THE more politicians smile, the more people distrust them, according to researchers who said 80 per cent of Portuguese think politicians fake their smiles.
A PAMPERED pooch who inherited $US12 million from a late US hotel magnate has fled to Florida "under an assumed name" after receiving death threats, a report says.
AUTHORITIES believe a drug courier got "cold feet" and dumped nearly 6kg of cocaine worth $660,000 in the toilet of a Boeing 747 before arriving in Sydney.
RUPERT Murdoch's News Corporation is not holding takeover discussions with LinkedIn, a fast-growing online social network for professionals, a source familiar with the matter said overnight.
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UNIONS will not back down on their Your Rights At Work campaign until new laws are passed through federal parliament, ACTU president Sharan Burrow said.
FORMER shareholders of James Packer-controlled Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd are more than $330 million better off after a successful share market debut for the two companies created by splitting the media and gaming empire.
THE gloves are off between Telstra and the new Rudd Government, with the telco declaring it would not build a high-speed broadband network with the Government.
OIL prices tumbled under $US88 overnight as the market took positions ahead of an OPEC meeting later in the week on whether or not to hike output, dealers said.
WITH just a month left in the vehicle sales race, Toyota might well be the overall market winner ahead of Holden, but Mitsubishi has finally clawed back ground.
INTEREST rates are rising and while most analysts predict steady rates this week,expect one by February. And if the RBA doesn't raise rates, the big banks will.
THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission holds a record $458m in unclaimed money waiting to be collected by nearly half a million Australians.
PATIENTS with complex medical problems will be given longer appointments to allow quality treatment under a proposed new Medicare overhaul being planned by the Rudd Government.
THREE Gold Coast businessmen charged under Australia's biggest tax fraud investigation were accused in court yesterday of over-claiming $5.2 million in tax deductions in five years.
A POLICE officer who shot dead a teenager during a riot at a Top End Aboriginal community may have committed a crime when he opened fire in a "blind panic" on a crowded football oval.
