BRISBANE City Council has identified more than 60 asbestos-affected sporting and community clubs but many say they have not been told there's a problem.

I've always found python's Universal Feedparser to be a bit hard to work with when using feeds with XML namespaces. Specifically, if you don't care about the stuff in the namespaces then you're fine, but if you want that data

05:19: Mikal shared: Stanhope's $1b light rail vision - Local News - News - General - The Canberra TimesAwesome. Canberra has needed something better than buses between the towncenters for a while, and light rail seems like a great way

A TRUCK hangs suspended over a house in Adelaide after rolling driverless down a hill, smashing a car and perching on a ledge.

HUNDREDS of sheep were killed or had to be put down when the truck carrying them hit a bridge and overturned this morning.

A HELICOPTER has crashed in South Australia's Flinders Rangers, police say.

A RUNAWAY truck rolled down a hill and collected a car before coming to rest against a house.

AFL star Scott Thompson has avoided being jailed after admitting fleeing the scene of a car crash in which a friend was seriously injured.

A YOUNG boy who fell about 30m from a River Murray cliff and was knocked unconscious today was rescued by ambulance staff.

Poor kid's going to get that reaction her whole life.

CONSUMER sentiment has fallen to its lowest level in 16 years after petrol prices reached new highs, a leading economic indicator shows.

NEW mortgage applications plummeted to the lowest number in nearly 4 years, as high interest rates cooled desire for home ownership.

DOWNER EDI has won more than $800 million of contracts over recent months to build and maintain telecommunications and power infrastructure and provide services to the mining industry.

CHINA'S economy will overtake that of the United States by 2035 and be twice its size by midcentury, a study released today by a US research organisation concluded.

CHINA'S Sinosteel has all but won control of iron ore miner Midwest after four of the takeover target's directors agreed to sell their shares.

INSURER IAG will axe 600 jobs, slash dividend payments and will wind back its UK operations to save money, the company said today.

EMPLOYERS fear a 4.1pc rise in the minimum wage poses a serious risk by fuelling inflationary pressures across the economy.

GERMAN engineering giant Siemens has announced one of its biggest restructuring plans ever, saying 16,750 jobs will be cut worldwide.

A SPORTING goods retailer has been fined $52,800 for "strictly enforcing" a policy requiring staff in two of its stores to work for no pay.

THE mining boom will help keep Australia's economy from falling into a hole until at least 2013, a report suggests.