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PASSENGERS frustrated at being stuck on a broken-down train for almost four hours forced open the doors and jumped on to the tracks.

THE wife of a man in hospital in a coma was told by Centrelink she would have to divorce him if he was to receive the full disability support pension.

A RESCUE effort is under way to free a ship that has run aground on King Island in Bass Strait with more than 280 cattle on board.

CATTLE aboard a ship that ran aground on King Island in Bass Strait are being unloaded ahead of an attempt to refloat the vessel early today.

A SON has been exonerated of murdering his mother despite a magistrate saying a jury could be "extremely suspicious" of his involvement in the alleged killing.

TWO children have been sent to live with their father after a court ruled the mother encouraged "negative" feelings about their dad.

A FIREFIGHTER has been seriously injured battling a 9700ha blaze in Victoria's far east this afternoon after a tree fell on him.

TV LEGEND Brian Naylor didn't leave his estranged son Greg a single cent from his $20 million estate.

A WOMAN accused of fatally stabbing a man during a neighbourhood brawl has been acquitted of murder.

AN FBI sting uncovered a Victorian accountant's "curiosity" for child porn and led Australian authorities to a collection of more than 12,000 images, a court has heard.

THE police bomb squad is moving in to examine a suspicious package at an electrical substation in Melbourne's outer east.

AN alleged Nazi war criminal has failed to avoid extradition to Hungary on charges of murdering a Jewish teenager in 1944.

AUSTRALIA is facing a global economic crisis and stimulus payments to taxpayers are part of a co-ordinated international fiscal response, the Commonwealth has argued in the High Court.

AUSTRALIA'S tax fraud task force has reaped hundreds of millions of dollars, figures show.

A NAKED former Salvadoran soldier masturbated and waved a replica gun at his teenage neighbour while inviting her over for tequila, a court has been told.

A FIRE emergency at Brisbane's North South Bypass Tunnel is so dangerous fire crews have been removed from the scene, say authorities.

GM Holden workers in Australia face a nervous wait as parent company General Motors fights for its survival in the US.

Lending a hand to communities affected by Victoria’s recent bushfire disaster, Suzuki Motorcycles has announced it will conduct an online auction, with net proceeds going to the Australian Red Cros...