A COP accused of leaking footage of fellow officers bashing a prisoner is charged with misconduct - with the alleged perpetrators yet to face action.
ANDREW and Trudy Olive are relieved they will receive some answers after the death of their son at Nambour Hospital in 2010.
NOBEL Prize-winning scientist Professor Peter Higgs has revealed he first heard he won the prestigious award when a women stopped to congratulate him in the street.
Prof Higgs says a former neighbour, the widow of a judge, got out of her car in Edinburgh as he was returning from lunch and introduced herself.
"She congratulated me on the news and I said 'oh, what news?'" he told a media conference at the University of Edinburgh.
"She told me her daughter phoned from London to alert her to the fact I had got this prize.
"I heard more about it obviously when I got home and started reading the messages."
Prof Higgs was recognised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his work on the theory of the particle which shares his name, the Higgs boson.
The existence of the so-called "God particle", said to give matter its substance, or mass, was proved 50 years on by a team from the European nuclear research facility (Cern) in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2012.
Giving his reaction to the prize for the first time, he said: "How do I feel? Well, obviously I'm delighted and rather relieved in a sense that it's all over. It's been a long time coming."
An old friend told him he had been nominated as far back as 1980, he explained.
A COP accused of leaking footage of fellow officers bashing a prisoner is charged with misconduct - with the alleged perpetrators yet to face action.
ANDREW and Trudy Olive are relieved they will receive some answers after the death of their son at Nambour Hospital in 2010.
Clive Palmer says the Australian Electoral Commission will "rig" the Fairfax recount. Source: AAP
CLIVE Palmer believes the Australian Electoral Commission will "rig" the Fairfax recount and deliver victory to his LNP opponent.
Mr Palmer says he's odds on to lose the contest with the LNP's Ted O'Brien, despite finishing ahead in two previous counts.
"I think in the end Ted O'Brien will win because the AEC will put him there," Mr Palmer told AAP on Friday.
"I've said that while I've been leading all along because the system is very corrupt.
"I've got great confidence in the AEC to rig the result."
Mr Palmer originally finished with 36 more votes than Mr O'Brien. His lead was whittled down to a mere seven votes after a full redistribution of preferences.
The AEC is now conducting a full recount which isn't likely to wind-up for at least another week.
While almost 55,000 of the 80,000 votes have been viewed, close to 30,000 have been challenged.
Of those, more than 15,000 have been referred to the AEC in Brisbane for a decision.
Mr Palmer said the situation was ridiculous.
"Both times I've won and now they are sending the ballots down to Brisbane to have a different AEC officer to do a different determination on them which is quite amazing," he said.
However, the mining magnate concedes the Palmer United Party is responsible for the majority of challenges which have questioned the validly of ballot papers.
Mr Palmer is also frustrated by the AEC's decision to conduct a West Australian senate recount which has put his candidate, Zhenya "Dio" Wang, at risk of losing his spot in the upper house.
He said it was "disturbing" the Electoral Commissioner had overruled a local officer's refusal of a recount, and ordered all of WA's 1.25 million above-the-line ballots to be recounted.
The AEC's Phil Diak didn't comment on Mr Palmer's claim that the commission was rigging the Fairfax result.
However, he said the decision to send thousands of ballots to Brisbane was in accordance with Commonwealth electoral law.
Mr Diak said the number of votes referred to the Australian Electoral Commission officer in Brisbane was high due to the amount of challenges, with most coming from PUP scrutineers.
The recount of the WA senate result was also in accordance with the electoral act, he said.
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A LARGE part of the history of Australian Associated Press along with a cavalcade of Australia's most influential and dynamic media figures are having their names and careers enshrined in Victoria's Media Hall of Fame.
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AUSTRALIA'S economic growth prospects have been downgraded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) due to the nation's vulnerability to slower Chinese demand for commodity exports.
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NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson has drawn his old union into the fray as he continues to swat away criticisms over his failure to report a multi-million-dollar bribe attempt.
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Anthony Albanese believes Peter Slipper (pic) has been treated harshly over travel expense claims. Source: AAP
CHRIS Bowen admires Tony Abbott's fitness regime but the interim Labor leader says taxpayers shouldn't have to cover the cost of the Prime Minister showing off his sporting prowess.
Mr Abbott has repaid over $1700 claimed for travelling to the weddings of former colleagues Sophie Mirabella and Peter Slipper in 2006.
But he is defending the use of parliamentary entitlements to enter an ironman triathlon and the annual Pollie Pedal charity fundraiser.
"I believe that all of my claims have been within entitlement," he told reporters at the APEC leaders forum in Bali.
Mr Abbott claimed nearly $1300 in flights and allowances for a night at Port Macquarie in November 2011 when he competed in the ironman triathlon in the marginal NSW seat.
"I don't go to marginal seats simply for sporting events ... and I think you'll find there were quite a few other community events involved in those visits," he said.
Mr Bowen says it didn't appear Mr Abbott had participated in any other community events in Port Macquarie.
"It's good that Mr Abbott tries to keep fit ... but if he chooses to participate in an ironman event, that is in my view pretty clearly a personal issue, a personal expense, not something the taxpayer can fairly be asked to cover," he said.
Coalition ministers George Brandis and Barnaby Joyce have also repaid expenses they claimed for travel to former shock jock Michael Smith's 2011 wedding - and a clutch of others are also caught up in expense controversies.
But it's not just the government caught up in the furore.
Hours after calling for "some serious investigation" into the coalition's expenses claims, shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus paid back $466 he claimed for staying two nights in Canberra in August 2011 when he was actually skiing in the Snowy Mountains.
His office called it an administrative error, saying Mr Dreyfus had taken the trip on a weekend between two parliamentary sitting weeks in Canberra without his staff knowing he had left the capital.
Labor frontbencher Tony Burke said Mr Abbott shouldn't be surprised at the outcry given his "holier than thou" attitude over former speaker Peter Slipper's alleged expense rorts.
"If you're going to do the character assassination that Tony Abbott and George Brandis did on Peter Slipper, then I don't think you can be surprised when the public want to apply the same standards that these two men held up," he said.
Labor doesn't take issue with $3500 Mr Abbott claimed when taking part in the 2012 Pollie Pedal through regional Australia as it allows for engagement with community groups in towns that rarely see politicians.
Mr Abbott will take part in it again in 2014 and plans to use his allowances "to the extent that it involves being away from home".
TWO of the four men sentenced to death in the fatal Delhi gang rape have filed appeals, their lawyer has said.
A special trial court sentenced them September 13 for the attack on a 23-year-old student in December. The case was referred to the Delhi High Court for confirmation of sentence.
"I have filed a joint appeal on behalf of my clients seeking the trial court's conviction and sentencing orders be set aside," said AP Singh, lawyer for Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur on Tuesday.
He said the verdict was "bad in law as the judge did not pay heed to the facts of the case."
The appeal said that Sharma was 17 years at the time of the crime - not 20 as argued by the police - and should have been tried by a juvenile court. It also said Thakur was not present at the scene of crime, Singh said.
Lawyers representing the other two convicts, Mukesh Singh and Pawan Gupta, informed the court that they were withdrawing from the case owing to alleged interference by the clients' relatives.
The judges directed the two convicts to be produced in court Wednesday to clarify the issue.
A death sentence can be challenged in the High Court and the Supreme Court, after which the defendant may file a mercy petition with the president.
The Delhi gang rape led to protests across the country and international outrage, prompting the government to amend laws to apply stricter punishments for rape.
Police charged six suspects initially. The case against one was dropped after he was found hanged in his jail cell during the trial.
The sixth suspect was found guilty by a juvenile court and sent to a correctional home for three years.
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MORE than a decade after the September 11 attacks in the United States and the 2002 Bali bombing, Australian victims and their families are finally set to receive compensation.
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WHILE outlaw bikies were fighting on the Coast's restaurant strip, this bloke was on holidays four hours away hunting rabbits.
CLIVE Palmer wants to trademark the logo for his new 'Palmersaurus' resort. TAKE A LOOK at the emblem he hopes will soon be popping up everywhere.
WORKERS who cut their fingers or sprain their neck are getting compensation payouts big enough to help pay-off a house or a trip around the world.
DON'T let the humble facade decieve you. This simple worker's cottage is anything but. SEE WHY this home has been named one of the world's best.
