Remember that innocent time back in first year university (for me) when that soon to become overplayed and annoying Whassup commercial aired? Well, those guys are back and it's a bit of a different statement on the state of our...

A MAN who was shot and wounded when gangland victim Lewis Moran was killed in a Melbourne club says he is unfit to answer a series of driving charges.

POLICE have seized more than $8 million worth of cannabis during an eight-month investigation targeting a Melbourne drug syndicate.

A MELBOURNE P-plate driver whose passenger died when he lost control of his car and hit a verandah post has been spared jail.

SEVERAL hundred Bandidos bikies from across Australia farewelled slain comrade Ross 'Rosco' Brand in a strictly members-only event with a heavy police presence in Geelong today.

PERTH police want help to find a woman missing for three days.

PROMINENT lawyer Lloyd Rayney has been ordered to stand trial next year charged with tapping the phone of his estranged wife who was found murdered last year.

THE collapse of the $11bn takeover offer for Qantas was a near miss which would have left the national carrier struggling.

TASMANIANS hope a new Australian horror film about cannibals will attract more tourists and movie makers to the Apple Isle.

A YOUNG man has been jailed for trying to have charges against his girlfriend dropped by threatening a witness.

THE share market closed up less than half a per cent, after wobbling in and out of the red all day, as investors eye an expected interest rate cut next week.

BHP Billiton wants government approval for its multi-billion-dollar expansion of Olympic Dam a month before the next South Australian state election.

A SIX-year-old girl could be partly to blame for her toxic lead levels, a letter from Mount Isa City Council solicitors suggests.

A GANGSTER-style drug dealer who used guns to terrorise his "minions: and customers has been declared a serious violent offender after his sentence was increased.

A MOTHER did not report her suspicions that her teenage daughter was sexually involved with her female teacher because she had no proof, a Brisbane court has been told.

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has scaled down a search for a lone whale calf seen in southeast Queensland waters yesterday morning.

A NURSE sent by air ambulance to help a woman with abdominal pain on a Whitsunday Island became a patient herself after suffering heart problems.

The 'New Look’ New Zealand Honda Red Riders fresh from their successes atthe first round of the NZ Motocross Championships outside Rotorua lastweekend, now have their sights set on the Swann In...

When visiting American soil scientist Paul McDaniel shook Helen Clark's hand after a Waikato University campaign meeting, he realised how profoundly different the New Zealand and US elections were.

Waikato University student Nicole Stratford will finish her exams and then jump on a plane bound for Chile.