Meme time! I haven't done one of these in a while. (Link courtesy of Staci.)10 years ago I was:1. A senior at Notre Dame, enjoying the hell out of my best and greatest year at college2. Stage managing a new

A LODGER at a boarding house that burned down, killing two people, said he heard the couple screaming, but ignored it.

A TEENAGE boy injured during an unruly ball game at prestigious Xavier College has been subjected to years of bullying, a close friend says.

POLICE investigating rape allegations against Victorian MP Theo Theophanous are believed to have attempted to extract DNA evidence from the office where the alleged incident is said to have occurred.

A COMPANY which holds the licence to gene patents will prevent women going to a public hospital to find out whether they have inherited a genetic mutation which causes breast cancer.

A PLAY in support of Bill Henson has been axed from a drama competition at Melbourne's Arts Centre, on the grounds that it may defame the artist.

A TEENAGE boy badly injured during an unruly ball game at prestigious Xavier College has been subjected to years of bullying at the school, a close friend says

A MAN shot in the head in an ambush outside a bikie gang club house in suburban Geelong yesterday has died in a Melbourne hospital.

A MAN died when his car left the road and struck a tree near the Victorian goldfields town of Maryborough yesterday.

A SUNSHINE Coast man charged with skateboarding dangerously down a steep hill at 80km/h had his case adjourned after the court was unable to determine if he was operating a vehicle.

A BLONDE Cairns beauty who could be about to meet the farmer of her dreams on TV has been forced to deny she had a boyfriend when she applied for the reality program.

AN Aboriginal fashion designer with an international label was wrongly targeted by police investigating an alleged drug-dealing racket in Broome, a Perth court was told today.

AN exchange between a hairdresser and a Labor MP has left the hairdresser in tears, in what she describes as the most humiliating experience of her career.

AN Aboriginal fashion designer with an international label was wrongly targeted by police investigating an alleged drug-dealing racket in Broome, a Perth court was told today.

A SUMMIT on the global financial crisis will be held on November 15 in Washington and will gather leaders of the G20 countries to draw up an action plan, the White House said today.

THE federal education department is looking at a range of contingency plans in case childcare provider ABC Learning collapses.

LISTED infrastructure funds linked to Macquarie Group have succumbed to longstanding demands from investors to improve disclosure and governance standards.

NUCLEAR energy enthusiast Ziggy Switkowski says Australia will need to spend the equivalent of the Prime Minister's $10 billion rescue package every year until the end of the century to tackle climate change.

SHARE prices dropped 3.4 percent today after recession fears and weaker commodity prices drove Wall Street and European stock markets lower overnight.

AUSTRALIA'S jobless rate will more than double between now and 2010, when over one million people are expected to be out of work, as the global economic slowdown weighs on China, a leading international bank says.