CHAMPION cricketer-turned-businessman Craig McDermott is bankrupt and his company owes at least $40 million.

TWO more people have died on what has been a black day on Victoria's roads.

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THE world's top oil producers and consumers convene in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia tomorrow to grapple with record high oil prices, with some OPEC members baulking at consumer demands for more crude.

A LEADING analyst has named the Australian stocks most at risk from a rise in the oil price - and airlines top the list.

BILLIONAIRE Dick Pratt has vowed a vigorous fight against charges that could see him jailed over claims he lied about a price-fixing scandal.

BIG business is spearheading a strong push for Peter Costello to stay in politics and fight the next election as Liberal Party leader.

TWO people have died and four others became trapped in a minivan after a series of horror accidents in rural Victoria today.

VICTORIAN Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu has slammed the screening of crime drama Underbelly to young prison inmates as hypocritical and inappropriate.

A 24-YEAR-OLD man from Victoria's west has been arrested and released pending further inquiries in relation to a hit-and-run accident in Geelong last week.

TWO men have been killed after a scaffold fell approximately 30 floors at a Gold Coast residential development.

FURTHER tests are required to determine the cause of death of a newborn baby found at a Gold Coast house.

A 33-YEAR-OLD man has been hospitalised in Townsville after being bashed by two men who broke into his unit.

Australia's Blake 'Bilko' Williams is charging towards a strong showing on the 2008 AST Dew Tour after easily making the cut in qualifying ahead of the weekend's opening event in Baltimore....

Dance Off With the Star Wars Stars 2008. I'm... just... speechless. BRILLIANT. (Who knew that female Gamorrean guards look just like the males - except for their long red hair?)

The TV drama Underbelly, banned in Victoria, has been shown to teenage inmates in the state's biggest youth prison.

THE first member of the stolen generation to win government compensation has died.

THREE of the Mokbel brothers are back under the same roof - in a small unit at Barwon Prison.

A WOMAN has had a lucky escape after her car ploughed through a fence and into a backyard pool, south of Melbourne, overnight.

A SHOPKEEPER is recovering in hospital in Melbourne after he was shot in the back during an attempted robbery overnight.