Hot battles in US to control congress

ALL eyes may be on the White House, but another electoral battle is also in the offing in the US on November 6, with the results likely to determine just how much the next president can accomplish. In congress, the entire 435-member lower US House...

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G20 meet with eurozone again in limelight

THE Group of 20 world powers meets on Sunday to tackle fears of a new global economic downturn and renew pressure on Europe to contain its stubbornly tenacious debt crisis. G20 finance ministers and central bank governors will hold two days of...

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Restructuring costs push Alcatel into loss

RESTRUCTURING costs and lower sales have pushed telecoms equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent into a third-quarter loss. The company said on Friday it lost 146 million euros ($A181.55 million) in the July-September quarter. That's down from 194 million...

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Popular vote doesn't decide US election

IN the 2000 US presidential election, Democratic candidate Al Gore garnered 540,000 more votes nationwide than Republican George W. Bush. Yet Bush was the ultimate winner because, in the end, he was awarded the most electoral votes. Though the...

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Fake credit cards used in bank fraud

A WESTPAC employee is accused of creating fake credit cards to fleece the company of more than $110,000. Police from The Rocks Local Area Command were contacted by the bank's internal investigators on Friday morning in relation to fraud involving...

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Hills to shed hundreds jobs in restructure

TROUBLED clothes line, electronics and building products maker Hills Holdings is expected to shed hundreds of jobs as part of a massive restructure. Newly installed chief executive Ted Pretty said he did not want to put an exact figure on the...

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Evacuation alert lifted in north Qld

AN evacuation alert has been cancelled for the residents of a north Queensland town threatened by a large bushfire. Firefighters were called to the blaze southwest of Ravenshoe at about 3.45pm (AEST) on Thursday afternoon. With 10 crews fighting...

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Govt workers charged with $82,000 thefts

TWO West Australian government employees have been charged with fraud and stealing, with one alleged to have fraudulently used more than $66,000 worth of Cabcharge vouchers. Major fraud squad detectives on Thursday revealed that two separate...

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Seven kidnapped sailors freed in Nigeria

KIDNAPPERS have freed six Russian sailors and an Estonian who had been abducted from a ship off Nigeria's southern delta, a French oil and gas services company says. Paris-based Bourbon SA said in a statement that the sailors were in good health...

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China tightens security ahead of congress

DON'T roll down the taxi windows. Don't buy a remote-controlled plane without a police chief's permission. And don't release your pigeons. Beijing is tightening security as its all-important Communist Party congress approaches, and some of the...

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US air travel resumes after Sandy

SUPERSTORM Sandy grounded more than 18,000 flights across the US northeast and the globe, and it will take days before travel gets back to normal. More than 7000 flights were cancelled on Tuesday alone, according to the flight-tracking service...

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No water guarantee under Murray bill: ACF

THERE is no guarantee the federal government will actually deliver on its promise to pump an extra 450 billion litres of water into the Murray-Darling Basin ecosystem, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) says. Environment Minister Tony...

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Russian upper house passes treason bill

RUSSIA'S upper house of parliament has passed a hugely controversial bill broadening the definition of high treason to include passing NGOs harmful information. The Federation Council passed the bill on Wednesday with 138 senators in favour,...

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Philippine troops face court over killings

THIRTEEN Philippine soldiers will be court-martialled for shooting dead the wife and two sons of a tribal leader who opposed a Swiss-Australian mining project, the military says. A military inquiry found the soldiers were negligent when they engaged...

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Cyclone barrels towards south Indian coast

SCHOOLS and ports have shut down in southeast India as a cyclone heads towards the coast, with forecasters predicting it could make a direct hit on Chennai later in the day. Cyclone Nilam was likely to do extensive damage to thatched roofs and...

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Commuters prefer car to public transport

PUBLIC transport remains unattractive to most people, with new data showing three out of five commuters prefer the comfort of their own car. Despite this, there has been a slight increase in the number of people taking a train to work over the...

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New Zealand man charged over Vic assault

A 19-YEAR-OLD New Zealander has been charged over an alleged attack on a man at Windsor railway station last month. The assault is alleged to have happened on around 8.30pm (AEST) on September 29 when the victim was standing on the platform...

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South Africa police and miners clash again

POLICE in South Africa have fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades in clashes with Anglo American Platinum miners, as a deadline passed for 12,000 sacked workers to reclaim their jobs. At least 1000 miners defied an ultimatum to return...

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Asian markets close mixed

ASIAN stock markets have closed mixed but Tokyo closed lower after the Bank of Japan (BoJ) announced monetary easing that was only slightly bigger than market forecasts and cut its growth outlook. With US markets closed because of Hurricane Sandy,...

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Unions win injunction against QBuild cuts

FOUR unions have won an injunction against Queensland government moves to begin dismissing more than 300 QBuild workers. Workers with the government's maintenance company were told on Tuesday morning they would have one-on-one sessions with...

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Taiwan ex-naval officers 'spied for China'

TAIWAN says three retired military officers have been arrested on suspicion of leaking military secrets to China, in one of the island's worst espionage cases. Chang Chih-hsin, formerly the chief officer in charge of political warfare at the naval...

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Woodside signs deal with Japan Bank

WOODSIDE Petroleum has signed a preliminary agreement with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to help finance future liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects. The oil and gas producer said the memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed...

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Hong Kong shares slip 0.16%

HONG Kong shares have lost 0.16 per cent as developers were hit after the city's government outlined plans to curb soaring property prices. The benchmark Hang Seng Index on Monday fell 34.52 points to 21,511.05 on turnover of HK$47.07 billion...

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Aust, US defence trade bill set to pass

AUSTRALIA will be able to buy defence equipment from the United States faster under legislation set to pass the Senate. The Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011 implements a treaty Australia signed with the US in 2007 to co-operate on the trade...

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Tsunami triggered by quake hits Hawaii

A TSUNAMI generated by an earthquake in Canada has hit the US state of Hawaii, an official from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says. "The tsunami is arriving right now," Gerard Fryer, a senior geophysicist with the centre, told reporters....

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No threat of tsunami to Australia

THERE is no threat of a tsunami hitting Australia's east coast following the magnitude-7.7 earthquake which struck off the coast of western Canada on Sunday. The US Geological Survey issued a tsunami warning for coastal areas from British Columbia...

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Three dead in Nigerian church bombing

AN attacker has attempted to slam a car bomb into a church in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, killing at least three people, including himself, while wounding others. "At least three people are confirmed dead," an official said on condition...

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Ship with 11 crew goes missing in Russia

A CARGO ship with 11 crew on board is missing in Russia's Far East in stormy conditions that were making rescue operations difficult. An emergency ministry spokeswoman said the vessel, the Amurskoye, was travelling to the Shantar Islands in...

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Doyle returned as Melbourne lord mayor

MELBOURNE Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has won a second term with about 40 per cent of the primary vote after Victorians went to the polling booths around the state. Mr Doyle, a former leader of the Victorian Liberal Party, said his priorities would...

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