Rebel priest to defy 'vindictive' global ban
A Brisbane priest says he will not be quot;bulliedquot; by the Catholic Church and has vowed to hold services this weekend in defiance of an edict banning him from performing church duties anywhere in the world.
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General Top News | Friday Jun 5
Susan Boyle out of London clinic
British singing star Susan Boyle has left a clinic where she was taken earlier this week suffering from exhaustion, her brother says.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Friday Jun 5
Scuba death victim's family 'in shock'
The family of a US woman who drowned in a north Queensland diving incident has reacted angrily to the sentence given to the man who admitted allowing his wife to die.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Friday Jun 5
Chinalco to scrap Rio Tinto deal: report
London's Financial Times newspaper says the Chinese aluminium giant Chinalco is set to scrap its $25 billion deal with Rio Tinto.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Thursday Jun 4
Opposition dismisses Fitzgibbon's Judas claim
The Federal Opposition says former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon is blaming others for his political downfall, after resigning yesterday over a conflict of interest with his brother's private health fund.
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General Top News | Thursday Jun 4
Stosur says au revoir to Open dream
Samantha Stosur has failed in her quest to become the first Australian woman to reach the French Open final in 30 years, losing to Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova early this morning.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Thursday Jun 4
Kung Fu actor Carradine found hanged
US actor David Carradine was found dead, naked and hanging from a rope in the closet of his luxury Bangkok hotel room on Thursday, Thai police said.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Thursday Jun 4
Symonds sent home in disgrace
Controversial all-rounder Andrew Symonds has been banished from Australia's Twenty20 World Cup squad in England for breaking team rules.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Thursday Jun 4
Air France jet was flying 'too slowly'
The Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday was flying too slowly ahead of the disaster, French newspaper Le Monde said on Thursday, citing sources close to the inquiry.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Thursday Jun 4
Obama seeks 'new beginning' with Muslim world
US President Barack Obama has used a landmark speech at the University of Cairo to call for a new beginning between America and the Muslim world.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Thursday Jun 4
Black Saturday appeal fund 'rorted'
A former Victorian deputy premier says up to $65 million in Federal Government bushfire payments have been rorted.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Thursday Jun 4
Vic swine flu cases soar
There has been another surge in the number of people with swine flu in Victoria, with 752 people now confirmed as having the virus.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Thursday Jun 4
Alcoa warns of job losses under emissions scheme
Australia's largest aluminium recycler is warning 600 jobs could go if the Federal Government does not make further changes to its emissions trading scheme.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 3
Lost jet's black boxes 'may never be found'
Investigators say they may never find the black boxes that could explain why an Air France jet crashed into the ocean as naval teams trawled deep Atlantic waters.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 3
Obama lands in Middle East to bin Laden blast
President Barack Obama has launched a landmark Middle East trip to reach out to the world's Muslims, but earned a swift rebuke from Osama bin Laden in a stinging new audiotape.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 3
Tiananmen crackdown remains taboo, 20 years on
Twenty years ago, protesting Chinese students filled Beijing's Tiananmen Square, not knowing that the People's Liberation Army was about to roll through with tanks and other heavy weapons.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 3
MP slams swine flu 'scare campaign'
Liberal Senator Julian McGauran has accused the Federal Government of whipping up fears of a flu crisis when one does not exist.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 3
Maroons survive scare from baby Blues
The veteran Maroons absorbed late pressure from New South Wales to hang tough for a 28-18 win in Game I of the State of Origin series in Melbourne tonight.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 3
Robot probes depths of ocean abyss
A robotic submersible called Nereus has reached the deepest-known part of the ocean, reviving the possibility of exploring all of the world's seabed.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 3
Top adviser writes off 'lost cause' Pakistan
A top military adviser says Pakistan is a quot;lost causequot;, and without wholesale change the country risks spiralling into lawlessness.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 3
Fairfax stands by Fitzgibbon spy claims
Fairfax Newspapers say they stand by reports earlier this year the Defence Department spied on its own Minister, even though a second inquiry has found no evidence to support the claims.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 3
'Zits forever': ABC auctions autograph book
An unknown Sydney buyer is the new owner of an ABC visitor's book signed by celebrities including Kate Bush, Boy George, Leo Sayer and Cheech and Chong.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 3
Prince Charles defuses D-Day snafu
Britain's Prince Charles is to attend D-Day commemorations in France next weekend, defusing an embarrassing diplomatic tussle over whether Queen Elizabeth II should go.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 2
Hold climate bill until after summit: Turnbull
Federal Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull has kicked off the debate against the Government's emissions trading scheme by moving an amendment to delay the bill.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 2
China lashes out over Gitmo prisoner request
The Australian Government is facing a diplomatic quandary after China publicly opposed a US request for Australia to accept up to 10 Chinese Uighurs detained in Guantanamo Bay.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 2
Armidale shooting: police 'had no choice'
Police say two officers involved in the fatal shooting of a man in north-east New South Wales were left with no other choice.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 2
Brazil air force spots plane debris
Brazilian air force aircraft searching for an Air France plane that went missing last night over the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people on board have found debris from a plane, an air force spokesman said.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 2
Pair found dead at Adelaide home
Major crime detectives are investigating an apparent murder-suicide at Ingle Farm, in Adelaide's north-east.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 2
Meninga hopes Blues blood rookies
Queensland State of Origin coach Mal Meninga says he hopes New South Wales selectors stick by their inexperienced players.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 2
Deadly brew kills foreigners in Bali
Health officials in Bali have confirmed four foreigners have died from suspected alcohol poisoning in the past four days.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 2
'Hope lost' for missing Air France jet
Air France officials say they have quot;lost hopequot; for one of the airline's passenger planes, which has gone missing over the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people on board.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 1
Lift obesity surgery funding, report urges
A parliamentary inquiry has urged the Federal Government to increase public funding for obese people to have lap band surgery in a bid to tackle obesity rates.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 1
Snake-bite chicken off China menus
Local health authorities in China are asking restaurants to stop serving chickens that have been bitten to death by poisonous snakes.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 1
GM files for bankruptcy
Embattled US automaker General Motors has filed for bankruptcy protection in New York in the third-largest case in US history.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 1
Indian attacks spark education industry fears
There are fears that violence against Indian students could damage Australia's reputation abroad and its highly lucrative international education industry.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 1
Man charged over Sydney siege
A 39-year-old man has been charged over yesterday's siege and shooting at Rosebery in Sydney's south.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 1
Swine flu change flagged as cases jump
With the number of swine flu cases in Australia climbing to 400, health authorities are preparing to increase the alert level beyond the current containment phase.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 1
Sri Lankan courts to probe rights abuses
Sri Lankan foreign minister Rohita Bogollagama says his country's independent courts - not international organisations - will investigate military personnel for any alleged human rights violations.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday May 31
Pedophile linked to missing Morcombe case
Channel 7 has named a known pedophile as someone they believe could be a person of interest in the case of missing Queensland teenager Daniel Morcombe.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday May 31
Australian swine flu tally hits 303
Over 300 people have been diagnosed with swine flu in Australia, health authorities have confirmed.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday May 31
Suu Kyi 'covered up the truth'
A senior figure in the Burmese regime says the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi covered up the truth by failing to report an American man in her home.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday May 31
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