FUND managers are looking for BHP to sweeten its bid for Rio Tinto and believe this may be the final push needed to get Rio's board to engage in talks.
LESBIANS will be able to get fertility treatment in Victoria in a major breakthrough for gay parenting rights. The Brumby Government will legislate next year to allow single and gay women to use in vitro fertilisation to conceive.
TWO people are in hospital with serious injuries after the car they were in crashed and burst into flames following a police pursuit that was called off north of Melbourne early today.
ASHGABAT (AFP) - Malaysia's national oil company has been cleared to begin building oil platforms and share in pipeline construction in Turkmenistan, local television reported Friday.
TWO people are in hospital with serious injuries after the car they were in crashed and burst into flames following a police pursuit that was called off north of Melbourne early today.
TEACHERS at government schools are bullied more frequently than their colleagues in the independent and Catholic sectors, with a survey suggesting the problem is rife in Western Australia and Queensland.
SHE was an outgoing beauty therapist with a love of Latin dancing and modelling. And with a fiance, a young stepson and a mortgage, her young life had already been mapped out at 22.
ONE of Queensland's most notorious pedophiles, former Labor MP Bill D'Arcy, last night walked free from a Brisbane high-security prison after being granted parole.
MOSCOW (AFP) - A plan by Russian billionaires Mikhail Prokhorov and rival Vladimir Potanin to split up metals giant Norilsk Nickel failed Friday when Prokhorov turned against the proposal, the company and Interfax news agency said.
FRANKFURT (AFP) - German auto giant Daimler and India's Hero Group have agreed to form a joint venture to produce light, medium and heavy duty commercial vehicles for the Indian market, Daimler said Friday.
THE second wave of the US sub-prime crisis caused a logjam in Australia's short-term money market, as demand for cash out of the US and the liquidity squeeze triggered a surge in Australian rates.
