澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-06

US President Barack Obama has cautiously praised the country's latest jobs figures. The unemployment rate remained steady at 9.6 per cent in October, but the government says 151,000 positions were created. The jobless rate matched the expectations, b

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-08

Defence ties in Afghanistan will be under discussion on Hillary Clinton's final day of her Australian visit. The US secretary of state and the Defence Secretary Robert Gates will meet their Australian counterparts Kevin Rudd and Steven Smith this mor

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-09

Julia Gillard's popularity has taken a dip in the latest Newspoll. The Prime Minister's approval rating is 49 per cent. That's down four points. She still leads Opposition Leader Tony Abbott though he's increased his rating by two points, rising to 3

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-07

A cloud band is pushing across South Australia with a front and trough bringing areas of rain and storms. Cloud over eastern Victoria and New South Wales in a series of troughs is triggering storms along the ranges and scattered showers on the coast.

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-10

Qantas's reputation takes another battering. The European Commission has fined the airline $11 million for price fixing. It's one of 11 airlines that had been charged with fixing the price of air cargo between 1999 and 2006. In total, more than $1 bi

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-10-23

In business. The Australian Securities Exchange went into an unexpected trading halt yesterday afternoon, as rumors swirled about a possible takeover bid. The trading halts have renewed market speculation of a possible merger with the Singapore Stock

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-10-24

On the satellite image, there's cloud spreading across South Australia and New South Wales with some rain and possibly some storms. There's also cloud over southeastern Australia, producing the occasional light shower. In Queensland, cloud over the n

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-10-27

Nine Australians missing after a tsunami off Indonesia's west coast have been found alive. At least 108 people have been killed and more than 500 are still missing after that earthquake triggered a tsunami, which hit Sumatra's remote Mentawai Islands

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-10-28

Indonesian officials say an early warning system failed to alert locals before a tsunami wiped out about ten villages on the tiny Mentawai Islands. More than 270 people have been killed in the three-metre tsunami with another 400 still missing. Techn

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-10-31

A band of cloud over the east in a trough is causing heavy rain over Victoria and showers through New South Wales and southern Queensland. Thick cloud over the Northern Territory in moist and stable air is triggering widespread thunderstorms, clear s

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-10-29

The number of people killed in the tsunami off west Sumatra is expected to climb to more than 500. Officials in the Mentawai Islands are finding more victims of the tsunami that struck on Monday night. Three hundred and forty people so far are confir

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-04

President Barack Obama says he understands voter discontent with the state of the economy. The Republican Party has had a sweeping victory in the mid-term elections, winning control of the House of Representatives. The Democrats are clinging to a sli

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-05

The European Aviation Safety Authority issued a warning in August about Rolls-Royce engines used in some A380 planes, saying that they were potentially unsafe. Now it's not known whether that warning was acted upon, but engine maker Rolls-Royce says

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-10-25

Haiti's cholera outbreak has now spread to the nation's capital with five cases confirmed in Port-au-Prince. Health officials have been trying to contain that outbreak in areas north of the capital. More than 3,000 people have been infected, 253 peop

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-10-26

The former Prime Minister John Howard's return to the public eye has brought him a confrontation with David Hicks and saw him come under fire from footwear. On the ABC's Q A program, a man threw a shoe at Mr Howard in protest at Australia's involveme

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-02

Fifty-two people are now known to have died during an operation to free worshippers held by gunmen inside a Baghdad church. One hundred and twenty people were held in the Catholic church for at least four hours. When Iraqi security forces stormed the

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-15

Freed Burmese Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has offered an olive branch to the countrys military junta. She says shes willing to talk to the regime about ways to establish democracy in the country. She says she also wants to speak to western lea

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-01

Qatar Airways has admitted that one of the bombs posted from Yemen last week was originally transported on two passenger planes before being seized in Dubai. Two suspected al-Qaeda packages from Yemen were intercepted in Dubai and Britain on Friday.

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-10-30

Australian shares have been hit by a steady stream of profit-taking as investors gear up for a raft of local and international economic data due out next week. Both the All Ordinaries Index and the ASX200 have closed down about 0.5%. Shares in Macqua

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-12-14

Swedish police say they are 98 per cent sure they've identified the man who detonated a car bomb in Stockholm over the weekend. An al-Qaeda-linked website says the bomber was Iraqi-born Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly who lived in England before Sweden.