LUXURY buyers raced into car dealerships last month to beat the tax rise, pushing sales up 23 per cent compared with the same month last year.

RESOURCES stocks lost more than $25 billion yesterday as falling coal prices and surging oil prices started a rush for the exits.

A WEAKER US dollar cannot be blamed for soaring oil prices as policymakers around the world tussle with the twin spectres of rising inflation and slowing growth, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said overnight.

SHARES on Wall Street closed mixed today after a key labour market report showed a drop in US payrolls but was not as bad as some investors had feared.

A MAN died after he was struck by a car in Melbourne's east late last night.

VICTORIAN Emergency services are stepping up the search for an off-road mountain bike rider missing in remote forest terrain in the state's central west.

VICTORIA'S anti-gangland taskforce is offering $100,000 rewards to help solve three underworld murders from more than five years ago.

Woodstock Honda Thor racer Dean Ferris is doing double duty celebrating his 18th birthday at Lake Macquarie (NSW), today.The talented young Pro Lites rider has arrived early for promotional...

THE share market has closed at its lowest point in nearly two years, with the decline wiping $28.7 billion off the broader market.

WESFARMERS'chairman Trevor Eastwood will step down from the post in November to be succeeded by current deputy chairman Bob Every.

AN unlisted fund managed by Babcock & Brown has agreed to buy two US gas distribution companies from Dominion Resources Inc for $946 million.

A MAN found tied up and badly beaten in his Perth home may have been there for days, police say.

A 13-YEAR-old girl has been charged with assaulting a woman who collapsed and died less than 36 hours after the alleged bashing.

HELPING free the people of East Timor was Alexander Downer's greatest achievement in his political life, the former foreign minister sid today.

FORMER foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer has announced his decision to quit politics.

Currently running third and fourth in the FIM MX1 World Motocross Championship Team Teka Suzuki WMX1 riders Steve Ramon and Ken De Dycker enter the ninth round of the series in Uddevalla, Sweden lo...

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