Sports.