A student team from the University of Waikato has taken second place overall in the 2008 Deloitte NZ universities business case competition.

All Your Base... Rubber Stamp. Awwww, man! They only ship to the U.S. That sucks.

A NEARLY 6-year-old news story on the 2002 bankruptcy filing of United Airlines resurfaced on the internet on Monday, clobbering the airline's shares as some traders mistook the report as current and plausible news.

SEVEN Network shareholders have approved a $320 million share buyback, a move that could boost chairman Kerry Stokes's voting power to over 50 per cent.

OIL producer group Opec said today that Indonesia had suspended its membership of the cartel.

MAJOR Australian listed companies will continue to churn through chief executive officers' amid tumultuous market conditions and slow economic growth, an international strategic leadership consultancy says.

A CHRONIC drug user who stabbed a stranger to death on a suburban train has been sentenced to at least 17 years in prison.

CONSUMERS are overjoyed at the first interest rate cut in seven years but economists still expect households to be tight with their spending.

A WOMAN has been found guilty of drugging her partner and leaving him to die in a house fire.

ONE of the Gold Coast's biggest developers, the Raptis Group, is in turmoil after a financier sent in receivers.

BANK boards are short of relevant industry experience in the toughest environment since the early 1990s recession, new research shows.

MACQUARIE Group has the ability to make acquisitions to expand its underlying business but they are unlikely to be large, according to deputy managing director Richard Sheppard.

A MOTHER was horrified to find her son, 4, on his knees wiping urine off the floor with a paper towel and bare hands.

ONE of two men charged over the bashing death of a Melbourne man at a city nightclub has admitted kicking the victim in the head.

THE owner and manager of a Melbourne brothel have been charged with allowing a 14-year-old girl to work as a prostitute.

A BABY boy escaped unscathed when his pram was hit by a car.

AUSTRALIA is the third easiest place in the world to start up a business, according to a global ranking of 181 countries from the World Bank.

A BID to legalise euthanasia in Victoria has been defeated in parliament.

MELBOURNE taxi passengers would have to have cash in hand for cab rides between 10pm and 5am, Public Transport Minister Lynne Kosky said.

AFTER a debate that stretched into the early hours this morning, debate will resume in the Victorian parliament on a bill to decriminalise abortion.