Millions missing in sport club fraud

Sporting clubs in Queensland are losing millions of dollars to fraud, with police investigating several cases. PIC: Mark Calleja Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld) SPORTING groups across Queensland are losing millions of dollars in fraud and financial...

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$20m fraudster had everyone fooled

Damian O'Carrigan's double life was a complete shock to his wife Julie. Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld) DAMIAN O'Carrigan was outwardly a devoted husband, father and a trusted manager with one of the nation's biggest firms. He had also siphoned...

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Bates facing new pressure over register

EMBATTLED Newman Government Arts and IT Minister Ros Bates is facing fresh calls to quit after a lobbyist lunch was left off her official contact register. Ms Bates' diary, released under Right to Information laws, has revealed she attended a...

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Dying sailor in desperate compo battle

Former sailor Kurt MacKenzie is fighting for compensation after he was accidentally gassed aboard a Navy vessel. Picture: Quinn Stuart Source: The Sunday Telegraph A 44-YEAR-OLD former senior sailor has accused Defence of delaying his compensation...

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Hundreds of Vic firefighters kept busy

VICTORIAN firefighters have been kept busy battling two major fires in the state's east and a number of smaller blazes closer to Melbourne. A control centre spokesman said 195 firefighters battled the 81,000-hectare Aberfeldy fire in Gippsland...

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Third death linked to Vic cheese company

A THIRD person has died following a listeria outbreak linked to soft cheeses produced in Victoria. Victoria's acting chief health officer, Dr Michael Ackland, has confirmed the death of a 68-year-old New South Wales man in late January was linked...

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Australia and NZ cement ties in Queenstown

THIRTY years of close economic ties between Australia and New Zealand have been cemented with a series of new agreements, but NZ's prime minister is the first to admit they're not on an even footing. Prime Minister Julia Gillard took part in bilateral...

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Stab victim left with punctured lung

A YOUNG man is recovering in hospital after suffering a punctured lung when he was stabbed at a house in Southport last night. Another man, 21, has been arrested over the incident but it is understood charges are yet to be laid against him....

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Pilot rescued as Tas fire threat lowered

A PILOT has been rescued after his helicopter crashed while fighting a bushfire in Tasmania, where emergency bushfire warnings have been downgraded. Strong wind gusts earlier fanned a fire burning at Molesworth in the Derwent Valley, with the...

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Minister sings her vision for the arts

EMBATTLED Arts Minister Ros Bates has used her expertise at playing Chopsticks on the piano as evidence she is qualified for the job. Ms Bates yesterday addressed the arts industry in an attempt to bring the focus back to her portfolio and away...

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Stressed out Facebook users to cut back

STATUS updates, friend requests, profile pictures and pokes. An American study has found the intricacies of the most used social network in the world are stressing out its users to the point of no return. Almost a billion people around the world...

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ICC demands Libya hand over Gaddafi ex-spy

INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court judges have demanded Libya hand over Muammar Gaddafi's former spy chief Abdullah Senoussi to face charges of crimes against humanity. The latest broadside in the legal tug-of-war between The Hague-based ICC and Tripoli...

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Union wants risky mothers-to-be locked up

THE Queensland police union is calling for tougher laws to send risk-taking pregnant women into safe houses in an effort to monitor their behaviour. In a submission to the Queensland Child Protection Inquiry, the union says the rights of an...

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Man charged over NSW south coast shooting

A MAN has been charged after he allegedly shot into a home on the NSW south coast. The 26-year-old man was arrested at a house in Nowra on Thursday, after he allegedly fired several rounds into a home on McKay Street, Nowra in December last...

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Germany's 'Cookie Monster' returns biscuit

A SELF-STYLED Cookie Monster thief who took a large golden biscuit from outside a renowned German baked good maker to demand goodies for sick children appears to have returned the emblem. A large golden biscuit wrapped up in a red ribbon mysteriously...

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Car crash kills man in state's far north

A MAN has been killed after he lost control of the car he was driving and it smashed into a tree. Police said the man, 57, was driving a ute on Coolamon Scene Drive at Mullumbimby, about 1.50pm on Tuesday. They said he lost control of the car,...

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Ear chopper gunman to face court

A MAN will face court on Wednesday after he allegedly cut off part of a teenager's ear in a bizarre robbery attempt on the Gold Coast. A 16-year-old boy and his male friend, 15, were walking at Varsity Lakes late on Monday night, when a man...

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Egypt foreign reserves drop dramatically

EGYPT'S foreign reserves fell by almost 10 per cent to $US13.6 billion ($A13.10 billion) in January, the Central Bank of Egypt said in a statement on Tuesday published by the official MENA news agency. The bank said "foreign reserves fell heavily...

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US shares rebound, but Dell falls on deal

US shares have rebounded in opening trade after the previous day's sharp correction, but Dell sank 2.6 per cent after the company announced a plan to take itself private and de-list from the Nasdaq. Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial...

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Dell to be bought by founder and Microsoft

SLUMPING personal computer maker Dell is selling itself for $US24.4 billion ($A23.51 billion) to its founder and a group of investors that includes Microsoft. It's the largest deal of its kind since the Great Recession dried up financing for risky...

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Somalia jails alleged rape victim, journo

SOMALIA has jailed for one year a woman who said she was raped by security forces and a journalist who interviewed her, saying they were guilty of insulting the state in a case that has alarmed rights groups. "We sentence her for offending state...

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Shot Pakistani schoolgirl in video message

MALALA Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, says she is getting better in her first public statement. "Today you can see that I am alive. I can speak, I can see you, I can see...

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Ahmadinejad ready to go into space

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he's ready "to be the first man in space" under Iran's ambitious program that aims to send a human being into orbit by 2020. "Our youth are determined to send a man into space within the next four, five years...

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Celebrity protester wedding stuns Russia

RUSSIA'S glamorous protest leader, Ksenia Sobchak, has surprised Russians by secretly marrying a popular actor who shares her anti-Putin views, just months after declaring her love for a radical protest leader in Hello! magazine. Sobchak held...

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US stocks retreat after big Friday rally

US stocks have retreated in early trading after Friday's dramatic surge, which took the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 14,000 points. Leading analysts had predicted the Dow would struggle in the immediate aftermath of Friday's rally, when...

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Afghan, Pakistani leaders want peace deal

THE leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan say they will work to reach a peace deal within six months, while throwing their weight behind moves for the Taliban to open an office in Doha. Following talks hosted by British Prime Minister David Cameron,...

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UK politician admits obstructing justice

IT started with a traffic penalty. It ended in political exile. Former British cabinet minister Chris Huhne - once one of the country's leading politicians - has pleaded guilty to the charge of obstruction of justice over a career-wrecking attempt...

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Key to raise visa rules for New Zealanders

NEW Zealand Prime Minister John Key will raise the treatment of New Zealanders in Australia when he meets Prime Minister Julia Gillard at annual talks. The pair will hold annual trans-Tasman prime ministerial talks in Queenstown on Friday and...

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Israel implicitly confirms Syria raid

ISRAEL has implicitly confirmed it staged an air strike on Syria last week, as President Bashar al-Assad accused the Jewish state of trying to "destabilise" the strife-torn country. The foreign minister of Damascus ally Iran, meanwhile, said he...

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Girl shot by Taliban has more surgery

THE British hospital treating a Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban says she has undergone two successful operations and is making good progress in her recovery. Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital says 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai...

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Iran announces new nuclear talks

IRAN has announced fresh talks with world powers on its nuclear drive and says it is open to a US offer for two-way discussions if Washington's intention is "authentic". Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said the six world powers planned...

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Myanmar rebels, government to hold talks

MYANMAR'S government and ethnic Kachin rebels in the country's north will hold talks in China this week after some of the worst fighting in the country in years, even as fresh shelling boomed across the frontline. The talks will begin on Monday...

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Paraguay presidential hopeful Oviedo dies

PARAGUAYAN presidential candidate Lino Cesar Oviedo has been killed in a helicopter crash, authorities say. Oviedo was returning with his bodyguard from a political rally on Saturday night in northern Paraguay when his pilot encountered bad...

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Etch A Sketch creator dies

ANDRE Cassagnes, the French inventor of the Etch A Sketch, a toy beloved of children around the world, has died at the age of 86. His death in France in mid-January was announced by the Ohio Art Company, which has been making the Etch a Sketch since...

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Fiat boss eyes Chrysler merger in 2014

FIAT boss Sergio Marchionne says he expects the merger of the Italian car giant and its US partner Chrysler will take place in 2014. "We will succeed in doing it," he said in an interview with the editor of the Repubblica newspaper. "We and...

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