澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-09-08

A Russian plane carrying one of the country's top ice hockey teams has crashed on takeoff, killing 43 people. The plane was leaving the city of Yaroslavl in western Russia when it clipped a radio mast. The team included several foreign players and a

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-09-01

The future of offshore processing of asylum seekers is in doubt after yesterday's High Court ruling against the Malaysia solution. Federal Cabinet has been holding crisis talks. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen isn't ruling out reopening the detentio

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-09-05

A search is continuing for a shark that attacked and killed a man in the south-west of Western Australia yesterday. The 21-year-old man was bodyboarding with friends at Bunker Bay about 300 kilometres south of Perth when he was attacked. He died at t

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-10-03

The International Red Cross is warning about an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the Libyan city of Sirte. They say food, water and medicine are quickly running out. The city has been under intense fighting between the rebels and forces loyal to Colo

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-09-02

The body of a 70-year-old woman has been found in a house that was destroyed by fire in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Fire crews were called to the blaze at around 4:30 this morning. Neighbouring homes on Macquarie Road had to be evacuated. Fir

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-09-03

The weather satellite picture shows a band of cloud moving through South Australia with a cold front bringing showers and storms. Cloud over WA is triggering showers. Patchy cloud over coastal New South Wales and Queensland with isolated showers, ski

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-09-20

Political stalemate is putting the future of offshore processing of asylum seekers in doubt this morning. The Federal Government will introduce amendments to the Migration Act tomorrow. The Opposition is refusing to support those changes and has put

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-10-05

To finance news now, and the US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the country's economic recovery is close to faltering. Appearing before a congressional committee, Mr Bernanke said he could understand frustration with the slow recovery. Ver

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-10-06

The Federal Government is indeed turning its attention from tax to jobs today. About 100 representatives from business, unions and government are gathering in Canberra for a jobs forum. The focus will be on the struggling manufacturing sector which h

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-10-07

Lawyers for an Australian teenage boy arrested in Bali for allegedly buying marijuana say he is depressed and distraught. The teenager was detained on Tuesday. He was allegedly carrying almost seven grams of marijuana. Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd say

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-10-04

American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend have been freed after an Italian court quashed a murder conviction against them. The pair had been found guilty of killing British student Meredith Kercher in 2007. Now the court ruled critical DNA eviden

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-10-01

A developing low and front is generating squally showers and isolated thunderstorms through the south and east. While patchy cloud over southern New South Wales triggers isolated showers there. And over the weekend, it's expected to track east across

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-09-28

And hopes of a new debt rescue plan have sent European markets higher overnight. The Greek parliament has also just approved an unpopular new property tax as the prime minister tries to convince European countries that Greece is serious about solving

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-09-29

Britain says it'll oppose plans for a financial transaction tax on EU members. The president of the European Commission, Jos Manuel Barroso, says the tax could raise about $80 billion a year. It will be discussed at a summit of European leaders next

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-08-24

And Spain's parliament has agreed to pass a constitutional limit on public-sector borrowing. It's the first eurozone country to impose such a restriction. Last week, France and Germany called on all eurozone governments to introduce limits to help co

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-08-31

An early rally on the local share market fizzled by the end of the day. Losses in Telstra and energy shares weighed down the broader index. The All Ordinaries index added just 0.2 per cent by the close. Telstra shed 2.6 per cent. Harvey Norman closed

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-08-30

The United Nations is warning of a possible resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus. It's also warning a mutant strain of the virus that's resistant to vaccines could be spreading in Asia. It says it's appeared in Vietnam and China and now threatens

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-09-04

The US economy added no new jobs in August. The zero figure is much worse than had been expected. The predicted figure was about an addition of about 70,000. Figures from the Department of Labor show the unemployment rate remains unchanged, from July

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-08-28

The head of America's Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke has said the US Central Bank will not take any immediate action to stimulate the country's economy as we heard earlier from *. In a much anticipated speech to international central bankers, Mr Bernan

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-08-23

A roadside bomb has killed another Australian soldier in Afghanistan. The soldier, who hasn't been named, was on foot patrol with Afghan troops when the bomb exploded. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has sent her condolences to his family. He's the eigh