Since I had nothing better to do on Sunday than lie in bed and read while the Snook fetched me warming drinks - sometimes being sick is okay - I finally finished off a book I started back in L.A.:

FORMER ironman and aviation businessman Grant Kenny is travelling to a remote West Australian crash site where a helicopter owned by his company crashed, killing four people.

SYDNEY prostitutes enjoy the best health and welfare and Melbourne sex workers fare the worst.

WESTERN Australia's electoral commission has suspended a vote count in a regional seat after more than 1000 ballot papers went missing.

A PHOTOGRAPHER secretly videotaped teen models in change rooms, a Queensland court has been told.

Three Broncos players inteviewed by police Alleged sexual assault in nightclub Alleged sex antics revealed

A MAN trapped under a tree and close to drowning during a white-water kayaking expedition snapped his leg to escape, paramedics said.

A MUSLIM cleric has been found guilty of leading and being a member of a terrorist organisation in Australia's biggest terror trial.

UNDERWORLD widow Wendy Peirce has been sentenced to six months' jail for threatening and stalking her husband's lovers.

REGIONAL areas copped the worst of the gale-force winds that swept through Victoria today with blackouts recorded in many parts of the state.

THE prosecution of Muslim cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika and five of his followers on terrorism charges was the most successful of its kind, federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland says

VICTORIANS are beginning the task of cleaning up after wild winds lashed the state today.

A FOOTBALLER'S teammates waited until the end of a crucial finals match before telling one of their best players his house had burned down.

A MAN accused of strangling his de facto wife told Victorian police he used disinfectant spray and a scented candle to hide the smell of her decomposing body from neighbours.

ONE of Australia's oldest women celebrated her 108th birthday in the southern Queensland town of Killarney today.

AN engine fault forced a Qantas jet to abort a take-off in Brisbane today.

VISITORS to Queensland jails caught smuggling drugs or weapons will face lifetime bans from visiting inmates under new laws which will also prohibit inmates from profiting from their artwork.

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PHIL Green, who stepped down as boss of troubled Babcock & Brown last month, has resigned as a non-executive director of company.