next Sunday. It's a 25km walk around Sydney crossing over - you guess it! - seven bridges. Should be fun!

AUSTRALIANS could be handed $10 billion worth of tax cuts early if the global financial crisis continues to worsen.

DOZENS of non-bank lenders have failed to pass on successive interest rate cuts to borrowers as politicians ignore their greedy tactics.

SWIMMERS have been warned to swim between the flags after dangerous sharks were caught at some of Australia's most popular surf beaches.

FORMER Queensland Labor Minister Merri Rose will tomorrow talk publicly for the first time since she was jailed for trying to blackmail former then premier Peter Beattie in 2006.

HUNDREDS have gathered in an emotional service for Australian backpacker Britt Lapthorne.

ALL The Good has caused a major boilover to win the Group I $2.5 million Caulfield Cup, giving Godolphin their first "major" victory in Australia.

HUNDREDS gathered in a park in Melbourne's CBD tonight in an emotional candlelight memorial for Melbourne backpacker Britt Lapthorne.

COLLINGWOOD president Eddie McGuire has spent $11 million on a sprawling new Toorak mansion.

THOUSANDS of beer-drinking footy fans were victims of an under-pour blunder at the MCG this year.

A YOUNG backpacker branded a suspect in Britt Lapthorne's death has denied involvement and expressed frustration at the lack of contact from police.

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ONE of Britt Lapthorne's fellow backpackers might have information about the night of her disappearance, a Croatian newspaper has reported.

QUEENSLAND police are investigating how more than 2000 ecstasy pills went missing from a Sunshine Coast police station.

A MAN has died in a caravan fire on the Gold Coast overnight.

WALL Street investors turned cautious in the last day of a tumultuous week marked by swings of panic and optimism.

THE London FTSE was up 5.5 per cent after erratic trading in Europe, not helped by major losses at a French bank.

GLENN Wheatley has spoken out against those who sent him to jail, saying he was targeted for political purposes to promote the country's largest tax fraud investigation.

After a brilliant double win in Italy two weeks earlier, Stefan Merriman was victorious again at the Final round of World Enduro Championships for 2008.The last Enduro GP of the season was ...

It will be as if the clock had been turned back in the Manawatu, New Zealand, this weekend. The region hosts the Maidstone Yamaha New Zealand Veteran Motocross Championships on farmland...